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engineering management PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 333 engineering management PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Intelligent Nanofabrication for Nanophotonics

Supervisory Team. Prof Kevin MacDonald, Dr Ben Mills and Prof Nikolay Zheludev. Focused ion beam (FIB) milling is a key enabling technology in physical sciences research and industrial micro/nanotech manufacturing. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof K MacDonald
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Project 14 - Black carbon in upland and agricultural landscapes - consequences for food production and climate change mitigation (Jill Edmondson, University of Sheffield)

Explore how legacy chemical pollution and modern agricultural practices shape soil health and ecosystem services, using innovative field and laboratory research combined with policy application to develop sustainable solutions for resilient agricultural landscapes. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J Edmondson, Dr BK Keane, Dr S Zappala, Prof G Phoenix
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Transforming Incinerator Bottom Ash into Low-Carbon Cement through Mechano-Chemical Activation and CO2 Mineralisation

The UK produces approximately 3 million tonnes of processed incinerator bottom ash (IBA) each year from the combustion of municipal solid waste. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Unluer, Dr M Su
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Transferable Digital Twins for Smart and Social Homes: Explainable AI for Inclusive, Flexible and Low-Carbon Energy

Homes are becoming smarter through technologies such as solar panels, batteries, heat pumps, EV chargers and smart appliances. However, their real-world benefits depend on how technologies, buildings and people interact. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr O Ejohwomu, Dr X Xu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Towards Circular AI: Critical Materials, E-waste and Circular Economy Strategies

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding rapidly, transforming sectors ranging from healthcare and manufacturing to transport, energy and scientific research. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Gallego Schmid, Dr J Apsley
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Optimisation of wind and tidal-stream turbine arrays using advanced wake and turbine-control algorithms

The generation of energy from fossil fuels which has prompted huge economic growth since the industrial revolution is now faltering under two major problems. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Apsley, Dr H Mullings
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Natural Fibre Insulation for Housing Sector

Buildings use about a third of global energy consumption, and about 40% of the total operational energy in buildings worldwide is used for space heating and cooling. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Achintha, Dr Jaise Kuriakose
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Preserving Design Intent: Long-Term Digital Threads for Nuclear

Develop a strategy and implementation of a semantic digital thread that preserves design intent and change management from design through manufacture, inspection, service and end of life. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Chaplin
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Solutions in the Built Environment and Infrastructure Challenges

Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how we plan, deliver, and operate the built environment. The key question is no longer whether AI will play a role, but how it can be applied responsibly to improve performance, safety, and value. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Kabiri Renani
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Building flexibility into long-term water resources system planning and management strategies

Sustainable water resources planning, and management policies need to consider the impact of future changes due to factors like geomorphologic processes, aging infrastructure, demand shifts or variability of water supplies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Padula
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Flat optical fibre platform for next-generation transformer winding vibration monitoring

Supervisors. Professor Suleiman Sharkh, Dr Gholamreza Shayeganrad and Professor Chris Holmes. About the project. This project develops a novel flat optical‑fibre sensor for precise, continuous monitoring of transformer winding vibration. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Sharkh
 19 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Energy-data dynamic multiobjective optimisation for Cloud-Edge systems

Energy-Data Dynamic Multiobjective Optimisation for Cloud-Edge Systems. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Sakellariou, Dr S Sampaio
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Advancing Symbolic AI for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Generalised Adaptive Content Extraction and Reuse for Ontologies

Automated content extraction methods provide useful resources for backend-processing in knowledge processing system, and they greatly ease tasks of knowledge engineers in creating, updating and generally maintaining knowledge bases but also of reusing their content and creating new services. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Schmidt, Dr J Chen
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Neural Cellular Automata for Top-Down Engineering of Self-Organising Systems

About the Project. Self-organisation is a property of many natural systems, where local interactions among individuals give rise to patterns and behaviours at the global level—for example, flocks of birds collectively avoiding a predator, or the collective decision-making process of honey bees' nest site selection [1]. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Stovold
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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AI-enabled DfX decision support for early-stage construction project planning

Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6 year part-time PhD project. . The PhD will be based in the School of Civil Engineering and Surveying and will be supervised by Dr Quan Phung, Dr Salem Chakhar and Dr Sepehr Abrishami. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Q Phung, Dr S Chakhar, Dr S Abrishami
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only