Brunel University, London, 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 Brunel University, London, England.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Developing in vitro 3D joint models using 3D bioprinting
3D bioprinting techniques have emerged as versatile tools in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, enabling the fabrication and precise patterning of functional 3D bio-structures with intricate geometric designs. These advancements help bridge the gap between engineered constructs and natural tissues.
The aim of this study is to 3D bioprint “continuous gradient tissue scaffolds” with tunable material compositions, architectures, and mechanical and biological properties to facilitate the repair of early-stage osteoarthritic joint tissues.
This interdisciplinary project is ideal for candidates with backgrounds in engineering, cell biology, biomedical sciences, or bioengineering, particularly those with interests in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, or aging research. Participants will gain hands-on experience with state-of-the-art 3D bioprinting and tissue culture techniques in a dynamic research environment.
The project represents a collaboration between Brunel’s Engineering and Life Sciences Departments, aimed at addressing critical challenges in bioscience and biotechnology. The successful candidate will join a supportive and collaborative research community, working alongside experts in biology, engineering, and bioprinting.
Deadline : 17/01/2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Next-Generation CFD modelling of High-Pressure Turbine cooling
You will work within a vibrant, multi-disciplinary team in the Aerospace Research Centre within the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. There will be opportunities to engage with internationally leading academics and industrial partners such as Rolls-Royce.
Within aircraft jet engines, high-pressure turbine (HPT) blades are exposed to combustion gases. The continual trend of increasing turbine inlet temperatures leads to higher efficiency and lower emissions, yet gas temperatures far exceed metal melting points, requiring complex internal and external cooling strategies. Adequate performance prediction of HPT cooling design is thus critical, to ensure real-life performance and expected maintenance schedules are met. To predict true surface temperatures, heat transfer within both the blade material and the external gas stream must be modelled together. Within this ambitious project, next-generation Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solvers using Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) and associated numerical methods and AI, will be used with High Performance Computing (HPC) to improve understanding of key flow physics and inform future HPT design.
Deadline : 17/01/2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Development of waste-derived adsorbents for CO2 capture from humid gas
Carbon (CO2) emission is the key contributor to climate change. The UK’s ambitious national plans to meet net-zero targets place the country at the forefront of research and engineering for the development of viable industrial technologies to cut carbon emissions across various industries. Therefore, removal/capture of CO2 from the air/emission points is vital to meet emission targets inter(nationally). Adsorption-based carbon capture is the 2nd-generation of carbon capture technologies to be significantly developed within this decade. However, there are current challenges with the industrial deployment of the technology, including the high cost of adsorbents, competitive adsorption of water from gas mixtures, and poor mechanical stability of adsorbents. This project aims to address the aforementioned challenges via the valorisation of suitable waste as the precursor to prepare cost-effective yet efficient adsorbents for CO2 capture from humid gas mixtures.
Deadline : 17/01/2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: AI-powered inclusive design for enhancing chronic disease management
This PhD topic aims to explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts the inclusive design process, particularly in the context of managing chronic diseases, and how to maximise its benefits.
A mixed methods approach is expected: quantitative data analysis for systematic literature review, qualitative insights from user interviews and case studies, and data visualisation to identify the AI impact on the existing inclusive design process.
Deadline : 17/01/2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Developing a Digital Twin for enhancing resilience of critical coastal infrastructure to compound, multi-hazard and cascading risks
Compound, multi-hazard, and cascading (CMC) risks present significant and escalating challenges for critical coastal infrastructure (CCI), such as ports, energy facilities, and transport networks, both in the UK and elsewhere in the world. CMC risks interact in complex, non-linear ways, triggering cascading failures and amplifying direct and indirect impacts across interconnected complex CCI systems, which are fundamental for societal well-being and smooth functioning of important sectors of a nation’s economy and the surrounding and supporting environment. Climate change and extreme weather events (e.g., flooding, heatwaves/drought, coastal erosion) coupled with rapid urbanisation and population growth, will exacerbate these risks.
