Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Leeds, 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 Understanding and predicting sensitivity of Amazonia’s forests to increasing heat and drought
Summary of PhD Program:
Tropical forests fulfil important roles both for climate and biodiversity. They are exposed to a range of pressures including an increasingly hotter and erratic climate as well as changing atmospheric composition (particularly CO2 and N2O levels raising) (Lapola et al., 2023). In the Amazon there is clear evidence not only of temperatures increasing but also of shifts in the hydrological cycle, with dry season length and seasonal amplitude of precipitation increasing. How these forests will be affected on a long-term is unclear.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hybrid event beds in confined basins
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will help develop our fundamental understanding of how deep-water sedimentary processes respond to confinement. The project will also help develop an applied understanding of the fill and rock properties of hybrid beds in confined basins, which are hosts of conventional resources, sinks of organic carbon, and potential hosts of man-made pollutants. This project will benefit from field studies in the famous Peïra Cava Basin, SE France; decades of prior studies by the wider research team provide a rigorous stratigraphic framework for the study.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Grassland Degradation Detection and Assessment in China by Remote Sensing
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will focus on devising new remote sensing methods for monitoring the degradation of grasslands, which account for 94% of all degraded drylands. It will study grasslands in China, which cover 42% of national land area, and take advantage of data collected by both Chinese and European Space Agency (ESA) satellites. The project is supported by the DRAGON 5 Programme of ESA and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. The student will spend up to 6 months in Beijing working with our Chinese partner.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Conversation between food nanoparticles and gastrointestinal cells: signalling, bioavailability, and healthy ageing
Summary of PhD Program:
This fully funded PhD provides an exciting opportunity to pursue postgraduate research in a range of fields relating to Cell Biology, Nanotechnology, Food Science, Immunology, and Biophysics, with potential applications in healthy ageing and prevention of metabolic syndrome. The importance of food microstructure for health is increasingly recognised. However, its structure-function relation and biological mechanism remain largely undefined. This PhD aims to employ multidisciplinary approaches to shed lights on the cellular signalling pathways in the mucosal cells of gastrointestinal tract in response to selected bioactive compounds available in the nanostructure of food matrix, and demonstrate their impact on nutrient absorption and tissue regeneration.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Terahertz Photonics
Summary of PhD Program:
Applicants are sought for a funded PhD in the area of terahertz photonics. The project is an exciting opportunity to join a large and world-renowned research group active and leading in many areas of terahertz science and technology. One area of our current research is in the fast modulation of sources for terahertz radiation, and we are currently investigating acoustic waves for this application.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Vision-Language Models for Visual Question Answering
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, we aim to develop advanced computer vision and image understanding techniques to extract meaningful semantic information from medical images. We will utilize domain-specific fine-tuned language models for visual question-answering, showcasing the potential of vision-language models in clinical settings. Additionally, we will investigate open research challenges in this field, such as enhancing medical image understanding, leveraging language for weak supervision, pre-training foundational models, training vision-language models on medical datasets, and aligning image-text representations.
Application Deadline: 15 October 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Enhancing real-time performance in digital wireless communications using embedded machine learning
Summary of PhD Program:
The overall research hypothesis addressed by this project is that machine learning can provide quantitative insights into the likelihood of successful message transmissions over a wireless communication channel by analysing and learning from messages previously sent over the same and adjacent communication channels. Such quantitative insights could then be used to reduce uncertainty and therefore assist schedulers to achieve timely and reliable delivery of messages in real-time distributed systems and to provide valuable metrics when evaluating and optimizing wireless communication systems in general.
Application Deadline: 15 October 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Health in an Ageing Society: Geographical Inequalities in Access to Services and Amenities in Later Life
Summary of PhD Program:
The work will be undertaken in the context of the Dunhill Medical Trust Reimagine Ageing Doctoral Research Programme embedded in the Interdisciplinary Reimagine Ageing Research Network. The Network focuses on improving the quality of life, functional capacity and well-being of people as they age. It is embedded in and is being co-created with community partners with the intent for meaningful interdisciplinary engagement from colleagues across the University of Leeds and with the communities whose lives they seek to improve.
Application Deadline: 22 October 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Green Spaces in Healthy Ageing: Use, Environmental, Seasonal and Individual Influences on Health in Deprived Areas
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited for Interdisciplinary Doctoral research focused on developing new understanding of how and why older adults in deprived areas in Leeds are(n’t) using green spaces across the climate seasons, how their experiences impact their health and ultimately propose ways to re/design green spaces to overcome barriers to use and promote health and wellbeing. The work will be undertaken in the context of the Dunhill Medical Trust Reimagine Ageing Doctoral Research Programme embedded in the Interdisciplinary Reimagine Ageing Research Network. The Network focuses on improving the quality of life, functional capacity and well-being of people as they age.
Application Deadline: 22 October 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Promoting Healthy Ageing through Diverse Mobility Options
Summary of PhD Program:
The work will be undertaken in the context of the Dunhill Medical Trust Reimagine Ageing Doctoral Research Programme embedded in the Interdisciplinary Reimagine Ageing Research Network. The Network focuses on improving the quality of life, functional capacity and well-being of people as they age. It is embedded in and is being co-created with community partners with the intent for meaningful interdisciplinary engagement from colleagues across the University of Leeds and with the communities whose lives they seek to improve.
