infrastructure PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Planning for climate resilient energy infrastructure in the coastal zone

University of Liverpool School of Environmental Sciences

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Maritime Energy solutions (N0MES) has a 4-year funded PhD place available for an exceptional researcher. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Lyddon, Prof A Plater

20 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Advancing Cybersecurity Protocols for Critical Infrastructure Protection

Canterbury Christ Church University SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN

This research project offers a significant opportunity for individuals interested in addressing the escalating cybersecurity threats facing critical infrastructure sectors. Read more

Supervisor: Dr H Hassanin

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

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Binks Institute for Sustainability: Use of Data Science for Reliable Metrics to Benchmark Environmental Impact and Decarbonisation of Transport Infrastructure Projects

University of Dundee School of Science and Engineering

Context. In 2017, the UK government launched its modern Industrial Strategy, followed by the announcement of the Construction Sector Deal in 2018. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Newlands, Dr M Crabb

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Urban flooding: Blue-green infrastructure as a strategy for resilience

University of Salford School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Information on this PhD research area can be found further down this page under the details about the Widening Participation Scholarship given immediately below. Read more

Supervisors: Prof N Entwistle, Prof M Hardman

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

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Operationalising Justice in Energy Infrastructure

Cranfield University School of Water, Energy and Environment (SWEE)

This PhD project aims to design, apply and validate a tool to embed justice concepts into energy and energy-water infrastructure design. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Ozkan, Dr E Shrimpton

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

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Binks Institute for Sustainability: Climate change impact on design of coastal structures and infrastructure

University of Dundee School of Science and Engineering

Oceans, covering 70% of the planet, play a pivotal role in our lives, serving as a major source of energy, food, and a crucial means of transportation. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Hayatdavoodi, Prof P Lin

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Planning for the Extremes: Wildfire Resilience of Power System Infrastructure

University of Birmingham Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

Due to the longevity of infrastructure investments, it is critical that energy infrastructure be located and designed with future climate in mind. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Donaldson, Dr N Kettridge

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

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Space Infrastructure Financing and Public-Private Partnerships

Glasgow Caledonian University Glasgow School for Business and Society

Glasgow Caledonian University, The Glasgow School for Business and Society. Glasgow School for Business and Society | Glasgow Caledonian University | Scotland, UK (gcu.ac.uk). Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Edgar

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

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EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Water Infrastructure and Resilience (WIRe)

Cranfield University School of Water, Energy and Environment (SWEE)

60 PhD Students to be funded over the next five years for UK and eligible EU students. Globally, one in four cities is facing water stress, and the projected demand for water in 2050 is set to increase by 55%. Read more

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EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Water Infrastructure and Resilience (WIRe)

Newcastle University

60 PhD Students to be funded over the next five years for UK and eligible EU students. Globally, one in four cities is facing water stress, and the projected demand for water in 2050 is set to increase by 55%. Read more

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

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EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Water Infrastructure and Resilience (WIRe)

University of Sheffield

60 PhD Students to be funded over the next five years for UK and eligible EU students. Globally, one in four cities is facing water stress, and the projected demand for water in 2050 is set to increase by 55%. Read more

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

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Estimate Cyber Risks for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure [Self-Funded Students Only]

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics

Context. Currently there is an urgent need for a sustainable digital route to zero-carbon road transport by facilitating low-carbon charging of electric vehicles (EVs) to meet the 2030 target to ban all new petrol and diesel cars, and 2050 Net-Zero. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Saxena, Prof L Cipcigan, Prof O F Rana

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

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Developing robotic ground investigation tools for offshore renewable energy and infrastructure - ROBOCONE

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

PhD Supervisor: Prof David White. Supervisory Team: Prof David White, Dr Benjamin Cerfontaine, Prof Susan Gourvenec. Lead the Way in Sustainable Infrastructure. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D White

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Binks Institute for Sustainability: Risk and sustainability dimensions of renewable energy infrastructure in the UK and Ireland in a changing climate

University of Dundee School of Science and Engineering

The transition from the primary reliance on exhaustible fossil fuel energy sources to renewable energy sources - decarbonisation of energy production - is an essential element of the government pledge to achieve Net Zero by 2050. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Teixeira, Prof M MacDonald

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Cyber Resiliency of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure [Self-Funded Students Only]

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics

Cyber resiliency is one of the key requirements for constantly fighting against cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure. Research community as well as industry have realised that providing cyber resiliency is one of the key challenges as of now. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Saxena, Prof O F Rana

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

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Science-based Modelling of Infrastructure Capital Carbon

The University of Manchester Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

In the UK, construction industry has direct control over ~25% of total Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Achintha

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

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Dynamic modelling and control of a novel bio-inspired UAV for infrastructure monitoring

University of Salford School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Information on this PhD research area can be found further down this page under the details about the Widening Participation Scholarship given immediately below. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M He, Dr Y Govdeli, Prof O A Beg, Dr O Ariff

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

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Asset-scale nowcasting of the impact of scour on coastal electricity transmission infrastructure

University of Liverpool School of Environmental Sciences

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Maritime Energy solutions (N0MES) has a 4-year funded PhD place available for an exceptional researcher. Read more

Supervisors: Prof J Cooper, Dr K Clark

20 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Assessing how climate change will impact Cumbrian Coastal Lines (low value of service, but strategically important routes), with a focus on critical infrastructure for freight and energy material transport

University of Liverpool School of Environmental Sciences

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Maritime Energy solutions (N0MES) has a 4-year funded PhD place available for an exceptional researcher. Read more

Supervisor: Prof NM Macdonald

20 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Transition Engineering Lab on the Housing Ecosystem. The Problem of Finding an Affordable, Decent Place to Live, within a Net Zero Community. A breakthrough in the accelerated transition of cities to net zero, thriving environments

