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We have 89 Queen’s University Belfast PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
Queen’s University Belfast PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
We have 89 Queen’s University Belfast PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
Improving sustainable livestock production
Dietary interventions offer mechanism of being able to manipulate the rumen microbiome and reduce methane in a quick manner. Indeed, there has been much focus in recent years on finding and developing efficient, practical and cost effective dietary interventions to reduce methane emissions from ruminants. Read more
Buzz Off!: understanding public perceptions of vector borne disease and control in the UK to inform public health interventions
Research Group:
Centre for Public Health
Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are of increasing public health concern globally. Several compounding environmental, ecological and social factors are driving the changing epidemiology of VBDs. Read more
Disrupting Magnons Using Ferroelectric Domains
This PhD project has been funded as part of a large research consortium (with core funding from a £6.6M EPSRC Programme Grant called CAMIE) involving the University of Leeds, Imperial College London and QUB. Read more
Behind-the-Meter Generation Forecasting for Grid Visibility
Northern Ireland’s ambitious objective, as outlined in the Energy Strategy and the Climate Change Act, of generating 80% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, brings massive opportunities and challenges. Read more
Integrating CO2 capture and utilisation using dual functional materials and efficient induction heating
Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) and renewable energy utilisation are the two pillars for the decarbonisation of UK’s industrial clusters, which produce more than 36Mt CO2 per year, mostly through the flue gas from energy intensive sectors such as refining, cement, chemicals, etc. Read more
Development of synthetic pathways to isotopically substituted compounds, supporting the study of liquid structure of electrolytes and other functional liquids by neutron scattering
The characteristics of functional liquid materials, from electrolytes in batteries, through solutions of peptides and pharmaceutical formulations, to lubricants under shear, depend on the short-range interactions between neighbouring molecules and ions. Read more
Self-Sensing Substrates for High-Throughput Antibiotic Discovery
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats facing humanity. In 2019, 5 million deaths were attributed to AMR, and it is projected to kill 10+ million per year by 2050. Read more
FAST cell for the study of type-zero porous liquids (FASTzero)
Carbon capture and hydrogen storage are, globally, two of the most critical research and policy topics, due to their energetic and environmental importance. Read more
Experimental Design with Differential Flow Kinetics
Only through kinetic investigation can a reaction be rationally improved, leading to greener, safer, and more sustainable processes. Read more
Cryogenic CO₂ Capture and Conversion from Biogas for Net Zero Fuels
This proposal focuses on developing innovative cryogenic technology for efficient CO₂ capture from biogas, with an emphasis on converting captured carbon into value-added fuels. Read more
New advances in porous materials characterisation using low-field NMR
Porous materials are employed across chemical, energy and environmental applications as diverse as catalysis, separations, hydrogen storage and battery development; however, understanding – and hence optimising – the behaviour of fluids within these structures remains highly challenging due to their optically opaque nature, and through the dominance of buried solid-fluid interfaces. Read more
Chemical modification of mRNA for enhanced translation
mRNA vaccines have emerged as a new modality for preventing infectious diseases and treating cancer. This is due to their ability to rapidly produce specific proteins inside cells in a programmable manner. Read more
Supramolecular materials for bacteria-responsive coatings
Dynamic-covalent bonding offers a powerful approach to creating stable yet reversible structures and materials which respond to specific environmental cues such as temperature or pH. Read more
Elongasome: Synthesis of chemical probes to study bacterial cell wall formation
The bacterial cell wall is essential for the survival of most bacteria. It is also what dictates their shape. Bacterial cell walls are comprised mostly of a compound called peptidoglycan, which is polymerised to form new cell wall material by a multiprotein complex known as the ‘elongasome’. Read more
Mapping the spread of zoonotic bacterial pathogens and their mobile genetic elements as drivers of infection
This project will work with a unique and exciting dataset from the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) where soil samples have been collected from farms across Northern Ireland. Read more