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 Microbiology
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you interested in learning how to characterise an antibiotics mode of action and its development as a potential drug to move into clinical trials? This project will work on the development of a novel compound series which has shown potential as a treatment of fatal bronchopneumonia in foals. Rhodococcus hoagii, formally Rhodococcus equi, is the bacterial pathogen responsible for the horse disease Rattles (bronchopneumonia), and causes fatal pulmonary infections in foals. It is difficult to treat and often requires a prolonged course of multiple antibiotics. Unfortunately, the prognosis of R. hoagii pneumonia is poor even after treatment. Treatment success is further complicated by the increasing emergence of drug-resistant bacterial strains. Consequently, the development of new treatments is of the upmost importance.
Application Deadline: 30th June 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Marine Science
Summary of PhD Program:
This is an exciting opportunity to develop novel drone, satellite and other remote methods for monitoring the restoration of important marine habitats, such as kelp and seagrass. Part of the ‘Stronger Shores’ project, you will develop new methods for mapping and evaluating the success of Nature-Based Solutions for coastal erosion, flood risk, climate change and biodiversity management. You will be an integral member of a strong team which includes Local Government, UK Government agencies, consultancies, NGOs and UK universities.
Application Deadline: 10th July 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Marine Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD will focus on kelp forests, seagrass meadows and native oyster reefs, which create three-dimensional habitats supporting high levels of biodiversity and providing a range of goods and services to human society. One service often attributed to these habitats is reducing wave energy, thereby protecting coastlines and communities (Henderson, 2019; Tinco et al, 2019), but evidence for this is conflicting (Denny, 2021). Your PhD will measure the wave dampening effects of these habitats in the field and across a range of environmental contexts. Given these habitats are under threat from a range of anthropogenic stressors, this PhD will also test methods for restoring kelp along exposed coastlines. You will use novel techniques and tools to achieve these objectives.
Application Deadline: 10th July 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geoscience
Summary of PhD Program:
Perchlorates and nitrates have been measured on the surface of Mars. Perchlorates lower the freezing point of water and expand the areas where life could survive today, or in the past. When heated, they react with organic molecules, potentially providing an explanation for some results of life detecting experiments carried out by the Viking lander missions in the 1970s. Figuring out when on Mars nitrogen in the atmosphere was ‘fixed’ into other forms such as nitrate is also important, as nitrogen is (after carbon) the second most important nutrient for life.
Application Deadline: 30th June 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environmental Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
This exciting WIRe CDT project, in collaboration with Northumbrian Water, will investigate the impact of climate change on river water quality, the implications this will have for water treatment infrastructure, and novel engineering interventions for management of such impacts. A specific focus for the research will be water treatment infrastructure resilience to changes in freshwater sulphate concentrations; freshwater sulphate concentrations have increased in recent decades, and these problems are particularly evident in former mining catchments, including in north-east England.
Application Deadline: 7 July 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computing
Summary of PhD Program:
Prompt reaction to an interesting event is a critical feature for any embedded system for safe and reliable interaction with the environment. Computer vision, which plays a significant role in such interaction processes, requires higher level scene understanding with ultra-fast processing capabilities operating at extremely low power. Current vision systems often use compute intensive approaches and are prone to fail in environments with limited power, bandwidth and computing resources, e.g., drones, or edge computing sensors.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) agents in socially complex environments, such as hospitals and schools, necessitates a cross-disciplinary understanding of human-AI interaction (HAII) and its impact on human users. In HAII, the design of an AI agent extends beyond its functionality, encompassing its operational dynamics and the conscious or subconscious perceptions of human users. This project focuses on the sociocultural dimension of HAII, surpassing the traditional “human-in-the-AI-loop” perspective for a nuanced “AI-in-the-human-loop” approach.
Application Deadline: 09 July 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The research will involve extensive field tests at external sites (e.g. the DNV site at RAF Spadeadam in Cumbria) and the project will support and build on recent ad hoc interaction between Dstl and the Faraday Institution on the topic of failure mechanisms for electric vehicle batteries when subjected to stimuli of relevance to defence and security. It will be the first study with the Faraday Institution funded by defence and the first defence funded PhD in this specific field.
