University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Degree at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Programs available at University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Uncertainty quantification for machine learning models of chemical reactivity
In this PhD project, we will develop and implement approaches for estimating the uncertainty in AI predictions of chemical reactivity, to help strengthen the interaction between human chemists and machine learning algorithms and to assess when AI predictions are likely to be correct and when, for example, first principles quantum chemical calculations might be helpful.
Predicting chemical reactivity is, in general, a challenging problem and one for which there is relatively little data, because experimental chemistry takes time and is expensive. Within our research group, we have a highly automated workflow for high-level quantum chemical calculations and we have generated thousands of examples relating to the reactivity of molecules for a specific chemical reaction. This project will evaluate a variety of machine learning algorithms trained on these data and, most crucially, will develop and implement techniques for computing the uncertainty in the prediction.
Deadline : 05 May 2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD studentship: Fundamental studies into single atom catalysts
We are recruiting applicants for a fully funded PhD studentship in the School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham to work under the supervision of Dr David Duncan. The project will be strongly based at Diamond Light Source (Oxfordshire), the UK’s national synchrotron facility, where the student will be based for at least the first two years of the project. At Diamond, the student will be able to utilise cutting edge equipment to study single atom catalysts anchored on defective graphene substrates. Catalysis is a key industrial process that underpins not only the supply of consumer goods, but is also the scale of food production required to feed the billions of people on this planet. However, catalysis is challenging to study on atomic scale, requiring the development and study of ever more realistic model systems. Single atom catalysts, where the catalytic site contains only a single metal atom supported on a heterogenous substrate, offers a tantalising prospect as a model system: it is an inherently defective system (like almost all real catalysts) that can be anchored to supports amenable to fundamental atomistic studies. This research will build upon an ongoing collaboration between the Universities of Warwick, Nottingham and QMUL and Diamond Light Source, to develop model defective graphene supports, onto which single metal atoms can be anchored.
Deadline : 01 May 2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Rolls Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Micromechanics and in-depth materials analysis of advanced aerospace materials upon the manufacturing process
Applications are invited to undertake a three-year PhD programme in partnership with industry to address key challenges in on-platform manufacturing engineering. The successful candidate will be based at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing Technology and On-Wing Technology (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/utc/index.aspx ) at the University of Nottingham. Having state-of-the-art purpose-built facilities, the UTC offers a world-class environment for the realisation of high-impact research projects.
The Rolls-Royce funded Studentship is the result of the expanding manufacturing activities sponsored at the Rolls-Royce UTC dealing with in-depth investigations of the response of advanced aerospace materials to various manufacturing operations in the scope of robust manufacture of safety-critical aero-engine components.
The project will deal with the micromechanics and in-depth materials analysis of advanced aerospace materials upon manufacturing operations to understand the materials’ response to the manufacturing process to efficiently support the manufacture of aerospace components. This will involve using a wide range of sophisticated testing and analysis techniques including not only the study of the conventional manufacturing process of advanced aerospace materials but also the state-of-the-art materials investigation such as scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and in-situ micromechanics.
Deadline : 31 July 2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Design and simulation of stiffness-adjustable robotic systems for performing on-wing repair of aero-engines
Applicants are invited to undertake a fully funded three-year PhD programme in partnership with industry to address key challenges in on-platform manufacturing engineering. The successful candidate will be based at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at the University of Nottingham.
This project aligns with Rolls-Royce’s technical needs to develop automated and hybrid tooling solutions for in-situ/on-wing repair and maintenance of gas turbine engines.
At the Rolls-Royce UTC, we have developed advanced robotic systems capable of navigating cramped and hazardous environments, performing inspection tasks, and carrying out active operations such as machining. These innovations are driven by the need to complete complex repairs without disassembling industrial installations.
Deadline : 31 July 2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce Sponsored PhD Scholarship – Intelligent Sensing and Robot Control for Performing On-Wing Inspection and Repair of Aero-Engines
Applicants are invited to undertake a three-year PhD programme in partnership with industry to address key challenges in on-platform manufacturing engineering. The successful candidate will be based at The Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at the University of Nottingham.
This project is in relation to the technical needs of Rolls-Royce to develop smart and robotic solutions to enable in-situ/on-wing repair and maintenance of gas turbine engines.
At the Rolls-Royce UTC at the University of Nottingham, we have developed robotic systems capable of navigating into crammed/hazardous environments and perform inspection and active operations such as machining. This is driven by the need to complete repair tasks without disassembly of industrial installations. We developed a series of continuum robots in both short and long versions.
Deadline : 31 July 2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Laser Beam Processing of Aerospace Materials
Applications are invited to undertake a three-year PhD programme in partnership with industry to address key challenges in manufacturing engineering. The successful candidate will be based at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at the University of Nottingham.
