Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Hull, Hull, 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 Unintended consequences of Offshore Wind farms: a socio-economic impact evaluation on wellbeing and community dynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
Offshore wind farms represent a crucial component of the transition towards clean energy. However, their establishment may lead to unintended consequences that impact well-being and community dynamics, directly and indirectly. For instance, the construction and operation of offshore wind farms can have temporary and long-term impacts on local communities. Noise, dust, and increased traffic during construction can lead to disruptions and reduced quality of life for residents. On the other hand, the long-term presence of wind farms can also alter the cultural and social fabric of coastal communities, generating negative impacts in term of well-being and community cohesion. Coastal communities often have strong cultural ties to the sea and the land. The introduction of offshore wind farms can disrupt this cultural identity, as the landscape changes and traditional activities are affected.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in The Economic Impact of Offshore Wind Farm Development on Energy Pricing and Market Dynamics in the UK
Summary of PhD Program:
This research will primarily focus on quantitative analysis to comprehensively examine the economic dynamics of offshore wind energy. Specifically, it aims to explore how innovations in one renewable energy technology (such as offshore wind) influence the adoption and performance of other technologies like solar and tidal energy. This approach will enable us to map the renewable energy market by analysing how producers strategically set prices depending on the technologies they use and the extent to which these technologies overlap or complement each other. Furthermore, we will investigate how investments in offshore wind infrastructure may create positive or negative externalities for other renewable sectors and how these spillovers shape overall investment strategies, risk assessments, and capital flows across the broader energy market.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Optimisation of wind farms power production using AI
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The project is sponsored by industry partner, The Alan Turing Institute. The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Durham University. Wind power contributed 12% of UK electricity demand in 2019. This placed the United Kingdom at this time as the world’s sixth-largest producer of wind power. The efficiency of wind farms is of vital importance for the UK to rely on wind power.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Post installation sediment evolution in dynamic seabed conditions: impact on offshore wind cable installation, protection and performance
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The project is sponsored by industry partner, The Turbidites Research Group. The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Durham University. The installation of infrastructure for offshore wind, such as power transmission cables, requires operations on the seabed that disturb shallow sediments. This can take several forms, from seabed ploughing using clearance, through cable, pipeline and backfilling ploughs depending on the site specific conditions and the presence of problematic units (such as boulders), to jet trenching to fluidise sediments, to chain cutting in harder materials.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Parametrising wakes for oceanographic models
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The project is sponsored by industry partner, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS). The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Loughborough University. The project is part of a Research Cluster focussing on Predicting Offshore Wind wake interactions for Energy and the enviRonment (POWER). The offshore wind sector is rapidly expanding to meet net-zero energy demands. Individual turbines and farms are getting larger and further from shore, with individual turbines spanning 240 m in diameter and farms reaching 600 km2. Forced by spatial constraints, but enabled by floating technology, farms are now developing in deeper waters, occupying increasingly vast areas.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Low maintenance reliable main bearings for large wind turbines
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The project is sponsored by industry partner, the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at the University of Sheffield. Almost all the bearings in wind turbine transmissions are rolling element type (1). That includes slow and high-speed shafts, gearbox, blade pitch bearings, and the main bearing that supports the rotor. Wind loading is highly variable and so bearings can operate at changeable speed, high and very variable loading (2). This is a bad place for bearings and there are lots of wear and fatigue failures – design life is 20 years but bearings rarely last that long (3). As machines have got larger, this state has worsened.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Left in the wake: assessing the impact of sediment mobility in the wake of offshore wind infrastructure
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The project is sponsored by industry partner, The Turbidites Research Group (TRG). The successful applicant will undertake six-months of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Loughborough University. Offshore wind is a core component of global solutions to net-zero. However, a prerequisite is that offshore wind is sustainable and developed in an environmentally friendly manner. A key challenge within offshore wind is the development of new fixed bottom offshore windfarms, globally, and the decommissioning and repowering of extant wind farms close to end of life, in particular in the southern North Sea. Both these scenarios entail installation of much larger infrastructure, at greater extents, in more morphodynamically active areas than have currently been constructed.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Integrating Macroeconomics and Offshore Wind Energy: Assessing Economic Impacts and Policy Interventions
