Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, 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 Evaluating tornado-induced forces on low-rise structures
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will address several outstanding, fundamental issues associated with tornado-related research, and through an analysis of data obtained from the world’s largest tornado generator, we will evaluate the wind-induced forces on a low-rise building. In doing so, it is envisaged that several fundamental issues will be addressed, which will ultimately influence the design of buildings in tornado-prone areas.
Application Deadline: 2 May 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing a portable electrochemical method for point-of-source PFAS monitoring through showjumping paddocks
Summary of PhD Program:
Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are man-made chemicals that are ubiquitous in society. PFAS offer water/oil repellence and non-stick properties, and are featured in numerous consumer products, including kitchenware, paints, upholstery and performance textiles. Companies receiving and processing textiles have new regulations imposed by the Environment Agency, reducing PFAS limits in product formulations. Recycled carpet is one such material in societal products that is affected, which threatens to undermine the ability to recycle carpet fibres and undermine recycling businesses and their operations.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced materials for green hydrogen generation by steam electrolysis produced by magnetron sputtering
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to overcome the materials degradation problems while maintaining high reaction efficiencies in solid oxide cells.The research focuses onenhancing electrode performance by nanoengineering its microstructure using an advanced alternative method to prepare alloys of non-precious transition metals to mitigate Ni agglomeration and degradation. Magnetron sputtering has been proven to be a promising route to enhance cell microstructure, which will allow reduction of the cell operation temperature without sacrificing the cell performance.
Application Deadline: 18 May 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Application of novel photocatalytic materials for degradation of microplastics in printed textiles laundry wastewater
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will focus on the degradation of microplastics in wastewater, particularly from the laundry discharge of 3D printed textiles. The project will build on cutting-edge research by Dr. Marina Ratova, which has demonstrated the potential of photocatalysis – a process that uses light to activate a catalyst and break down contaminants – in degrading microplastics in laboratory settings. The project aims to further investigate the practical applications of this technology for treating wastewater from manufacturing facilities like PrintCity at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Application Deadline: 18 May 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in A micromechanical approach to quantify failure risk in metastatic trabecular bone
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will involve the development of computational tools and methods to extract enriched continuum models from healthy and metastatic bone scans, using finite element and geometric approaches. You will work with a supervisory team with expertise in enriched continuum models (Dr Duncan), as well as bone scanning and characterisation (Drs Ireland, Winwood, and Wadge). External advice, collaboration, and travel opportunities will be available via. external project advisors (Dr Dias, University of Edinburgh, and Dr Budzik, Aarhus University, Denmark), who are both experts in crack propagation in cellular solids.
Application Deadline: 18 May 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Characterisation of whipworm host defence peptides: novel opportunities for parasite control?
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will investigate the role of HDPs in Trichuris (whipworm) infection, focusing on T. trichiura, a gastrointestinal parasite that infects 477 million people in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, and T. muris, the naturally occurring mouse whipworm, used as a model for human trichuriasis. Trichuriasis is a neglected tropical disease, causing symptoms ranging from mild gastrointestinal issues to anaemia, growth stunting and rectal prolapse. New preventative strategies (such as vaccines) and treatments (such as drugs) are required to reduce the disease burden of trichuriasis, as current anthelminthic drugs are ineffective.
Application Deadline: 18 May 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in How do force sensing proteins contribute to the progression of liver fibrosis?
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will use biochemical and cell biology approaches to study liver cell adhesomes and ask how cell-ECM mechanotransduction signalling contributes to liver fibrosis. Techniques used will include molecular biology, mammalian cell culture and transfection/transduction, qPCR, immunofluorescence staining and microscopy, western blotting, biochemical affinity-enrichment with proteomics sample preparation and bioinformatic data analyses.
Application Deadline: 18 May 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigating muscle and brain metabolism to alleviate post-exercise malaise in chronic fatigue and pain syndromes
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you passionate about health, exercise or biomedical sciences? If so, you can join our dynamic research team based in central Manchester and contribute to new studies designed to understand the biological causes of chronic fatigue and what happens when affected individuals exercise.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Engineering, biological and environmental benefits of visible-light activated antimicrobial photocatalytic coatings for water treatment
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project focuses on developing new antimicrobial coatings for water treatment. Water scarcity and contamination with pathogens are critical issues, with over 2 billion people lacking access to safe drinking water. In the UK alone, severe droughts could leave one in four households without water by 2030. Traditional water treatment infrastructure is often expensive and difficult to manage, especially in developing countries. An alternative is to use antimicrobial materials that can actively kill microorganisms in water. Photocatalysis, a chemical process initiated by light-activation, offers a sustainable and effective method for water decontamination.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in TEAMCat: Tandem Electrochemical and Abundant Metal Catalysis for Sustainable Synthesis of High-Value Nitrogen-Containing Compounds
Summary of PhD Program:
The main objective of this project is to develop and validate synthetic methodologies that use electrochemistry and earth-abundant metal catalysis to access high-value chemical intermediates and products. Specifically, we will use organic electrochemistry to optimise existing reactions and develop new ones to generate functionalised intermediates, which serve as key building blocks in organic synthesis. The electrochemical properties of organic substrates will be investigated, and various reaction parameters optimised, including electrolytes, solvents and electrode materials.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigating the regulation of liver glycogen metabolism: Insights from 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD will investigate liver glycogen metabolism in response to dietary interventions and exercise, addressing critical gaps in current research. The project consists of three interconnected studies, which will non-invasively characterise glycogen metabolism in response to nutrition and exercise and advance our understanding of its regulation. The successful applicant will be based full-time at Manchester Metropolitan University, joining our vibrant, growing doctoral community within the Institute of Sport, accessing our cutting-edge facilities and receiving training in a variety of laboratory techniques, including 13C MRS, indirect calorimetry and measurement of metabolic responses to nutrition and exercise.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ecoacoustic monitoring of biodiversity in human-modified tropical forests
