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.

A Framework to Securing Software Defined Vehicles with Zero Trust Security Mechanisms

This project will develop systematic context-aware trust models designed for real-time trust updates in dynamic scenarios like SDVs, where software is continuously optimized to improve end-user services.

Non-equilibrium phases and phase transitions in many-body open quantum systems

The PhD project is about the investigation of dynamical and stationary properties of open quantum many-body systems of current experimental interest.

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.

Green investment, green finance, climate risk exposure and sustainability decisions of the firms

This PhD project is a studentship opportunity for a dual degree PhD programme between Coventry University in the United Kingdom and the Bandung Institute of Technology (Institute Teknologi Bandung, ITB) in Indonesia.

Quantum spin systems: topology and non-equilibrium dynamics via path integrals over tensor networks

This fully funded project in the Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems is about developing mathematical tools based on the matrix-product-state path integral and applying them to predict dynamical and topological properties of quantum spin systems.

Resilience of pastoral societies to social-ecological change in central Kenya

Using a case study from central Kenya, this studentship seeks to address these unknowns and establish a critical basis for the effectiveness of these and other key factors in building resilience in pastoral societies.

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.

Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory

This project explores the concept of ‘presentism’ in cultural representations of the past.

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.

Embodied pedagogy through Indian performance traditions for mental health and learning

We invite applications from highly motivated and research-oriented candidates for admission to the Dual Degree PhD Programme, offered in collaboration between GITAM (Deemed to be University), India and Coventry University, UK.

AI-driven Cooperative Internet of Vehicles (C-IoV) as a Service

Enhancing the interpretability of GenAI based multi-sensor fusion in autonomous vehicles

Emerging invasive alien species and their management

This fully funded studentship explores the early identification of emerging invasive alien plants in Britain and stakeholders' awareness and management responses.

Semiconductor-Based Miniaturized Biosensing Platform for Translational Diagnosis of Cardiorenal Syndrome

Systemic Sustainability as a Quotient in Health Care Decision

This fully funded project in the Centre for Manufacturing and Material, utilises sustainable engineering approaches - systems engineering, LCA and MCDA frameworks to explore the understanding and actionability of sustainability data within the UK’s healthcare system.

Foreseeing the impact and nature-based management of emerging unprecedented climate extremes on water security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Coventry University (CU) is inviting applications from suitably qualified graduates for a fully-funded PhD studentship.

Investigating the Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Benefits of Classroom Exercise Breaks in School-Age Children

The PhD student will be based in the Centre for Physical Activity, Sports and Exercise Sciences alongside Dr Ricardo Martins (DoS) and Prof Mike Duncan (Co-Supervisor).

The role of health technology in menopause support: co-designing culturally and socially appropriate solutions

The Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities are offering a fully-funded opportunity which seeks to identify and understand the needs and priorities of people experiencing the menopause through language-based and creative methods.