We are seeking applicants for an anticipated October 2025 start, or earlier (depending on the candidate availability), on a project with Rolls-Royce plc. The Rolls-Royce funded studentship is the result of expanding its on-platform repair activities sponsored at the Rolls-Royce UTC dealing with investigations on the development of bespoke high-tech laser beam processing methods for surface treatment and repair of aero-engine components.
The project will deal with the study of a new laser processing method to enable in-situ surface treatment and repair of safety-critical rotating parts and further understand the correlation between surface quality, metallurgical characteristics and functional performance of the components and the key process parameters. The project will deal with the design of special process setups, testing its working principles and performances followed by an assessment of the part quality; this will involve the development of laser beam processing on specific aerospace materials, and a model to understand the fundamental mechanisms of the process to identify optimal operating conditions and followed by surface analysis techniques (e.g. Scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffraction for residual stress measurements, Electron Back-Scattered Diffraction and Transmission Electron Microscopy).
Deadline : 31 July 2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Mechatronics system for hybrid manufacturing processing
Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology, The University of Nottingham.
Applicants are invited to undertake a three-year PhD programme in partnership with industry to address key challenges in on-platform manufacturing engineering. The successful candidate will be based at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at the University of Nottingham.
At the Rolls-Royce UTC, we are developing the next generation of robots and its sensing solutions to perform tasks in challenging working environments.
Deadline : 31 July 2025
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Studentship: Rolls-Royce Sponsored PhD Scholarship – Design and Manufacturing of Soft Robots for Performing On-Wing Inspection of Aero-Engines
The growing field of soft robotics has unlocked new possibilities for robotic systems to navigate uncertain and dynamic environments, including narrow spaces and interactions with unfamiliar objects.
This project aligns with Rolls-Royce’s technical needs for developing soft robotic solutions to enable in-situ/on-wing repair and maintenance of gas turbine engines. Applicants are invited to undertake a fully funded three-year PhD programme in partnership with Rolls-Royce to address key challenges in soft robotics for locomotion and manipulation in confined spaces. The successful candidate will be based at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at the University of Nottingham.
Deadline : 31 July 2025
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship – New approaches for studying the structure of high-temperature molten materials
Understanding the structure and properties of high-temperature molten materials is of key importance in a diverse range of applications including optical glass manufacture, nuclear waste storage, green platforms for growth of functional materials, fuel cell hermetic seals, electrolytes, carbon capture solvents and thermal energy storage media. It is also vital for understanding natural magmatic processes on earth & other planetary bodies.
Neutron diffraction is a powerful technique for studying the atomic scale structure of these materials, but the current technology to allow measurements to be made on liquids at the high temperatures (500 oC < T < 1200 oC) required is inadequate. Current experimental setups are limited to lower temperatures and to containers that present significant problems for data reduction and analysis. This PhD project, in close collaboration with researchers at ISIS Neutron and Muon Source and University of Nottingham, will address this by designing and developing experimental equipment suitable for containing the liquids at the temperatures needed, as well as optimizing the quality of the data obtained, both through experiment design and developing the analysis techniques needed to interpret the data.
In addition to technique development, the studentship will study a range of technologically relevant high temperature liquids to provide new insights into the structure and bonding changes they undergo with temperature, upon cooling from a liquid to a glassy solid product. This will be underpinned by initial studies focussing on the structure and properties in a few compositional series of network glasses, from which key compositions to study in the molten state will be selected. Improved understanding of melt structure will have a major impact on understanding viscous flow in materials of commercial interest, such as borosilicates and boroaluminates, underpinning an array of applications from solid-oxide fuel cell seals to display glasses.
Deadline : 30 June 2025
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Adaptive Mesh Refinement for More Efficient Predictions of Wall Boiling Bubble Dynamics
The aim of this PhD is to robustly validate and demonstrate the utility of an adaptive mesh refinement approach in interface resolving Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of flow boiling at conditions relevant to nuclear thermal hydraulics. Boiling is a technology central to both fusion and fission nuclear reactors, also including thermal management of several reactor components. The aim of these simulations is to generate data that can be leveraged to account for the detailed characteristics of a heat transfer surface on bubble dynamics during flow boiling, to provide an approach for generating more representative inputs for the wall boiling models used in component scale CFD assessments. In particular, this concerns quantifying the effects of the heat transfer surface’s detailed topography, porosity and wettability on near-wall bubble dynamics that govern flow boiling heat transfer and critical heat flux. The work ultimately contributes towards the development of improved methods for predicting critical heat flux in nuclear reactors, which can ultimately limit their justifiable performance, also advancing the design of both fusion and fission reactor components, and thereby contributing to increase their power density and decrease plant size.
