Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Newcastle University, 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. 50 Fully Funded PhD Position in Social Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
Newcastle University offers NINE DTP studentships in the following areas:
- Economic and Social History
- Education
- Environmental Planning (Planning, Environment, Food and Rural Development)
- Human Geography
- Language-based Area Studies
- Law
- Linguistics (Education, Communication and Language Sciences)
- Linguistics (English Language, Literature and Linguistics)
- Management, Business and Economics
- Politics and International Relations
- Psychology
- Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work
- Health, Well-being and Society (a thematic Pathway across the Population Health Sciences Institute, Geography, Sociology, Architecture, Planning and Landscape and the Centre for Rural Economy.
- Children, Youth and Families (a thematic pathway across Geography, Sociology, Politics, Law, Education, and the Human Nutrition Research Centre).
- Conflict, Security and Justice (a thematic pathway across Geography, Politics and Law).
- Environment, Climate and Sustainability (a thematic pathway across Environmental Planning, Human Geography, Politics, Law, Language Based Area Studies, Global Urban Research Unit and Centre for Rural Economy).
Application Deadline: 20 January 2025
2. 63 Fully Funded PhD Position in Arts and Humanities
Summary of PhD Program:
Newcastle University offers Northern Bridge Consortium PhD studentships in the following areas:
- Archaeology
- Architecture: History, Theory and Practice
- Classics and Ancient History
- Creative Writing
- Cultural Geography
- Drama and Theatre Studies
- East Asian Studies
- English Language and Linguistics
- English Literature
- Fine Art: History, Theory and Practice
- French Studies
- German Studies
- History
- Law
- Linguistics (School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences)
- Media, Culture and Heritage (including Film)
- Music
- Philosophy
- Political Science and International Studies
- Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
- Translation and Interpreting Studies
Application Deadline: 7 January 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Process Industries: Net Zero: Development of Sustainable Manufacturing Processes for Confectionery Products
Summary of PhD Program:
The PINZ CDT will train the next generation of process and chemical engineers, and chemists, to develop the new processes, process technologies and green chemistries required for the process industries’ transition to Net Zero. Climate change is one of society’s greatest challenges. As the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé has pledged its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving net zero emissions from their global manufacturing processes by 2050.
Application Deadline: 24/11/2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Process Industries: Net Zero – Data Driven Optimisation for Process Scale-up
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is part of the CDT in Process Industries: Net Zero. The successful PhD student will be co-supervised by academics from the Process Intensification Group at Newcastle University. Nestling has designed a containerised cultivation and processing plant for a broad range of microorganisms with a focus on mycelium. The system is fully automated; the SCADA system is connected to the cloud and provides performance data, enabling the monitoring of critical process parameters (CPPs) and critical quality attributes (CQAs). Nestling wishes to collect the data and apply machine learning techniques to identify process efficiency improvements and enable prediction across scales for a given biological process.
Application Deadline: 24/11/2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in NERC Resilient Flood Futures (FLOOD-CDT). Disentangling groundwater from fluvial flood risk across Northern Ireland’s permeable flood plains
Summary of PhD Program:
The Centre for Doctoral Training for Resilient Flood Futures (FLOOD-CDT) will train the next generation of research practitioners who will make a tangible difference to future flood management in the UK and internationally. Our goal is to provide a nurturing and inspiring training environment to develop the independent future leaders we need who can translate research and innovation into practice.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in neuroscience – The role of clonal haematopoietic mutations in Alzheimer’s disease
Summary of PhD Program:
Interested in how the aging immune system may modify the progression of neurodegenerative diseases? The project will explore how somatic mutations carried by immune cells may influence the progression of Alzheimer’s disease – potentially leading to new therapeutic avenues for the disease. Recently somatic mutations that occur within the bone marrow with age have been identified in association with both slower progression of Alzheimer’s disease and also reduced levels of neuropathology within the brain. How this occurs is unknown. In this PhD studentship you will aim to understand whether and how these somatic mutations within immune cells may contribute to disease progression.
Application Deadline: 18/11/24
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical Engineering: Improve motor learning in children through connecting robots
Summary of PhD Program:
The main objectives are: i) to investigate how to take full advantage of haptic communication for enhancing motor learning, studying how learning is affected by the levels of connection and how these can be optimised to improve the acquisition of new motor skills; ii) to apply the knowledge gathered from the use of connecting robots to a real-life application, i.e. to foster handwriting learning in primary school children while interacting with their teacher or caregiver.