Application Deadline: 31st August 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biological Control
Summary of PhD Program:
The emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis (EAB), has devastated ash trees after its accidental introduction to North America and European Russia. European ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior) in Great Britain are already under threat from ash dieback disease (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, ADB), and the arrival of EAB could kill the remaining, resistant trees. Biological control through the release of natural enemies could help protect ash trees on a landscape scale. The student will examine the risk that exotic parasitoids originating from the native range of EAB may pose to native insect fauna and assess the attractiveness to the parasitoids of European ash.
Application Deadline: 12th July 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Microbiology
Summary of PhD Program:
Focussing on the human host, such cross-kingdom interactions are prevalent within the human microbiota, and are commonly associated with biofilms and medically relevant infections. The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is widely used by bacteria to fire diverse effector proteins directly into neighbouring target cells. Many bacterial pathogens employ T6SSs as a potent weapon to deliver antibacterial effector proteins into rival bacterial cells during inter-bacterial competition. However. recently the exciting discovery was made that this ‘anti-bacterial’ T6SS is also a potent anti-fungal weapon, eliciting anti-fungal effectors that are able to kill pathogenic fungal species.
Application Deadline: 30th June 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The transition to net zero will push the chemical industry to smaller, more remote plants operating intermittently requiring a step change in process automation and control. An artificial operator will steer the plant control system through changes in feedstock availability and maximise catalyst lifetime, as human operators currently do. This PhD project will explore hybrid approaches to reactor modelling which will be necessary to achieve this step change.
Application Deadline: 31st July 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Our previous research focused on developing novel polymer-based sensors for COVID-19 detection and diagnosing cardiac conditions. Molecular imprinting was used to develop polymer receptors, which were immobilised onto screen-printed electrodes to facilitate accurate, rapid, and low-cost measurements. Your role will be to advance this research by adapting our sensing technology to monitor numerous biomarkers relevant to multimorbidity and integrate the sensor into a wearable device. This will involve polymer synthesis, characterisation techniques, electrochemistry, device fabrication, and gathering patient/clinical feedback.
Application Deadline: 14th July 2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you interested in learning how the human brain understand people’s activities in a scene much better than existing computer systems? It is proposed that people combine prior knowledge of scenes with visual features to understand complex activities (e.g., hugging vs fighting). This PhD project is an inter-disciplinary collaboration with computer scientists at the University of Surrey. You will work with the Surrey PhD student to help answer these questions.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2023
14. Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan
Summary of PhD Program:
Awards are funded by the Department for International Development (for developing Commonwealth countries), and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Scottish Government (for developed Commonwealth countries), in conjunction with UK universities. The CSC also nominates UK citizens for scholarships to study in other Commonwealth countries under the CSFP.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The research will involve extensive field tests at external sites (e.g. the DNV, RAF Spadeadam in Cumbria) The project will support and build on recent ad hoc interaction between DSTL and the Faraday Institution on the topic of failure mechanisms for electric vehicle batteries when subjected to stimuli of relevance to defence and security. It will be the first study with the Faraday Institution funded by defence and the first defence-funded PhD in this specific field.
Application Deadline: 24th July 2023
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geospatial Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The Geospatial Systems CDT is training a world-leading generation of engineers, scientists and practitioners with advanced knowledge and skills in geospatial data science, including big data and artificial intelligence approaches. Successful applicants will conduct interdisciplinary PhD research with elective application into one or more of: smart cities; urban and infrastructure resilience; spatial mobility (transport); energy systems; sustainable spatial planning; structural monitoring; social inclusion and healthy living; environmental applications; the translation of geospatial methods to global challenges. Students will benefit from graduating with both a MRes in Geospatial Data Science (Year 1) and a PhD in Geospatial Systems (Year 4).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Precision medicine
Summary of PhD Program:
This studentship will support the wider project through wet laboratory studies of novel and rare mitochondrial variants, using a repertoire of functional assays to characterise novel disease genes and support functional validation of genetic findings. The studentship will be supervised by Professor Rob Taylor, Dr Monika Oláhová and Dr Charlotte Alston who together have a long-standing track record of mitochondrial gene discovery and the characterisation of post-transcriptional molecular disease mechanisms.