Deadline : 30 June 2025
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD studentship: Sperm elasticity as an index of sub-fertility and as an environmental target
Relationships between chemical and mechanical aspects of sperm cell biology remain largely unknown. In this project a successful candidate will learn, elasticity characterisation techniques, processing and evaluation of sperm and the stimulation of fertile function in vitro as tools to investigate their relationship. For the first time, the elasticity of sperm cells will be measured with optical resolution during the critical functional processes of fertilisation. It is anticipated that this will highlight a key biomarker in both human and animals. Along with this, environmental chemicals previously shown to be detectable in dog testis and ejaculates will then be tested in short term culture for their effects on these fertility processes.
Deadline : 13 June 2025
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship (Home) in 4D Printing for Advanced Bioelectronics
We invite applications for a fully funded, three-year PhD studentship starting in October 2025, focused on one of the following research objectives:
- To develop biomimetic designs that enhance energy harvesting and bioelectronic functionality.
- To explore the advanced materials, including MXene-based and other functional nanomaterials, for improved electrochemical performance.
- To investigate the smart, programmable electrodes that adapt to changing environmental conditions for improved efficiency in renewable energy systems.
- To design the novel, multi-material printing strategies to develop tuneable energy devices.
- To evaluate the real-world performance of advanced electrode materials in bioelectronics, supercapacitors, and other energy storage technologies.
- Optimise the 4D-printed structures for long-term stability and high-power density in dynamic energy harvesting applications.
Deadline : 03 June 2025
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD studentship: Improving reliability of medical processes using system modelling and Artificial Intelligence techniques
This project would investigate commonly observed deviations in healthcare service and opportunities for identification of such deviations using computer vision approaches. It will demonstrate how deviation data can be used in computer-based simulation models, which are used to evaluate effects of deviations and to support decisions. It will focus on investigating how deviation data can be used in real time decision-making process, how accepting patients and staff are for such technologies and what integral role they should play in evaluating and ensuring an uptake of such technologies. The proposed method will be potentially applied to processes carried out in an operating theatre.
Deadline : 02 June 2025
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: UK Atomic Energy Authority and University of Nottingham sponsored PhD scholarship – Extra-long compliant snake robot capable of self-localization for inspection in fusion power plants
Applicants are invited to undertake a 3-year PhD program in partnership with the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to address key challenges in robotic deployment systems enabling repair automation. The successful candidate will be primarily based at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology, (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/utc), Department of Mechanical, Material and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering. The department has an excellent international reputation for high-quality theoretical and experimental research funded by EPSRC, IUK, EU and the manufacturing industry. There is an opportunity to being hosted by UKAEA’s Culham Campus for part of the project.
Deadline : 30 April 2025
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD studentship: Obsolescence modelling for railway signalling and telecoms
This project proposes to develop an obsolescence modelling framework for asset management of railway signalling and telecoms systems. It will consider how old-technology items should be replaced by new generation of items whilst ensuring system safety and efficiency. Whole-life cycle costs and sustainability of the proposed replacement approaches will form an integral part of the proposed multi-objective optimisation approach. Such a methodology should help asset managers and system operators to make practical decisions regarding the technological obsolesce of telecoms under real-world uncertainties.
Deadline : Open until filled
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD studentship: Improving reliability of medical processes using system modelling and Artificial Intelligence techniques
This project would investigate commonly observed deviations in healthcare service and opportunities for identification of such deviations using computer vision approaches. It will demonstrate how deviation data can be used in computer-based simulation models, which are used to evaluate effects of deviations and to support decisions. It will focus on investigating how deviation data can be used in real time decision-making process, how accepting patients and staff are for such technologies and what integral role they should play in evaluating and ensuring an uptake of such technologies. The proposed method will be potentially applied to processes carried out in an operating theatre.
Deadline : Open until filled
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: University of Nottingham AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship with Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
Recent research on maritime connections between Britain and Atlantic Europe (including France and Iberia) during the Middle Ages, and maritime engagement in medieval Wales, hint at far greater use of seaways by a broader spectrum of people than previously appreciated. Welsh connections have been studied in detail for the early medieval period but new excavated and stray-find evidence from the later medieval period has received limited attention. By using the new data from two case-study regions (southeast and southwest Wales), this studentship-project aims to provide a new narrative of interaction between South Wales and Atlantic Europe from 1000-1500 CE, based on the full range of international and British links now evident during this transformative era. Especial focus is placed on places, nature and contexts of connections. Portable objects (metalwork, coins, ceramics) will provide the data, principally from Amgueddfa Cymru, augmented by material from regional museums, and PAS-Cymru/Heneb HER records. During the four-year programme, ideally, years 1 and 4 will be based at University of Nottingham; years 2 and 3 will be based at Amgueddfa Cymru. The supervision team is led by Christopher P. Loveluck, Professor of Medieval European Archaeology, University of Nottingham; and Sian Iles, Senior Curator-Medieval, Amgueddfa Cymru.