Summary of PhD Program:
Tropical forests are biodiversity hotspots, hosting over half of known species. However, forests are still being lost and remaining forests increasingly fragmented and subjected to anthropogenic disturbances including selective logging, fire and hunting, and the impacts of climate change. These changes, even subtle ones, can lead to cascading impacts on biodiversity. For example, hunting can lead to local extinction of large-bodied frugivorous birds and mammals, leaving structurally intact yet defaunated forests missing key ecological functions like seed dispersal for large-seeded plants.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Fault-Tolerant and Optimised Digital Signatures Implementation for Quantum-Safe Space Communication
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to develop an optimised and fault-tolerant version of Falcon for such environments. We will simplify complex operations, speed up critical steps using custom hardware design, and build in fault detection and correction to ensure secure, efficient operation in space systems. The outcome will be a high-performance, fault-tolerant Falcon implementation, enhancing quantum-safe communication for satellites and deep-space missions. This research offers a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge cryptography and space security, making it ideal for applicants interested in PQC, FPGA/processor design, and aerospace cybersecurity.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Adaptive Serious Games for Teaching Independent Living Skills to Young Adults with Learning Disabilities
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for candidates for a PhD studentship on research to explore the design, development and efficacy of adaptive serious games that leverage generative AI for dynamically adapting content to meet the unique needs and interests of individuals with LD. The successful candidate will develop a framework for co-designing serious games that leverage generative AI for dynamic content adaptation through a co-design process with individuals with LD and stakeholders; develop prototypes of serious games for teaching independent living skills to young adults with LD that support dynamic content adaptation using generative AI; and evaluate the prototypes with the target group.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Feasibility of a Culturally Tailored Cancer Prehabilitation for the South Asian Community
Summary of PhD Program:
Come and join a vibrant, growing doctoral community with access to state-of-the-art facilities at the Institute of Sport. Prehabilitation is a core component of supportive care for health and wellbeing during cancer survivorship. It aims to improve cancer treatment outcomes and long-term health by preparing people awaiting cancer treatments, not only surgery, through support for physical activity, nutrition and emotional wellbeing either alone or in combination, and from the point of diagnosis.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multimodal AI for Health and Emotional Assistance
Summary of PhD Program:
This project forms an exciting research opportunity to join Manchester Met’s AI, Digital and Cyber-Physical Systems theme for improving life quality. The world population is ageing rapidly. Home care robots are seen as a solution to the challenges posed by the rapidly growing elderly population and increasing healthcare costs. However, most robots only offer some physical assistance and lack emotional support.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Game Design for Post Climate Futures: A Practitioner-led Approach
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD opportunity is part of a Team Project that addresses this question through interdisciplinary research across art and design, English studies, philosophy and cultural sociology. It is one of three PhD projects that will investigate the ecosystem of game design, game artefacts, and game consumption. This particular PhD proposes game-making as a research practice. It will be undertaken by a practitioner in game design, who will explore games as a transformative mode of art and investigate and test their affordances in radically reimagining climate futures.
Application Deadline: 21 May 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in To develop methodology to measure Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers in the plasma of obstructive sleep apnoea patients
Summary of PhD Program:
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is pathologically defined by the abnormal accumulation of extracellular proteins/peptides such as amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques and tau tangles in the brain. Recent methodological advances have enabled the development and validation of plasma biomarkers that are expected to simplify AD diagnosis. The quality and quantity of sleep, which are significantly disrupted in obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) patients, have been associated with changes in AD biomarker levels in blood in cross-sectional studies.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in GAS diffusion electrodes for carbon dioxide conversion
Summary of PhD Program:
Current state-of-the-art devices convert carbon dioxide to single carbon products such as carbon monoxide and the formate ion. Despite the development of a handful of catalysts that show conversion to the high-value, multi-carbon products in single electrode or divided cells, developing zero gap membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) remains a challenge. This PhD will develop catalysts and gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) to enable fabrication of zero gap MEAs that selectively produce multi-carbon products from carbon dioxide reduction reactions. You will develop a wide range of laboratory skills, spanning analytical methods, materials synthesis, materials characterisation and electrochemical performance tests.
Application Deadline: 28 May 2025
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Generating green hydrogen out of thin air
Summary of PhD Program:
Vapour-fed electrolysers have been demonstrated to circumvent the performance losses associated with dissolved species in water. However, water vapour itself inevitably contains impurities such as nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, methane and other gases. During this three-year PhD, we will design and characterise mitigation strategies to prevent performance losses due to these impurities. We will explore both experimental techniques as well as computational models to provide feedback to design higher efficient devices. The materials characterisation will include XRD, SEM/TEM, XPS and Raman, among other techniques. The modelling aspect will involve adapting existing liquid water-fed PEM/AEM models to operate in vapour-fed mode in COMSOL.
Application Deadline: 28 May 2025
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in AEM Electrolysis for green hydrogen production
Summary of PhD Program:
Anion exchange membrane water electrolysers (AEM-WEs) have the potential to meet the cost and scale targets for global green hydrogen demands. The primary barrier to overcome is membrane electrode assembly (MEA) degradation. This is an EPSRC and industrial partner-sponsored PhD that will establish the degradation routes using theory and experiments to deliver pathways to design more durable and efficient AEM-WE devices. Ultimately, this PhD will develop mitigation strategies for performance losses due to materials degradations. The experimental aspects of the PhD will require materials synthesis, materials characterisation and electrolyser tests.
