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: ITP Aero Funded PhD – Characterisation of thin sheet and foil material behaviour for aerospace forming applications
Applications are invited for a PhD position at the University of Nottingham addressing the behaviour of thin foil materials for aerospace forming applications. The successful candidate will have a first-class or upper second-class honours degree in mechanical engineering or a related subject.
This studentship will attract a stipend of £20,480 for four years. The position arises from an engineering research relationship developing between the University of Nottingham and ITP Aero UK. The studentship will be hosted at the Institute for Aerospace Technology at the University of Nottingham and the candidate will sit within a community of PhD students at various stages of their study. The project will involve significant interaction with ITP Aero UK and will involve co-supervision with an industrial supervisor and it is also expected that the student will spend some time at the ITP Aero Hucknall site throughout the PhD.
Deadline : 31 August 2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Artificial Intelligence for Building Performance – Optimising Low-Pressure Airtightness Testing
This exciting, fully-funded PhD opportunity invites applications from candidates with a robust foundation in data science, modelling, and/or engineering, and a keen interest in deploying data analysis and artificial intelligence (AI) to solve real-world problems in the built environment. The project will advance the capabilities of Pulse, an innovative low-pressure airtightness testing technology co-developed by the University of Nottingham and Build Test Solutions Ltd (BTS). This is a fantastic opportunity to work towards a PhD whilst working with both academia and industry. We are looking for a self-motivated student, with an inquiring mind who would revel in pushing the boundaries of technology.
Deadline : 31 August 2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: REACTOR DESIGNS FOR THE SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION OF LIGNIN-DERIVED END-PRODUCTS VIA DEPOLYMERISATION REACTIONS
This project will focus on modelling and testing of new reactors with a view to optimising the best systems for mixing supercritical water (>378oC and 221 bar) with wastewater feed streams. This needs to generate residence times that are highly controlled and potentially measured in milliseconds rather than seconds or minutes. This level of control will generate products with minimal side reactions and create the highest possible yields with the minimum environmental impact.
Deadline : 29 August 2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD in Digital Metal with BAE Systems (Enhanced Stipend) Solid-state Additive Manufacturing of Nickel Aluminium Bronze alloys
This applied research project will aim to study the deposition of Nickel Aluminium Bronze (NAB) alloy with a relatively new family of solid-state Additive Manufacturing technologies, such as Cold spray. The nature of the process utilising low heat input and severe plastic deformation, produces ultra-refined microstructure exhibiting improved physical and mechanical properties. The main objective of this project will be to develop a mechanistic understating of the microstructural evolution of the Additive Manufacturing processed NAB material and any post-processing requirements to match and/or exceed the properties of traditional cast/heat-treated NAB. You will have the opportunity to develop a Digital Manufacturing process for Cold Spray with Artificial Intelligence, operate the AM machine, characterise the materials with scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy with tensile testing. As a part of a CDT cohort, you will have access to tailored courses, mentoring, career support and conference opportunities.
Deadline : 01 August 2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: EPSRC-Funded PhD: AI-Driven Zero Carbon Energy Systems – Solar Forecasting, Grid Intelligence, and Community Integration
The contribution of PV energy to the electricity generation mix continues to grow. Installed capacity in the UK in 2020 was 13.4 GW and is expected to increase to 40 GW by 2030. Accelerating the adoption of solar energy will present significant challenges to the electricity transmission and distribution system, as solar power is not dispatchable and therefore its incorporation as a major element of the generation mix requires the accurate prediction of solar energy production.
To tackle this issue, the newly established Prediction and Optimisation of Solar Energy Systems Lab (POSES lab) at the University of Nottingham (supported by the University of Nottingham, EPSRC and industry) will provide a multi-disciplinary approach to training researchers in new technologies that can significantly improve the incorporation of solar farms into future sustainable power systems. You will join a large group of postgraduate students in the Faculty of Engineering, working on many aspects of solar energy and zero carbon technologies. The team of potential PhD supervisors spans five departments at University of Nottingham including Architecture and Built Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and Social Sciences.
Deadline : 01 August 2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Open PhD position: Autonomous Bioactivity Searching
This 42-month funded PhD studentship will contribute to cutting-edge advancements in automated drug discovery through the integration of high data-density reaction/bioanalysis techniques, organic synthesis, laboratory automation & robotics and machine learning modelling. This exciting project involves the application of innovative methods such as high-throughput experimentation to expediate the syntheses (and bioanalysis) of life-saving pharmaceuticals. The subsequent data will then be used to populate machine learning models to predict which molecules to synthesise next, to maximise the binding affinity of the molecules to a target protein. This research aims to greatly accelerate bioactive molecule discovery and significantly reduce costs in drug discovery, enabling new drug targets that are currently economically unfeasible such as in rare and poverty-related diseases. This project will help to make a substantial difference towards automated drug discovery and helping to reduce suffering worldwide.
Deadline : 01 August 2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Joint Industrial and EPSRC-funded PhD studentship in the Synthesis and Processing of Novel Biomaterials, in partnership with Haleon
Applications are invited for a PhD Studentship, with an October 2025 start, hosted at the University of Nottingham within the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and School of Pharmacy. The project will focus on the synthesis of polymers that resist the formation of biofilms and the development of processes to formulate / process them into new health/consumer care products e.g. oral/skin health products. The project will focus upon extending UoN patented polymer technologies, that deliver their anti-attachment performance without the use of actives that kill. Hence, they will not contribute to the increase in Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR). The project will have a key focus on exploiting and developing chemistry to obtain materials at the hundreds of gram scale. because it will allow transfer of these new biomaterials into formulation processing to created novel demonstrator health/consumer care products.
