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: Concrete4Change and the Centre for Sustainable Chemistry
Applications are invited for an industrial led PhD studentship aimed at developing new, sustainable, advanced concrete materials with carbon negative footprints. To achieve this breakthrough we will use a multi-discipline approach incorporating organic and polymer chemistry, materials science and leading-edge data analysis, including machine learning/AI approaches. We are looking to attract applicants from chemistry/materials chemistry with an innate drive and curiosity to deliver new solutions to building materials that are needed within the next 10 years.
Deadline : 15 July 2024
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Future-Proofing Offshore Wind-Hydrogen Systems: A Holistic Assessment Ensuring Safety, Environmental Responsibility, and Economic Viability Throughout the Lifecycle
The proposed project will be based on simulation and analysis of innovative OWHS designs, novel O&M strategies, and potential end-of-life strategies, along with potential changes in not only the marine environment, governmental guidance and regulations, operating conditions, and production needs, but also potential location restrictions, wildlife habitats, sea fishing areas, residential living areas, and other critical factors. This research can provide an effective tool to comprehensively assess and optimise the safety, environmental, and economic aspects of future OWHSs.
Such a methodology can provide key knowledge for the deployment of future OWFs and Hydrogen Production, Storage, and Transportation Systems (HPSTSs) and the integration of HPSTSs into currently existing offshore wind farms. It will be able to lower the cost of offshore wind power and eliminate the major public concerns and create a good working and living environment for local people and other stakeholders (e.g. fishing communities), thereby further accelerating the sustainable and healthy development of offshore wind.
Deadline : 30 September 2024
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Studentship in the Biochar Demonstrator: Impact of Biochar on Soil Health
The Biochar Demonstrator is part of the UK Research and Innovation £31.5M programme in greenhouse gas removal1 to help the UK meet its net zero climate target by 2050. Biochar is a charcoal-like material, produced from heating biomass in the absence of oxygen (pyrolysis). The interdisciplinary Biochar Demonstrator project is addressing the uncertainties concerning the extent and scope of deployment of biochar in the UK2. This is being achieved through implementing the most ambitious and comprehensive demonstration programme to date involving arable, grassland and woodland, with over 150 tonnes of biochar deployed specifically to answer questions regarding its permanence with respect to carbon sequestration and how ecosystem services are affected. To support the research programme, the University of Nottingham has provided funding for the following studentships.
Deadline : 30 September 2024
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Fully funded (home) 3-year PhD studentship Impact Failure of Amorphous Polymers
There is a need, therefore, to produce material models that can be used in computer simulations of ballistic events, and which contain enough physical understanding of deformation and failure behaviour to provide insight into how processing affects the final response. This project will address this problem through a combination of modelling at the University of Nottingham and experimental development at the University of Oxford, using polycarbonate as a model material. The ultimate goal is to provide models to understand and simulate phenomena observed in polymers under impact, and the effect of different polymer histories on these phenomena. This builds on current collaborative research, in which a new rate and temperature dependent constitutive model has been developed, by focusing on understanding the basic polymer physics that drives fracture.
Deadline : 29 September 2024
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Project: 3D printing next-generation actuators for soft robots and devices
3D-printing of soft robotics is a growing field, with many applications in biomedical devices, electronics, and autonomous machines. Actuators to drive these robots utilise electronic, chemical, pressure, magnetic, or thermal mechanisms, with the current generation having significant drawbacks, including low energy efficiency, high operating voltage or temperature. This project will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of soft-actuators. The overall aim is to develop and exploit new designs or new materials to attain large, fast, high-efficiency actuation responses comparable to living muscles.
An ideal candidate will have interest in 3D printing and its applications, knowledge of materials sciences, mechanical engineering, or digital design, and an inquisitive spirit motivated to develop a world-leading expertise. They will have a background in engineering, materials science, or chemistry, but will also be willing to learn new disciplines and innovate to achieve the project goals. This studentship will prepare you for routes into both industry and academia, and will equip you with skills in photopolymer chemistry, materials development for 3D printing, device engineering, and materials processing for additive manufacturing. You will also develop skills in characterisation, including microscopy, mechanical analysis, and advanced spectrometry techniques.
