Funded Studentships

You can use our search listing to find the right project for your skills, passion and expertise. The listing includes:

  • An extensive portfolio of PhD projects, with expert supervisory teams based in one of our leading research centres.
  • A number of PhD programmes with international partner universities around the world.

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Trailblazers: The Early Career Researcher and PhD Candidate Partnering Scheme

The scheme provides PhD candidates with an innovative and dynamic intellectual space in which to undertake transformative research, whilst fully supported by a team of experienced supervisors.

PhDs within the Deakin-Coventry Consortium of Motor Skill for Holistic Development

This is an exciting opportunity to study a PhD as part of a cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Australia. 

Deakin-Coventry Consortium of Motor Skill for Holistic Development

This is an exciting opportunity to study a PhD as part of a cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Australia. 

People make Coventry: A study in relational place-making

People make Coventry: A study in relational place-making

Irradiated Sensitised Cladding: Mitigation of Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking from Laser Shock Peening

This PhD project is on development of a novel mitigation method, using Laser Shock Peening (LSP), against the susceptibility of localised IGSCC-led cladding failure by altering or controlling the residual stress, present in the clad.

Resource allocation in federated learning by jointly considering communication, computation, and data heterogeneity

This exciting project allows the successful PhD student to advance knowledge of edge intelligence as a key technology for next-generation wireless networks such as 6G by deploying federated learning in resource-limited and heterogeneous distributed learning environments.

Design and impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

This is an exciting opportunity to study a PhD as part of a cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Australia.

Atlantic Stories, Colonial Legacies and the Bodleian Library, 1650-1800

The Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities have a fully funded studentship project, which examines the legacies of English transatlantic colonialism as preserved in the collections of the Bodleian Libraries.

Failure cascading modelling in interdependent power-communication cyber-physical networks

This exciting interdisciplinary project offers the successful PhD student the opportunity to advance knowledge on resilient interdependent energy networks at the intersection of energy networks, network science, and AI/ML.

Energy transfer in rotating stably stratified turbulence

We are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position to investigate the complex behaviours of energy transfer in rotating, stably stratified turbulent flows—a critical phenomenon in atmospheric physics and environmental science.

Bottom-Up Swarm Computing for Workload Placement in Edge-cloud Continuum

Advancing knowledge on distributed computing and swarm intelligence for efficient, resilient computing in edge-cloud continuum environments by developing mathematical theory and implementing software packages. 

A novel, facile and scalable synthesis route for Copper, Nickel and Zinc nanowires using electroless and immersion deposition

This project aims to develop metallic nanowires using copper and nickel electroless deposition initiated by magnetic particles aligned in a magnetic field.

Predicting cognitive performance in ADHD with advanced deep learning and network analysis in functional neuroimaging (Deakin led)

This project aims to explore whether EEG can provide a quantitative and effective approach for the diagnosis and severity monitoring of ADHD. 

Electric Drives System of High Speed Permanent Magnet Motor Control

This project aims to enhance the system performance of high-speed permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) drive which are critical in numerous applications where high power rate and compact size are required.

Understanding the health and wellbeing benefits of ice baths

This PhD project will investigate the health and wellbeing benefits of ice baths, with a specific focus on mental health.

Two step parameter estimation for geological systems

This project will develop innovative numerical optimisation schemes to solve a class of industrially important problems in geo-energy systems related to the delivery and storage of large-scale energy.

A Game-based Approach to Democratic Discourse in Digital Media

The project aims to investigate citizens’ experiences of political and democratic expression as enacted in digital platforms through gameful interventions. 

Art, Memory and Circles of Connection – Artists’ Networks in late 19th-British and Belgian Spaces of Exchange

This fully funded Studentship within the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, explores the artistic networks, imaginaries and projections of (semi-) private interior and exterior spaces in late nineteenth-century Belgian.

The peace potential of everyday economic spaces and practices in conflict-affected societies

This three-year funded PhD studentship enables research into the everyday economic spaces and practices that emerge during and following war, exploring the peace potential they offer to conflict-affected societies.

Modelling of Timber and Hybrid Structures for Automotive Crash Analysis and Optimisation

The Centre for Future Transport and Cities are seeking applicants for a fully funded Studentship to explore the modelling of timber and hybrid structures for automotive crash analysis and optimisation.