Loughborough University, Leicestershire, 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 Loughborough University, Leicestershire, England.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Out of School Youth Provision: An Analysis of Funding and Operational Resilience within the Sector
The PhD will analyse funding and operational resilience within the UK youth sector. Specifically, it will focus on “out of school youth provision” which includes, for example, local authority youth services, national uniformed youth organisations, and other voluntary community organisations. The project will address the following research question: “How is the youth sector funded and how resilient is the youth sector?” The focus on resilience includes both funding but also organisational resilience i.e. workforce resilience; premises and facilities.
Deadline : 31st January 2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: 3-Directional Frictional Mechanical Metamaterials (3DFMMs)
Metamaterials have extraordinary properties and functionalities not typically found in conventional solids. Among metamaterials, 3DFMMs represent a groundbreaking innovation for systems requiring efficient energy dissipation or damping under multiaxial cyclic loading conditions, while maintaining a lightweight and structurally efficient profile. The advantages of 3DFMMs are in their scalability (ranging from micrometre to centimetre scales), material compatibility (metals, polymers, and even ceramics), and operational resilience in extreme environments (e.g., high/low temperatures). Friction-based metamaterials experience high localised shear stress, leading to their rapid wear and reduced performance over time, particularly under cyclic loading conditions. In the case of 3DFMMs, energy dissipation primarily occurs through friction, but material deformations also contribute to multi-directional energy dissipation.
Deadline : 31 March 2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Active noise control of automotive tyres using ultrasonic parametric arrays
Automotive vehicles are becoming heavier with wider tyres to support this weight. Above a speed of around 30 miles per hour, the noise produced by the tyres is the dominant source. Environmental noise pollution is only one design attribute for vehicles and yet is one of the most important attributes relating to people who don’t purchase the vehicle but are impacted by it. Society is relying on building homes closer to roads, yet the mitigation methods currently predicted will be limited by the higher vehicle weights. Traditional barriers are also insufficient and take up valuable road space. Instead in this PhD, it is the source of the sound which will be reduced.
Deadline : 12 February 2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Adaptive Reconfigurable Intelligent Metasurfaces for 5G/6G Networks
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are being considered as one of the key components for future 5G and 6G millimeter-wave networks. RIS can offer a bespoke control to manipulate an incident electromagnetic wave and is envisioned to offer multiple simultaneous applications for integrated sensing, localisation, and communication. Although a lot of work has been done in developing static and reconfigurable metasurfaces, RIS still faces several issues such as low bandwidth, out-of-band interference, energy efficiency, prone to damage, cost, and complexity.
This PhD project seeks to develop next-generation RIS with enhanced reliability, multifunctionality, and intelligent adaptability. Leveraging machine learning-based optimisation techniques, the research will contribute to creating smart radio environments tailored to the demands of future networks.
Deadline : 10 February 2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Advanced Additive Manufacturing For Radiofrequency System Design
This is a 3-year fully funded studentship and is only open to UK home students. The successful applicant will receive a generous tax-free annual stipend of £25,000 per annum, plus payment of their full-time home tuition fees. Additionally, £2,000 per annum is provided for consumables, travel, etc. Due to funding restrictions this PhD position is only available to UK nationals, as this position is sponsored by the MTC, any successful candidate would need to pass the sponsors own security checks prior to the commencement of the PhD.
Deadline : 28 February 2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Big Splash Campaign School of Design and Creative Arts
The School of Design and Creative Arts invites applications for fully funded studentships. We are seeking motivated, talented, focused individuals to contribute to our world-leading research and innovation community. The School is committed to widening participation and would welcome applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds.
Deadline : 6th March 2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Bio-based Sustainable Materials for Autonomous Thermal Management in Wearables
This exciting research project focuses on developing bio-based sustainable materials that autonomously manage body temperature, monitor thermal changes, enhance comfort, and support environmental sustainability. By integrating advanced materials science with sports technology, this interdisciplinary project targets innovative solutions for the next generation of wearable sportswear.
Deadline : 13 February 2025
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Building community climate resilience with large language models and remote sensing
Communities are often highly motivated to contribute to solutions that enhance their resilience to the increasing effects of climate change. However, while much knowledge already exists on resilient infrastructure, land use and restoration schemes, early warning systems, recovery and reconstruction practices, amongst others, one-size-fits-all solutions do not account for regional disparities, individual community needs and capabilities.