Deadline : 15 September 2024
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Project: 3D-Printed Micro-Robots for Medical Applications
The field of medical therapeutics has valuable applications for mobile devices for efficient drug delivery, called micro-robots. Recently, 3D printing has been used to manufacture such devices with functional features that enabled them to respond to environmental cues, including temperature, pH, light, magnetic fields, and ultrasound. This project will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of medical micro-robots, exploiting combinations of functions to achieve advanced control necessary for complex and customisable micro-robots to provide personalised healthcare solutions.
An ideal candidate will have interest in 3D printing and its applications, knowledge of materials sciences and/or digital design, and an inquisitive spirit motivated to develop a world-leading expertise. They will have a background in engineering, materials science, or chemistry, but will also be willing to learn new disciplines and innovate to achieve the project goals. This studentship will prepare you for routes into both industry and academia, and will equip you with skills in photopolymer chemistry, materials development for 3D printing, device engineering, and materials processing for additive manufacturing. You will also develop skills in characterisation, including microscopy, mechanical analysis, and advanced spectrometry techniques.
Deadline : 15 September 2024
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Project: Functional 3D/4D Printing of Responsive Structures
3D-printed functional devices interact with their environment, responding to electrical, magnetic, chemical, humidity, temperature, or other signals, including devices that change shape over time, using “4D-printing”. In complex devices, multiple “trigger” stimuli can be encoded, each to its own shape change response; however, these multiple responses are independent of one another. This project will develop new materials and designs for functional 4D-printed devices with fast, self-resetting responses, applicable to biomedical, micromechanical, or optoelectronic applications. The goal will be to build a functional demonstrator device that performs basic comparisons of inputs to select output shape-change responses.
An ideal candidate will have interest in 3D printing and its applications, knowledge of materials sciences and/or digital design, and an inquisitive spirit motivated to develop a world-leading expertise. They will have a background in engineering, materials science, or chemistry, but will also be willing to learn new disciplines and innovate to achieve the project goals. This studentship will prepare you for routes into both industry and academia, and will equip you with skills in photopolymer chemistry, materials development for 3D printing, device engineering, and materials processing for additive manufacturing. You will also develop skills in characterisation, including microscopy, mechanical analysis, and advanced spectrometry techniques.
Deadline : 15 September 2024
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD project: Functional Structural Colour Devices through 3D Printing
Small, repetitive structures with spacings on the nanometre scale can refract and reflect light to create structural colours, which are being explored to produce anti-counterfeit markings, dye-free colour images, humidity and chemical sensors, anti-glare coatings and optical filters. This project will develop additive manufacturing of devices with actively controlled structural colour. You will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of structural colour devices, integrating optically and electronically active materials, including 0D and 2D nanomaterials.
An ideal candidate will have interest in 3D printing and its applications, knowledge of materials sciences and/or digital design, and an inquisitive spirit motivated to develop a world-leading expertise. They will have a background in engineering, materials science, or chemistry, but will also be willing to learn new disciplines and innovate to achieve the project goals. This studentship will prepare you for routes into both industry and academia, and will equip you with skills in photopolymer chemistry, materials development for 3D printing, device engineering, and materials processing for additive manufacturing. You will also develop skills in characterisation, including microscopy, mechanical analysis, and advanced spectrometry techniques.
Deadline : 15 September 2024
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Scholarship: “Artificial Intelligence for Laser Ultrasonic Polycrystal Imaging”
Polycrystals are the building blocks of numerous materials around us, from metals to ceramics, influencing their mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties. Understanding their intricate structures is crucial for advancing fields such as aerospace, engineering, and energy. Determining the intricate structure of the polycrystals is a laborious and restrictive task, and only a handful of measurement techniques are capable of fully imaging material microstructure. Laser ultrasonics is one of these techniques and it does this by linking the elasticity of individual crystals and measured ultrasound wave speeds. However due to this being an ill-defined problem, a computationally intense search is performed to find a correct solution of what is measured. By combining state-of-the-art laser ultrasonic imaging techniques with advanced artificial intelligence, the aim of this project will be to shortcut the current search process in classify crystallographic orientation. This will be built upon where machine learning algorithms will be developed to extract material elasticity information, phase and even composition all from a single set of laser ultrasound measurements.
Deadline : 20 August 2024
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship in Engineering high-entropy manganese oxide nanocrystals for low-cost, robust rechargeable zinc-air batteries (RZAB)
The primary challenge of access to clean and affordable energy will be addressed via the development of sustainable rechargeable batteries at low cost with metals like zinc (Zn) as an exemplar platform. Zn can outperform lithium (Li) in terms of cost ($1.85 kg−1 – Zn versus $68 kg−1 – Li), safety, and relative abundance with recycling recovery efficiency as high as 99%. The well-established ability of abundant and low-cost, manganese-based air electrodes to deliver physicochemical structure modulation and active sites for oxygen electrochemistry (oxygen reduction and evolution reactions are both of profound relevance to rechargeable zinc-air batteries (RZAB).
