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. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science: Trusted Edge-Cloud Continuum
Summary of PhD Program:
The proposed research aims to develop a comprehensive framework for data confidentiality and integrity within the trusted edge-cloud continuum, leveraging Trusted Platform Module (TPM), Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX), and ARM TrustZone as key components. These trusted execution environments, in conjunction with advanced encryption and access control methods, provide a robust foundation for safeguarding sensitive information during data transfers and ensuring the authenticity and integrity of exchanged data, all while optimising resource efficiency and enhancing system security.
Application Deadline: 30 January 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science: Interaction Design – Techno-Spirituality for Community Wellbeing
Summary of PhD Program:
Interested in designing interactive tools and experiences to support people’s spiritual journey? Techno-Spirituality is a growing design space in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) at the intersection of spirituality and interactive technologies. Religious and/or spiritual (R/S) practices are intertwined with everyday life and intrinsically linked to people’s wellbeing. This PhD will explore how interactive technologies can support R/S practices and wider wellbeing whilst critically investigating new challenges posed by digital and data-driven tools. Your research will contribute to Design and HCI by exploring the role bodies, places and materials play in R/S practices.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science: Human-Computer Interaction – Rural Computing for Resilient Rural Communities
Summary of PhD Program:
Interested in understanding how computing and interaction design can better support rural communities? Based in a multidisciplinary HCI lab in partnership with the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE), this PhD will explore ways to extend and expand the scope of citizen-centred design and innovation from an urban-centric perspective toward rural and coastal communities. The increased dependence on communications technologies during the Covid-19 pandemic further emphasised that access to connected digital technologies are important to social cohesion and community resilience. However, despite rural communities facing ecological, social, and economic uncertainties, civic technology and ICTs are not designed with the rural in mind.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science: Computational Neurology (Epilepsy)
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to develop computer models of the brain in order to optimise epilepsy treatments such as surgery and stimulation, and develop new treatments such as chronotherapy. By using real-world patient data from EEG, MRI, wearable sensors, etc. the student will process the data, develop advanced analytic tools, and perform computer simulations of the treatments. The goal is to ultimately use these computer models and software tools to contribute to clinical decision making in collaboration with our partners in the NHS & med tech industry.
Application Deadline: 24 January 2024
5. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
Prospective Students are encouraged to contact potential supervisors for more information on specific projects. Applicants can apply for more than one project and should clearly indicate their preferred project(s) in their application. Applicants should have a strong background in Computer Science or related area. High motivation for independent theoretical/computational work is essential. Skills and interest in project specific areas are also desirable.
Application Deadline: 15 February 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
This research aims to understand how process parameters and initial particle size distribution affect size distribution changes in AFDs, by developing and carrying out drying experiments in a small-scale jacketed vessel, which mimics the AFD process. A population balance model will be developed from the experiments and coupled with differential equations for moisture evaporation and temperature rise throughout the bed, to predict particle size distribution from a given drying operation. Such predictions will be compared to pilot or industrial scale results.
Application Deadline: 31.03.2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bayesian computational statistics
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this project is to develop a novel sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) method, based on space augmentation of continuous Markov chains. Convergence properties of the new SMC method will be studied as well. This project will be supervised by Prof. Hongsheng Dai, and Dr. Murray Pollock. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to join the PINCODE project team, and work with Prof. Gareth Roberts at University of Warwick and Dr. Louis Aslett at Durham University.
Application Deadline: 19 February 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Artificial Intelligence: Multi-modality based Conversational Recommender Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The general aim of this project is to develop novel conversational recommendation algorithms to support recommendation specific tasks and goals. The general idea of these algorithms is to support a task-oriented, multi-turn dialogue in natural language with their users. During such a dialogue, the system can elicit the detailed and current preferences of the user, understand individual user’s sentiment and emotional status, provide explanations for the item suggestions, or process feedback by users on the made suggestions in the form of realistic and grammatically correct utterances.
Application Deadline: 29 February 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Archaeology: Windows into Ancient Recycling at Fishbourne Roman Palace
Summary of PhD Program:
The luxury and everyday glass from the Roman Palace at Fishbourne will for the first time be fully catalogued and published, with a particular focus upon the site’s exceptional collection of early window glass. This will address a pressing conundrum – the scale and nature of Roman recycling, and its impact upon our understanding of the economy – via a tailored ‘round-robin’ of techniques, from chemical analysis to experimental reconstruction. Key transferable skills will be developed in examining this assemblage of manageable size yet major potential, addressing the question: are windows the missing pieces to the puzzle of Roman glass recycling?