This project aims to: i) develop a dynamic, data-driven Intelligent Digital Twin modelling platform that integrates real-time monitoring, predictive risk analytics, and scenario simulations; ii) assess the complex multi-hazard interactions and their cascading impacts on CCI networks, and iii) provide decision-support framework to optimise climate adaptation and coastal resilience planning and inform resource allocation and emergency (including infrastructure restoration) response strategies under uncertainty. The project will employ an interdisciplinary approach, combining concepts of flood and coastal engineering, climate change adaptation, infrastructure resilience and sustainability, multi-hazard risk assessment and management frameworks, and leveraging applications of emerging digital technologies (i.e., physics-informed Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence approaches) and big-geospatial-data analytics, modelling, visualisation capabilities.
Deadline :17/01/2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Investigating an AI-based framework for digital twins in manufacturing
A digital twin is a virtual model of a real-world object, system, or process that is connected to its real-world counterpart through a two-way flow of real-time data. A digital twin of a manufacturing process enables real-time control with possible cost savings and process improvements. There have been many developments in AI since digital twins first appeared on the scene. However, there is little evidence of these impacting digital twin practice, despite potential benefits. This research presents the opportunity to develop a framework to show how AI can advance the state-of-the-art of digital twins in manufacturing – there are many different possibilities in this research that are being pioneered by Brunel such as automatic factory design and model creation, machine learning to develop better statistical distributions, AI-based optimisation and experimentation, perpetual simulation, etc. This project will develop a framework and develop a small-scale demonstrator to show how aspects of an AI-based digital twin can benefit manufacturing. Metrics to evaluate this will also be developed and both artifacts will be evaluated in this and other manufacturing system settings. It is anticipated that this work will be conducted by a large manufacturer (e.g., the Ford Motor Company) and will offer a real-world setting in which a doctoral researcher can study and gain experience from industrial placements at the company.
Deadline : 17/01/2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Future Aerospace Structures Ground Vibration Testing.
This project is hosted in the Aerospace Research Centre within the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, with Airbus as the industrial project partner. This PhD studentship provides a unique opportunity to work on an ongoing project in conjunction with the Aerospace Integrated Research and Test Centre (AIRTeC) at Airbus Bristol, UK and the airframe test team in Toulouse Occitanie, France. This project will include visits and placement for a period at the industrial partner’s site.
Deadline : 17/01/2025
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Developing AI-based equitable risk prediction models for long-term conditions using longitudinal health data
Multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) present significant healthcare challenges, leading to increased service utilisation and expenditure. This project aims to develop robust and explainable AI methods for predicting MLTC risks using health records data, thereby enhancing early risk detection, improving patient care, and optimising healthcare resources.
Some of the suggestive activities are as follows:
- Analyse longitudinal electronic health records to prepare data for AI modelling
- Design explainable AI models for MLTC risk prediction, emphasising fairness and transparency
- Formulating methods for efficient explanations for longitudinal time-series models
- Conduct testing, validation and risk assessment of the developed AI to ensure models perform equitably across diverse patient demographics and adhere to ethical standards
- Work with healthcare organisations for real-world implementation and iterative improvement
Deadline : 17/01/2025
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Regularity and Optimality Conditions for Equilibrium Constraint Programs
Optimisation models arise in almost every area of human activities such as in transport, manufacturing and economic planning. Frequently, in an increasingly complicated world constraints of an optimisation problem may involve variational inequalities and complementary conditions, and the underlying problem is called an equilibrium constrained problem or a mathematical program with equilibrium constraints (MPEC). MPEC models have received much attention due to their natural applications in practice. The aims of this project are to investigate regularity conditions and develop optimality criteria for a class of MPEC problems that may involve data uncertainties, and undertake selected applications such as financial derivative pricing evaluations using advanced modelling techniques.
