Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Leeds, 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 AI-Assisted Characterisation of Triboelectrification of Powders
Summary of PhD Program:
This research project aims to utilise the advanced particle characterisation capabilities at the University of Leeds to map a comprehensive array of physical, chemical and electrical properties of powders, including particle size, shape, density, surface roughness, surface resistivity, and dielectric constant. These characterisation data will serve as the foundation for training an artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to predict the tribocharging tendencies and behaviours of different powders.
Application Deadline: 25 April 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
Summary of PhD Program:
While scholars have recently begun to recover and honour the often-disregarded involvement of women in recognized scientific roles, women’s sphere of operation was historically often restricted to roles that were less esteemed, despite being of considerable significance. Revising views of this work not only takes our understanding of women’s historical role in the sciences to a new level, but also deepens our understanding of how science works, by recognizing the importance of hidden labour by marginalized figures.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Identifying priority places for increasing physical activity in the UK
Summary of PhD Program:
Globally, a third of all adults do not meet physical activity recommendations. For adolescents this is much higher, with eight in ten not meeting recommendations. In the UK, 34% of men and 42% of women are not active enough for good health and one in six deaths are associated with physical inactivity. At the same time, we need to reduce emissions from motorised transport, which is a key contributor to the climate crisis. Shifting behaviour towards increased physical activity, including active travel, presents an opportunity for intervention and innovation that would reduce emissions, and promote health.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Opinion dynamics of rational agents
Summary of PhD Program:
This is a mathematical programme of research that will be based on probability theory, especially Bayesian inference and optimisation. Stochastic processes, networks and game theory are also likely to be important. Applicants should be able to evidence a solid background in statistics and probability, and scientific programming. You will also engage with work from biology, psychology and sociology that provides a context for understanding human sociality, motivations and cognitive processes.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing and refining a conceptual model for de-implementing low-value safety practices
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this PhD will be to address this gap. This PhD studentship will likely involve a systematic review and/or meta-analysis of studies within and beyond healthcare that have tried to understand/de-implement policies, rules, safety practices and processes and to collate this information to answer questions about what are the fundamental barriers and enablers (behavioural, team, professional, organisational and potentially societal) that impact attempts at de-implementation.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanistic basis of photobiomodulation – an in vitro cellular and microbiome study
Summary of PhD Program:
The study will employ a combined approach employing in vitro models of the human colonic microbiota and co-culture cell models (epithelial cells and immune cells) to study the influence of photobiomodulation (PBM) on microbiota energy metabolism, mitochondrial metabolism and cell redox. The in vitro colonic microbiota model employed at University of Leeds, was specifically designed to mimic colonic carbohydrate fermentation and the most recent iteration, MiGUT, has been miniaturised and multiplexed to allow higher throughput and improved experimental design.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Soft Matter Physics of Protein-Based Networks
Summary of PhD Program:
Protein-based networks play crucial roles in systems ranging from intracellular condensates [1,2] and extracellular materials like blood clots and mucus [3,4] to artificial hydrogels [5] and biological materials such as silk in cocoons and spider webs [6-8]. Understanding their behaviour across molecular and macroscopic scales is key to advancing biotechnology and materials science. However, the theoretical prediction of macroscopic properties of protein-based networks from the constitutive protein sequence is greatly challenged by intrinsic disorder.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Robotic manipulation
Summary of PhD Program:
As robots integrate into daily life, achieving human-level dexterity is crucial for tasks like precision assembly, household assistance, and healthcare. This PhD project focuses on developing methods related to the following research topics:
• Robotic fine manipulation
• In-hand dexterous manipulation
• Skill acquisition and transfer
• Bimanual manipulation
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Summary of PhD Program:
The Royal Society of London, and the University of Leeds are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative doctoral studentship from 1 October 2025 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships (CDP) scheme. The project will use previously unexamined archives to explore the important role of scientific almanacs in securing the reputation of the new science of meteorology in mid-nineteenth-century Britain, in the face of public scepticism and the continuing prevalence of astrological almanacs.
Application Deadline: 6 May 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine-learning based optimisation of corrosion inhibitor formulations for CO2-containing aqueous environments
Summary of PhD Program:
Researchers are seeking next-generation inhibitors that are environmentally friendly, sustainable, and effective at higher temperatures. However, the immense diversity of corrosion inhibitor formulations and the time-consuming nature of conventional corrosion test methods limits the speed and capability at which such chemistries can be developed, as well as resulting in significant material usage. To this end, numerous methods to rapidly evaluate the performance of corrosion inhibitor formulations have been proposed.