Application Deadline: 11th November 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human Nutrition and Exercise Research Centre: Gut hormone dysregulation in anorexia of ageing: Enhancing knowledge and exploring treatment strategies
Summary of PhD Program:
Interested in nutrition and healthy ageing, and how the ageing gut effects eating in later life? This project will explore how appetite-related gut hormones respond to feeding in older adults who experience low appetite and are at risk of undernutrition. A loss of appetite in later life, termed anorexia of ageing, is experienced by approximately 30% of free-living older adults and over half of those in residential care. Anorexia of ageing is associated with increased risk of undernutrition, sarcopenia, and morbidity, culminating in an increased risk of mortality. With an ageing population, this is an imposing challenge for current and future healthcare provision.
Application Deadline: 11th November 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geospatial Engineering: Measuring groundwater changes using geodetic Earth Observation
Summary of PhD Program:
Changes in terrestrial water storage exhibit significant spatiotemporal variability due to climate change and associated anthropogenic effects. In particular, new patterns of rainfall, snowfall, and temperature are altering the timing and magnitude of groundwater recharge and surface water runoff. Geodetic observational networks can precisely measure and monitor the redistribution of the Earth’s water at continental to global scales. Over the last two decades, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission has played a key role in measuring gravity changes caused by large-scale water redistribution. Many advances have been made using GRACE to understand and monitor large-scale terrestrial water changes.
Application Deadline: 11th November 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Civil Engineering – Stresstest: Development of a stress testing platform to ensure resilient electricity networks
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will develop an energy network stress testing platform that incorporates asset databases, weather and weather impact information and climate projections so that electricity operators can perform climate resilience stress tests on their networks. The project will test the feasibility of producing such a platform by using machine learning to train models on a very large number of historical faults and weather observations, and then use these to test the resilience of energy assets using the latest UKCP18 climate projections. To understand how this affects society, the researcher will use demographic information to translate asset failures into societal consequences (e.g. households without power etc).
Application Deadline: 11th November 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Process Industries: Net Zero. Whole system optimisation of bioresources
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is part of the CDT in Process Industries: Net Zero. The successful PhD student will be co-supervised by academics from the Process Intensification Group at Newcastle University. NWL operates two Advanced Anaerobic Digestion Plants (AAD), one on Teesside and one on Tyneside. These plants process more than 70,000 tonnes of biosolids, generating 160GWh of biofuels. Most of the biosolids are collected by road from across the North East of England – from the Scottish Border to the North York Moors. The biosolids have a high water content – meaning NWL transfers around 750,000 tonnes of material each year into the two sites and following treatment, the residual product is deposited to land as fertiliser – a further 100,000 tonnes of material moved.
Application Deadline: 12th December 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Process Industries: Net Zero – Renewable and Advanced liquid fuels from Lignocellulosic Residues
Summary of PhD Program:
Renewable and advanced liquid fuels will play an important role in the transition to Net Zero emissions by 2050, particularly in “hard-to-abate” sectors. Although lignocellulosic residue- derived liquid fuels have been investigated via bio/chemical and thermochemical processes, significant challenges remain in that pre-treatments remove large percentages of the feedstock (lignin), low yield overall and/or low quality of products. This project will focus on the development of a novel approach to convert the residues to advanced liquid fuels with minimum upgrading requirements. This is a co-created project with PuriFire Labs Ltd.
Application Deadline: 24/11/2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital Transformation in Operations and Supply Chain Management
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project aims to investigate the complexities of digital transformation (DT) within the context of Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM). Despite advancements in technology, many companies struggle with the sociotechnical aspects of transformation, including organizational culture, supply chain structures, and strategic alignments. This research will contribute to bridging these gaps by developing a comprehensive understanding of how DT can foster innovation and value creation in dynamic environments.
Application Deadline: 29. November 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrical Engineering: Multimodal Data and Processing led Explainable AI: Application Maritime Domain
Summary of PhD Program:
We are in the era of Data and AI. The main demand on AI from the responsible data engineering bodies is to provide explainable AI (XAI). This project will focus GEO-located multimodal data and XAI for downstream tasks in the maritime domain. The proposed innovation will impact the industry by exploiting the generalized and fast-deployable AIs feature extractors (multimodal data processing and feature extraction pipeline is already achieved in Innovate UK AKT2I project). The major focus will be on explainable classification of the multiple maritime downstream tasks such as vessels behaviour prediction, monitoring, anomaly, and threat detection.