Application Deadline: 22 October 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ageing and/as Performance
Summary of PhD Program:
This interdisciplinary project aims to mobilise the term performance, across its many manifestations in different fields of research and human activity, as a lens to analyse, bring together and develop a comparative understanding of different aspects of ageing. Performance is a broad term which encompasses artistic products, social behaviours and identity categories. Performance, also, signifies achievement according to a pre-established standard and in this way it can also refer to professional attainment as well as technological or physiological function.
Application Deadline: 22 October 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Inequality of timely Clostridioidies difficile infection testing, treatment and management in hospitalised and community patients
Summary of PhD Program:
Clostridioidies difficile infection (CDI) is the leading cause of hospital associated diarrhoea in the western world, but there is increasing recognition of cases within the community setting. Although current diagnostic and treatment guidelines include some information on community cases, this is based on weak evidence. Inequalities potentially exist for CDI patients both in hospitals and the community. We know that diarrhoea sampling and CDI testing practices vary widely across institutions. A recent European study of CDI also found that 50% of cases in the community were never tested for the infection by their original healthcare provider; lack of suspicion is largely based on the assumption that CDI is a hospital associated infection.
Application Deadline: 27 October 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Edge intelligence for Internet of Things
Summary of PhD Program:
Edge intelligence for the Internet of Things (IoT) presents a revolutionary solution to the limitations of existing approaches to data processing and decision-making. Traditional methods, heavily reliant on centralized cloud infrastructure, often encounter challenges such as latency issues, bandwidth constraints, and security vulnerabilities. In contrast, edge intelligence decentralizes data processing by leveraging localized computational power and analytics capabilities, thereby reducing latency, enhancing data privacy, and minimizing bandwidth usage.
Application Deadline: 30 October 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular resolution of biomolecular assembly by combining neutron scattering and coarse-grained simulation
Summary of PhD Program:
Nanoscale biological building blocks play a vital role in biological systems and can be assembled to create novel biomaterials for use in healthcare applications such as drug delivery and tissue engineering. To date, we have employed neutron diffraction and simulation based structural refinement to study the atomistic structure of small building blocks such as aqueous sugars and amino acids, providing rich information on biomolecule hydration and biomolecule interactions. A step change is urgently needed in our approach, to move to more realistic, larger molecules and higher concentrations.
Application Deadline: 1 November 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economy-Wide Energy Demand Reduction
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD place provides an exciting opportunity to pursue postgraduate research in an area of energy demand reduction as you will be joining the largest UKRI funded centre related to the topic, namely the Energy Demand Research Centre (edrc.ac.uk). You will be working collaboratively with the research team of Professor John Barrett OBE, who employees a range of modelling approaches to understand how changes in production and consumption can contribute to a low carbon future. John is currently a Theme Leader for the Future Theme of the Energy Demand Research Centre.
Application Deadline: 1 November 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Space-based constraints on UK ammonia emissions and air quality impacts
Summary of PhD Program:
We are offering an exciting PhD opportunity, in the School of Earth and Environment, to undertake novel research targeting one of the major air quality challenges facing the UK – the ammonia problem! Ammonia (NH3) is emitted primarily from diffuse agricultural sources and difficult to quantify for legislative purposes. Unlike other air pollutants, gaseous NH3 emissions have not decreased over recent decades and continue to promote extensive formation of ammonium nitrate aerosol – a hazardous air pollutant. Therefore, this project aims to exploit state-of-the-art satellite observations and modelling to better constrain NH3 emissions, their temporal changes (from a legislative point of view) and to quantify the impact of these emissions changes on key air pollutants such as PM2.5 (particulate matter with a diameter less than 2.5 microns).
Application Deadline: 31 December 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Opinion dynamics of rational agents
Summary of PhD Program:
Models of opinion dynamics typically treat the spread of ideas like an epidemic, with individuals becoming ‘infected’ with a certain opinion and then passing it on to others. Indeed, observing how beliefs and opinions spread on social media it can often seem as though people have little control over which beliefs they adopt, and which they pass on. However, people are not simply passive recipients and vectors for ideas; expressing themselves online is a decision, and one that they make so as to accomplish their goals, whether conscious or not.
Application Deadline: 3 January 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physical Layer Security for Mobile Optical Wireless Communications Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
Optical wireless communication (OWC) is a highly directive communication system. This directivity hinders its practical implementation in mobile applications. Short-range OWC systems, which integrate lighting and communication functionalities and support multiple users using LED sources, are commonly referred to as visible light communication (VLC). In comparison, long-range device-to-device OWC systems that utilize laser sources are known as free space optical (FSO) communication. While the directive nature of OWC has been believed to offer security advantages, it does not guarantee security in multiuser VLC systems as the authenticity of users is not guaranteed.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in A Data-Dense Approach to Catalyst Development for Sustainable Synthesis
Summary of PhD Program:
We are recruiting a motivated PhD student to develop non-precious metal catalysts for applications in sustainable synthesis. This project combines organometallic synthesis, high-throughput experimentation, mass spectrometry, as well as continuous flow to create robust and optimised catalysts for key pharmaceutical transformations. Prior experience in one or more of these areas is beneficial but not required as training in all areas will be provided. The project has significant potential for diverse expansion and can grow as the student progresses. Research will take place within the Sustainable and Digital Chemistry section, and the Institute of Process Research and Development at the University of Leeds.