Application Deadline: 15th January 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human Intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces for Cognition and Control
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD you will investigate the neural mechanisms underlying human sensorimotor and cognitive function and explore how neural signals could be decoded and modulated by closed-loop BCIs. This work will impact both basic science and clinical translation. Your research activities will be based on existing data, and novel data collection through intracranial and intracortical electrodes. Data is collected and analysed at Newcastle University, UK, and in collaboration with the University of Colorado, USA.
Application Deadline: 1st March 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Microbiology: Deciphering gene regulatory networks in a multi-drug resistant bloodstream pathogen
Summary of PhD Program:
Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) are the leading cause of bloodstream infection (BSI), which can lead to sepsis. BSI is a dominant syndrome related to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), responsible for one third of the total deaths directly attributable to AMR, and E. coli is the leading organism responsible. ExPEC encode an arsenal of virulence determinants and clinical isolates are often resistant to multiple antibiotics. The bloodstream triggers unique gene expression patterns in ExPEC, but how these complex pathways are regulated to promote infection, resist drugs and evade host defences remains unknown. This project therefore aims to identify the genetic regulatory pathways and underlying molecular basis of BSI.
Application Deadline: 1st February 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploration of molecular transport at confined interfaces
Summary of PhD Program:
The exploration of molecular transport at small scales is less studied compared to its electronic transport counterpart. However, a remarkable progress has been made in the last decade in creating nanometer-sized artificial capillaries, giving rise to new research frontiers, notably in nanofluidics. Now is the opportune moment to transcend traditional molecular transport measurements and pioneer contemporary experiments to probe and elucidate the physics of molecular transport. Therefore, this PhD project involves creating confined interfaces and investigate physics of static and dynamic molecules. The student will gain expertise in cleanroom activities including electron microscopy, lithography, and electrical measurements.
Application Deadline: 31st January 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Civil Engineering: The impacts of climate variability and climate change on the Indian power system
Summary of PhD Program:
Energy systems across the globe are evolving to meet climate mitigation targets set by the Paris agreement. This process requires a rapid reduction of nations’ reliance on fossil fuels and significant uptake of renewable generation. In parallel to this, the heat and transport sectors are electrifying to reduce their carbon intensity. Increased renewable generation within power systems makes them more weather-dependent, and susceptible to times of energy system stress driven by large-scale weather conditions. India already has a large existing proportion of renewable generation, and such weather conditions could include a heatwave, or a tropical cyclone.
Application Deadline: 31st January 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Astrophysics: Magnetism in hot Jupiters
Summary of PhD Program:
Hot Jupiters are Jupiter like planets very close to their host stars. They are hot enough that much of their atmospheres are ionised which allows magnetic fields, generated in their deep interiors, to be coupled to their atmospheric dynamics. This coupling can lead to variation in atmospheric winds, Ohmic heating which could “inflate” the planet and atmospheric dynamos. All of these behaviours can be observed to help us understand hot Jupiter atmospheres and evolution. Yet, much of this rich dynamics has yet to be explored. This project will use primarily multi-dimensional numerical simulations, in conjunction with observational constraints to investigate the effects of magnetism on hot Jupiters.
Application Deadline: 31st January 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geographies of Displacement
Summary of PhD Program:
We welcome applications from students who approach geographies of displacement from diverse geographical locations and theoretical perspectives, including decolonial and postcolonial theory, feminist theory, and/or critical race theory. Possible topics may include:
- (Geo)politics of displacement and dispossession
- Trajectories, embodiment and counter-topographies of displacement
- Geographies of activism and displacement
- Refuge, refugee politics and futures
- Law and legal geographies of displacement
- Land and ecological displacement
- Eviction, gentrification and urban displacement
- Testimony, memories and witnessing
- Temporalities of displacement
- Colonial and neocolonial displacement
- Borders, boundaries and territoriality
- Displacement and diaspora
Application Deadline: 31st January 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Climate justice and youth in Northeast England
Summary of PhD Program:
The School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University invites applications for a doctoral studentship on climate justice and youth in Northeast England. The candidate will be supervised by Dr Catherine Walker, Professor Anoop Nayak and Dr Clifton Evers and will join a vibrant research community with internationally recognised expertise in youth geographies, cultural geographies and creative, community-engaged research. ‘Climate justice’ as a term has been employed by multiple actors, from UN bodies to environmental activists to academic theorists (McGregor and Christie, 2021; Schlosberg and Collins, 2004). Whilst the term has multiple meanings, its core values lie in illuminating the unequal causes and effects of climate change, and allowing individuals to envision courses of action to address these underlying inequalities (Mikulewicz et al., 2023).
