Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Nottingham, Nottingham, 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 Agricultural & Environmental Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
Four-year funded PhDs available in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security, Bioscience for Human Health and Biotechnology for Sustainable Growth – October 2025. Thanks to £14m of funding awarded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent in partnership with the National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) are offering fully funded innovative four-year cohort-based training in frontier science across priority areas focussed on the three overarching research areas. This funding covers tuition fees, a stipend, and RTSG (research training and support grant).
Application Deadline: 19 May 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Neurocomputation in networks with plastic delays
Summary of PhD Program:
This is a brain inspired project in the field of Neurodynamics. Networks of oscillators are ideal candidates for modelling patterns of functional connectivity seen in large scale brain recordings. These describe correlations between brain regions and can evolve over tens of seconds, with essentially discontinuous shifts from one short term state to another that can be viewed as heteroclinic connections between phase-locked states. The PhD project will consider the role that communication delays between nodes can have in shaping patterns of dynamic functional connectivity.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Western Classical Music in Global History: Performance and Musical Trade in the Caribbean in the Long Nineteenth Century
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project will explore the performance and reception of Western Classical music in Jamaica and/or Barbados in the long nineteenth century. British colonisers imported Western Classical music to the Caribbean, while enslaved musicians often performed for the entertainment of their enslavers. This PhD project asks how public and private music-making, compositional practice, and conceptions of Western Classical music in the Caribbean were shaped by economic and cultural imperialism, by colonial structures of power and knowledge, exploitative practices, and trade within the British Empire.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in University of Nottingham AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship with Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
Summary of PhD Program:
Recent research on maritime connections between Britain and Atlantic Europe (including France and Iberia) during the Middle Ages, and maritime engagement in medieval Wales, hint at far greater use of seaways by a broader spectrum of people than previously appreciated. Welsh connections have been studied in detail for the early medieval period but new excavated and stray-find evidence from the later medieval period has received limited attention. By using the new data from two case-study regions (southeast and southwest Wales), this studentship-project aims to provide a new narrative of interaction between South Wales and Atlantic Europe from 1000-1500 CE, based on the full range of international and British links now evident during this transformative era.
Application Deadline: 30 May 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Generative AI to reassemble, read and restore Roman handwritten texts with The British museum and University of Nottingham
Summary of PhD Program:
Although much work has been carried out on the tablets, numerous texts are not deciphered, and the work to recover them is painstaking. A quarter of a century ago, research was undertaken to see if computers might help (Terras 2006 Image to Interpretation: An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts), but the disproportionate effort required did not encourage development.
Application Deadline: 02 June 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Improving reliability of medical processes using system modelling and Artificial Intelligence techniques
Summary of PhD Program:
This project would investigate commonly observed deviations in healthcare service and opportunities for identification of such deviations using computer vision approaches. It will demonstrate how deviation data can be used in computer-based simulation models, which are used to evaluate effects of deviations and to support decisions. It will focus on investigating how deviation data can be used in real time decision-making process, how accepting patients and staff are for such technologies and what integral role they should play in evaluating and ensuring an uptake of such technologies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Improving reliability of medical processes using system modelling and Artificial Intelligence techniques
Summary of PhD Program:
This project would investigate commonly observed deviations in healthcare service and opportunities for identification of such deviations using computer vision approaches. It will demonstrate how deviation data can be used in computer-based simulation models, which are used to evaluate effects of deviations and to support decisions. It will focus on investigating how deviation data can be used in real time decision-making process, how accepting patients and staff are for such technologies and what integral role they should play in evaluating and ensuring an uptake of such technologies. The proposed method will be potentially applied to processes carried out in an operating theatre.
Application Deadline: 02 June 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in 4D Printing for Advanced Bioelectronics
Summary of PhD Program:
The rapid growth in renewable energy technologies demands innovative solutions for more efficient energy generation and storage systems. 4D printing, an emerging technology that integrates dynamic “smart” materials into 3D-printed structures, opens new frontiers in both bioelectronics and solar energy harvesting. Our goal is to create adaptive electrode architectures. These advanced electrodes hold significant promise for improving bioelectronic systems, enhancing energy generation and storage, and accelerating the adoption of renewable energy applications.
Application Deadline: 03 June 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Embedded power electronics converters design for future electric vehicles
Summary of PhD Program:
Vehicle electrification is urgently needed to reduce the CO2 emissions of conventional vehicles based on combustion engines, which plays a crucial role for sustainable development and Net Zero. Power electronics converters is a key enabler for vehicle on-board electrical power conversion. Therefore, their performance such as efficiency, volume and weight directly impact on the electric vehicle’s driving range and cost. Despite the fast development and availability of high-performance components (capacitors, inductors and semiconductors) in recent years, efficiency and power density of modern power electronics converters are still far behind the theoretical values they could achieve.
