Engineering PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships in Guildford

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.

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a phenomenon through which bacteria become resistant to standard decontamination methods, e.g., antibiotics, classical sterilisation.

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PhD Opportunities

PhD Opportunities highlight some of the specific PhD projects, programmes or other information currently available from a university.

Funded PhD Programme (European/UK Students Only)

Some or all of the PhD opportunities in this programme have funding attached. It is available to citizens of a number of European countries (including the UK). In most cases this will include all EU nationals. However full funding may not be available to all applicants and you should read the full programme details for further information.

The University of Surrey has earned a strong reputation for ground-breaking research in the areas of health, medicine, space, environment and mobile communications.

PhD Studentship Opportunity in Audio for hearables: algorithms for context-aware rendering

University of Surrey
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Dr P Coleman

Application Deadline: 28 October 2019

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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 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.

Media content is consumed on-the-move in many different environments. A typical commuter, while listening to music over headphones, might encounter noise levels from quiet residential streets to crowded underground carriages.

PhD Studentship Opportunity in Audio for hearables: sound analysis for context-aware rendering

University of Surrey
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Dr P Jackson

Application Deadline: 28 October 2019

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 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.

Media content is consumed on-the-move in many different environments. A typical commuter, while listening to music over headphones, might encounter noise levels from quiet residential streets to crowded underground carriages.

PhD Studentship Opportunity in Developing an indirect damage inspection algorithm for railway bridges

University of Surrey
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Dr D Hajializadeh, Prof M Chryssanthopoulos, Dr B Imam

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

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 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.

Considering the challenges facing railway industry due to ageing and deteriorating railway bridges and the cost of direct monitoring of bridge conditions, there are obvious merits in monitoring the condition of a bridge without instrumenting sensors directly on the bridge.

PhD Studentship Opportunity in Fatigue Assessment of Riveted Railway Bridges

University of Surrey
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Dr B Imam, Prof M Chryssanthopoulos

Application Deadline: 30 October 2019

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 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 majority of metallic railway bridges in UK, approximately 10,000 in total, are already exceeding 100 years of age and are approaching the end of their theoretical service life.

PhD Studentship Opportunity in High temperature materials research for antenna applications

University of Surrey
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Prof J F Watts, Dr A Viquerat

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 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.

This project is concerned with the development of coatings for the protection of materials, used by Cobham Aerospace Connectivity, in the manufacture of their antenna systems.

PhD studentship opportunity in integrated Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilisation

University of Surrey
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Dr M Duyar

Applications accepted all year round

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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 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.

This is a fully funded Ph.D. project focusing on developing dual function materials (DFMs) that can capture carbon dioxide from an emission source and release it as a high value fuel or chemical upon exposure to a reducing co-reactant.

Phd Studentship Opportunity in a combined experimental and numerical study of powder flow during pharmaceutical manufacturing

University of Surrey
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Prof C Wu

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 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.

We are looking for a talented candidate to work on a PhD project in collaboration with a pharmaceutical company based in San Francisco, California, USA.

PhD Studentship in Biodegradable Polymers: New Directions in Controlled Radical Ring-opening Polymerization

University of Surrey
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Dr P Roth

Applications accepted all year round

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PhD Type

Self-Funded PhD 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 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.

This project involves the development of novel biodegradable polymers for applications in biomedicine and materials science. Accepted candidates will join the Department of Chemistry at the University of Surrey and work in the Roth research group in the recently renovated Joseph Kenyon laboratory.