Deadline : 30 May 2025
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship in Neurocomputation in networks with plastic delays
Applications are sought for a fully-funded 42 month PhD studentship to work with Dr Rachel Nicks and Prof Stephen Coombes on the project: White Matter Computation: Utilising axonal delays to sculpt network attractors, funded by The Leverhulme Trust.
This is a brain inspired project in the field of Neurodynamics. Networks of oscillators are ideal candidates for modelling patterns of functional connectivity seen in large scale brain recordings. These describe correlations between brain regions and can evolve over tens of seconds, with essentially discontinuous shifts from one short term state to another that can be viewed as heteroclinic connections between phase-locked states. The PhD project will consider the role that communication delays between nodes can have in shaping patterns of dynamic functional connectivity. This will include consideration of the fact that communication delays in the brain are plastic as they are modulated by the thickness of the myelin surrounding the axonal connections which can change over time, depending on neural activity.
Deadline : 31 May 2025
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: BRC PhD: Improving recovery from pneumonia after hospitalisation
Applications are invited from UK students for a three-year PhD studentship funded by the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, School of Medicine.
The PhD project is clinically focused towards improving the recovery of patients who survive an episode of pneumonia. Pneumonia is a common illness that results in over 100,000 hospital admissions per year in the UK. Following hospital treatment for pneumonia, 55% of patients visit their GP within 30 days of discharge from hospital while 15% are readmitted to hospital within 30 days of discharge. Symptoms from pneumonia commonly persist for over 6 weeks following initial treatment. Despite the high morbidity experienced and described by patients, there is very little research into how to improve patient care during recovery from pneumonia.
The PhD student will determine the burden of recovering from pneumonia on primary care consultations and hospital readmission episodes in the post-pandemic period compared to the pre-pandemic period. The burden of recovering from other acute respiratory infections (respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and SARS-CoV2 virus) will also be compared. These analyses will be conducted using nationally representative databases; the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES).
The second part of the PhD project will involve piloting an interventional clinical trial at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Patients will be randomised to receive either standard of care (which includes a patient information sheet) or standard of care plus a nurse-led phone contact. Objectives: 1) To determine patients’ perspective on a pneumonia information leaflet provided at the time of hospital discharge in accordance with the NICE Pneumonia guideline (standard of care), and what additional information could be included. 2) To determine if nurse-led telephone support in the week following hospital discharge, in addition to standard of care, can reduce primary care consultations during recovery from pneumonia, compared to standard of care alone; 3) To measure Quality of Life in a representative cohort of patients post-discharge – this will inform future trial design. The pilot will provide data on trial acceptability, eligibility, recruitment, retention, follow on and other measures relevant to design of a clinical trial. Alongside the qualitative study, we would aim to establish an Acute Respiratory Infections patient and public interest group as a national resource to support other studies in this field.
Deadline : 18 April 2025
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship in Artificial Intelligence
The Faculty of Science AI Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) invites applications from Home students for fully-funded PhD studentships to carry out multidisciplinary research in the world-transforming field of Artificial Intelligence, commencing 1st October 2025. The studentships will have a duration of 42 months (3.5 years), with an annual stipend at the UKRI rate (currently £20,780) and £3000 p.a. Research Training Support Grant.
The Faculty of Science AI DTC is an initiative by the University of Nottingham to train future researchers and leaders to address the most pressing challenges of the 21st Century through foundational and applied AI research on a cohort basis. The training and supervision will be delivered by a team of outstanding scholars from different disciplines cutting across Arts, Engineering, Medicine and Health Sciences, Science and Social Sciences.
Deadline : 05 May 2025
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The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs to the research intensive Russell Group association.
Nottingham’s main campus (University Park) with Jubilee Campus and teaching hospital (Queen’s Medical Centre) are located within the City of Nottingham, with a number of smaller campuses and sites elsewhere in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Outside the UK, the university has campuses in Semenyih, Malaysia, and Ningbo, China. Nottingham is organised into five constituent faculties, within which there are more than 50 schools, departments, institutes and research centres. Nottingham has more than 46,000 students and 7,000 staff across the UK, China and Malaysia and had an income of £792.2 million in 2021–22, of which £131.4 million was from research grants and contracts. The institution’s alumni have been awarded one Nobel Prize, a Fields Medal, and a Gabor Medal and Prize. The university is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, the Russell Group, Universitas 21, Universities UK, the Virgo Consortium, and participates in the Sutton Trust Summer School programme as a member of the Sutton 30.
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