Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, 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 Understanding the Complexities of Transport System Responses to Disruptive Events
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for PhD candidate to work with The National Hub for Decarbonised, Adaptable and Resilient Transport Infrastructures (DARe) which is led by Newcastle University and is jointly funded by EPSRC and the Department for Transport. When transport infrastructure suffers damage or disruption from events such as natural hazards (flooding, high winds) or planned maintenance, users must adapt their use of the infrastructure to meet the new conditions. Often the way in which those users, both passenger and freight, change their behaviour in response to changes in infrastructure availability/performance are poorly understood. Does the loss of a section of infrastructure cause users to change routes, change modes, change destinations, change departure times, or not travel at all? What are the social, environmental, and economic costs of those responses?
Application Deadline: 23rd May 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Resilience of Cyber-Physical Transport Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for PhD candidate to work with The National Hub for Decarbonised, Adaptable and Resilient Transport Infrastructures (DARe) which is led by Newcastle University and is jointly funded by EPSRC and the Department for Transport. The aim of this PhD project is to develop a unified approach for risk analysis of cyber-physical transport systems. Essential transportation services are increasingly regarded as being cyber-physical systems, as they are controlled by digital networks and depend upon software and digital communication systems. The reliance on cyber-physical components is growing as transport services are increasingly reliant on automation to improve their efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
Application Deadline: 23rd May 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding the retention and treatment of highway runoff pollutants within roadside bioretention systems – and implications for design and long-term maintenance
Summary of PhD Program:
Roadside bioretention systems are routinely considered as a runoff capture mechanism. Partnership investment programmes, Ofwat funded green economic recovery investments, and DEFRA funded innovation resilience programmes are also implementing these systems at scale. However, there is very limited consistent research evidence on the efficacy of different engineered filter media and soils to capture and retain pollutants and the influence of overlying vegetation; on the likely migration of pollutants through the soil horizons with time; and on the implications of pollutant capture on long-term maintenance needs and final decommissioning.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Translational Immunology: understanding the immunobiology of flare and remission in rheumatoid arthritis
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek an enthusiastic and motivated student to work within our team of scientists as we strive to understand the basis of rheumatic diseases and novel approaches to their treatment. This three-year PhD project will focus on understanding the underlying immunobiology of flare and remission in rheumatoid arthritis. You will have access to samples and data from previous and ongoing experimental medicine studies within our group, ultimately working towards translation of your findings to a feasible assay suitable for future clinical development.
Application Deadline: 18th May 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Public Health: Exploring co-occurring excess weight and severe mental illness in community settings
Summary of PhD Program:
You will have the opportunity to develop a range of skills in collecting, appraising and synthesising both quantitative and qualitative data. This project is likely to involve undertaking a systematic review; interrogating and analysing large-scale healthcare datasets; and using qualitative methods, such as interviews or focus groups. The successful applicant will benefit from networks and training opportunities across a range of NIHR-funded units at Newcastle University, and close links with local, regional and national policy and practice colleagues.
Application Deadline: 30th June 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human Factors and User-Centred Design for Intelligent Infrastructure systems
Summary of PhD Program:
Remote condition monitoring is a key technology for ensuring the continuous availability of rail assets. When coupled with analytics and machine learning, it is possible to deliver complete solutions that move asset owners from reacting to faults, to proactively planning maintenance and renewals. However, human expertise is still key to effective decision-making, all the moreso as assets are pushed into new states by factors such as climate change and extreme weather. Unless RCM and II solutions are designed to actively support the cognitive processes of their operators, which includes but is not limited to Human-Machine Interface (HMI) design, they will fail to fully enable resilient operations.
Application Deadline: 21st May 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development of methodology to cryopreserve, store and revive human precision cut tissue slices for disease modelling and drug testing
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you interested in working with non-animal complex 3D models of human disease in the fields of tissue inflammation and fibrosis? Organ fibrosis is a global unmet healthcare need and despite significant research, new treatments are urgently needed. Animal models are commonly used to study the development of these diseases and test novel treatments, but they often fail to bridge the translation gap and have ethical considerations. Human precision cut tissue slices (hPCTS) are a translationally relevant model for discovery biology and drug testing, but a barrier for researchers to use hPCTS in their research programs is lack of access to fresh human tissue and the expertise/infrastructure to generate hPCTS.