Deadline : 31 July 2025
(08) 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.
Deadline : 31 July 2025
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(09) 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
(10) 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
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.
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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(11) 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
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Mechatronics system for hybrid manufacturing processing
This project is related to the development of smart mechanisms and sensing to support the aforementioned tasks with the following actions:
- Develop the principles and theories for governing the scalability principles for building innovative robotics end-effectors that can access geometrically complex workspaces under positional restrictions.
- Develop smart control algorithms that will allow the robotics end-effectors to communicate with the central control system and coordinate tasks with other end-effectors and the host robot.
- Smart sensing systems to support automated manufacturing and maintenance, repair & overhaul. We refer here not only to conventional sensing, e.g. vision, orientation, that are commonly integrated into the end-effectors, but on advanced (e.g. tactile, sound-based, shape) solutions that enhance the perception of the end-effectors so that versatile tasks can be performed.
Deadline : 31 July 2025
(13) 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
(14) 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.
Deadline : 30 June 2025
(15) 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
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: A continual learning approach for robust robotic control in electric batteries assembly.
We are seeking for a highly motivated PhD student to conduct cutting edge research of the AI techniques that will power future flexible manufacturing systems. Together, we will make technological advances in more efficient and resilient manufacturing systems that can cope with demands of high value products such as electric batteries. We will also make advances towards the scalability and robustness of AI in complex environments which is a major step towards the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry.
Deadline : 30 June 2025
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Winding Development for Electric Motors
This project offers an exciting opportunity to undertake industrially linked research with leading engineers at the UK’s premier hub for advanced manufacturing, i.e., Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC). and with academics from the globally renowned Power Electronics, Machines and Control (PEMC) Research Institute, University of Nottingham. The project will be supported by the state-of-the-art electric motor manufacturing platforms at both locations, providing the student with hands-on industrial experience as well as cutting-edge research insight.
Deadline : 30 June 2025
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Revolutionising Litz Wire Development for Next Generation Ultra-High Speed Propulsion Motors
The global drive towards electrification in high-performance sectors such as motorsport and aerospace is pushing electric motors to operate at ever increasing speeds. This demands smarter and more efficient motor winding technologies capable of handling high-frequency Joule losses. Litz wire is one of the most promising solutions due to its exceptional ability to reduce AC losses and boost power density. Today’s modelling tools are not yet equipped to fully explore or optimise the flexible structures and manufacturing process of Litz wires.
This studentship offers the opportunity for the PhD student to lead the development of innovative simulation tools that predict Litz wire behaviour across electrical, thermal, and mechanical domains. Supported by the MTC’s advanced wire braiding platform, the PhD work will pave the way for next-generation ultra-high speed propulsion systems. The student will receive full training and support in both modelling and experiments. The skills developed in this PhD are highly transferable and will offer career pathways across sectors including renewable energy, automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing.
Deadline : 30 June 2025
(19) 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
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(20) 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
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: 4 year PhD Studentship: Deciphering how domain organisation regulates heparan sulphate function
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are linear sugars that are displayed on all cells throughout the body as well as in the matrix. Like other glycans, they are not built against a defined template, and yet their structure is non-random, with specific motifs within the glycan chains defining binding sites for critical signalling and structural molecules. Unravelling the ways in which these motifs are encoded into GAGs by their biosynthetic machinery is the fundamental challenge behind the GlycoWeb project and this PhD will focus on a specific part of that, the organisation of highly sulphated domains within the heparan sulphate (HS) GAG family. These sulphated domains typically bind to protein ligands via sulphated residues that interact with positively charged regions within the protein ligand(s). The 3D organisation of these domains is therefore critical for their function. Novel breakthroughs in analytical methods (including those made by the GlycoWeb team) offer new opportunities to investigate how functional motifs are encoded in HS chains and how they influence their biological activity. Within GlycoWeb, we are using gastruloids as a model system with which to study GAG structure/function relationships. Gastruloids are generated from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and create in vitro models with which we can study many of the critical steps of gastrulation and early development. We are creating iPSC lines with mutations in elements of the GAG biosynthetic machinery as well as using our novel GAG analytical technologies to investigate how changes in GAG structure and organisation drive and/or respond to shifting developmental stages. The object of our studies is to gain a fundamental understanding of this incredible family of glycans, opening the potential to use that knowledge to design new drugs, new biomaterials or to identify new therapeutic opportunities.
Deadline : 31 July 2025
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Nottingham University Business School – PhD Studentship: “Improving environmental sustainability in healthcare – exploring the contribution of bottom-up networks for change”
This PhD will contribute to improving the environmental sustainability of healthcare by examining the impact of bottom-up communities and networks promoting change. Healthcare accounts for approximately 5% of the UKs total carbon emissions, and significant activity is underway to identify and promote approaches to reduce the environment impact of the sector. Ongoing research within Nottingham University Business School is examining the impact of this work within the social, organisational and policy context of the National Health Service. The PhD research will focus on how bottom-up networks are involved in promoting change. In recent years, numerous networks of clinicians, researchers, patients and activists have formed around environmental sustainability in healthcare; in many instances these span multiple professional groups and organisations. Further research is now needed to consider how these networks are working to bring about change in practice. It is anticipated that this will require a qualitative or mixed methods approach, and the successful candidate will have significant scope to define the project during the first year of study in line with their own research background and interests.
Deadline : 27 June 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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