Trailblazers: The Early Career Researcher and PhD Candidate Partnering Scheme

Coventry University are now recruiting for exceptional PhD candidates to undertake trailblazing, transformative research alongside our outstanding early-career researchers.

The Trailblazer PhD studentships have been devised and developed by leading early-career researchers at Coventry University. The scheme provides successfully appointed doctoral researchers with an innovative and dynamic intellectual space in which to undertake transformative research, whilst being fully supported by a team of experienced supervisors.

Candidates will form part of an interdisciplinary cohort dedicated to trailblazing and innovative research.

Trailblazer candidates will also be embedded within Coventry University's Doctoral College and Centre for Research Capability and Development which provides support with high-quality training and career development activities for researchers from PGR to Professor.

Throughout the PhD, successful candidates will receive comprehensive research training including technical, personal and professional skills.

The PhD projects available within this scheme are based in our dedicated Research Centres.

• Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
  • Impact of wastewater treatment plants on emission of new and emerging pollutants into atmosphere

  Application deadline: 16th May 2022

• Centre for Business in Society
  • Can Household Food Waste be Reduced Using Smart Technolgies and Digitally Mediated Interventions?

  Application Deadline: 19 April 2022

  • Technology-Enabled Monitoring, Privacy and Datafication of Home Working in the UK

  Application Deadline: 16 May 2022

• Centre for Manufacturing and Materials
  • Development of industry-scale new high-entropy alloys for extreme conditions assisted by material characterisation and numerical modelling

  Application deadline: 29th April 2022

• Centre for Global Learning
  • Translating Equalities: Living and Learning Trans Identities in the UK

  Application deadline: 27 May 2022

• Centre for Postdigital Cultures
  • Gender, Biometrics, and Embodied Computing: A discursive analysis and design framework for FemTech

  Application deadline 14 April 2022

  • The Psychosocial Life of Sexual Implants

  Application deadline 1 March 2022

• Centre for Sports, Exercise and Life Sciences
  • Improved biorecovery of metals from lithium-ion batteries for sustainable recycling

  Application deadline: 29 April 2022

• Centre for Computational Science and Mathematical Modelling
  • Mining Biomedical Publications to Defeat Pandemic: Identifying Relational Knowledge between Scientific Claims

  Application deadline:</strong 31 May 2022

• Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations
  • Beyond the foodbank: An analysis of faith-based responses to hardship in the UK

  Application deadline: 1 April 2022

  • Behavioural Science of Protective Security

  Application Deadline: 29 April 2022

• Centre for Future Transport & Cities
  • 5G/6G End-to-end Network Slicing Framework for Vertical Industries

  Application deadline: 31st May 2022