car PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

We have 31 car PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

Achieving changes in private car ownership and use in rural areas of Scotland and the role of car sharing schemes as an instrument to achieve sustainable transport

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

Disincentivising car ownership and car use have been deployed as strategies to reduce the Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission from transport sector. Read more

Supervisors: Prof P Langdon, Dr JE Eslava-Bautista

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

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Genetic Engineering of Immune Effector Cells for CAR therapies using a Peptide Technology

Queen’s University Belfast School of Pharmacy

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T therapies have demonstrated remarkable treatment outcomes and several CAR-T therapies now approved for treatment of haematological malignancies. Read more

Supervisors: Dr E McErlean, Prof H McCarthy

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

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Experimental and Numerical Study of Parameters Affecting the Wake Dynamics of a Simplified Car: Effects of Roughness - Turbulence - Yaw Angle

Cranfield University Cranfield Defence and Security (CDS), Shrivenham Campus

Overview. The PhD student will be testing these hypotheses. There is a strong effect of the vehicle shape on the wake flow and aerodynamic drag. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Depuru Mohan

24 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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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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Determining Cyber Attacks by Using Machine Learning to Detect Message Anomalies

University of Worcester Research School

We are interested in finding ways to determine internal and external attacks on cyber systems such as IoT devices, wireless sensor networks (WSN), car electronic components, or connected computer systems. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Tomlinson

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Modelling and optimisation of infrastructure for the decarbonisation of transport in rural areas

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

The decarbonisation of the transport sector (primarily through electrification) has become one of the priorities of most advanced economies nowadays, including the UK, in the fight against climate change. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Tingas, Dr N Urquhart, Dr F Sukki

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Development of a collaborative robot – human-robot collaboration

University of Reading Department of Biomedical Engineering

Robots work effectively in factories. For example, in car factories, huge robotic arms pick up car parts and join them to the skeleton of the car, working at less than millimetre and millisecond precision. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Hayashi

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Real-Time Brain Injury Prediction and Protection Framework for Intelligent Vehicles

University of Sheffield Department of Mechanical Engineering

The advancement of intelligent vehicles (IVs) has significantly improved their collision avoidance capabilities under normal driving conditions, yet the complete prevention of accidents remains elusive. Read more

Supervisor: Dr X Yu

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

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Quantifying and measuring the travel time reliability of public transport trips

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Ioannis Kaparias. Project description. Travel time in transport networks is not constant, but entails an element of variability that can be an important source of time losses. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Kaparias

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

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Multi-modal travel in shared spaces – improving cooperation, safety, and traveller confidence

University of Birmingham School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding behaviour (CENTRE-UB) is inviting applications for a Doctoral Studentship in association with our collaborative partners Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) to start in October 2024. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D D Dissanayake

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

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Harnessing waste-heat from challenging environments with flexible electronics, sponsored by BAE Systems

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Katrina Morgan, Dr Ioannis Zeimpekis, Prof Nick Harris, Prof Steve Beeby. Project description. This PhD is a sought after industrial Cooperative Award in Science and Techology (iCASE), with sponsorship from BAE Systems Ltd. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Morgan

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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Robust, rich, and data efficient dynamic object description systems for enhanced robot navigation [SELF-FUNDED STUDENTS ONLY]

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics

Seamless deployment of robots in complex dynamic environments hinges on their capability to estimate the state of dynamic objects such as pedestrians or vehicles. Read more

Supervisor: Dr V Romero-Cano

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The influence of variations in sunlight associated with latitude and the annual solar cycle on driving, road traffic accidents and orientation transport infrastructure

Kingston University Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment

A wide range of factors and influences impact on a person’s ability and performance when driving a car or other road vehicle. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Shiode, Prof N Walford

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Composite Materials with integrated ‘‘massless’’ energy storage for use in civil and mobile applications such as electric vehicles, drones, and composite planes

Kingston University Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment

Nowadays in electric cars, batteries, contribute a large part of the vehicle's weight, which means additional footprinting and load bearing function. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Koutsonas

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

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