water engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 138 water engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Engineering plant cell walls and cell-to-cell communication

We are facing global concerns on food security, climate change and sustainability that require innovations to improve crop environmental resilience. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Benitez-Alfonso

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Micromechanics of Gas Transport and Fracturing in Caprock and Clay Barriers for geological storage of CO₂ and geological disposal of nuclear waste (fully funded for candidates with UK citizenship or EU citizenship with pre-settled or settled status)

University of Strathclyde

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Project Overview. Clay-rich rocks such as mudstones and shales are widely used as natural and engineered barriers to gas flow—whether to seal geological storage sites for carbon dioxide, contain radioactive waste, or isolate energy gases such as hydrogen or methane. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Tarantino, Dr M Pedrotti

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Resilient Levees: The impact of changing climate on the performance of UK Flood Embankments

Newcastle University

School of Engineering

There is no more important challenge in engineering than that presented by climate change. This project aims to establish the vulnerability of the UK levee (flood embankment) network to the impacts of prolonged drought, intense rainfall and ever extreme inundation events. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Stirling

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Ph.D. in Energy and Sustainability

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi – Abu Dhabi Campus

PhD Opportunities

The global imperative to decarbonize and transform industry has made energy and sustainability research a paramount necessity. IIT Delhi and IIT Delhi – Abu Dhabi (IITD-AD) offer a fully funded Ph.D. Read more

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Bioinspired morphing for novel propulsor design

Royal Veterinary College

Central

RVC Supervisor(s). Professor Richard Bomphrey, Professor James Usherwood. External Supervisor Prof Adrian Thomas (University of Oxford). Read more

Supervisors: Prof R Bomphrey, Dr J Usherwood

21 June 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Understanding Sustainable H2 Production via Nonthermal Plasma Catalysis Using Advanced Spectroscopy techniques

The University of Manchester

Department of Materials

Achieving the UK Net Zero strategy necessitates sustainable zero-carbon hydrogen (H₂) production. Conventional thermal catalytic methods for H₂ production (e.g., water gas shift reaction) requires conditions of temperatures exceeding 500 °C and high pressures. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Xu, Dr D Lewis, Prof C Hardacre

20 July 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Decarbonisation of heating and cooling systems for net zero carbon future

University of Reading

School of the Built Environment

Decarbonisation of heating and cooling in buildings can be achieved through switching fuels and transferring the demand from Natural Gas to low-carbon electricity. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Shahrestani

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Modelling of subsea cable flow induced vibration effects in offshore wind farms

Durham University

Offshore Wind CDT

This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience, a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. Read more

Supervisors: Dr L Gan, Prof J Gilbert, Prof W Coombs

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Development of silicone-based personal lubricant products containing antiretroviral drugs for prevention of sexual acquisition of HIV infection

Queen’s University Belfast

School of Pharmacy

Three drug products are now available to prevent HIV prevention: . Truvada®/ Descovy®—daily oral pills containing the antiretroviral drugs emtricitabine and tenofovir . Read more

Supervisor: Prof K Malcolm

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Microscale Mechanisms: The Influence of Particle Geometry on Aerodynamic Resuspension

University of Bristol

School of Chemistry

Applications are invited for a 4 year PhD studentship starting in Autumn 2026 as part of the EPSRC CDT in Aerosol Science. Project Overview. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M. D. W. Davies Wykes, Dr R. T. Thomas, Dr E. K. Kruger

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Fully funded EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Cyber Security

University of Bath

Digital infrastructures are at the heart of our societal fabric. They range from traditional critical infrastructures, for example, water, power to emerging ones such as smart cities, intelligent transportation, Fintech and future banking, through to large social and business interaction platforms. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training

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Fully funded EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Cyber Security

University of Bristol

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Cybersecurity

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(SATURN CDT) AI-Assisted Optimisation of Soluble-Boron-Free Small Modular Nuclear Fission Reactor Cores

The University of Manchester

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Saturn_Nuclear_CDT. UoM_Nuclear. Abundant clean energy for all relies on advanced computational design. Small modular pressurised water reactors that avoid soluble boron can simplify coolant chemistry and reduce environmental impact. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Bai, Dr AP Peakman, Prof T Abram

15 July 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Developing sustainable supplies of lithium-6 and lithium-7 for the nuclear sector

The University of Manchester

Department of Chemical Engineering

Future decades are likely to see greatly increased demand for lithium-6 and lithium-7 for use in nuclear fusion blankets and for pressurised water reactor coolant systems, respectively, but current supply of these isotopes is limited. Read more

Supervisors: Dr L Stamford, Dr K George

30 June 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Beyond normal - Proteins in Alien Environments (Ref: CG-AC-2525)

Loughborough University

Department of Chemical Engineering

What would happen if the liquid enabling life were not water, but a class of molecules with a similar melting range known as 'ionic liquids'? Ionic liquids are, simply, liquids made of ions usually defined as having melting temperatures below 100C, for which there are millions of possible options. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Croft

3 August 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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We have 138 water engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

water engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 138 water engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Engineering plant cell walls and cell-to-cell communication

Micromechanics of Gas Transport and Fracturing in Caprock and Clay Barriers for geological storage of CO₂ and geological disposal of nuclear waste (fully funded for candidates with UK citizenship or EU citizenship with pre-settled or settled status)

Resilient Levees: The impact of changing climate on the performance of UK Flood Embankments

Ph.D. in Energy and Sustainability

Bioinspired morphing for novel propulsor design

Understanding Sustainable H2 Production via Nonthermal Plasma Catalysis Using Advanced Spectroscopy techniques

Decarbonisation of heating and cooling systems for net zero carbon future

Modelling of subsea cable flow induced vibration effects in offshore wind farms

Development of silicone-based personal lubricant products containing antiretroviral drugs for prevention of sexual acquisition of HIV infection

Microscale Mechanisms: The Influence of Particle Geometry on Aerodynamic Resuspension

Fully funded EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Cyber Security

Fully funded EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Cyber Security

(SATURN CDT) AI-Assisted Optimisation of Soluble-Boron-Free Small Modular Nuclear Fission Reactor Cores

Developing sustainable supplies of lithium-6 and lithium-7 for the nuclear sector

Beyond normal - Proteins in Alien Environments (Ref: CG-AC-2525)

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