Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of 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 NIHR BRC Magnetic Resonance & Precision Imaging
Summary of PhD Program:
We are currently seeking high-quality PhD students with a strong interest in clinical translational research to join our imaging theme and undertake research in one of our four research subthemes. We are able to offer three, fully funded 3.5-year PhD studentship at the UK home student level (fees and stipend). The scheme is not aimed at clinical applicants as we cannot offer a salaried position, but are happy to discuss options with interested candidates from a clinical background (please contact Professors Rob Dineen or Dorothee Auer ). Successful students will be expected to start their studies from October 2024.
Application Deadline: 20 March 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Safe listening in music venues: scalable technologies for citizen science and knowledge building
Summary of PhD Program:
Loud sound has the capacity to excite and injure in equal measure. Through projects such as the World Health Organization’s ‘Make Listening Safe’ initiative, the Audio Engineering Society’s ‘Healthy Ears, Limited Annoyance (HeLa) programme, and the Night Time Industries Association’s ‘Listen for Life’ campaign, there is growing awareness of the need for the professional audio industry to take a pro-active approach to protect audience members’ hearing.
Application Deadline: 01 April 2024
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3. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre – Mental Health and Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
We are recruiting two PhD candidates to join the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). You will join the vibrant and supportive Mental Health & Technology theme of the NIHR Nottingham BRC and will be based on either University Park or Jubilee Campus at the University of Nottingham. You will also be aligned with MindTech, a health technology research centre in the School of Medicine. The 3-year PhD studentships are funded by the NIHR Nottingham BRC and will provide an annual stipend to cover living costs (£18,622) and will cover Home University tuition fees for the duration of the project (36 months). International students are not eligible to apply for these studentships.
Application Deadline: 05 April 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Pectin supplementation to reduce gut and systemic inflammation and improve liver, muscle and gastrointestinal outcomes
Summary of PhD Program:
A quarter of the world’s population has metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, (which used to be known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease). It is a major cause of liver damage, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular diseases. As it gets worse, scarring in the liver, leaky gut, and inflammation can happen, which can cause muscle loss and wasting. This is called sarcopenia, and it happens when there is systemic inflammation and changes in protein metabolism. It makes people’s health and strength worse overall. Colorectal cancer patients also lose significant amounts of mass and have a high levels of inflammation, both of which are linked to worse long-term health and survival.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Pain increases disability; disability increases pain: Understanding the vicious cycle
Summary of PhD Program:
Arthritis affects 10 million people in the UK, and is on the rise. Many do not respond adequately to treatment. Pain is the main symptom, a leading cause of disability and worsens the risk of developing other health issues. Reducing pain alone often does not improve disability, and treatments are needed that address both pain and disability. Our research indicates that pain severity and the associated central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction are linked to current and future physical inactivity. They lead to muscle weakness, mass loss and impaired neuromuscular control. Factors related to the CNS may explain the connection between pain and disability. Addressing the shared risk factors could efficiently reduce both.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Elucidating the role of lipids in fibrotic capsule formation at the surface of implanted medical devices
Summary of PhD Program:
This research project will compare the lipid profile on the surface of removed medical devices (like chest drains, plates, and intraperitoneal tubes) to their fibrotic response during use. Coupled with understanding of the foreign body reaction, this will guide the development of materials, with the aim to create future implant materials that resist capsule formation, reducing long-term inflammation and infection.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in The Importance of Muscle Stem Cells: Implications for Muscle Repair in Inflammation and Trauma
Summary of PhD Program:
Skeletal muscle possesses a remarkable capacity for adaptation and repair, processes essential in the maintenance of skeletal muscle health. The ability of skeletal muscle to respond to stimuli such as exercise, injury and trauma, is in part, due to muscle resident stem (satellite) cells (MuSC). The interaction of MuSC with adjacent structures and other cell types, in addition to their exposure to various inflammatory cytokines and growth factors all influence how MuSC behave and respond to different stimuli, like exercise, trauma and injury.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Controlling Clostridioides difficile infections through phage therapy
Summary of PhD Program:
Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is a serious, worldwide, public health threat. The leading infective cause of hospital-acquired and antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, every year around half a million new cases of C. difficile infection (CDI) occur in the US and Europe. Management in the US is estimated to cost $6.3 billion per year and over £120 million of additional annual costs to the UK NHS. Although, current antibiotics can treat mild cases, they are less effective at managing recurrent or severe CDI. More worrying, antibiotic-resistant isolates of C. diff are becoming more prevalent. Alternative therapies are urgently required and phage therapy holds considerable promise.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Functional Devices and Structures through 3D Multi-material Printing Scale-Up
Summary of PhD Program:
Inkjet printing allows multiple materials to be 3D-printed simultaneously, rather than sequentially, allowing for highly complex structures and devices. Discovering the interactions of these materials and how to leverage this advanced manufacturing process will open new opportunities: structures and devices with mechanical and chemical properties that vary across dimensions; fully 3D-printed electronics integrated into structural components; and devices with mechanical or electrical responses encoded into their structure. However, we don’t yet know how to design these complex printed parts, and are still developing new leading-edge materials to grant them new capabilities.