Deadline : 16 August 2024
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD studentship in advanced rotor-stator interactions through bearings
Ball bearings and roller bearings play crucial roles in most rotating machines. Their design and selection involves a complex mix of considerations including component life under normal running conditions, power losses, vibrations in the machine and the ability to carry exceptional loads when/if these loads come to exist. These bearings, collectively called rolling-element bearings, are key parts of aero-engines, centrifuges, wind turbines, electric motors, range extenders, fans, pumps, compressors etc. etc. and they serve in almost every industry imaginable ranging from renewable energy through oil-and-gas exploitation and transport.
The way that rolling element bearings affect the vibrations of the machine in which they serve is a rich area for study. At a first level, they provide a stiff connection between the stationary and rotating parts of a spinning machine with very little intrinsic damping. However, their full behaviour is much more complex than this. Their characteristics are currently estimated and modelled under the assumptions that they carry steady forces but these methods do not account for the complexity of the dynamic environment of a multi-rotor machine such as a gas turbine engine. Interactions of the bearings and the rotors cause many of the complex vibration responses that are used for diagnosis of engine faults. However, these diagnostic methods are limited in their real-world application due to the complexity and limited measurements on the engines.
Deadline : 14 August 2024
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship in Electromagnetic Compatibility for 25kV Rail Systems, funded by Network Rail
Applications are invited for a Network Rail funded, 3.5-year PhD programme to address key challenges in the rail industry. The successful candidate with be based at the University of Nottingham but will have the opportunity to collaborate with engineers from Network Rail and spend time at their offices.
This PhD will investigate modelling techniques that can help engineers understand electromagnetic compatibility issues in railway 25kV AC overhead lines. This will include developing models, mathematical techniques and software tools that can predict how the power distribution lines, on-train power converters and trackside systems interact, and then to use these tools to understand how EMC issues can be mitigated.
Deadline : 07 August 2024
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Opportunities in Mechanical and Aerospace Systems (MAS) Research Group
There are some exciting opportunities based within the MAS Research Group within the Faculty of Engineering (FoE) which conducts cutting edge research in the fields of transport and energy, focusing on future sustainability challenges. We use simulations and experimental techniques to develop the knowledge & understanding of the underlying engineering science and enable new products, processes, and tools. MAS works closely with industrial partners and other research organisations to deliver world leading research and innovation from the fundamental to applied.
Deadline : 31 July 2024
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Extra-long compliant snake robot capable of self-localisation 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 July 2024
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship: Developing a Miniaturised End-effector for Repair in Confined Spaces (UK Atomic Energy Authority sponsored)
Applicants are invited to undertake a 3-year PhD programme in partnership with the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to address key challenges in on-platform repair automation. The successful candidate will be 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 the EPSRC, IUK, EU, and the manufacturing industry.
This project will be part-funded by the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging Environments, https://www.race.ukaea.uk) robotics and remote handling centre. RACE was founded in 2014 as part of the UKAEA’s Fusion Research and Development Programme to design and test robots for operating in some of the most challenging environments imaginable. UKAEA’s wider mission is to lead the commercial development of fusion power and related technology and position the UK as a leader in sustainable nuclear energy.
Deadline : 25 July 2024
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD opportunity in flow crystallisation with in situ X-Ray diffraction.
We are pleased to announce a PhD opportunity in flow crystallisation with in situ X-Ray diffraction. This multi-disciplinary PhD will combine reactor design, crystallisation, crystal engineering and data science. You’ll be joining a group of students developing a variety of flow apparatus for tailored needs.
At Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron, we have developed world leading in situ flow crystallisation apparatus which enables us to monitor what we are crystallising as it is crystallising. By coordinating the flow of crystals within the crystalliser tubing with the movement of the whole crystalliser as the crystals pass the X-Ray beam, we can maximise the data which can be obtained from this dynamic environment. However, there are still great challenges to be overcome.
