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We have 834 part-time PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Multiscale modellling of quantum materials and moiré superlattices

This project is focused on predicting electronic and optical properties of twistronic heterostructures of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof V Falko, Dr JM McHugh
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Operando-Guided Design of Dual-Atom Catalysts for CO₂-Assisted Ethane Dehydrogenation

Ethylene sits at the heart of the chemical industry. it is the starting point for plastics, pharmaceuticals, detergents, and countless everyday products. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr I Lezcanogonzalez, Prof C Hardacre
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Mixing of cohesive and wet materials

This PhD project focuses on the simulation and modelling of wet and cohesive powders, which play a crucial role in industries such as pharmaceuticals, food processing, and additive manufacturing. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Thornton, Prof M Heil
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Engineering MOF-Biochar Composites for the Removal of Emerging Contaminants

Can we engineer sustainable materials that remove some of the most persistent and challenging contaminants from water?. Water pollution is an increasingly important global challenge, with complex wastewater streams containing mixtures of heavy metals, PFAS, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and other emerging micropollutants. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MHM Hadi Mosleh, Dr P Babakhani, Prof MS Sedighi
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Cosmology

A research project is available in theoretical, observational, and/or experimental cosmology. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Bull, Dr L Wolz, Prof M Brown, Prof L Piccirillo, Prof S Kay
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Extensions of lubrication theory to non-isothermal and reactive flows under confinement: mixing, instabilities, and hydrogen flame stabilisation

In fluid mechanics, lubrication theory elegantly simplifies the Navier-Stokes equations into Darcy or Darcy-like laws for incompressible, isothermal thin-film flows. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J Daou, Prof S Fedotov
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Number Theory

This project will be focussed within Algebraic Number Theory and centred around questions arising from Diophantine equations, modular forms, and elliptic curves and involve a blend of algebraic, analytic and computational methods. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V Patel
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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
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Unlikely intersections and o-minimality

This project will involve working on unlikely intersection problems (an active area in Diophantine geometry) using ideas from o-minimality (part of model theory). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Jones, Dr V Aslanyan
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Enhancing social infrastructure to build resilience to disruptive events: a comparison of in-person and online interactions

In cities, social infrastructure, defined as “social, cultural and financial activities and institutions as well as associated property, buildings and artefacts” (Dodman et al 2022), is as important to prosperity and living well as the technical infrastructures, for example transport, water and power networks. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Mander, Dr C Hoolohan, Dr R Wood
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Cutoff phenomenon in Markov chains

Cutoff phenomenon for Markov chains is an abrupt transition where a process goes from being very far away from stationarity to very near stationarity within a short window of time. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Luczak, Prof A Hazel
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Microfluidic Manufacturing of Metamaterials

Hard-wired into our smartphones, internet routers and motorized vehicles are small electronic circuits for telecommunications. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Box, Prof A Juel, Dr D Pihler-Puzovic
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Numerical approximations of fractional differential equations and their applications

In the past few decades, traditional differential equations with diffusion driven by Brownian motions might no longer give an accurate description of many social and natural phenomena with memory effects or long-range interactions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Huang, Dr Y Kazashi
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Abstract Regular Polytopes and Groups of Lie Type

Abstract regular polytopes have been part of mathematics since antiquity – familiar examples being regular polygons, the icosahedron and dodecahedron. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Rowley, Dr V Kelsey
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Abelian varieties, isogenies and quantitative bounds

Abelian varieties are higher-dimensional generalisations of elliptic curves, objects of algebraic geometry which are of great interest to number theorists. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Orr, Dr G Jones
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