Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland 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 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is a part of SeAFEED, a €1.2M partnership between QUB, the University of Limerick and ATU Sligo, funded by the RoI Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), and the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA). Assisted by industrial partners, we will explore and improve the use of seaweed as a source of ingredients for animal feed. SeAFEED will investigate multiple aspects of the supply chain and the underlying science and engineering, from seaweed cultivation and harvesting, through to extraction of compounds from the seaweed, production and formulation of feed pellets, and use of these pellets as feed in pig farming.
Application Deadline: 30 August 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Management
Summary of PhD Program:
This project takes place within Queen’s Management School located at Riddel Hall in Belfast, offering world-class research facilities. As a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities, Queen’s University Belfast has an outstanding reputation and tradition for research excellence. QMS is one of UK’s leading Management Schools. The School has an excellent track record in research. QMS has a vibrant PhD student community and a broad international network of academic support. The successful candidate will be supervised by Professor Niall Cullinane and Dr Ruth Reaney. Apply online and enter the text “QMS2023MGT/SCM” into the funding field. Informal enquiries may be directed to: Professor Niall Cullinane The University is committed to an Equal Opportunities Policy.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this project is to develop new polymer materials and manufacturing processes to produce future recyclable, thermoplastic Type IV hydrogen storage vessels. This will be achieved by systematically developing demonstrator prototypes from a range of tailored thermoplastic polymer liners and thermoplastic polymer fibres to showcase the potential to establish this cutting-edge hydrogen gas storage technology. This has the potential to fundamentally change, significantly improve and ultimately revolutionise rotomoulding and the manufacturing practices for Type IV hydrogen tanks. However, they need to be proven as technically and commercially viable.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project aims to investigate and improve the electrode/electrolyte interface. The application of post-treatments of the carbon felts, using oxidative activation combined with surface-decoration with nano-electrocatalysts, is expected to yield significant improvements in the electrochemical reversibility and to lower activation overpotential, resulting in higher battery efficiency. The project aims to focus particularly on iron and vanadium-based electrolytes consisting of metal complexes with ligand systems that have so far not been investigated in terms of their electrode / electrolyte interactions. These chemically activated electrodes will be investigated using various in-situ, ex-situ and operando spectroscopic techniques (Raman, FTIR, XPS, EPR) to provide insight into the underlying activation mechanisms.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Today, there is a reliance on computer-based models to support critical design and operational decisions across multiple sectors, and such simulation models are commonly used for a range of purposes within bus vehicle design including prediction of onboard energy consumption and design energy management strategies through to understanding structural and thermal responses. However, the emergence of digital twins has the potential to offer much more insight into the real time behaviours – these models go beyond the standard numerical model and introduce proxy version of the physical system built from a fusion of data with models of differing fidelity, using novel techniques in uncertainty analysis, model reduction, and experimental validation.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The move to electrified vehicle powertrains in the bus sector has seen increasingly complex supply chains emerging with more uncertainty around the sources of risk than ever before. This PhD will investigate the impact of external factors on the UK bus sector supply chain, develop new methods for quantifying global supply chain risks and create a decision making framework for agile and robust supply chain management. With increasing global uncertainty and rising material costs, the project will deliver new understanding of the sensitivities of the bus sector to external market variations, identify new business approaches to increase resilience of the UK supply chains and enable better informed decisions relative to supply chain management and the development of strategic partnerships across supply tiers.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Standard solutions exist for Industry 4.0 compliant systems in production planning however, their introduction and efficient application require significant customisation to align with systems and practices that represent years of development within companies which are core to their operations. This project seeks to fill a gap in digital technologies and applications for the understanding and management of production systems in the manufacturing sector. The aim is to develop a digital operations strategy for the manufacture of materials handling equipment spanning commercial off the shelf COTS solutions and current best practice in the sector.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