Application Deadline: 11th November 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Civil Engineering (Water Resources)
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this project is to develop a coupled multi-layer shallow water and floating debris modelling system to investigate the transport dynamics of debris and the impact on hydraulic structures in fluvial environments. The hydrodynamic models currently used in engineering practice lack the capability to accurately model: a) linear features such as bridges, gates and weirs which act as obstructions to flow; b) floating debris; and c) dam breach formation. These features can heavily influence flow characteristics, flood risk and operation of infrastructure dangerous loading of structures and increased scour.
Application Deadline: 11th November 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economics
Summary of PhD Program:
Newcastle University Business School invites applications for a PhD studentship for a student undertaking a full time PhD in Economics or Economic History, starting their studies in September 2025. The studentships provide funding for three years. The school particularly welcomes applications that are theoretical and/or quantitative and that are aligned with one or more of the following key research themes in economics:
- Economics of safety, health, environment, and risk
- Behavioural and experimental economics
- Labour, education, and health economics
- Macroeconomics, policies, and institutions in open economic systems
- Spatial, urban, regional, international, and industrial economics
- Applied time series econometrics
- Finance, financial economics, and financial econometrics.
Application Deadline: 29. November 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hydrogen Integration Empowers Net Zero
Summary of PhD Program:
We welcome applications from students who are interested in hydrogen integration in energy systems. Possible topics may involve:
- Optimisation, flexibility, and resilience evaluation of national energy systems (including power/gas/hydrogen/heating systems)
- Offshore/onshore nexus of energy/transportation systems
- Large temporal and spatial scales of climate-dependant energy systems
- Human-centred energy demand forecasting, behaviour characterisation, and risk modelling
- Advanced optimisation/control algorithms and their application in energy systems
Application Deadline: 30th November 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Process Industries: Net Zero 3D Heat Pipe Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will develop next generation 3D Heat Pipes, to maximise thermal transport efficiency within advanced electronics for space and terrestrial applications. Vapour chambers and loop heat pipes are proposed for development into a 3D format. Vapour chambers are ultra-thin heat pipes used to rapidly spread heat in the x-y plane. They have various applications in electronics cooling/heat spreading. 3D vapour chambers are a recent advancement combining a state-of-art 2D vapour chamber with a traditional heat pipe structure to allow heat spreading and dissipation across all 3 dimensions. Loop heat pipes incorporate a complex evaporator with flexible transport lines, that require development for utilisation in a 3D environment. This project will focus on the advancement of vapour chambers and loop heat pipes into 3 dimensional environments.
Application Deadline: 24th November 2024
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in NERC Resilient Flood Futures (FLOOD-CDT). Understanding Record Breaking Flood Events
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will develop a process-driven view of risk estimations that invokes a bottom-up approach in which will start with a specified flood level (e.g. flood barrier). Our main research question will be: ‘what rainfall volume is needed to exceed a given flood level and what combination of conditions could produce this level? This will aim to envision what such event might look like and identify the main contributing factors, the plausibility of their co-occurrences, and their projected changes in climate simulations.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in NERC Resilient Flood Futures (FLOOD-CDT). Exploring the trade-offs in flood protection and security of water supply when adopting nature-based solutions
Summary of PhD Program:
Planning to manage floods and drought often occur independently and over different planning cycles. However, interventions that address one type of hydrological hazard may influence the dynamics of another hazard. In recent decades nature-based solutions have become a popular intervention to reduce exposure to flood risk and the cascading impacts of climate change. Yet, little research has been done to understand and quantify the consequences of nature-based flood solutions on water resource supplies in the catchment during low flow periods.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in NERC Resilient Flood Futures (FLOOD-CDT). Assessing the eco-hydrological and geomorphic effects of floodplain restoration
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will investigate the conservation and restoration of healthy floodplains, which potentially could mitigate the projected increasing frequency of extremes of flooding and drought associated with climate change and reverse biodiversity losses. Understanding floodplain responses to these multifaceted drivers of change and their controls will help underpin successful management of floodplains and plan restoration projects.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in NERC Resilient Flood Futures (FLOOD-CDT). A sub-hourly quality controlled blended UK precipitation dataset to understand uncertainty in flood predictions
Summary of PhD Program:
This research aims to explore optimal methods to provide blended high-resolution (15-min) UK precipitation datasets, developing bias-correction, disaggregation and quality control methods to preserve extreme rainfall statistics. Resulting precipitation datasets will significantly enhance understanding of rainfall dynamics, inform flood risk assessment, and support climate adaptation. This is critical for addressing the urgent need for reliable rainfall data in a rapidly changing climate, with wide-ranging implications for hydrodynamic flood modelling and infrastructure resilience.
