quality 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.

UK was reported by Waste and Resources action Programme (WRAP) as the largest contributor of perishable fresh produce (fruit and vegetables) waste in Western Europe with 140 kg/head/year with equivalent financial loss of €200-260 per year (Blanke, 2015).

Financing Clean Air: the potential of Land Value Capture (LVC) to secure sustainable urban development supporting air quality enhancement

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Urban Planning and Design

Mr J Sik Kim, Dr HC Chung

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 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.

Poor urban air quality is a threat to human life, a detrimental impact on quality of life and potentially hindering economic growth.

Digital Manufacturing Electron beam welding process quality prediction using BeamAssure technology - NSIRC187 PhD Studentship - sponsored by Lloyd’s Register Foundation

National Structural Integrity Research Centre
Engineering

Mr C Ribton, Ms H Stedman

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 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.

Background. High power electron beams are used for welding critical components in aerospace and nuclear industries due to their inherent advantages.

Investigating a better quality support model for business higher education (Advert Reference: SF19/BL/MOS/SHOKRI2)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Business and Law

Dr A Shokri

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 current business education quality models such as Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) are based on quality control systems (e.g.

VC International Scholarship in Effective and Secure Traffic Monitoring for Air Quality Control and Situational Awareness for Well-being (eligibility criteria apply)

Cardiff University
Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics

Research Group: Complex Systems

Dr N Saxena, Prof P R Burnap

Application Deadline: 1 June 2020

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.

Many people living in developing countries face serious problems of poor air quality (AQ) due to vehicle traffic.

The use of technologies to objectively predict meat quality carcass traits that impact on sheep meat consumer eating quality scores

Murdoch University
PhD Opportunities

Dr L Pannier

Application Deadline: 30 May 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, 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.

One of the current commercial limitations in the sheep meat industry is the estimation of intramuscular fat and lean meat yield at abattoir line speed in a commercial setting.

Machine learning for video quality evaluation

Kingston University
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing

Prof M Martini, Dr D GC

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.

With the recent increased usage of video services, the focus has recently shifted from traditional Quality of Service (QoS) based video delivery to Quality of Experience (QoE) based video delivery.

Quality assessment for light-field imaging

Kingston University
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing

Prof M Martini

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.

Among the recent media modalities enabling better immersive viewing experiences for the end-users, light field (LF) imaging is emerging.

Correlation, Provenance and Reservoir Quality of Triassic Strata in the Central North Sea

Aberdeen University
Department of Geology

Prof A Hartley, Prof D Jolley, Prof J Howell

Application Deadline: 8 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.

Triassic fluvial successions form important primary and secondary reservoirs in the Central North Sea (CNS) and contain significant future exploration potential.

Convex Optimisation and Robust Control Methods for Improving the Water Quality in Water Supply Networks

Imperial College London
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Dr I Stoianov

Application Deadline: 30 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.

Supervisor Imperial College London. Dr Ivan Stoianov. Co Supervisor United Utilities. Dr Michele Romano (UU). Co Supervisors Bristol Water.

Proteomic approach to understand mitochondrial quality control under normal and stress conditions

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Dr H Lu, Prof S Hubbard

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.

Defects in protein quality control lead to the accumulation of misfolded and damaged proteins, which play an important role in many diseases (e.g.

AI to the rescue of climate change, modelling air quality for cleaner urban planning

Anglia Ruskin University ARU
Department of Computing and Information Science

Research Group: Computing, Informatics and Applications Research Group

Dr L Babu Saheer, Dr J Zarrin

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.

Research Group. Computing, Informatics and Applications Research Group. https://auth-authoring-prod.anglia.ac.uk/science-and-engineering/research/institutes-and-groups/computing-informatics-and-applications.

Digital Manufacturing In-process quality monitoring of friction stir welding - funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation (NSIRC182 PhD Studentship)

National Structural Integrity Research Centre
Engineering

Mr S Cater, Ms H Stedman

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 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.

Background. Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is a solid state joining technique invented at TWI which is used in a variety of industries worldwide.

Influence of listener movement on tonality and spatial quality in adaptive immersive surround sound systems

University of York
Department of Electronic Engineering

Research Group: Communication Technologies

Dr G Kearney

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.

Whilst there is a significant body of work that focuses on the spatial quality and tonality of immersive surround sound systems for a sweet spot position, these qualities under a dynamic listening scenario (i.e.

Real time evaluation of weld quality during Friction Stir Welding (Industry 4.0)

Lancaster University
Department of Engineering

Dr Y Tian, Prof A Kennedy

Applications accepted all year round

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.

Background. Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is a solid state joining technique which is being used in a variety of industries worldwide.