In RIED it is envisaged that just as organisms develop by adapting to the natural world around them, improved products can be developed through creation of virtual seeds, environments and stimuli. By subjecting the virtual product to real world conditions during the growth process, informed development decisions can be made throughout. Simulation will therefore play a crucial role in the success of the endeavour.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The introduction of electrified powertrains in the bus sector has raised new challenges in achieving step changes in vehicle lightweighting. Vehicle weight has a significant impact on the energy efficiency and passenger carrying capacity of the bus vehicle, and therefore ensuring the structural weight is minimised without compromising safety is a key objective. This PhD will explore new FE based optimisation workflows that can enable the rapid design of large-scale lightweight vehicle structures. Such workflows are required to enable structural design to meet a diverse range of constraints, including strength, stiffness, durability, mass, passenger / systems packaging, manufacturability and commonality constraints.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this project is to develop new polymer materials and manufacturing processes to produce future recyclable, thermoplastic Type IV hydrogen storage vessels. This will be achieved by systematically developing demonstrator prototypes from a range of tailored thermoplastic polymer liners and thermoplastic polymer fibres to showcase the potential to establish this cutting-edge hydrogen gas storage technology. This has the potential to fundamentally change, significantly improve and ultimately revolutionise rotomoulding and the manufacturing practices for Type IV hydrogen tanks. However, they need to be proven as technically and commercially viable.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project aims to investigate and improve the electrode/electrolyte interface. The application of post-treatments of the carbon felts, using oxidative activation combined with surface-decoration with nano-electrocatalysts, is expected to yield significant improvements in the electrochemical reversibility and to lower activation overpotential, resulting in higher battery efficiency. The project aims to focus particularly on iron and vanadium-based electrolytes consisting of metal complexes with ligand systems that have so far not been investigated in terms of their electrode / electrolyte interactions. These chemically activated electrodes will be investigated using various in-situ, ex-situ and operando spectroscopic techniques (Raman, FTIR, XPS, EPR) to provide insight into the underlying activation mechanisms.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Today, there is a reliance on computer-based models to support critical design and operational decisions across multiple sectors, and such simulation models are commonly used for a range of purposes within bus vehicle design including prediction of onboard energy consumption and design energy management strategies through to understanding structural and thermal responses. However, the emergence of digital twins has the potential to offer much more insight into the real time behaviours – these models go beyond the standard numerical model and introduce proxy version of the physical system built from a fusion of data with models of differing fidelity, using novel techniques in uncertainty analysis, model reduction, and experimental validation.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The move to electrified vehicle powertrains in the bus sector has seen increasingly complex supply chains emerging with more uncertainty around the sources of risk than ever before. This PhD will investigate the impact of external factors on the UK bus sector supply chain, develop new methods for quantifying global supply chain risks and create a decision making framework for agile and robust supply chain management. With increasing global uncertainty and rising material costs, the project will deliver new understanding of the sensitivities of the bus sector to external market variations, identify new business approaches to increase resilience of the UK supply chains and enable better informed decisions relative to supply chain management and the development of strategic partnerships across supply tiers.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Standard solutions exist for Industry 4.0 compliant systems in production planning however, their introduction and efficient application require significant customisation to align with systems and practices that represent years of development within companies which are core to their operations. This project seeks to fill a gap in digital technologies and applications for the understanding and management of production systems in the manufacturing sector. The aim is to develop a digital operations strategy for the manufacture of materials handling equipment spanning commercial off the shelf COTS solutions and current best practice in the sector.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
To meet emerging sustainability and product performance goals, engineers need revolutionary design tools. The “Re-imagining Engineering Design” (RIED) Programme sets out to explore a radical new engineering design system using bio-inspired methodologies. A crucial aspect of this new design system is the ability to generate concepts rapidly and simulate their performance in parallel as the design evolves. This requires revolutionary simulation capabilities, with are highly automated, adaptive and efficient. This PhD project will look to investigate these new approaches, integrate them into emerging design tools and demonstrate them on a range of products.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The introduction of electrified powertrains in the bus sector has raised new challenges in achieving step changes in vehicle lightweighting. Vehicle weight has a significant impact on the energy efficiency and passenger carrying capacity of the bus vehicle, and therefore ensuring the structural weight is minimised without compromising safety is a key objective. This PhD will explore new FE based optimisation workflows that can enable the rapid design of large-scale lightweight vehicle structures. Such workflows are required to enable structural design to meet a diverse range of constraints, including strength, stiffness, durability, mass, passenger / systems packaging, manufacturability and commonality constraints.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims at developing novel interactive and intelligence machine learning/ data mining algorithms to cope with all above mentioned problems. We also aim at using these algorithms to solve real-world problems, e.g., identifying severity levels of patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, exploring the roles of global climate change on various tropical diseases, or developing AI technologies to deal with global climate change for vulnerable communities.