Deadline : 17/01/2025
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Developing net-zero power technologies for future marine application
The global shift towards decarbonization has positioned ammonia as a highly attractive green fuel for transportation, power generation, and marine applications. Its advantages include a mature production process, ease of storage, and high energy density (nearly twice that of liquid hydrogen). However, ammonia presents challenges due to its slow burning rate, low efficiency, and high ignition energy requirement. To overcome these limitations, a carbon-neutral fuel, methanol, will be used as an additive to improve the efficiency and emissions of carbon-free ammonia. More importantly, a hybrid system will be designed using digital twins to further ensure the optimum operation of the engine and the best utilisation of the power generated on a ship. The project proposed aims to develop a net-zero hybrid power solution for marine transport by integrating dual-fuel ammonia/methanol combustion with advanced energy management strategies.
Deadline : 17/01/2025
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Two stage multi-objective optimisation under uncertainty, with application to power systems
The aim of the project is to develop computationally tractable methods for solving two-stage multi-objective optimisation problems under uncertainty, with an emphasis on application in power systems optimisation.
The project will encompass both theoretical aspects of optimisation (deriving optimality conditions for a two-stage problem under uncertainty) and practical aspects which utilise domain knowledge (optimisation problem for integration of renewable power sources into the grid).
Deadline : 17/01/2025
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Enhancing CO2 injection well integrity with novel cements and predictive damage models
Storage of captured CO2 in deep subsurface reservoirs is being pursued to mitigate emissions from power plants and cement, steel and chemicals manufacture during the energy transition. The ability of these reservoirs to securely store CO2 depends on the well casing, cement sheath and cap rock providing an effective barrier to upward leakage. To ensure storage security, there is a need to better understand and improve wellbore performance, especially for cold CO2 injection.
Responding to this challenge, this project will explore the performance of novel cement formulations with optimisation of thermo-mechanical properties including strength, stiffness, thermal conductivity, thermal expansivity, and heat capacity. Self-expanding cements will also be studied with the aim of developing compressive prestress in the cement sheath after curing. Alongside the laboratory work, the research will develop and apply a coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) numerical model to simulate wellbore damage under a wide range of site conditions.
Deadline : 17/01/2025
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: ESRC Funded Studentships in Education at Brunel University London, via the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership.
Brunel DTP students on the Education pathway will join the Department of Education. Education at Brunel is a leading department in the UK offering the full range of provision at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In common with the university as a whole, the department has a rich ethnic mix among its student population and attracts a significant proportion of students from outside the European Union. The Education Department is ranked top 5 in London (Complete University Guide, 2024), and 1st in London and 3rd in UK for Education graduate jobs and further study (LEO 2023). In the last Research Excellence Framework, 60% of the Education Department’s research was world leading or internationally excellent and 90% of its impact was graded as internationally excellent.
Deadline : 10/01/2025
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: ESRC Funded Studentships in Health & Wellbeing at Brunel University London via the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership.
Applicants conducting doctoral research in Health and Wellbeing at Brunel will be based within the appropriate subject area. The Pathway studentships are available across a wide agenda of the most significant national and global health and wellbeing challenges, offering applicants opportunities to work with expert research teams in a range of disciplines. Areas of expertise include – but are not restricted to:
- lifestyle behaviours and health and wellbeing inequalities
- sport, physical activity, health and wellbeing
- health and wellbeing across the life course, including youth and older age
- psychology, health and wellbeing
- gender, sexual health and anti-violence
- healthcare and occupational therapy
- health economics
- digital health
Deadline : 10/01/2025
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Study of alloying additions on the extrusion of high-performance automotive aluminium alloys using advanced physical thermomechanical simulation
As the automotive industry accelerates towards electrification, lightweighting is crucial to improving fuel efficiency and reducing emissions. Aluminium alloys are at the forefront of this evolution, especially for structural components in Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs), where crash safety and high strength are vital. Constellium’s 6XXX series aluminium alloys are essential in achieving these goals.
This PhD project focuses on the study of alloying additions and their effects on the extrusion process of high-performance automotive aluminium alloys, using advanced physical thermomechanical simulation techniques. Specifically, you will use the state-of-the-art Gleeble 3800-GTC Thermal-Mechanical Physical Simulation system to simulate extrusion processing and optimise the microstructure and texture of aluminium alloys. These insights will help improve crash safety and strength.
