Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Loughborough University, Loughborough, 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 The role of sleep disturbances and psychological processes in self-injury: implications for suicide prevention
Summary of PhD Program:
This project proposes the use of a multiple/mixed methods design, and will involve i) conducting a systematic/scoping review of sleep disturbances as proximal and distal predictors of NSSI; ii) observational association-based study of sleep-suicidality measures; iii) exploratory qualitative study exploring lived experience perspectives and underpinning psychological processes involved in the sleep-suicidality relationship; and iv) use Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) methods (including actigraphy and psychometrics) to assess associations at multiple time points in a 24-hour period over a number of days.
Application Deadline: 4 April 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in SuS-Tex Research Cluster: Power management and communication strategies for Super-Smart Textiles
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is part of the prestigious Loughborough University Vice Chancellor’s PhD Cluster – Super-Smart Textiles (SuS-Tex) for Healthcare and Sports. The Doctoral Researcher will join a cohort of 5 Researchers belonging to the SuS-Tex cluster working on highly transdisciplinary topics in this area, and the wider wearable technologies research community at Loughborough University and beyond. The successful candidates will benefit from the world-class expertise and supervision, customised training programs, networking, outreach and career development opportunities, in addition to the standard training and development opportunities of the university.
Application Deadline: 18 April 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in SuS-Tex Research Cluster: Material and structural design for wearable sensing applications
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is part of the prestigious Loughborough University Vice Chancellor’s PhD Cluster – Super-Smart Textiles (SuS-Tex) for Healthcare and Sports. The Doctoral Researcher will join a cohort of 5 Researchers belonging to the SuS-Tex cluster working on highly transdisciplinary topics in this area, and the wider wearable technologies research community at Loughborough University and beyond. The successful candidates will benefit from the world-class expertise and supervision, customised training programs, networking, outreach and career development opportunities, in addition to the standard training and development opportunities of the university.
Application Deadline: 18 April 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in SuS-Tex Research Cluster: Emerging flexible electronics for wearable applications
Summary of PhD Program:
This project focusses on upcoming technologies including triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) and other self-powered sensors, flexible and stretchable sensor technologies, electronic skin and soft robotics areas. This will include the design and development of such technologies, their characterisation, optimisation, and integration with wearable products focussing on sports and healthcare applications.
Application Deadline: 18 April 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Gravity Current Energetics
Summary of PhD Program:
The core of this PhD project lies in understanding the energetics of these flows. As a gravity current propagates, it displaces the surrounding fluid, causing a build-up of fluid at the current’s leading edge. This project seeks to answer a fundamental question: how do the internal energy reserves, both kinetic (motion) and potential (due to gravity), evolve as these currents move over varying slopes? Unravelling this complex interplay of energy requires a deep dive into the underlying physics, ultimately leading to improved models for both industrial and environmental flows. Better predictions of these currents, particularly hazardous ones, will enable more effective mitigation strategies.
Application Deadline: 23 March 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environmental Evaluation of Microcomb Stability
Summary of PhD Program:
Our project operates at the forefront of integrated photonics, nonlinear physics, and smart optical computation, pushing the boundaries of miniaturization for these advanced timekeeping sources. Building on recent breakthroughs at Loughborough’s Emergent Photonics Lab [1,2], the research focuses on developing ultra-efficient and resilient microcombs. As part of Prof. Alessia Pasquazi’s dynamic team, in collaboration with DSTL, you will contribute to pioneering scientific advancements, enhance industrial impact, and produce leading-author publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Simulation-based Optimisation for Inclusive Transport Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
As cities grow, ensuring transport systems are equitable, accessible, and affordable for all becomes increasingly critical and complex. This research will advance simulation-based optimisation methods to address these challenges. The project will leverage large-scale data sets, cutting-edge simulation tools, and advanced optimisation techniques to model and evaluate the effectiveness of various mobility scenarios. The findings will provide actionable insights to shape policies and technological interventions that promote inclusive transport systems.
Application Deadline: 20 April 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Radio Frequency Sensor Systems for Inclusive Vehicular Mobility
Summary of PhD Program:
Within this PhD, we will aim to develop new RF-based sensors that can look/collect information beyond obstacles and help drivers and autonomous vehicles to make the right decision, enabling a more active inclusive mobility. The project will look into developing antennas as sensors and/or RF frontend systems to establish a vehicular network. The student will conduct experiments and show how the newly developed RF sensors can improve road networks to enable inclusivity. Hence, the student will not only work on the RF side but will have the opportunity to develop a full system and conduct necessary data analysis for it.