Application Deadline: 08 June 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computation and Data Driven Design of Materials for Onboard Ammonia Cracking
Summary of PhD Program:
Ammonia is gaining attention as a zero-carbon fuel, when produced using renewable energy, due to its high energy density, ease of liquefaction, and compatibility with existing fuel infrastructure. Co-fuelling of ammonia with hydrogen in internal combustion engines has been extensively studied because of improved combustion characteristics, e.g. accelerated early combustion, misfire reduction, and higher thermal efficiency. To unlock ammonia’s potential as a carbon-free fuel for heavy-duty transport—including maritime shipping, aviation, and long-haul trucking—efficient onboard ammonia cracking technologies are urgently needed. This PhD project will focus on the computational design and screening of new materials for the decomposition of ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen under practical onboard conditions.
Application Deadline: 11 June 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Adaptive Mesh Refinement for More Efficient Predictions of Wall Boiling Bubble Dynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this PhD is to robustly validate and demonstrate the utility of an adaptive mesh refinement approach in interface resolving Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of flow boiling at conditions relevant to nuclear thermal hydraulics. Boiling is a technology central to both fusion and fission nuclear reactors, also including thermal management of several reactor components. The aim of these simulations is to generate data that can be leveraged to account for the detailed characteristics of a heat transfer surface on bubble dynamics during flow boiling, to provide an approach for generating more representative inputs for the wall boiling models used in component scale CFD assessments.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in New approaches for studying the structure of high-temperature molten materials
Summary of PhD Program:
Understanding the structure and properties of high-temperature molten materials is of key importance in a diverse range of applications including optical glass manufacture, nuclear waste storage, green platforms for growth of functional materials, fuel cell hermetic seals, electrolytes, carbon capture solvents and thermal energy storage media. It is also vital for understanding natural magmatic processes on earth & other planetary bodies.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design and Manufacturing of Soft Robots for Performing On-Wing Inspection of Aero-Engines
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aligns with Rolls-Royce’s technical needs for developing soft robotic solutions to enable in-situ/on-wing repair and maintenance of gas turbine engines. Applicants are invited to undertake a fully funded three-year PhD programme in partnership with Rolls-Royce to address key challenges in soft robotics for locomotion and manipulation in confined spaces. The successful candidate will be based at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at the University of Nottingham.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechatronics system for hybrid manufacturing processing
Summary of PhD Program:
Applicants are invited to undertake a three-year PhD programme in partnership with industry to address key challenges in on-platform manufacturing engineering. The successful candidate will be based at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at the University of Nottingham. At the Rolls-Royce UTC, we are developing the next generation of robots and its sensing solutions to perform tasks in challenging working environments.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Laser Beam Processing of Aerospace Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will deal with the study of a new laser processing method to enable in-situ surface treatment and repair of safety-critical rotating parts and further understand the correlation between surface quality, metallurgical characteristics and functional performance of the components and the key process parameters. The project will deal with the design of special process setups, testing its working principles and performances followed by an assessment of the part quality; this will involve the development of laser beam processing on specific aerospace materials, and a model to understand the fundamental mechanisms of the process to identify optimal operating conditions and followed by surface analysis techniques (e.g. Scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffraction for residual stress measurements, Electron Back-Scattered Diffraction and Transmission Electron Microscopy).
Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Intelligent Sensing and Robot Control for Performing On-Wing Inspection and Repair of Aero-Engines
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is in relation to the technical needs of Rolls-Royce to develop smart and robotic solutions to enable in-situ/on-wing repair and maintenance of gas turbine engines. At the Rolls-Royce UTC at the University of Nottingham, we have developed robotic systems capable of navigating into crammed/hazardous environments and perform inspection and active operations such as machining. This is driven by the need to complete repair tasks without disassembly of industrial installations. We developed a series of continuum robots in both short and long versions.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design and simulation of stiffness-adjustable robotic systems for performing on-wing repair of aero-engines
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aligns with Rolls-Royce’s technical needs to develop automated and hybrid tooling solutions for in-situ/on-wing repair and maintenance of gas turbine engines. At the Rolls-Royce UTC, we have developed advanced robotic systems capable of navigating cramped and hazardous environments, performing inspection tasks, and carrying out active operations such as machining. These innovations are driven by the need to complete complex repairs without disassembling industrial installations.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Micromechanics and in-depth materials analysis of advanced aerospace materials upon the manufacturing process
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will deal with the micromechanics and in-depth materials analysis of advanced aerospace materials upon manufacturing operations to understand the materials’ response to the manufacturing process to efficiently support the manufacture of aerospace components. This will involve using a wide range of sophisticated testing and analysis techniques including not only the study of the conventional manufacturing process of advanced aerospace materials but also the state-of-the-art materials investigation such as scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and in-situ micromechanics.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Autonomous Bioactivity Searching
Summary of PhD Program:
This 42-month funded PhD studentship will contribute to cutting-edge advancements in automated drug discovery through the integration of high data-density reaction/bioanalysis techniques, organic synthesis, laboratory automation & robotics and machine learning modelling. This exciting project involves the application of innovative methods such as high-throughput experimentation to expediate the syntheses (and bioanalysis) of life-saving pharmaceuticals. The subsequent data will then be used to populate machine learning models to predict which molecules to synthesise next, to maximise the binding affinity of the molecules to a target protein.
