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.

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.

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.

Supporting Policy and Practice for Thriving, Just and Sustainable Artist Livelihoods

Creative United and the Research Centre for Creative Economies are pleased to offer a four-year Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD position, fully-funded by the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership to start late September 2025.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

Women and concussion in football

This fully-funded PhD aims to bridge this gap in football by conducting research which aims to better understand the true cause of concussion in women and girls, as well as the exploring technical skills in heading and aerial duels. 

Transparency and Secrecy: The paradoxes of tech whistleblowing in the digital era

The Research Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity is pleased to invite applicants to a fully-funded PhD opportunity to analyse the paradoxes of tech whistleblowing, focused on secrecy and transparency in the UK, EU and US.

The Coventry Muslim History Project – Towards a West Midlands Vernacular of Islam and Muslim Life

This project is an exciting interdisciplinary opportunity for doctoral research, taking a place-based approach to uncover the Muslim history of Coventry.

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.

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).