Application Deadline: 20 April 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Intelligent and Inclusive Public Transport
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to reinvent public transport by using AI to predict demand and to adapt to specific requests, including the door-to-door route and any accessibility requirements. Based on this data, appropriate vehicles can be scheduled, either on a fixed schedule, or on a flexible schedule that takes individual requests into account. The project will consider a town and rural setting such as Loughborough and the surrounding villages and simulate the effect of intelligent dynamic scheduling on the passenger, looking especially for the impact on the different groups.
Application Deadline: 20 April 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Creating the Inclusive Strava Cyclist
Summary of PhD Program:
The information collected about each cycling trip is considerable but only partially represents the experience of Strava users. Cyclists may take longer commuting routes because they feel safer or because they cycle with non-Strava cyclists. Importantly, this experience is structured by the ethnicity, sexuality, gender, race, socio-economic status and disabilities of cyclists. What feels “safe” to an older white woman may feel deeply unsafe to a younger transgender black man.
Application Deadline: 20th April 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Inclusive mobility for impaired transport users
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD should consider how “Equitable” a Connected Transport system might be. The PhD should consider Transport users who are disabled or impaired (either physically of cognitively) to see where they may be disadvantaged by a futuristic transport system where information about transport and travel may only be digitally available. There are several user-groups who may not cope well with this eventuality, including (for example) autistic travellers, individuals with dyslexia, partially sighted travellers, individuals with ADHD etc.
Application Deadline: 20 April 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development and validation of a bespoke sweat sensor to monitor nuanced changes in sweat rate
Summary of PhD Program:
The objective of this project, in collaboration with Unilever, is to design, build and validate a wearable, flexible biosensor to be used across body, with the ability to distinguish between apocrine and eccrine gland activation, to create a link to monitor the emotional response to triggers and to build a stronger link to onset of sweating. This is an exciting new collaborative project between our Sports Technology Institute and Unilever and innovative and world leading company specialised in consumer goods, particularly with a strong commitment to sustainability and cutting-edge research.
Application Deadline: 14 April 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Decentralised Drone Swarm Framework for Dynamic Target Detection in Construction
Summary of PhD Program:
Modern construction sites are dynamic and chaotic, characterised by evolving progress, resource use, and safety needs. Emerging construction manufacturing techniques such as concrete printing and modular construction, demand precise positioning of robotic systems and structures over large areas. Tracking these targets throughout the project’s lifecycle, while also supporting safety and quality control, necessitates a network of mobile measurement systems. Swarm-based robotics offers a modular, scalable approach to inspection. Drones, with their mobility and wide field of view, present a promising solution.
Application Deadline: 16 April 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biomimetic Sensing and Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD will study mobile sensor systems found in animals and will generate high-performing engineering solutions that can be made and tested. This cutting-edge research is important to address generation-after-next defence needs in Electromagnetics, where biomimetic solutions are starting to address difficult and emerging problems. The project is linked to the EME Hub, which is a collaboration of five university partners and funded by Dstl. The successful candidate will be perfectly situated in a supportive network of researchers, industry and other partners and be able to participate in a comprehensive programme of training, conferences, workshops and other events.
Application Deadline: 16 April 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced Wall Modelling for Magnetohydrodynamics Simulations Using Physics-Informed Machine Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is critical in engineering applications such as fusion power plant design and metallurgical processes. However, the computational demands of full-scale 3D MHD simulations are significant, particularly due to the need for extra fine meshing in boundary layers, such as those on Hartmann and side walls, where the behaviour of electric currents must be precisely captured.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in A bioengineered 3D model of obesity-related breast cancer to investigate the anti-tumour immune response induced by exercise
Summary of PhD Program:
Our core aim is to investigate relationships between exercise, adiposity and breast cancer in an in vitro model to establish mechanisms for exercise-as-medicine. Our ambition to create a model of obesogenic breast cancer will build on our published model of exercise attenuating breast cancer invasion (Brown et al., 2023). We will develop a multicellular 3D model of obesogenic breast cancer using patient-derived tumour organoids (PDXOs) from the Human Cancer Models Initiative (HCMI) alongside adipocytes. We will then conduct a 12-week moderate intensity exercise training intervention in a cohort of healthy pre- and post-menopausal women of varying BMIs, collecting NK cells and serum to understand the molecular-level protective effects of exercise on these obesogenic PDXOs (obPDXOs) and evaluate CSC status by flow cytometry and immunocytochemistry.