Heriot-Watt University School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society

Research Group: Institute of Life and Earth Sciences

This project will be based at Heriot Watt Orkney campus. Rapid emissions reductions[1] require transition of personal transport and freight, and reduction of energy in buildings and embedded in vehicles, and construction in urban areas. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Krumdieck

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Leverhulme Doctoral Programme for Regenerative Innovation (Regnr8-i): Reimagining Urban Water through Regenerative Technologies

University of Dundee UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science

Exponential growth of the built environment, associated with rapid urban expansion and increasing urban populations, is already placing considerable pressure on the urban water cycle, critical infrastructure, and urban waterways that represent primary pathways (or conduits) within this cycle. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Cuthbertson, Dr A Black, Dr S Halliday

3 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Fully funded PhD studentships in Resilient Infrastructure

Loughborough University

The School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering aims to be the world's leading integrated centre for built environment research, education, and learning, and is committed to investing in the next generation of exceptional researchers. Read more

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Communication Efficiency for Federated Learning in Critical Infrastructure

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Federated learning is a machine learning approach that enables multiple parties to collaborate in developing a shared model while safeguarding the distribution and privacy of their data. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Moradpoor

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

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Security of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The rise of Electric Vehicles (EVs) drives an increase in demand and rapid development of the charging infrastructure, where a charger interconnects with an EV and a charging provider as well as a site controller to authorise charging sessions and report any errors. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Z Tan, Prof A Al-Dubai

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

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zk-Cloud Forensics: Privacy-Aware and Tamper-proof Cloud Forensics using a Public Key Trust Infrastructure

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

In order to detect contraband content within a cloud-based system, it is possible to sample fragments of data [1] and match them against hashed values. Read more

Supervisors: Prof B Buchanan, Dr J Ahmad

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

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Sustainability governance of China’s global infrastructure investments

University of Bath Department of Social & Policy Sciences

The University of Bath is inviting applications for this PhD position due to commence in September 2024 under the supervision of Dr Yixian Sun. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Sun

2 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Real-time risk assessment of meteorological hazards to coastal energy infrastructure

University of Liverpool School of Environmental Sciences

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Maritime Energy solutions (N0MES) has a 4-year funded PhD place available for an exceptional researcher. Read more

Supervisors: Prof J Cooper, Dr J Higham

20 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Vulnerability of Coastal Energy Infrastructure to Climate and Environmental Change

University of Liverpool School of Environmental Sciences

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Maritime Energy solutions (N0MES) has a 4-year funded PhD place available for an exceptional researcher. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Plater, Dr R Smedley, Dr C Lyddon

20 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Climate resilient submerged infrastructure

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr Gustavo de Almeida; Dr Sergio Maldonado. Project description. Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD position on the investigation of novel design methods to improve the resilience of submerged infrastructure (i.e. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G A M de Almeida

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Cyber Incident-Response of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure [Self-Funded Students Only]

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics

Context. Advanced cyber-attacks can massively disrupt the physical systems such electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure. It is not always possible to protect the system against potential threats and the available detection capabilities may not be enough. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Saxena, Prof L Cipcigan, Prof O F Rana

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We have 293 infrastructure PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

infrastructure PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 293 infrastructure PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Planning for climate resilient energy infrastructure in the coastal zone

Advancing Cybersecurity Protocols for Critical Infrastructure Protection

Binks Institute for Sustainability: Use of Data Science for Reliable Metrics to Benchmark Environmental Impact and Decarbonisation of Transport Infrastructure Projects

Urban flooding: Blue-green infrastructure as a strategy for resilience

Operationalising Justice in Energy Infrastructure

Binks Institute for Sustainability: Climate change impact on design of coastal structures and infrastructure

Planning for the Extremes: Wildfire Resilience of Power System Infrastructure

Space Infrastructure Financing and Public-Private Partnerships

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Water Infrastructure and Resilience (WIRe)

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Water Infrastructure and Resilience (WIRe)

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Water Infrastructure and Resilience (WIRe)

Estimate Cyber Risks for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure [Self-Funded Students Only]

Developing robotic ground investigation tools for offshore renewable energy and infrastructure - ROBOCONE

Binks Institute for Sustainability: Risk and sustainability dimensions of renewable energy infrastructure in the UK and Ireland in a changing climate

Cyber Resiliency of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure [Self-Funded Students Only]

Science-based Modelling of Infrastructure Capital Carbon

Dynamic modelling and control of a novel bio-inspired UAV for infrastructure monitoring

Asset-scale nowcasting of the impact of scour on coastal electricity transmission infrastructure

Assessing how climate change will impact Cumbrian Coastal Lines (low value of service, but strategically important routes), with a focus on critical infrastructure for freight and energy material transport

Transition Engineering Lab on the Housing Ecosystem. The Problem of Finding an Affordable, Decent Place to Live, within a Net Zero Community. A breakthrough in the accelerated transition of cities to net zero, thriving environments

Leverhulme Doctoral Programme for Regenerative Innovation (Regnr8-i): Reimagining Urban Water through Regenerative Technologies

Fully funded PhD studentships in Resilient Infrastructure

Communication Efficiency for Federated Learning in Critical Infrastructure

Security of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

zk-Cloud Forensics: Privacy-Aware and Tamper-proof Cloud Forensics using a Public Key Trust Infrastructure

Sustainability governance of China’s global infrastructure investments

Real-time risk assessment of meteorological hazards to coastal energy infrastructure

Vulnerability of Coastal Energy Infrastructure to Climate and Environmental Change

Climate resilient submerged infrastructure

Cyber Incident-Response of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure [Self-Funded Students Only]

We have 293 infrastructure PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

infrastructure PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 293 infrastructure PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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