Deadline : 17 February 2025
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Climate and Ecological Transitions Hub Studentship
We are looking for a PhD student to join us on a fully funded studentship and contribute to the research undertaken in any area related to the hub. The successful candidate’s primary and secondary supervisors will be members of faculty associated with this research hub. We welcome supervisory teams composed of faculty from more than one institute at Loughborough University London to encourage interdisciplinarity. Candidates are encouraged to suggest two potential supervisors on their applications.
Deadline : 24 February 2025
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Communication and Social Change (CSC) Hub Studentship
We welcome applications for a PhD studentship that focus on the themes of the CSC hub. The successful candidate’s primary and secondary supervisors will be members of faculty associated with this research hub. We welcome supervisory teams composed of faculty from more than one institute at Loughborough University London to encourage interdisciplinarity. Candidates are encouraged to suggest two potential supervisors on their applications. Potential supervisors will combine expertise in communication and social change with interdisciplinary expertise (political science, management and economics, design, memory studies, disaster studies).
Deadline : 25 February 2025
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Computational modelling of sustainable alloys
However, the composition and microstructure of the alloys has to be tightly controlled as impurities during processing forms damaging microstructural defects and secondary phases. It is possible to add refiners and modifiers to mitigate this problem, but many of the existing additions have been discovered by chance.
To allow more control of structure during the solidification stage as the amount of recycled content is increased, a more rational understanding of the additions would advance the science for sustainable alloys and enhance metal recyclability. This research will bring about environmental and economic benefits, and play an important part in accelerating the progression towards net zero in the UK and globally.
Deadline : 14 February 2025
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Demographic changes and economic development
Demographic changes, including rapid population ageing, declining fertility rates, and large-scale cross-border migration, have emerged as significant social concerns in many developed countries. This PhD research aims to explore how demographic changes influence various aspects of social and economic development in the UK and/or other European countries and to identify the mechanisms driving these effects.
Deadline : 27 February 2025
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Dynamic external shading for enhanced visual and thermal comfort in schools
The aim of this PhD is to create a dynamic external shading device control algorithm which provides optimum visual and thermal comfort, thereby improving schoolchildren’s cognitive performance and health outcomes. Three objectives will be used to achieve the aim: (1) Under a variety of different control strategies and shading types, evaluate the effectiveness of dynamic external shading systems on schoolchildren’s cognitive performance and thermal comfort; (2) measure indoor temperature, humidity, and daylighting and refine the dynamic shading control strategies; (3) interview school staff (teachers) to determine their experience with shading devices, preferred level of interaction (i.e., do they prefer automatic or manual control?).
Deadline : 2 February 2025
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Engineering New Materials for Solid-State Cooling
Engineering new materials is crucial for transforming the way we cool our world. While traditional vapour compression technology has dominated the refrigeration industry for decades, it faces limitations in efficiency, environmental impact, and miniaturisation potential. This necessitates a shift towards solid-state cooling, and electrocaloric materials offer a promising solution. These remarkable materials, capable of changing temperature under an electric field, hold the key to developing more efficient and compact cooling systems.
Deadline : 17 February 2025
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Emotional Intelligence in Robotics
Achieving this requires a multidisciplinary approach involving robotics, psychology, automatic speech recognition, natural
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language processing, sound analysis, computer vision, and machine learning. Despite substantial progress in this area, challenges remain in accurately recognising emotions and understanding the context in which they occur.
Deadline : 18 February 2025
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Environmental Evaluation of Microcomb Stability
This PhD project, blending theoretical and experimental approaches, aims to revolutionize quantum technologies by developing ultra-precise timing counters. Central to this endeavour is the advancement of optical frequency combs, which are the cornerstone of modern optical atomic clocks. These combs, recognized with a Nobel Prize in 2005, consist of ultraprecise, equally spaced laser lines. Our project, conducted at the forefront of integrated photonics, nonlinear physics, and smart optical computation, will push the boundaries of miniaturization for these sources. The focus is on a ground-breaking nonlinear optical wave, known as the temporal laser cavity soliton, a recent discovery at Loughborough’s Emergent Photonics Lab [1,2], for creating ultra-efficient and resilient microcombs. You will be part of Prof Alessia Pasquazi’s dynamic team in collaboration with DSTL, contributing to novel science, advancing industrial impact and producing leading-author publications in peer-reviewed journals. Presentations at selected international conferences will also be a key aspect of your role.
