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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Investigating environmental pollution in India by Contaminants of Emerging Concern transported in floodwaters and the potential of bioremediatation using Nature-based Solutions

This project studies how floods move harmful chemicals in a city in India and looks at natural ways to reduce this pollution. The PhD will take place in India and the UK, combining fieldwork, lab experiments, and advanced chemical analysis using mass spectrometry.

Does the Earth magnetic field spin up the polar vortex in the outer core?

The successful applicant will work under the supervision of Professor Alban Potherat. Applications are invited for a PhD position in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics within the project "Does the Earth's magnetic field spin out the polar vortex in the outer core?", funded by the Leverhulme Trust, at the Research Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems (FCS) at Coventry University.

Movement skills as a pathway for children's health

This is a PhD within the Coventry University (UK) and Stellenbosch University (South Africa) Cotutelle programme. Primarily based at Coventry University this PhD will have a focus on children's motor development, physical activity, health and educational outcomes.

Effects of Human Milk MicroRNAs on Early Brain Development: An In Vitro Study

A fully funded PhD studentship within an Academy of Medical Sciences project investigating the influence of miRNAs from exosomes isolated from colostrum, transitional milk and mature milk on the development and function of cultured neuronal cells and a human iPSC-derived brain organoid model.

Accelerating the PEM fuel cell development cycle by predicting large-format stack performance and durability from subscale membrane electrode assembly testing

This fully-funded PhD studentship aims to develop and validate a scale-transfer methodology that predicts large-format PEMFC stack performance and durability from subscale cell tests, identifying which electrochemical diagnostics, operating regimes and degradation indicators remain transferable across active area, flow-field architecture and hardware scale.