Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Cranfield University, Wharley End, England invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding Hydrogen’s Impact on Metal Durability for Zero-Emission Aviation
Summary of PhD Program:
This exciting project, in collaboration with Frazer-Nash Consultancy, will develop practical guidelines and methodologies to ensure the safe use of metals in hydrogen aviation infrastructure through advanced experimental testing and computational modelling. You’ll become part of a diverse, multidisciplinary team that prioritises equity, diversity, and inclusion, gaining specialist expertise in hydrogen-material interactions, aerospace materials, and sustainable infrastructure design. Your research will directly support the UK’s ambition to achieve Net Zero aviation by 2050, positioning you as a skilled innovator and inclusive leader in hydrogen-powered aviation technologies.
Application Deadline: 18 Jun 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Defence and Security: Leadership, Management and Governance
Summary of PhD Program:
The Centre for Defence Management and Leadership (CDML) is a specialised research and teaching unit, comprising experienced and dedicated researchers. It has developed a world class reputation in defence and security studies, and is lauded for the rigour, originality, international perspective and policy relevance of its doctoral programme.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Novel 3D Printing applications for uncrewed air systems (UAS)
Summary of PhD Program:
3D printing has evolved as a leading manufacturing technology and both polymer and metallic printing can be utilised and blended to achieve a multi-functional material with novel properties that can be optimised to solve a problem. This project will develop a co-printing strategy to print a novel UAS body with novel properties to enhance defence and security applications.
Application Deadline: 20 Aug 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in The effects of high energy propagation in poor weather
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you passionate about developing novel research and keen to shape the future of energy transfer technologies in areas such as, laser interactions, plasma physics, RF technologies, materials science and engineering? We are recruiting a motivated PhD candidate to undertake an exciting project within the EPSRC Energy Transfer Technologies Doctoral Training Hub. As a student of the Hub, you will receive an enhanced stipend of £23,237 per year, plus additional funds of £7,000 a year for travel, conferences and research equipment. This project is co- funded by MBDA.
Application Deadline: 30 Jul 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Extreme learning to handle ‘Big Data’
Summary of PhD Program:
As aerospace platforms go through their service life, gradual performance degradations and unwarranted system failures can occur. There is certain physical information known a priori in such aerospace platform operations. The main research hypothesis to be tested in this research is that it should be possible to significantly improve the performance of extreme learning and assure safe and reliable maintenance operation by integrating this prior knowledge into the learning mechanism.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental and Numerical Study of Parameters Affecting the Wake Dynamics of a Simplified Car: Effects of Roughness – Turbulence – Yaw Angle
Summary of PhD Program:
Air quality has become a major concern for public health as it causes respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and premature deaths. Air pollutants can be gaseous or solid particles (also referred as particulate matter). The impact of pollutants not only depend on the emitted quantity but also on other factors such as the proximity to sources and the dispersion conditions. The automotive sector makes a significant contribution to local air pollution and exposes the population to dangerous levels of pollutants. To reduce pollutant emissions, the automotive sector focused on reducing fuel consumption by decreasing the vehicle drag.
Application Deadline: 03 Sep 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Efficient electrolysis coupling with variable renewable electricity
Summary of PhD Program:
Green hydrogen has been presented as an important aspect of the renewable energy future not only to decarbonise many industries including steel production, fertiliser production, and aviation, but also as a mean of energy storage to support grid stability and variable renewable energy curtailment. Despite its potential, current challenges for water electrolysis include slow responsiveness to varying renewable energy, high cost of balance of plants and power electronics systems and low energy efficiency, and limited lifespan of electrolysers.
Application Deadline: 25 Jun 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Droplet impact dynamics on different surfaces
Summary of PhD Program:
This is a fully funded PhD (fees and bursary) in experimental icing research. Fundamental understanding of droplet impact dynamics is integral to icing. The overall aim of this PhD is to use optical flow visualisation and measurement techniques to study droplet impact under icing conditions to improve icing codes that aid in design and development of ice detection and mitigation system.
Application Deadline: 02 Jul 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Combinatorial artificial intelligence for defence applications
Summary of PhD Program:
Fully funded Ph.D. opportunity in Aerospace AI. Sponsored by EPSRC and BAE Systems covering tuition, fees and a bursary of up to £19,569 (tax free). Combinatory Artificial Intelligence (also known as Third Wave AI as initially described by DARPA) is the term that references the next foreseen advances within Artificial Intelligence. This stems from the two main styles of AI development over the last two decades. This research topic aims to define novel approaches to developing and combining these intelligences, utilizing both 1st and 2nd wave AI approaches, in the context of Defence applications.
Application Deadline: 27 Aug 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Application of Artificial Intelligence for Gas Turbine Performance
Summary of PhD Program:
To improve the availability and reduce the overhaul and maintenance (O&M) costs of gas turbine propulsion systems, the gas turbine industry is moving from scheduled maintenance to condition-based predictive maintenance. Gas turbine diagnostics and prognostics has been progressed quickly in recent years and are crucial technologies to predict the health of gas turbine systems and support the predictive maintenance. However, current technologies are relatively slow and not capable enough to provide quick performance, diagnostic and prognostic predictions for real time applications.
Application Deadline: 07 Jul 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI-Driven Digital Twin for Predictive Maintenance in Aerospace – In Partnership with Rolls-Royce
Summary of PhD Program:
Aerospace systems generate vast amounts of maintenance and operational data, from sensor streams to technical logs, yet much of it remains unstructured, fragmented, and underused. Hidden within these records are insights that could help engineers detect faults earlier, track system degradation, and make better-informed maintenance decisions. But how can we turn this complex information into something reliable, explainable, and actionable at scale?