Application Deadline: 6 May 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multi-scale corrosion assessment of additively remanufactured metallic components used in flow equipment
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD will investigate the corrosion behaviour of additively remanufactured metallic flow components in collaboration with Sulzer. This interdisciplinary PhD project will develop the necessary corrosion understanding of remanufactured stainless steel in aqueous CO2-containing environments, typical of geothermal energy and carbon capture infrastructure. Corrosion behaviour of traditional manufactured materials has been widely studied, but understanding has yet to be established for additively remanufactured materials.
Application Deadline: 6 May 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Improving measures of perceived access to local amenities
Summary of PhD Program:
Improving access to local amenities by active travel is an important phase in enhancing the sustainability of urban mobility. By enhancing the presence of and connectivity to essential amenities it is possible to reduce the necessity of car-based travel, and enhance opportunities for active travel, which in turn have benefits to health. This concept is the basis of considerable national government investment in active travel infrastructure, and a focus of many local government initiatives.
Application Deadline: 9 May 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Generating synthetic mobility trajectories for privacy-preserving data sharing
Summary of PhD Program:
The growth in the availability of fine-grained mobility data has spurred high-impact research findings into the nature of human mobility. There remains significant potential for enhanced understanding of mobility behaviour to help improve the reliability and sustainability of urban transportation systems. Despite major safeguards in place around the storage and use of fine-grained mobility data, there remain concerns about the risk to individual privacy, and questions about the continued willingness of the public to permit data for use in research.
Application Deadline: 9 May 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding the Impact of Alexander the Great Through the Material Culture of the Hellenistic World
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will be jointly supervised by Dr Simon Glenn and Dr Anna Willi (British Museum) and Dr Samuel Gartland and Prof. Emma Stafford (University of Leeds). The student will be expected to spend time at both the University of Leeds and the British Museum, as well as being part of the wider cohort of CDP-funded students across the UK. There will be a requirement to spend significant periods of time in London over the course of the studentship.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Algorithms for metric-based problems on graphs
Summary of PhD Program:
A graph consists of a vertex set representing a set of objects and an edge set representing pairs of related objects. This versatility of graphs has enabled researchers from diverse areas of computer science to convert a real-world problem to a combinatorial optimisation problem on graphs. As most combinatorial optimisation problems are NP-hard, natural approaches have been to design fixed-parameter tractable algorithms or approximation algorithms. Studies of these two algorithmic paradigms have led to a deeper understanding of computability and gave rise to algorithmic meta-theorems & frameworks to solve combinatorial optimisation problems on graphs.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Collaboration and Competition: The National Gallery and the Regional Public Art Gallery, 1920s-1980s
Summary of PhD Program:
The studentship aims to explore the history of collaborations and competition between the NG and national networks, building on existing research developed by scholars such as Giles Waterfield, Jonathan Conlin and Christopher Whitehead. It will focus on a significant period of collaboration and competition between the NG and regional museums beginning in the 1920s with the collaboration between the NG and Southampton Art Gallery.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding the relationship between food behaviours and health outcomes
Summary of PhD Program:
Food production and consumption are at the heart of the world greatest challenges, with 1 in 7 deaths globally attributed to poor diet and a third of global greenhouse gas emissions coming from food production. Measuring population diet has been notoriously challenging, with limited sample sizes and prone to bias, including selection and reporting bias. Despite this, diets are a convincing risk factor for a variety of health conditions, including obesity, cardiovascular disease and some cancers.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI Optimisation of Side Stream Utilisation for Microbial Protein Production
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will combine AI and metabolic modelling to develop scientific understanding about how microbes use these alternative substrates. This will be used to predict protein yields from using different substrates, microbe strains, and fermentation conditions. From this, new knowledge will be generated about the most promising agri-food side streams for microbial protein production based on economic and environmental metrics. The use of advanced sensing techniques (e.g., ultrasonic sensors, near-infrared spectroscopy, or computer vision) will be explored to further improve protein production on these complex substrates by characterising side streams and monitoring fermentation processes.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding and evaluating restorative approaches in response to patient safety incidents
Summary of PhD Program:
There has been a growing recognition of the failure of organisational responses to acknowledge the wide-ranging human impacts on those affected by patient safety incidents, beyond learning, which can sometimes feel worse than the original harm itself (Ramsey et al., 2022; Wailling, Wilkinson & Marshall, 2019; Martin, Chew & Palser., 2017). In addition to the initial harms resulting from patient safety incidents, ‘compounded harm’ can extend the harmful experience for everyone involved (Wailling, Kooijman, Hughes & O’Hara, 2022). Compounded harm refers to the harm that can be created after a safety incident, due to the processes that follow by “neglecting to appreciate and respond to human impacts” and has been argued to be especially the case “when people feel unheard or invalidated” (Wailling et al., 2019; Moore & Mello, 2017).