Application Deadline: 01 June 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Super-optical resolution imaging using a phonon probe microscope
Summary of PhD Program:
Imaging and characterising biology is an extremely difficult task. Understanding biological cells as the building blocks of life is fundamental for biology and healthcare. Cells however exhibit very little intrinsic contrast when imaged with light and due to their dimensions, are very difficult to study alive and unperturbed. The short wavelengths (i.e. UV) or fluorescent dyes required to resolve fine features of cells are damaging. Therefore, imaging cell subcomponents at high resolution often requires electron microscopes which can only image dead and dehydrated cells. Alternatively, sound carries less energy than light so short acoustic wavelengths (~300nm) are not damaging to living tissue.
Application Deadline: 07 June 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cancer cell diagnostics using biomechanics and artificial intelligence
Summary of PhD Program:
The prognosis of cancer is an extremely challenging task. Treatments often deliver a different outcome on similar patients. Currently, there is a major global push to develop technologies that allow the inclusion of a larger and wider range of biomarkers. These are key to ensuring treatments are appropriate for patients. One potential biomarker is given by the mechanical properties of cells and tissue, however these remain largely uncharacterised.
Application Deadline: 07 June 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in High Speed Railway Degradation Modelling
Summary of PhD Program:
High-speed railway infrastructure is a complex arrangement of systems and structures, which includes: track, switches, drainage, signalling, power supply and communications, in addition to the civil structures comprising earthworks, tunnels, bridges and stations. As the railway is utilised, these assets will wear and their condition will deteriorate. This can mean that they pose an unacceptable risk of accidents occurring, such as derailments or train collisions, or the expenditure to undertake interventions to improve their condition will become excessive. In order to ensure that the railway is both safe and cost effective, it is important that plans are in place to renew the poorly performing elements at the appropriate time. To support the process to decide when renewals will take place, mathematical models are needed to indicate the contribution that the assets make to the safety risk, and also the expected costs of their maintenance.
Application Deadline: 07 June 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Functional Structural Colour Devices through 3D Printing
Summary of PhD Program:
Small, repetitive structures with spacings on the nanometre scale can refract and reflect light to create structural colours, which are being explored to produce anti-counterfeit markings, dye-free colour images, humidity and chemical sensors, anti-glare coatings and optical filters. This project will develop additive manufacturing of devices with actively controlled structural colour. You will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of structural colour devices, integrating optically and electronically active materials, including 0D and 2D nanomaterials.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Functional 3D/4D Printing of Responsive Structures
Summary of PhD Program:
3D-printed functional devices interact with their environment, responding to electrical, magnetic, chemical, humidity, temperature, or other signals, including devices that change shape over time, using “4D-printing”. In complex devices, multiple “trigger” stimuli can be encoded, each to its own shape change response; however, these multiple responses are independent of one another. This project will develop new materials and designs for functional 4D-printed devices with fast, self-resetting responses, applicable to biomedical, micromechanical, or optoelectronic applications. The goal will be to build a functional demonstrator device that performs basic comparisons of inputs to select output shape-change responses.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D-Printed Micro-Robots for Medical Applications
Summary of PhD Program:
The field of medical therapeutics has valuable applications for mobile devices for efficient drug delivery, called micro-robots. Recently, 3D printing has been used to manufacture such devices with functional features that enabled them to respond to environmental cues, including temperature, pH, light, magnetic fields, and ultrasound. This project will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of medical micro-robots, exploiting combinations of functions to achieve advanced control necessary for complex and customisable micro-robots to provide personalised healthcare solutions.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D printing next-generation actuators for soft robots and devices
Summary of PhD Program:
