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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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.


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.


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.


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.


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. 


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.


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.


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). 


South Asian Dance as a Lens to Investigate Urgent Contemporary Narratives

This research project investigates the impact of South Asian dance on complex contemporary narratives, such as the decolonial agenda and the urgent climate crisis. 


Experiences of using GenAI in assessment for teaching and learning 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,


Implementing Strength and Conditioning Support in Youth Swimming

This is an exciting opportunity to study a PhD as part of a collaboration between Coventry University and the City of Coventry Swimming Club. We are recruiting two PhD students each focused on aspects of strength and conditioning support within youth Swimming.


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.