Deadline : 2 February 2025
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Exploring AI implications on employee experience and wellbeing: A longitudinal study
This PhD project aims to address this gap by providing a longitudinal perspective on how AI in HRM affects employees’ experiences and wellbeing. Building upon existing literature, the research aligns with the growing emphasis on employee wellbeing as a critical factor in organisational success. The study will adopt a longitudinal research design, collecting data in three waves and using instruments developed from validated measures.
Deadline : 27 February 2025
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Female-specific physiological responses to exercise in the heat
This project proposes a timely investigation into the impacts of rising global temperatures on female exercisers. As females increasingly participate in mass endurance events, often held in cities where solar radiation and the urban heat island effect amplify thermal strain, the need for focused research on females in these settings is evident. There is a paucity of data from female-only studies in sports science, leading to distinct knowledge gaps in understanding how extreme environments impact female athletes’ health and performance. Climate change is intensifying heatwaves, with unpredictable extreme heat and humidity, posing a rising threat to thermoregulation and exercise tolerance, and raising the risk of heat illness, particularly in athletes, recreational and occupational exercisers (manual workers, rescue services, military etc.).
Deadline : 14 March 2025
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Fiber-based Foams for Sustainable Material Development
In this doctoral research project, the selected candidate will explore various foam formulations and apply electric fields to manipulate fibre foams, enabling control over foam properties and fibre alignment. Preliminary research by our group has shown this approach to be highly promising, though the complex interplay of physico-chemical effects and the dynamic nature of the system remain poorly understood.
Deadline : 17 February 2025
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Fibre-optic Instrumentation for Aerospace Manufacturing
The aim is to exploit a novel fibre-optic probe in the interferometric measurement of difficult to access, internal surfaces such as precision, laser drilled components where destructive and cumbersome methods such as sectioning are currently required. The PhD programme will focus on the design, building and testing of fibre-based instrumentation for the internal measurement of a miniature laser-drilled component. It will consider methods to synthesise an image of the 3D surface from measurements of scattered light and comparison with traditional sectioning and optical/stylus profilometry. There will be opportunities to study related measurement techniques such as Coherence Scanning Interferometry (CSI), Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT- now used routinely by opticians for retinal imaging) and data-intensive optimisation processes (such as AI).
Deadline : 28 February 2025
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Formal languages and models of computation
Formal language and automata theory studies abstract machines, focusing on the problems they solve and the resources they require. These formalisms are fundamental to computer science, with applications in areas like compiler construction, text manipulation, and formal verification. Despite their finite representations, these devices can represent potentially infinite sets, making them both theoretically and practically important. Research aims to optimise their implementations, ensuring that their representations — algorithms and resource usage — are as concise and efficient as possible, tailored to the characteristics of the devices.
Deadline : 17 February 2025
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Formulation optimisation by data-enabled decision making
In this project, you will develop and implement data-enabled methods such as Bayesian optimisation and Bayesian decision making using existing data and data generated by yourself. These methods will guide your own experiments to optimise the properties of actual paints and coatings formulations, which will involve advanced characterisation techniques (e.g., atomic force and fluorescence microscopy) and image analysis methods. Therefore, successful completion of this PhD project will provide you with excellent career prospects both in academia and industry across a range of sectors. The tools developed in this project will be applicable to not only to paints and coatings but to a wide range of liquid formulated products, e.g., inks, adhesives, or cosmetics.
Deadline : 14 February 2025
(23) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Gaming/Gambling Harms and Inequalities: The Experiences of Diverse and Marginalised Communities
The PhD will take a social sciences approach to examine underlying social and economic inequalities potentially leading to gaming/gambling harm, with a specific focus on diverse and marginalized groups. There is a growing need to support diverse and often marginalized communities with gaming/gambling harm, for example religious groups; SE Asian and Black African communities; and Romani (Gypsy), Roma and Irish Travellers. Previous evidence has identified that these groups are often at a higher risk of such harms (i.e. access to healthcare; stigma). This research seeks to i) examine the experiences of individuals from these groups with gaming/gambling; ii) identify underlying inequalities and potential early risk factors; iii) explore other barriers and challenges for individuals from these communities, including cultural factors related to gaming and gambling. The PhD project would ideally utilize a mixed methods approach.