Application Deadline: 24 July 2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
Many companies, across all industry sectors, are increasingly becoming data companies as they collect, curate, and analyse massive amounts of data to increase productivity and cost-effectiveness, or to develop new data-driven products and services. Similarly, governments and administrations world-wide are increasingly reliant upon data science, for instance, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Within each application domain, the volume and rate of producing data increases over time, which has a knock-on impact on the power consumed by the data centres, devices and communication networks that drive data analytics. Consequently, the efficiency of data analytics is increasingly important: to scale analytics to increasingly larger and more complex data sets while maintaining low response times, but also to manage the computational requirements of analytics.
Application Deadline: 24 July 2023
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will bring together a well-known academic team working in vibrational spectroscopy with a commercial partner who have a strong track record in producing water sensors for industrial applications. The aim is to make a step change in the capabilities of water quality sensors and develop the next generation of instruments will allow detection and identification of microparticulates in the field with accuracy and sensitivity that is well beyond what is currently possible. The aim will be to develop fieldable remote sensors for continuous monitoring that can be deployed and operated in harsh conditions.
Application Deadline: 28 July 2023
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural and Built Environment
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim is to develop a performance designed mortar and robotic placement system using low carbon non-flammable binding materials to work with 3D mortar placing robotic systems. The mortar should have the following performance features, (1) viscosity and flow control for printing, (2) controlled setting time to allow for machine and manual finish, (3) non-combustible ingredients, (4) desired plasticity for handling and in service performance, (5) durability of 50 years in urban and aggressive marine environments, which make the project highly challenging and rewarding.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural and Built Environment
Summary of PhD Program:
The overall aim of the project is to further develop the ISC to facilitate it’s use for connecting various steel elements (e.g. column-column, column-beam) with a particular emphasis on rapid assembly, disassembly, and robotic assembly. Achieving this overall aim requires developments in a number of key areas (1) physical assembly & testing (2) Robotics including computer vision and machine learning.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biological Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
The vast majority of studies in the agricultural sustainability literature treat food commodities as homogenous goods, whereas in reality their impacts on the environment are location- and farming system-specific. Furthermore, as a farmer’s skillset and alternative land use options available to them are both diverse, the prospective economic impacts of land use transformation — and hence the likelihood of technology uptakes — also differ between individual farms. Not accounting for these heterogeneities is likely to result in unhelpful farm management recommendations and, ultimately, suboptimal interventions by the industry and policymakers alike.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biological Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will utilise a combination of data-based modelling and field trial-based investigations. Historical AFBI grass testing and breeding data resources and past GrassCheck results will be used as training data for a machine learning approach to developing a dynamic model. Field studies on grass and clover monocultures, mixtures and multi-species swards will be used to ground-truth the key parameters and interaction dynamics in the model. Differing growing conditions, including drought and waterlogging, will be imposed to validate whether model outputs are accurate under stress conditions.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural and Built Environment
Summary of PhD Program:
Most academics agree that the YD was caused by a large-scale meltwater event: over millennia, gradual climate warming caused melting of North American ice sheets and build-up of a large glacial lake. When this lake was breached, large amounts of meltwater were released suddenly into the North Atlantic Ocean, causing a collapse of the ocean circulation with subsequent climate events felt across large parts of the Earth. However, a group of researchers has proposed that the trigger of the YD was a comet impact (YDIH), which would have caused the collapse of the North American ice sheets, global-scale fires, the extinction of megafauna, and archaeological changes (Firestone et al. 2007, but see Blaauw et al. 2012).
