Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Coventry University, Coventry, 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 An Adaptable and Contextual Zero Trust Access Control Mechanism for Critical Infrastructures
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD research explores the integration of heterogeneous information sources into a contextual access control system for critical infrastructures, enabling dynamic trust evaluation. It examines the design considerations necessary to develop a robust and adaptable framework that combines Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), trust algorithms, and reinforcement learning techniques. Additionally, it investigates scalable and practical methods for implementing access control within ZTA, emphasizing validation through simulations. Beyond access control, the study explores the broader application of reinforcement learning in cybersecurity, identifying associated challenges and opportunities in its implementation.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Transparency and Secrecy: The paradoxes of tech whistleblowing in the digital era
Summary of PhD Program:
Whistleblowing in the technology industry has become increasingly complex and paradoxical due to the tension between transparency and secrecy. On one hand, the tech industry often emphasises the importance of transparency, openness, and sharing information with users. This is seen in the frequent release of transparency reports by tech companies, detailing government requests for user data and content removals. On the other hand, the tech industry is also known for its culture of secrecy, where trade secrets, intellectual property, and proprietary algorithms are closely guarded and protected. This paradox creates a challenging situation for whistleblowers in the tech industry who witness unethical or illegal activities.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in E-waste circular economy through socio-technical system approach: a comparative study of Indonesia and the UK
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is a studentship opportunity for a dual degree PhD programme between Coventry University in the United Kingdom and the Bandung Institute of Technology (Institute Teknologi Bandung, ITB) in Indonesia. The successful candidate will be part of the Centre for E-Mobility and Clean Growth (CECG) at Coventry and the School of Business & Management (SBM) at ITB. The students will be supported by a team of experts in sustainable supply chain management to complete the PhD project successfully. They will spend the first and third years at ITB and the second year at Coventry, and are expected to complete the project within three-and-a-half years.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Technologies of care: fostering nature-relatedness and environmental practice through social-technological innovation
Summary of PhD Program:
This doctoral project investigates the ways in which digital technology mediates relationships between humans and nature. It critically examines the potential for digital technology to both consolidate and dissipate the human-nature divide, as well as the ways in which this is being addressed and utilised by digital innovators. Combining case-study based primary research and secondary data analysis the study will focus in particular on the societal uptake and impact of digital biodiversity tools which seek to combine social technology, participatory science and digital innovation. This includes exploring the extent to which such tools serve to enhance nature-relatedness within a range of contexts and with a diversity of user groups.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in The peace potential of everyday economic spaces and practices in conflict-affected societies
Summary of PhD Program:
This three-year funded PhD studentship enables research into the everyday economic spaces and practices that emerge during and following war, exploring the peace potential they offer to conflict-affected societies. Everyday economic spaces and practices give insight into how people in conflict-affected communities adapt to conflict and manage to continue with the necessities of everyday life. The research will consider the following questions that are so far under-researched in peace and conflict studies:
Which everyday economic spaces are constructed in communities affected by violence?
Who partakes in these spaces, and to what use?
In what ways does economic cooperation encourage/drive acts of everyday peace
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in The role of a PERIOD3 polymorphism in the development of chronotype and sleep pressure in adolescents
Summary of PhD Program:
The student will extract DNA from 450 participants and genotype them for the PER3 VNTR. They will examine associations of PER3 VNTR genotype with chronotype and monitor changes in chronotype over the 3 years of data collection. They will also examine any associations of PER3 VNTR genotype with actigraphy and light exposure assessed during equinox periods, and undertake spectral analysis of EEG as a proxy for sleep pressure in a subset of participants.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigating the Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Benefits of Classroom Exercise Breaks in School-Age Children
Summary of PhD Program:
The present proposal aims to address the urgency of undercovering the underlying mechanisms by which CEB might improve cognitive performance in school-age children by using an interdisciplinary approach. The novelty of using a portable neuroimaging device (i.e., fNIRS) can be a significant advantage as it can be used in school settings compared to other traditional methods, often requiring lab visits (EEG/fMRI). Given this, we aim to advance the field by revealing underlying mechanisms of the ultimate benefit of CEB for children’s executive function.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Practicing (Post-)Publishing (PPP)
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite applications for PhD projects that challenge and intervene into the prevailing systems of scholarly publishing which prioritise research outputs (such as books and papers) as well as competitive, individualistic authorship models as the main metrics for academic recognition and success. This conventional approach often reduces scholarly works to commodities, neglecting the intricate socio-material processes of knowledge creation and sharing, which are inherently collaborative involving both human actors (authors, editors, reviewers, programmers) and non-human ones (digital texts, research cultures, technologies).