Deadline : 17th January 2025
(24) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Generative AI and information ecosystems
This PhD project presents a cutting-edge opportunity to explore how the emergence and adoption of generative AI are reshaping our information ecosystems. By examining how content creators, model developers, users and advertisers approach and adapt to emerging generative AI technologies, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Llama, the project aims to understand the developmental trajectories of future information ecosystems and assess their social, organisational and regulatory implications.
Deadline : 27 February 2025
(25) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Geomorphic mitigation of contaminated mining sediment mobilization during floods
Contamination of river systems by pollution from abandoned metal mines is a pressing national issue, with in excess of 1,500 km of England’s rivers affected. Abandoned metal mines are the single most important source of highly contaminated surface legacy sediments in the UK, which can negatively impact on river system dynamics, water quality and ecosystem health owing to ecotoxicity of contaminated sediments. These mines are typically located in steep, upland, catchments that are at risk of severe geomorphic change during localised flash floods (e.g., Baynes et al. 2023), where localised erosion of contaminated sediments from mine source locations and downstream floodplain sediment stores can potentially mobilise pollutants throughout the river catchments (Kincey et al., 2018).
Deadline : 8th January 2025
(26) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Governance and implementation of digital responsibility in the tech industry
The digital age, marked by rapid technological advancements and the pervasive, adaptable nature of data and technologies, represents a significant leap forward. However, it also introduces novel ethical challenges that go beyond the scope of traditional Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Despite growing pressure from governments and the public for corporations to adopt new responsibilities, little is known about how companies internalize these demands through governance and policies and how they implement CDR in practice.
Deadline : 27 February 2025
(27) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Harnessing quantum spintronics in 2D materials for the quantum technologies
In this project, we aim to develop innovative solutions to address these challenges and ensure a sustainable digital future through novel spintronic devices that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and utilise the quantum properties of two-dimensional materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and topological materials.
Deadline : 14 February 2025
(28) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Imaging with AI Integration for Early and Continuous Health Diagnostics and Monitoring
This PhD project seeks to develop an AI-integrated MWI system specifically for detecting thoracic cancer and lesion/infection. The innovative system will feature advanced microwave sensors, cutting-edge imaging algorithms, and a compact, portable design suitable for pre-hospital and community-based settings like ambulances, pharmacies, and outreach centres.
Deadline : 15 March 2025
(29) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Immersive Experiences and Technologies Research Hub Studentship
We are in the early stages of development with UCL and partners on the Queen Olympic Park of a new facility, Creative Experience Lab London (CELL), which will provide experimental lab space for practical and applied research and for prototyping experiences with industry partners from the Museum and Heritage, Built Environment and Performance sectors. The CELL facilities will open in 2025 and develop further through to 2027 resulting in a comprehensive multifunctional innovation space and allied teaching facility.
Deadline : 24 February 2025
(30) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Inequalities, Power, Justice, and Social Inclusion
Loughborough University London invites applications for a fully funded PhD scholarship within the Inequality, Power, Justice, and Social Inclusion Research and Innovation Hub. This scholarship provides a unique opportunity to join a dynamic interdisciplinary research community committed to addressing real-world challenges through impactful research.
Deadline : 26 February 2025
(31) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Intelligent circularity prediction for building deconstruction
In this research project, building information modelling (BIM) would be used for building and material attributes, and machine learning techniques would be used to classify and predict various circularity alternatives. The study contributes significantly to circularity research by providing a digitised platform recommending circularity options during building deconstruction. Practitioners lacking methods for predicting material circularity during deconstruction would benefit from this study.