Deadline : 19 July 2024
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Fully Funded Coating PhD Studentship with Rolls Royce Thermally Sprayed Coatings to inhibit bondcoat – Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC) Interactions
The aerospace industry is committed to moving towards environmentally friendly solutions using space-age materials like CMCs, mainly made of silicon carbide (SiC) fibre in a SiC matrix. The CMCs only have a density of 3.21 g/cc, significantly improving weight and performance to reach NetZero in Aviation and hydrogen economy; however, CMCs rely extensively on a multi-layered coating system called EBC: a bottom layer of silicon and a top layer of ytterbium disilicate to protect them from steam.
This PhD project will focus on the design and development of Brand new strategies for Surface Engineering and Coatings Solutions for CMCs, including using the UK’s only high power axial injection Suspension Plasma Spray (SPS), >1300 C temperature testing in flowing steam, coating characterisation with electron backscattered diffraction, transmission electron microscopes and Raman spectroscopy. SPS is a coatings deposition technique where material feedstock is injected in a plasma jet, melted, and accelerated towards a substrate, where it rapidly solidifies and forms a coating. This is a hugely exciting project for an enthusiastic researcher who wishes to forge an academic or industry career in the aerospace sector.
Deadline : 03 July 2024
(18) 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 3 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 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 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 : 30 June 2024
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Computer vision and robot control for performing on-wing 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 3 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 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 University of Nottingham we have developed robotic systems capable to navigate 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 : 30 June 2024
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(20) 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 3 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 University of Nottingham.
This project is in relation to the technical needs of Rolls-Royce to develop automatic and hybrid tooling solutions to enable in-situ/on-wing repair and maintenance of gas turbine engines.
At the Rolls-Royce UTC at University of Nottingham we have developed robotic systems capable to navigate 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.
Deadline : 30 June 2024
(21) 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 3 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 2024 start, or earlier (depending on the candidate availability, on a project with Rolls-Royce plc. The Rolls-Royce funded Studentship is the result of the expanding its on-platform repair activities sponsored at the Rolls-Royce UTC dealing with investigations on development of the bespoke high-tech laser beam processing methods for surface treatment and repair of aeroengine components.
The project will deal with 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 design of special process setups, testing its working principles and performances followed by assessment of the part quality; this will involve development of laser beam processing on specific aerospace materials, and 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 : 30 June 2024
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Mechatronics system for hybrid manufacturing processing
Applicants are invited to undertake a 3 year PhD program 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 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 : 30 June 2024
(23) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Next generation bio-instructive materials for healthcare applications
The care and management of wounds is an ever-increasing challenge with greater numbers of hard-to-heal wounds associated with microbial biofilms driven by ageing populations and increased prevalence of diabetes creating additional burdens on international healthcare systems. Recently, droplet microfluidics has been used to develop crosslinked, functionalised 3D polymer microparticles to promote wound healing. This project aims to create a functionalised, bioresorbable microparticle system that can promote wound healing over a 21-day period. By using hydrogel materials, this also opens the possibility of adding an active agent in the core for further functionality, which could be explored during this project.
An ideal candidate will have interest in microfluidics, healthcare applications and the knowledge of materials science alongside a strong motivation to develop a world-leading expertise. The successful candidate will have a background in chemical engineering, chemistry, materials sciences, or a related field but be willing to learn new disciplines to achieve the project goals. You will develop skills in materials characterisation including advanced spectrometry techniques such as NMR and ToF-SIMS as well as microscopy and chemical synthesis techniques.
Deadline : 28 June 2024
(24) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship – High Speed Railway Degradation Modelling
High-speed railway infrastructure is a complex arrangement of systems and structures, which includes: track, switches, drainage, signalling, power supply and communications, in addition to the civil structures comprising earthworks, tunnels, bridges and stations. As the railway is utilised, these assets will wear and their condition will deteriorate. This can mean that they pose an unacceptable risk of accidents occurring, such as derailments or train collisions, or the expenditure to undertake interventions to improve their condition will become excessive. In order to ensure that the railway is both safe and cost effective, it is important that plans are in place to renew the poorly performing elements at the appropriate time. To support the process to decide when renewals will take place, mathematical models are needed to indicate the contribution that the assets make to the safety risk, and also the expected costs of their maintenance.
The project is to develop the mathematical models to predict (i) the frequency of derailments as the condition of the railway wears and (ii) the costs of the maintenance required to keep the condition of the systems and structures in a good state. These will then be used to decide on the time at which the renewal of the system elements will take place.