Application Deadline: 16/02/24
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in French Popular Entertainment in the Long Nineteenth Century
Summary of PhD Program:
The School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University invites applications for a doctoral studentship within the broad area of French popular entertainment in the long nineteenth century. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape their own research project related to this broad topic. Their research will be supervised by Dr Hannah Scott and is anticipated to relate to the general framework of the research she is conducting on popular performance culture as a Newcastle University Academic Track (NUAcT) Fellow. This PhD is emphatically interdisciplinary, and applications are welcomed from students of Modern Languages, Music, History,
Application Deadline: 17 January 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in East Asian Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
The Konishi Foundation Scholarship provides support to an excellent candidate who wishes to pursue a PhD in Politics in topics related to East Asian politics within the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University. For purposes of this call, East Asia includes China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Application Deadline: 19th February 2024
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Early Modern Studies – Outsourcing State Censorship
Summary of PhD Program:
Interested in early modern books, print culture and politics? This project investigates how the early modern English state used the book trade guild known as the Stationers’ Company to censor publications. You will work with the Stationers’ Company’s extensive archive (in particular its business records) to explore how it recruited spies and censors and how it went about locating and shutting down forbidden printing. You will also consider the extent to which this involved state appropriation of the traditional regulatory function of the Company.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2024
20. 10 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: 22 January 2024
21. 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: 9 January 2024
22. 13 Fully Funded PhD Position in NERC ONE Planet Doctoral Training Partnership
Summary of PhD Program:
ONE Planet offers a cohort-based doctoral training partnership at Newcastle and Northumbria Universities. Our vision is to provide a training environment that supports, develops, and fosters innovative, transformative ways of working. We aim to produce independent research scientists for the future. You will design the sustainable transdisciplinary responses needed to address intensifying global change. Our internationally recognised research excellence spans the NERC science remit, including:
- Climate and Climate Change
- Earth System Processes
- Anthropocene
- Environmental Informatics
Application Deadline: 11 January 2024
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum Dynamics for Understanding Excited State Properties
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD studentship forms part of a large, concerted research effort in this area initiated through the EPSRC funded Programme Grant, Universal Approach for Solving Real-World Problems Using Quantum Dynamics: Coherent States for Molecular Simulations (COSMOS). It will be based in Prof. Thomas Penfold’s Theory and Computational Chemistry research group at Newcastle University, and will develop and deploy new quantum dynamics strategies that will uniquely deliver impact and insight for real-world applications across a range of technological and biological domains.
Application Deadline: 31st January 2024
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Intersections in Medical and Environmental History
Summary of PhD Program:
Interested in the intersection between medical and environmental history after 1700? This PhD will allow the successful candidate the opportunity to develop a project which can help us understand current issues in environmental and health using the lens of the past. Themes which may shape this PhD could include, but are not limited to, green urban infrastructure and health; conceptions of the rural as ‘healthy’; hospital design; atmospheres; travel for health; sport and exercise; explorations of changing ideas of ‘nature’ in relation to health; sensory interactions between the body and the environment.
Application Deadline: 12 January 2023
25. Fully Funded PhD Position in Effects of the predictability of oxygen fluctuation on aquatic benthic community dynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
The concentration of dissolved oxygen in aquatic systems (defined as oxyscape, Fusi et al., 2023 Biogeosciences 20:3509-3521) helps to regulate biodiversity, nutrient biogeochemistry, greenhouse gas emissions, and the quality of the water. Aquatic ecosystems spanning from marine to freshwater are characterised by the significant presence of primary producers that create a daily fluctuation of oxygen ranging from condition of oxygen supersaturation during the day to hypoxic condition during the night, through the photosynthetic activity and respiration. Understanding the level of such fluctuation and its predictability is important to determine the organismal physiology and community resilience to environmental stressors such as global warming (Pinsky et al., 2022 Trends in Ecology & Evolution 37:8).
Application Deadline: 1 February 2024
26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Translational and Clinical Research Institute: Digital Health Engagement and Behaviour Change
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD, you will examine how to incorporate psychological theory and insights from related fields into the design of digital interventions, investigate how and when such strategies should be incorporated to optimise user engagement with the intervention and target health-related behaviours and evaluate their impact on behavioural and health outcomes. You will learn to conduct systematic literature reviews, collect and analyse qualitative and quantitative data, and design and develop digital health interventions.
Application Deadline: 19th January 2024
27. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biosciences Institute: CRISPR-modulation of the gene regulators of osteoarthritis
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will take place at the Centre for Life, Newcastle University. This is an opportunity to work on a highly interdisciplinary project where a successful PhD student will learn fundamental molecular, cell biology and bioinformatic skills. Overall, the aim of the research is to improve clinical outcomes for patients with common and rarer skeletal diseases.