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The project is sponsored by industry partner, RenewableUK. The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Loughborough University. This PhD project will explore the macroeconomic impacts of renewable energy, particularly offshore wind, in the UK. The UK has positioned itself as a global leader in renewable energy, with offshore wind power playing a crucial role in its transition to a low-carbon economy. Offshore wind has rapidly become central to the UK’s efforts to meet its 2050 net-zero target, leveraging the nation’s abundant wind resources and extensive coastline.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital twins for health monitoring and fault detection in wind generators and converters
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The project is part of a Research Cluster focussing on Reliability and Health Monitoring. The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at the University of Sheffield. Reliability is of paramount importance for the offshore wind industry as the cost of maintenance, downtime and repair can markedly affect the business case for adopting new and innovative technologies. To increase availability without increasing maintenance and associated downtime, condition and health monitoring to support fault detection and predictive maintenance are essential in offshore wind.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development and validation of physics-based models for wakes of large offshore wind farms
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The project is sponsored by the industry partner, the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Durham University. Interaction between adjacent offshore wind farms, due to their wakes impinging on one another, is increasingly becoming a crucial and timely research topic. To meet new ambitious targets for offshore wind in the UK, many new wind farms are expected to be installed in promising geographic areas offshore; those limited areas that yield strong and predictable winds sufficiently close to centres of population such as the North Sea.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data assimilation for wake-wake interactions
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The project is part of a Research Cluster focusing on Predicting Offshore Wind wake interactions for Energy and enviRonment (POWER). The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at the University of Sheffield. Large scale wind farms often consist of hundreds of wind turbines with diameters going up to hundreds of metres. The wakes generated by these turbines interact with each other. The accurate modelling of the interaction between the wakes can have significant impact on our ability to optimise the operations of large wind farms and maximise their energy output.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bilateral wind flow interactions with floating offshore wind turbines
Summary of PhD Program:
This research project proposal specifically targets floating offshore wind energy, which is a developing market. As such, there are challenges and hurdles to overcome and uncertainties to deal with before widespread commercialisation and technological diffusion is realised. Conversely, this means there are plenty of opportunities for researchers and innovators to positively impact the growth trajectory of floating offshore wind. Unlike fixed-bottom turbines, floating wind turbines are free to move along all 6 degrees of freedom (x, y, z translations, and roll, pitch, yaw rotations). This freedom of movement adds uncertainty when describing and modelling interactions between wind flows and turbines.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in SafeML-based Confidence Generation and Explainability for UAV-based Anomality Detection of Blades Surface in Offshore Wind Turbines
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The project is part of a Research Cluster focussing on Reliability and Health Monitoring. The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Hull. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) e.g., drones are increasingly used for equipment anomaly and fault detection. When the drones are employed to take images, the quality of the images can be affected by several factors. For instance, images can be blurred due to the relative motion between the blades and the camera mounted on the drones. Noise can be introduced to the images due to the harsh operating conditions of drones.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Miniaturising gross proximate composition analysis techniques to develop accurate ecological models of marine species interactions at the scale of offshore windfarms
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The project is sponsored by industry partner, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture (CEFAS). The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research in Hull. Offshore Windfarms are, and will continue to be, the most significant physical anthropogenic change to the North Sea and will significantly change the seascape and surrounding ecosystems. Currently there is little understanding of these impacts, which is particularly acute for benthic organisms as they have limited habitat mobility and thus likely to be significantly affected by changing sea beds.
Application Deadline: 4 December 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Implications of Extreme Temperatures on Physiological and Cognitive Functioning in Offshore Wind Technicians
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. It is part of a Research Cluster focussing on The wellbeing triad: improving the physical, psychosocial, and cognitive health of workers in the offshore windfarm sector . The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Hull. Work in offshore settings requires workers to engage in a variety of potentially risky, physically, and mentally demanding tasks. In 2019, 865 offshore accidents were reported, and similar numbers of incidents (including near hit/miss, amongst others) were reported in 2022.