Deadline : 11 June 2024
(25) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship at Nottingham University Business School
We are looking to recruit two high calibre and enthusiastic PhD researchers who will undertake original research at Nottingham University Business School. To this end, we have made available two full scholarships, which are aimed at one international and one home PhD students. The international scholarship will cover tuition fees of £23,500 and a yearly stipend of £19,237, while the home scholarship will cover tuition fees of £5,350 and a yearly stipend of £19,237. Both these PhD scholarships are for a period of three years and are expected to commence on 1st February 2025.
Deadline : 31 August 2024
(26) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Joint modelling of latent trajectories for dynamic prediction of competing outcomes in patients with liver disease
Liver disease is a common cause of illness and death that is increasing in western countries such as the UK and Denmark, particularly for people under 65 years old. However, the population of liver disease patients consists of people who differ with respect to both their cause of disease, and additional factors such as co-existing conditions and their general medical history. Consequently, disease progression varies substantially: some patients may die early from their liver disease, others might be more at risk of death from causes unrelated to liver disease, whereas for other patients their liver disease does not impact on overall survival.
Modelling links between patient data on past and current medical history (e.g. blood test measurements collected over time) and liver disease progression helps clinicians to identify variables associated with different disease patterns and, ultimately, will allow predictions to be made for key patient outcomes such as survival/mortality.
Deadline : 31 July 2024
(27) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Fully Funded PhD Opportunity within mental health research using a neuroscience or social science approach
We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to undertake a fully funded 36-month project within mental health research using a neuroscience or social science approach. The successful candidate will join a vibrant community of postgraduate researchers and will benefit from attending structured academic and professional development training courses provided through the School of Medicine and/or the University of Nottingham Researcher Academy network; as well as access to Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIe) and other research support linked with the Institute of Mental Health.
Deadline : 21 June 2024
(28) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Mandatory ESG Reporting, Capital Allocation and the Green Behaviour of Firms
The project will employ statistical analysis and econometric modelling of panel data at the firm level to address the research questions. Data will be collected from various sources, including existing databases, satellite-derived data and web scrapping, all requiring advanced data manipulation and coding skills. The PhD student will work with Dr Jing Zhang and Professor Robert Elliott, gaining opportunities to develop and enhance their proficiency in research, advanced quantitative methods, data skills and machine learning methods for effectively handling micro-level panel data, providing valuable skills for future careers.
Deadline : 12 June 2024
(29) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Novel subsurface Raman microscopy technologies to enable the development of next-generation drug and implant therapies
In this project, the student will develop various approaches to allow deep Raman spectroscopy. These approaches will rely on computer modelling of light propagation in tissue to understand how to deliver and collect efficiently light from the desired region of interest into tissue. This information will then be used to design and build optimised instruments, which will then be used to carry out experiments. The project will explore the use of spatial light modulators and implantable wireless optoelectronics to maximise the penetration depth, spatial resolution and sensitivity to the required molecular markers.
Deadline : 03 July 2024
(30) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD studentship: Development and application of recombinant antibodies to map pathology-related changes in glycosaminoglycans on breast cancer cells
The PhD student will join an extensive team of scientists delivering a BBSRC strategic Longer and Larger project, GlycoWeb. The team includes research groups from The University of Nottingham, Liverpool University, Manchester University, and the Francis Crick Institute, alongside international (USA and Denmark) and commercial (InterReality Labs) partners. Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are a class of biomolecules that decorate the surface of virtually all cells in the body. They play critical roles in a multitude of biological processes, including cell signalling and development, and are known to be dysregulated in disease, including cancers. Despite their ubiquity and clear importance, we lack a thorough understanding of how the molecular structure of a particular GAG links to its biological function. To compound this problem, there is currently a lack of tools with which to detect and characterise GAGs in tissues and on cells.
This studentship will aim to isolate a range of recombinant antibodies that bind to GAGs, producing highly specific probes. The post will use the very latest developments in antibody phage display technology, coupling the binding of vast antibody-phage libraries containing billions of potential binders with the screening power of next generation sequencing (a process termed next generation phage display, NGPD). The studentship will apply NGPD to target cell surface GAGs from breast cancer cell populations, identify specific binders, clone and express binders and finally, characterise binding against breast cancer cell populations and defined GAG structures. You will be embedded within a highly active phage-display group at the University of Nottingham and have the opportunity to interact with the whole Glycoweb team, visit collaborator’s labs and extend your research knowledge and collaborator network.
Deadline : 14 August 2024
About The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England –Official Website
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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