local PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

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.

The interplay of the global and the local have become major themes in global and imperial history, In recent years scholars studying the history of the British empire in particular, have sought to push beyond the study national units to consider how particular localities and regions engaged with and were shaped by their interactions with a global empire.

Exploring the potential impacts of scaling up smart buildings to smart local energy systems on the built environment.

Cardiff University
Welsh School of Architecture

Dr J Patterson

Application Deadline: 13 December 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

There is a need to shift from individual smart buildings to smart local energy systems to achieve the UK and international carbon emission targets set.

Boundary conditions for non-local operators and their numerical implementation and applications

University of Otago
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Assoc Prof B Baeumer

Application Deadline: 1 December 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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 is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but potential funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Non-local differential operators are a common mathematical tool to spatially model the risk of spread of an invasive species, an epidemic, or any other system where the outliers dominate the dynamics of spread.

Bridging the gap between structure and function in mutualistic networks. PhD in Biosciences (NERC GW4 + DTP)

University of Exeter
College of Life and Environmental Sciences

Dr C Kaiser-Bunbury

Application Deadline: 6 January 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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 is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Lead Supervisor. Dr Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury, Department of Biosciences, College of Life and Environment Sciences, University of Exeter.

Properties of Non-Local Equations

Loughborough University
School of Science

Dr J Lorinczi

Application Deadline: 31 December 2019

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.

Non-local equations are currently much studied in modern analysis, in a cross-fertilising interaction with other disciplines such as fractional calculus, stochastic processes, and functional analysis.

Spectra of non-local operators

Loughborough University
School of Science

Dr J Lorinczi

Application Deadline: 31 December 2019

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.

The spectrum provides essential information on an operator, and on related objects such as evolution semigroups or equations related to the given operator.

Local control of synaptic protein synthesis in neurons by microRNA

University of Bristol
School of Biochemistry

Dr J Hanley

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.

Neurons are a unique cell type because they are extremely polarised, with long processes extending millimetres from the nucleus in the cell body.

Equivariant homotopy and fusion systems

Aberdeen University
Department of Mathematics

Dr A Libman, Prof R Levi

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.

The p-local structure of a finite group G is given by the set of its p-subgroups and the information about how they are conjugated to each other.

Inward FDI and Domestic Entrepreneurship in China

Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Business School

Dr W Zang

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.

Inward FDI can make a positive contribution to the host country by supplying advanced technology, product and process innovations (Dunning, 1994).

The Changing Role of LEPS in Local Growth and Governance (SF19/LHRM/SHUTT1)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Business and Law

Prof J Shutt, Prof J Liddle, Dr L Johnston

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.

The Local Enterprise Partnerships were established in 2010 to replace the Regional Development agencies and to be the voice of the private sector in economic development.