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
25. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematics and Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
This project therefore addresses real world needs by developing novel statistical models to facilitate the utilisation of single molecule imaging in basic research and in the real-world clinical setting through the improved exploitation of data. As many poorly understood and disease-relevant biological processes occur at these spatial scales, the proposed project seeks to enhance our mechanistic understanding of the biological underpinning of processes of immediate human health concern.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematics and Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
Dr Lisa McFetridge & Dr Karen Cairns The project in a nutshell: The decision-making process that people undergo is naturally complex, involving a wide variety of factors, many of which are interacting, and each of which affect a person’s final decision. This project will advance current statistical and machine learning techniques to capture the common scenario that peoples’ opinions develop and change as time progresses, a situation predominately unexplored by current methods. The proposed project has been designed in close consultation with an industrial partner, providing the successful candidate the unique opportunity to engage in live client projects relevant to their research in which they may test and enhance the statistical models they develop.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
27. Fully Funded PhD Position in History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
Summary of PhD Program:
Based at Queen’s University Belfast in the Centre for Public History, and working closely in partnership with PRONI and with several community-based organisations around Belfast’s Falls and Shankill Roads, the research will engage local communities in collecting and sharing their social histories with public audiences. It will involve the co-creation of an oral history archive, to be deposited in and made accessible by PRONI, along with a participatory ‘memory map’ as a means of exploring, documenting and sharing local histories. The emphasis is on developing methods and approaches that straddle public history and community heritage, and so draw out ‘participatory place-making’ practices for wider use.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
28. Fully Funded PhD Position in History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
Summary of PhD Program:
Recent research across a number of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences has witnessed a renewed focus on affect/emotion and embodiment, falling broadly under the “affective turn” and “new materialist” paradigms, while drawing on long-standing critical work on emotions and the body. As part of this, there has been a particular emphasis on affect/emotion and the body as they relate to gender and/or sexuality. Potential candidates are now invited to submit research proposals of approximately 1,000 words on the topic of “gender and the politics of emotion” AND/OR “gender and the politics of embodiment.”
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
29. Fully Funded PhD Position in History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
Summary of PhD Program:
Potential candidates for the studentship are invited to submit research proposals of approximately 1,000 words on topics in modern history. One fully funded PhD studentship is available for a successful candidate. This includes payment of UK-level doctoral fees and a maintenance stipend. Applicants must meet the funding criteria set out by the Northern Ireland Department for Economy, including a three-year residency in the UK prior to starting the PhD programme. See below for the full eligibility criteria.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
30. Fully Funded PhD Position in History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to envision a new mission and organisational purposes for the university in the 21st century. Part of the project will involve mapping, working with, and critically analysing current efforts, networks and initiatives aimed at transforming the university to be better able to respond to the climate and ecological crisis – ranging from Faculty for a Future, Scientist Rebellion, and History Rebellion to EUAC and exemplar /pioneering individual universities. The project will also identify and interrogate ideas and practices oriented towards decommodifying and democratising universities – such as proposals from trades unions and student bodies, and existing novel university collaborations such has Community Wealth Building and place based climate action.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
31. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural and Built Environment
Summary of PhD Program:
This exciting PhD opportunity is a collaborative studentship between Queen’s University Belfast and the Office for National Statistics. You will be supervised by Dr Gemma Catney (QUB) and Sarah Wood (Ethnicity, National Identity, Language and Religion Topic Lead, Office for National Statistics). The publication of 2021/22 Census data represents a unique and important opportunity for research that seeks to understand societal change at the local level. This project aims to provide timely and impactful evidence on the ways in which ethnic and religious diversity has grown and been shaped, and the nature of the differing – and persistently unequal – neighbourhood experiences of people from different ethnic and religious backgrounds, responding to pressing policy, political and public concerns, and scholarly questions in need of urgent attention.
Application Deadline: 30 August 2023
32. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is a part of SeAFEED, a €1.2M partnership between QUB, the University of Limerick and ATU Sligo, funded by the RoI Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), and the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA). Assisted by industrial partners, we will explore and improve the use of seaweed as a source of ingredients for animal feed. SeAFEED will investigate multiple aspects of the supply chain and the underlying science and engineering, from seaweed cultivation and harvesting, through to extraction of compounds from the seaweed, production and formulation of feed pellets, and use of these pellets as feed in pig farming.
Application Deadline: 30 August 2023
33. Fully Funded PhD Position in Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
The pituitary is a small gland (about the size of a pea) below the brain inside the cranium. Pituitary tumours are the second most common type of intracranial tumour and are called pituitary neuroendocrine tumours (PitNETs). Many PitNETs secrete hormones (called functioning tumours) that cascade through the body to regulate processes like growth, fertility and metabolism. These can be treated with medication to control hormone levels. Other PitNETs do not secrete hormones (called non-functioning). These non-functioning PitNETs are typically managed with surgery; however, some may also require radiotherapy to prevent tumour growth.
Application Deadline: 2 July 2023
34. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student working on this project will be mainly responsible for microfabrication of frequency-based mass tracking sensor and development of control electronics for this device. Therefore, the student should be well-versed in using micro-controllers and associated electronics. Fabrication of mass tracking sensor will be carried out at the Queen’s Advanced Micro Engineering Centre (QAMEC) and the student will be provided the required training.