Deadline : 31 January 2025
(32) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Intelligent Sensor Fusion for Sustainable Cleaning in the Food Industry
This project will investigate the opportunity to use ultraviolet (UV) fluorescence imaging to monitor the removal rate of food fouling from the internal surfaces of tanks during CIP processes combined with in-line sensors to assess cleaning water quality for reuse or recycling. Most foods contain fluorophores and will fluoresce under suitable UV excitation. Detecting this fluorescence would allow in-process monitoring of fouling removal and hence support the control of cleaning processes. The application of water stream monitoring sensors (currently used for process control) for post-process water stream management will also be investigated.
Deadline : 12 February 2025
(33) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Intersectionality in the design and delivery of digital mental health services for disadvantaged populations
As digital mental health services continue to expand, their potential to address unmet mental health needs is undeniable. However, their design and delivery must account for the diverse social identities that shape individuals’ experiences and access to care. For underserved populations – such as ethnic minorities, migrants, and refugees – factors like age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and gender intersect in complex ways, influencing how these services are perceived and utilised.
Deadline : 27 February 2025
(34) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Investigating the Impact of Vehicle Emissions on Urban Air Quality and Mitigation Strategies
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), poor air quality is responsible for millions of premature deaths annually, with transportation accounting for a significant portion of harmful pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), particulate matter (PM), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The proposed research seeks to examine the extent of vehicle emissions’ impact on air quality and evaluate mitigation strategies, including policy measures and technological innovations.
Deadline : 13 February 2025
(35) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Investigating the physiological and biomechanical demands of wheelchair rugby game play: Implications for load monitoring
Therefore, the aim of this project is to quantify the physiological demands of wheelchair rugby performance to optimise training and recovery strategies for Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR) as they prepare for LA 2028 and beyond. The embedded nature of this project allows for direct access to elite WR players, enabling longitudinal data collection and collaboration with world-class practitioners.
To address the aim of this project, the student will explore longitudinal analysis of internal and external load in response to training and competition using heart rate, session ratings of perceived exertion, and inertial measurement units (IMUs) for measurement of wheelchair mobility. Using a ready-made surveillance tool, this project will explore associations of training load on injury and illness risk injury and illness rates with particular focus on periods of intensified training and competition.
Deadline : 13 March 2025
(36) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Investigation of the maximum allowable mud pressure during Horizontal Directional Drilling
The research programme will comprise both physical and numerical modelling. A series of physical model experiments will simulate horizontal borehole failure: mud infiltration and shear zone development will be investigated by pumping mud into drilled horizontal boreholes within saturated clay and sand. The influence of burial depth, multiple soil layers (e.g. dense sand covered by different thicknesses of loose sand) and adjacent infrastructure (e.g. telegraph poles, which may be the easy channels for mud infiltration) will be investigated. Sensing will be used to measure the mud and pore pressures, and soil movement and strains will be monitored using Geo-Particle Image Velocimetry. Numerical modelling approaches will be developed and verified against the physical evidence, and parametric studies will be undertaken to develop new design equations for estimating the maximum allowable mud pressure.
Deadline : 31 January 2025
(37) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Just transition in the global south: an investigation into the role of employee collective voice and employer associations in climate change response and post-carbon transformation
Efforts to formulate policies and implement measurable actions to mitigate global emissions are rapidly increasing. While interventions are progressing significantly in the Global North, they remain relatively sluggish in the Global South. In response, international organisations and intergovernmental conferences have introduced comprehensive programmes and policies aimed at transitioning to a low-carbon and sustainable global economy. A notable milestone in this effort is the inclusion of the concept of a ‘just transition’ in the Paris Agreement of 2015.
Deadline : 27 February 2025
(38) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Laser surface engineering of solid-state batteries for functionalisation of electrochemical performance
The successful candidate will be involved in an exciting multidisciplinary project aimed at developing new laser surface engineering techniques for improving the performance of battery materials by enhancing their functionality. This project will include the followings: investigation of the technology viability, technology development, characterisation of surface engineered devices; and testing of the treated devices. The last stage will expose the candidate to commercialisation and enterprise activities.
Deadline : 8 April 2025
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Loughborough University (abbreviated as Lough or Lboro for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when Loughborough Technical Institute began with a focus on skills directly applicable in the wider world. In March 2013, the university announced it had bought the former broadcast centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as a second campus. The annual income of the institution for 2022–23 was £369.1 million, of which £48.3 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £339.1 million.
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