3D-printing of soft robotics is a growing field, with many applications in biomedical devices, electronics, and autonomous machines. Actuators to drive these robots utilise electronic, chemical, pressure, magnetic, or thermal mechanisms, with the current generation having significant drawbacks, including low energy efficiency, high operating voltage or temperature. This project will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of soft-actuators. The overall aim is to develop and exploit new designs or new materials to attain large, fast, high-efficiency actuation responses comparable to living muscles.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited from Home and International students for up to 10 fully-funded PhD studentships offered by the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, starting on 1st October 2024. The topics for the studentships are open, but your research proposal should relate to the interests of one of the School’s research groups:
- Cyber-physical Health and Assistive Robotics Technologies
- Computational Optimisation and Learning Lab
- Computer Vision Lab
- Cyber Security
- Functional Programming
- Intelligent Modelling and Analysis
- Mixed Reality Lab
- Lab for Uncertainty in Data and Decision Making
- Visualisation and Computer Graphics
The studentships available are fully funded for 3.5 years and include a stipend of (minimum) £18,622 per year and tuition fees.
Application Deadline: 07 April 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational design of materials for quantum technologies
Summary of PhD Program:
Point-defects in semiconductors have the potential for outstanding sensitivity to temperature, electric/magnetic fields and pressure, making them ideal quantum sensors. Utilizing such defects in two-dimensional materials will facilitate close proximity, enhancing sensitivity and enabling practical nano-scale mapping of external stimuli. Furthermore, this unique materials class offers improved tunability via strong structure-property relations. Computational-led materials design presents an expediated route for the development of these platforms for quantum technologies. A toolkit of ab initio techniques will enable tailored design down to the atomic scale.
Application Deadline: 05 April 2024
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Discovery of enzymes for plastic degradation
Summary of PhD Program:
Plastic is a valuable material for a wide range of industrial applications. Polyethylene (PE) is one of the most used plastics, is readily available, light weight and durable. However, PE takes thousands of years to degrade in the environment, leading to a high environmental impact. It is therefore vital that plastic is collected and repurposed back in a circular economy. Similarly, current recycling methods (chemical or mechanical) progressively deteriorate the properties of the material, with the plastic eventually reaching a stage where it can no longer be recycled using current methods and must be disposed of.
Application Deadline: 22 May 2024
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Leverhulme Trust PhD project: Lawn grass microbial fuel cells for widespread energy
Summary of PhD Program:
The University of Nottingham is offering a fully funded 42-month UK-based PhD studentship as part of the Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant, focusing on “Lawn grass microbial fuel cells for widespread energy harvesting.” Supervised by Dr. Michael P. Weir, Dr. Alison Tidy, and Dr. Helena I. Gomes across the School of Physics and Astronomy, the School of Biosciences, and the Faculty of Engineering, the project addresses the pressing need for clean energy sources amidst climate change. The research targets Plant Microbial Fuel Cells (P-MFC) as a sustainable, carbon-negative energy solution, integral in generating clean electricity while supporting plant growth, wastewater remediation, and soil pollutant removal. The successful applicant will engage in growing P-MFCs, creating prototypes, studying variable effects on electrical output and plant/microbial health, and constructing a demonstrator model with an energy harvesting circuit.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2024
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Carbon dynamics of the Pantanal, the World’s largest wetland
Summary of PhD Program:
“The Pantanal, Brazil, is the world’s largest wetland ecosystem and a significant carbon sink, and has been proposed a key potential nature-based solution to climate change. It features a range of vegetation types, from woodlands through to lakes, grasslands and pasture for livestock, and is a global biodiversity hotspot, as well as carbon. At the same time, evidence suggests that greenhouse gas emissions from tropical wetlands are increasing, driven by a combination of agricultural expansion and intensification, and climate change impacts. There is therefore a critical need to understand drivers of carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas dynamics, across land use and management regimes, and quantify the future resilience of stored carbon. In this project, you will work to address this challenge.
