production 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.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION. This PhD will employ self reflexive ethnographic methods to examine from the inside the production processes of UK broadcast television production from a practice perspective.

Community based media production, strategies of social impact and distribution.

Edinburgh Napier University
School of Arts and Creative Industries

Dr K MacLeod, Dr A Scott

Application Deadline: 30 June 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 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.

What are the effective strategies community based, collaborative and participatory media production (and other forms of alternative production) practice can employ to create maximum impact in terms of social issue based content? This project aims to explore the spectrum of production asscated with community based media to consider the different contexts for distribution and exhibition.

The Cultural Production of Terroir in the Midlands and North Region of Great Britain’s Wine Industry: Mapping the Present and Anticipating the Future

Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield Business School

Prof J Smith-Maguire

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.

Fine wine production has historically been associated with ‘Old World,’ especially European countries. The production of those fine wine has a long-established link to intertwined quality assurance and provenance designation systems.

Application of nanomaterials in precision agriculture to optimise nitrogen use efficiency and increase global food security

University of Birmingham
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dr I Lynch, Dr S Ullah, Dr P Zhang, Mr A Witteveen

Application Deadline: 7 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

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 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.

The global agriculture sector is facing a wide spectrum of challenges such as stagnation in crop yields, notoriously low nutrient use efficiency (NUE), poor soil health, shrinking arable land and water availability etc.

Commission, Position and Production: An Investigation into the construction of memories through documentary film production - SACI0009

Edinburgh Napier University
School of Arts and Creative Industries

Dr D Maclean, Dr L Milne

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.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION. Collective memory, a term defined by Hugo Van Hofmannsthal in 1902, is a version of the past, crafted by a community to aid their perceptions of themselves.

Enhanced acorn production to regenerate native oak woodlands in the UK

University of Reading
School of Agriculture, Policy and Development

Prof R Ellis, Prof M Lukac

Application Deadline: 28 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (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 research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Interest in planting more trees has several roots, including to reduce greenhouse gases, provide a future high-quality timber supply, to improve landscape, and support habitat conservation.

Smart MOFs: applications-based online analysis and optimisation for continuous production of metal organic frameworks

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Research Group: Mechatronics Engineering

Dr A Nightingale

Application Deadline: 31 August 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.

Supervisory team. Adrian Nightingale and Darren Bradshaw. Project description.

Robust Bioprocess Design and Engineering for Novel Biosurfactant Production

The University of Manchester
Department of Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science

Dr J Winterburn

Application Deadline: 28 October 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding

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 supervisor does not yet know if funding is available for this project, or they intend to apply for external funding once a suitable candidate is selected. Applications are welcome - please see project details for further information.

Biosurfactants are naturally occurring amphiphiles with a range of unique properties including biodegradability and tolerance of a wide range of temperature and pH.

Evaluating the effectiveness of rangeland resting initiatives in communal grazing systems in South Africa

Coventry University
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience

Dr J Bennett

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.

Currently, most rangeland systems in communal areas of South Africa are subject to limited collective management and tend to be continuously grazed as a result (Palmer and Bennett 2013).

Sentence planning in bilingual speakers: Incrementality and adaptation in native and non-native language production.

Aberdeen University
School of Psychology

Dr A Konopka

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.

How do speakers put thoughts into words? Native speakers normally plan what they are going to say incrementally.

Sustainability assessment & Circularity modelling of a new advanced biofuel production scheme.

Brunel University London
Civil Engineering

Dr E Katsou

Application Deadline: 1 July 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

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 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.

The successful applicants will join the Environmental Engineering Group in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Coffee waste metabolism by Extremophiles for the Bioethanol production (Ref: SF20/APP/MUNOZ)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Dr J Munoz

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.

Due to an increasing demand of fossil fuels, the search for alternative bioenergy has gained much attention from the scientific community and the general population.

Two-dimensional layered materials as catalysts for fine chemical production

The University of Manchester
Department of Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science

Research Group: Process Development and Integration

Dr C D'Agostino, Prof R Raveendran Nair

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.

Catalysts are substances that can speed up chemical reactions and/or increase reaction selectivity without consuming themselves. Relative to non-catalytic processes, catalysed reactions perform through more energy efficient routes, in which reactants are able to be used more efficiently.

Control of antibiotic production through synthetic biology of bacterial hormone signalling

The University of Manchester
Department of Chemistry

Prof E Takano, Prof R Breitling

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.

There is an urgent need for new antibiotics due to an increase in antibiotic resistance. To produce these essential drugs efficiently in biotechnological systems, we need to have a better understanding of the regulatory mechanisms of antibiotic production.

The production of alcohols as commodity chemicals/ biofuels using yeast as a vehicle

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Prof M Ashe, Prof C M Grant, Dr J-M Schwartz, Dr J Winterburn

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.

Crude oil represents probably the most important natural resource to industrial nations. As well as fuel, crude oil is used to produce a host of chemicals that govern modern day life.