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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Practicing (Post-)Publishing (PPP)

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) and its Post-publishing research strand invite applications for a fully-funded PhD studentship exploring alternative publishing practices and their potential to foster more supportive, diverse, and equitable publishing cultures.