Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Swansea University, United Kingdom 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 Computer science, material engineering, aerospace engineering, civil engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The project aims to study the feasibility of developing an AI model-based digital twin model, trained by the simulated data from physics-based model for predictive NDE. This will be achieved by systematically integrating modelling, data and AI into digital twin practices, and be delivered through the following inter-linked and measurable objectives:
- Develop appropriate AI model and digital twin framework to work with data acquired for different NDT disciplines (e.g. acoustic emission, ultrasound and computed tomography).
- Study, develop and validate AI models as model-based digital twin for the test specimen to predict the health conditions, which can be calibrated and improved using online test data
- Develop novel methods to enhance current NDT capability by exploiting AI as predictive model (using data acquired over time).
Application Deadline: 23 August 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
For High-speed railway, one of the most widely used track forms is the ballastless railway tracks, where the concrete slabs are normally serving as the supports under the rails. During the regular service life of ballastless railway, there may exist severe distresses, like cracks, in the concrete slab due to the train loading and severe environmental conditions, which may further affect the public safety of rail passengers. Recently, the deep learning-based methods have emerged as a powerful tool to detect the cracks in the concrete slabs of the railway automatically and intelligently. However, it may face problems like low computation accuracy and high cost. To solve this problem, this project aims to propose a novel deep learning model for automatic crack identification in concrete slab of ballastless railway with high computation efficiency and low computation cost.
Application Deadline: 2 August 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Animal Welfare
Summary of PhD Program:
In this collaborative PhD project the student will develop and test behaviour-based operational welfare indicators (OWIs) that can improve the welfare of selected farmed species. Using state-of-the art facilitires at the Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research (CSAR) we will assess the behavioural changes that occurr under artificial rearing in order to improve welfare and inform artificial selection progammes. A combination of behavioural assays, machine vision and deep-learning will be used.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Law
Summary of PhD Program:
The overriding aim of this project is to provide a better understanding of the nature and relative significance of the roles of different stakeholders in the governance of water. This includes Dŵr Cymru (the water authority responsible for water supply and sewerage), Natural Resources Wales (the regulator for water pollution and also responsible for drainage and flood prevention) and the many different environmental NGOs and other community groups that seek to protect water to their own ends. With a better understanding of the way conflicts between these stakeholders are played out in practice it will be possible to provide recommendations for changes to law, policy and governance structures to help reconcile these differences and assist these organisations work together to achieve better water quality.
Application Deadline: 14 July 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Materials Science
Summary of PhD Program:
Dielectrics are important elements of all electronic and optoelectronic components irrespective of the constituent semiconductor platform be it silicon, compound, oxide or solution processable. In this exciting project, we will investigate the use of a novel new deposition technique called Molecular Vapour Deposition (MVD) to create advanced, high performance dielectric and other functional coatings for challenging applications such as vertical transistors, wide gap electronics and large area organic and perovskite optoelectronics. MVD is capable of producing very high quality, highly conformal and dense layers with a range of dielectric constants – and crucially does so at low temperature < 200C.
Application Deadline: 12 July 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this PhD is to use mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) to understand consumer perceptions of plant-based ultra-processed foods (UPF) and to assess predictors of eating behaviour. This PhD will include lab-based studies including the use of physiological measures such as galvanic skin response. Informal scholarship enquiries from applicants to prospective supervisors – prior to the application deadline – are warmly encouraged; please direct these to the relevant member/s of faculty staff.
Application Deadline: 5 July 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Population Data Science
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD is funded by HDR UK’s Inflammation and Immunity Driver Programme, aiming to advance the UK’s understanding of mechanisms and health outcomes, using respiratory and allergic disorders as exemplar domains. This Driver Programme will explore inflammation and immunity as general underpinning mechanisms, starting with highly prevalent respiratory and allergic diseases, which can be exacerbated by acute inflammatory episodes due to infections, pollution, tobacco, pollen, weather, drugs, foods and stinging insects. The Driver Programme’s long-term plan is to extend the data science capabilities and capacity created, to other inflammatory-mediated diseases.