Deadline : 10/01/2025
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Nanoscale chemical characterisation of high strength Al-6XXX produced with recycled aluminium
The use of recycled aluminium is important for reducing CO2 emissions and moving towards a circular economy. It also presents challenges and opportunities arising from the distribution of elements contained in the recycled aluminium which are not usual found in primary aluminium, such as Pb, Fe and Zn.
The successful applicant will receive expert training and utilise the newly installed state of the art characterisation facilities at BCAST, including Atom Probe Tomography (APT) and Transmission Electron microscopy (TEM).
With these techniques, the project aims to reveal the 3D nano-scale chemical distribution of elements included in the alloy due to the recycling process. This will include characterising the secondary phases particles in the alloy and in particular, interfaces between these phases and the matrix, to observe the segregation behaviour and impact of trace elements.
Deadline : 10/01/2025
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Advancing Aluminium Extrusion for Side Sill Structures—Integration, Digitalisation, and Sustainable Innovations
This PhD project aims to advance digital manufacturing techniques for extruding 6xxx series aluminium alloys focusing on automotive applications. The research will involve developing integrated process modelling techniques and digital process control systems while considering energy efficiency and economic feasibility. This work is closely aligned with the Materials Made Smarter Research Centre (MMSRC), contributing to multidisciplinary research in digital manufacturing.
Deadline : 10/01/2025
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Understanding the role of alloying additions in the development of high-performance strain-induced precipitation hardenable AA6xxx series aluminium alloys
The project aim is to establish a greater understanding of the impact of alloying additions (e.g. Cu, Sn, In etc.) on the natural ageing retardation and precipitation kinetics of AA6xxx Al-alloys and, also, to understand, step-by-step the entire thermomechanical processing through advanced high – resolution TEM investigations.
Deadline : 10/01/2025
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Creative wellbeing for South Asian Muslim children and their families in Bradford: exploring the role of performing arts – ESRC Grand Union DTP CDA 2025
Performing arts such as dance and physical theatre can make significant contributions to wellbeing across the lifecourse, not only through movement, but through cognitive, social, aesthetic, artistic and creative mechanisms. South Asian Muslim families negotiate and overcome various socio-structural barriers to engage in performing arts, linked to marginalising aspects of their identity including gender, ethnicity, religion and/or deprivation. Cultural dance forms, and relatable leaders may provide ‘representations of the possible’ by challenging stereotypes and providing opportunities for enhancing wellbeing through the reaffirmation, development and sharing of cultural heritage in diverse societies. Despite this, research on developing culturally informed performing arts interventions and evaluating their wellbeing impact is limited. There is an urgent need for building knowledge about the role of arts and culture in promoting wellbeing amongst South Asian Muslim families.
Deadline : 10/01/2025
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: AHRC Studentship Collaborative Doctoral Award – The Wapping Post – A partnership between BUL and Marx Memorial Library
The Wapping Post lies within the News International Dispute Archive of the Marx Memorial Library Printworkers’ Collection. Almost half a million copies of the Wapping Post were written, produced and distributed during and just after the dispute involving printworkers and journalists sacked by Rupert Murdoch’s News International in 1986. The research project will investigate 1) the production practices of the Wapping Post, 2) analyse its modes of representation and innovation, 3) compare the Wapping Post’s coverage of the strike with other publications within the trade union movement and the left as well as the dominant press media, 4) situate the Wapping Post in the context of the then contemporaneous debates led by the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom on media accountability and democracy.
Deadline : 06/01/2025
About Brunel University, London, England- Official Website
Brunel University London (BUL, and often known simply as Brunel) is a public research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England. It was founded in 1966 and named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Victorian engineer and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution. In June 1966, Brunel College of Advanced Technology was awarded a royal charter and became Brunel University; in 2014 the university formally adopted the name Brunel University London (BUL). The university is considered a British plate glass university.
Brunel is organised into three colleges, a structure adopted in August 2014. Brunel’s three constituent Academic Colleges include the College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences; the College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences; and the College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Brunel has over 16,150 students and 2,500 staff, and an annual income of £271.3 million (2021–22), of which £22.4 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £311.9 million. The university won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2011. BUL is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, and Universities UK.
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