Application Deadline: 18th February 2024
28. Fully Funded PhD Position in Simulating the evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of this project is to push our theoretical understanding of how supermassive black holes and galaxies form in the early Universe. You will develop brand new numerical models to incorporate unexplored physical processes (e.g. radiation from active galactic nuclei) into new simulations of galaxy evolution. You will perform and forward-model new cosmological simulations and test your new theoretical models against cutting-edge telescope data. This project is intensively numerical in nature and especially suited to a candidate who is passionate about code development and theoretical physics.
Application Deadline: 31st January 2024
29. Fully Funded PhD Position in Representation Theory and Quantum Groups
Summary of PhD Program:
The School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics anticipates that a fully funded PhD studentship in Pure Mathematics with a start date in September 2024 will be allocated in an open competition. We invite applications in all areas of Pure Mathematics, but particularly encourage candidates interested in the project ‘Representation Theory and Quantum Groups’, supervised by Dr Martina Balagovic and Dr Stefan Kolb.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2024
30. Fully Funded PhD Position in Pure Mathematics- Representation Theory and Tensor Categories
Summary of PhD Program:
The category of finite dimensional representations of a group or an affine group scheme or a quantum group is a tensor category. One would like to understand the fusion rules that describe the decomposition of tensor products or one seeks qualitative information like the classification of tensor ideals or the connection to other categories via tensor functors.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2024
31. Fully Funded PhD Position in Planning/ Landscape: The environmental impacts of housing development
Summary of PhD Program:
Accelerating global urbanisation is having significant detrimental impacts on human and non-human species and environments. This is an intellectual and practical challenge in cities globally as governments struggle to meet the needs of growing populations with increasing demands on natural resources. Suites of concepts for environmental policy have been embraced by the planning profession to promote sustainable cities. However, most approaches have fault-lines: they separate ‘humans’ from ‘nature’ thus failing to account for mutual interdependence, and view land as a commodity to be owned and exploited, failing to recognise it as a vital resource for ecosystems and communities to flourish together. Recent concepts, like nature-based thinking and degrowth have shifted academic thinking towards more eco-centric approaches.
Application Deadline: 9th January 2024
32. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics – Computing with electromagnetic waves
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for an outstanding student to do research in theoretical physics for the control of light-matter interactions using microwave and photonic structures including arbitrary manipulation of waves using metamaterials and metasurfaces. Postgraduate students at Newcastle University can also take part in a range of paid teaching activities, with training provided.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2024
33. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geospatial Engineering: Smart Earth Observation Satellite Constellation
Summary of PhD Program:
The concept of ‘smart satellites’ is an emerging research topic. Most research to date, such as the ESA Phi-Sat-1 mission, has focused towards on-board processing to optimise data transmission. This proposed PhD research will build upon this, looking towards the collective potential of constellations of satellites combined with modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data communications. The research programme will rethink the EO modus operandi to enable satellite on-board image processing, data analysis, information exchange with other satellites and the ground, to invent an overall intelligent EO ecosystem.
Application Deadline: 31st January 2024
34. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geospatial Engineering: Continental hydrological surface loading deformation from GNSS observations
Summary of PhD Program:
One of the processes that challenge this assumption is related to crustal deformation due to fluctuations in terrestrial water storage. The seasonal exchange of water between the continents and the oceans generates changes in surface loading that causes elastic deformation of the Earth’s surface. This project will focus on using GNSS observations to characterize crustal deformation caused by the redistribution of water mass across a broad range of timescales, and assess how this affects our ability to estimate meaningful secular velocities of the Earth’s crust. This will also improve our understanding of the broad-scale continental hydrological signals.
Application Deadline: 26th January 2024
35. Fully Funded PhD Position in Condensed Matter Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
Theoretical physics plays a central role in understanding diamond, with an increasing focus upon accurate, quantitative computational methods. Such modelling is computational demanding, and this project includes the use of high-performance computing, coding and data analysis. Training in the materials physics, the use of the operating system and application of the software used will be provided; although not essential, previous experience using computational methods and coding would be an advantage. Postgraduate students can also take part in a range of paid teaching activities for which training is provided.
Application Deadline: 31st January 2024
36. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science: Trustworthy, Transparent, and Self-aware Autonomous Agent Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
Autonomous agent systems have the promise to improve our lives with applications ranging from a swarm of drones in mission-critical tasks to sophisticated robots in care homes. To realise this potential, these systems need to be trustworthy (safe to employ by users), transparent (accountable for humans to scrutinise), and self-ware (capable of collaborating with other agents/humans), in particular, under an environment pervaded by uncertainty.