Application Deadline: 28 June 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cancer
Summary of PhD Program:
Our research group has a long standing interest and an international reputation in the study of DNA mutation. We have developed a novel blood-based biomarker whereby we detect DNA mutations induced by the developing tumour in normal circulating blood cells. Using this unique approach, we have shown that cancer patient’s blood cells carry more mutations than age matched controls or healthy volunteers. We urgently need to identify the mechanism involved leading to these mutations. We propose in this studentship to carry out mechanistic studies to help us explain what is causing the mutations in these blood cells.
Application Deadline: 28 June 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer vision, artificial intelligence
Summary of PhD Program:
Video instance segmentation aims at simultaneous detection, segmentation and tracking of object instances in videos. Given a test video, the task requires not only the masks of all instances of a predefined category set to be labelled but also the instance identities across frames to be associated. Existing methods follow a detection and association paradigm, which essentially performs spatial priors’ estimation and a temporal stitching afterwards. This may hinder VIS in the occlusion and long-term videos. High-resolution (HR) features appear to be helpful to identify small and or occluded objects in static images. Thus, it is interesting to explore this valuable information that may benefit VIS. At the same time, HR feature fusion at temporal level to facilitate the long-term VIS remains open challenge.
Application Deadline: 28 June 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this PhD project is to investigate the application of advanced data analytics to training load data to help improve the overall performance in international swimmers. Adequate training loads promote favourable physical and physiological adaptations, reduce the likelihood of illness and injury, and, therefore, increase the possibility of success. Collecting internal and external training loads has become a critical issue in elite sport practice and research. In this regard, monitoring athletes global training load is essential for undertaking whether athlete is positively adaptation to their training program.
Application Deadline: 26 June 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry, biomedical engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project seeks to develop new molecular tools (engineered amphiphilic peptides, cationic and ionizable lipids, and iron nanostructured materials), bioorthogonal catalysis and bioconjugation protocols to create innovative iron-loaded lipid nanoparticles with new chemically programmed features for development of personalised cancer vaccines, overcome immune-suppression in the tumour microenvironment (TME) and trigger iron-catalysed cancer cell death. The goal is creating a nanomedicine platform that significantly improves current immunotherapy and chemoimmunotherapy, and with potential for rapid translation into clinical practice.
Application Deadline: 26 June 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data Science, Mathematics, Sport and Exercise Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this PhD project is to investigate whether team performance indicators (PIs) are effective at predicting match outcomes in professional football played within the EFL Championship. The candidate will review current team performance indicators and apply these to legacy data from our project partner, Swansea City FC, to retrospectively establish their efficacy in match prediction.
The candidate will further investigate whether the current or newly identified PI’s can be reduced in order to be actionable to practitioners at the individual player level and provide a scientific basis on which to adjustment future team structure, playing formation, and strategy. Additionally, this studentship will help football practitioners understand the physical consequences of playing patterns and the ‘effort-level’ imposed on individual players, an exciting new avenue that will help redefine post-game recovery for players as a function of style of play, previously not considered.
Application Deadline: 26 June 2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The CDT, led by Professor James Sullivan and Professor David Penney, has been co-created with a range of industry partners to produce 50 doctoral graduates who will develop the next generation of functional coated products. These include next generation energy producing coatings, smart release anti-corrosion systems and antimicrobial systems for healthcare. The centre will accelerate the translation of academic research from the laboratory to the factory whilst developing the industry leaders of the future.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The Faculty of Science & Engineering is nationally and globally recognised as a centre of excellence providing an innovative, inclusive learning environment that produces lifelong learners who are prepared for the global economy. With world-class research centres and sustained investment in our outstanding resources and facilities, we provide a superb environment in which to study or conduct research.
