keele PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

Prof P Andras

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are the leading edge approaches to data driven problems across all areas of life, technology and sciences.

Computer Vision and Machine Learning for ReIdentification of Civil Structural Components and their Damage Analysis.

Dr B Mandal

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

In this project the PhD research student needs to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the deep convolutional neural network for analysis of civil infrastructures, such as concrete bridges, highways, buildings, tunnels and stadiums, using videos/images captured by a network of multiple cameras.

Glycoconjugate chemical biology tools: creating diagnostic sugar probes to target cancer cell proliferation

Dr G J Miller

Application Deadline: 29 February 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

This project will involve the design and chemical synthesis of a series of oligosaccharide targets alongside the establishment of new, mild ligation technologies for their conjugation to fluorophores.

Two-dimensional materials for Optoelectronic Devices

Dr N Balakrishnan

Application Deadline: 28 February 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Graphene and two-dimensional (2D) layered materials are hot topic in science and provide a wide range of applications. The family of 2D layered materials includes hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), transition metal dichalcogenides (WS2, MoS2, etc.), metal chalcogenides (InSe, GaSe, GaS, etc.) and many others.

Hybrid organic/2D van der Waals heterostructures for photovoltaic applications

Dr J Morbec

Application Deadline: 28 February 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Van der Waals heterostructures have emerged as a new class of materials with great potential for a wide range of applications. These heterostructures are formed by materials with dangling bond-free surfaces that are stacked and held together by van der Waals forces.

Wearable Health Technology Evaluation and Data Science

Dr S Woolley

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Wearable technology and data science are active and important areas of research. In particular, there is growing interest in the use of wearables for positive outcomes in health and well-being applications.

Data-driven design of biological systems – Computational synthetic biology

Dr G Misirli

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Synthetic biology has emerged as an engineering field lately, with the aim of designing novel biological systems. Small biological components can be used together to create devices and systems.

Creating 3D models of ARVC disease with light-induced tuneable severity in stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

Keele University
School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering

Dr V GEORGE

Application Deadline: 27 February 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Applications are invited for a 3 year Non-Clinical BHF PhD studentship to work on the above project in Keele University, in the group of Dr.

Nonlinear acoustic-gravity wave theory

Cardiff University
Cardiff School of Mathematics

Dr U Kadri

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

In the linear theory, gravity waves are virtually decoupled from acoustic (compression) waves, because the propagation speed of acoustic waves far exceeds the maximum phase speed of gravity waves.

Heriot-Watt University
School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society

GeoNetZero CDT

Funding Type

PhD Type

4 Year PhD Programme

4 Year PhD Programmes are extended PhD opportunities that involve more training and preparation. You will usually complete taught courses in your first year (sometimes equivalent to a Masters in your subject) before choosing and proposing your research project. You will then research and submit your thesis in the normal way.

Funded PhD Programme (European/UK Students Only)

Some or all of the PhD opportunities in this programme have funding attached. It is available to citizens of a number of European countries (including the UK). In most cases this will include all EU nationals. However full funding may not be available to all applicants and you should read the full programme details for further information.

The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) entitled GeoNetZero is a new program of PhD research and training created to address key areas in Geoscience and its role in the Low Carbon Energy Transition and Challenge of Net Zero.