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.

Please note: projects are updated regularly.

You may also be interested in our PhD by Publication.

Non-funded studentships

We also welcome applications from suitably-qualified candidates with their own funding.

Non-funded studentships

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Making Motion Tangible: Embodied and Critical Research at the Human-machine Interface

This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. The successful applicant will spend the first year at Coventry University and the following year at Deakin University, and then the final one and a half years at Coventry University. The supervision team will be drawn from the two Universities.


Stability and transition in compressible shear flows

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


Multiphase flow in responsive media: Hydrate formation in Carbon Geosequestration

This interdisciplinary project aims to improve understanding of the physics underlying hydrate formation in porous media during carbon geosequestration.


Continuous authentication to mitigate UAV cyber-attacks

This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.


Stigmatisation and discrimination in transport towards individuals with disabilities: understanding how the effect on mobility and mitigating deleterious consequences with design.

Research shows that poor transport design, whether public or private, can create challenges for disabled people and their ability to make door to door journeys.


Smart Composite Materials for Aircraft (DU Led)

This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.


The impact of prolactin to the neuronal metabolism

Coventry University (CU) is inviting applications from suitably-qualified graduates for a fully-funded PhD studentship in the Research Centre for Sport, Exercise and Life Sciences (CSELS).


Safeguarding Communication Protocols using Post-Quantum Cryptosystems

This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.


Sustainable planning for techno-centric home healthcare systems in a stochastic environment

This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.


Study of toxicity of microplastics and chemical additives using animal zebra fish model and human epithelial cell lines

This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia and Coventry University, UK.


Universality principles and scaling theory of disordered systems at three dimensions and beyond

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


Well-being in space: measuring and monitoring affective stress using wearable sensors, machine learning, and virtual reality

This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.


Precarious Men’s Engagements in the Manosphere: Examining Formative Conditions in the Online Construction of Toxic Masculinity

Informed by a ‘critically empathetic’ approach, the aim of this project is to assess the appeal of toxic online spaces among ontologically at-risk men.


“Hooked on a Feeling”: Realising the full potential of haptic human-machine interfaces.

Coventry University (CU) is inviting applications from suitably qualified graduates for an exciting fully funded PhD studentship opportunity within our National Transport Design Centre (NTDC).


Using computer vision technologies for analysing awkward postures in construction workers (DU led)

This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia    


Developing Regional Cooperation in South Asia

This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.


Exploring Novel Plant Defence Stimulators to Mitigate the Phasing-Out of Copper in the UK Viticulture Industry (CU-Out)

This research aims to advance the knowledge and application of Plant Defence Stimulators (PDS) in UK vineyard conditions for the elimination of copper.


The contribution of trees and urban forests to ecosystem services and biodiversity in Coventry

This PhD project will evaluate the contribution of trees and urban forests to ecosystem services and biodiversity in Coventry.


Universality in Non-Equilibrium Quantum Systems

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


AI-IoST: Artificial Intelligence Towards Reliable, Resilient and Timely Internet of Space Things

Coventry University is inviting applications from suitably qualified graduates for a fully-funded PhD studentship which includes tuition fees and living expenses over 3.5 years.