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in The role of health technology in menopause support: co-designing culturally and socially appropriate solutions
Summary of PhD Program:
The research seeks to identify and understand the needs and priorities of people experiencing the menopause through language-based and creative methods, investigating how such methods can facilitate the discussion of sensitive issues. The role of technology in menopause support will be considered, and the findings from the needs identification will be translated into design requirements for culturally and socially appropriate solutions.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modelling of Timber and Hybrid Structures for Automotive Crash Analysis and Optimisation
Summary of PhD Program:
The motivation of this PhD is to develop a robust simulation framework which reliably captures the main failure mechanisms in vehicle structures under the governing loading conditions. The aim of the PhD is to define and verify a rigorous and robust Finite Element model, methodology and/or framework specifically for timber and hybrid timber material compositions for automotive crashworthiness analysis and optimisation. The model/methodology should capture the governing material failure mechanisms of wood as well as the influence of specific material properties e.g. the influence of wood density which is the main difference of different wood species.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Systemic Sustainability as a Quotient in Health Care Decision
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project aims to blend traditional healthcare evaluation techniques with quantitative approaches from sustainable engineering. It focuses on developing robust clinician-facing intervention models by integrating the measurement of healthcare impacts with systems engineering and decision-making tools. Initially, the project will examine interventions within NHS trusts that exceed standard clinical environmental policies. A comprehensive map will be created, detailing the intended actions, implemented measures, and actual outcomes in line with current legislation.
An ethical framework will be devised to protect patient information, ensure quality care, and integrate sustainability metrics effectively.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in A Framework to Securing Software Defined Vehicles with Zero Trust Security Mechanisms
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD research explores the adaptation and implementation of zero trust security principles in the software-defined vehicle (SDV) ecosystem to address real-time constraints, resource limitations, and the need for reliable communication. It examines how proactive security measures and advanced threat anticipation techniques can be integrated into zero trust frameworks to enhance SDV resilience against evolving cyber threats. Additionally, the study analyses the interactions between key zero trust elements, including identities, data, networks, software, to establish a cohesive security model. By deriving best practices from these interactions, the research aims to inform future implementations of robust cybersecurity strategies for connected and autonomous vehicles.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory
Summary of PhD Program:
Studying creation and evolution of sites and objects of cultural memory in an international context, incorporating interdisciplinary research methods appropriate to cultural memory and the subject of the project’s case studies, this inquiry will ask: How is presentism viewed by creators and users of sites and objects of cultural memory? How do creatives engage in cultural memory practice as distinct from historical enquiry? How do sites of contest over cultural memory and history offer agency for underrepresented or unheard populations?
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Resilience of pastoral societies to social-ecological change in central Kenya
Summary of PhD Program:
The project generated questions, about the limits of locally intensified NbS practices in enabling resilience to acute stressors such as drought and how conflict with neighbouring pastoralist groups compromises both local practice and access to more distant pasture. In addressing the research questions, the proposed PhD research will adopt a case study approach focusing on pastoralist communities in the same areas (Naibunga and Mukogodo) as the RS-GCRF project, in Lakipia County in central Kenya. It is envisaged that the research will be undertaken in three broad stages.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Green investment, green finance, climate risk exposure and sustainability decisions of the firms
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is a studentship opportunity for a dual degree PhD programme between Coventry University in the United Kingdom and the Bandung Institute of Technology (Institute Teknologi Bandung, ITB) in Indonesia. The successful candidate will be part of the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity (CFCI) at Coventry and the School of Business & Management (SBM) at ITB. The students will be supported by a team of experts in sustainable finance to complete the PhD project successfully. They will spend the first and third years at ITB and the second year at Coventry, and are expected to complete the project within three-and-a-half years.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Emerging invasive alien species and their management
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to analyse how emerging invaders could be identified from species distribution databases as well as citizen science records. Furthermore, the project will analyse stakeholder awareness and decision processes in the management response to emerging invaders. The project will focus on non-native plants in Britain and Ireland working with the Botanical Society for Britain and Ireland (BSBI), their database and the citizen science project Plant Alert (www.plantalert.org ). The project is also linked to the Horizon Europe project OneSTOP (https://onestop-project.eu/ ) collaborating with their living lab network across European countries and the Coventry living lab in particular.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Foreseeing the impact and nature-based management of emerging unprecedented climate extremes on water security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Summary of PhD Program:
The nature of future climate extremes could be substantially different from any previously recorded events. This is a major challenge in water-reliant sectors, as risk-mitigation and adaptation strategies are currently based on individual experiences of past events, which might not be sufficient in the face of emerging unprecedented climate conditions. This PhD project aims to develop transdisciplinary approaches to support long-term risk assessment and sustainable adaptation planning in water-reliant sectors in SSA.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Energy transfer in rotating stably stratified turbulence
Summary of PhD Program:
One characteristic of turbulent flow is that energy transfers from one length scale to another in a unique way referred to as the cascade of energy. This project focuses on understanding how energy transfers and cascades at synoptic scales (~1000 km, e.g., mid-latitude cyclones) and mesoscales (5–100s km, e.g., sea breezes) in the presence of rotation and stable stratification. To understand the origins of these energy transfers, we will perform direct numerical simulations using the global spectral method with extremely high precision to capture even the smallest scale present in the problem.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Trailblazers: The Early Career Researcher and PhD Candidate Partnering Scheme
Summary of PhD Program:
Coventry University are now recruiting for exceptional PhD candidates to undertake trailblazing, transformative research alongside our outstanding early-career researchers. The Trailblazer PhD studentships have been devised and developed by leading early-career researchers at Coventry University. The scheme provides successfully appointed doctoral researchers with an innovative and dynamic intellectual space in which to undertake transformative research, whilst being fully supported by a team of experienced supervisors.
