We have 224 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students in Southampton

Project Overview. Long-term environmental monitoring of impacts to the seabed is rare but important, particularly as climate change accelerates. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Durden, Dr P Fenberg, Dr B Bett, Dr AG Gates

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

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Ocean physics and ecology: can robots disentangle the mix?

University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Sciences

Project Overview. Marine phytoplankton are key players in the global carbon cycle, responsible for half of Earth’s primary production. Read more

Supervisors: Dr FC Carvalho, Dr J Hopkins, Prof A. N. G. Garabato, Dr . Castro

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

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Hydrodynamics of wave powered ships

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr N.C. Townsend, Prof D.A. Hudson and Dr J.A. Bowker (industrial). Project description. Wave energy can be used to improve the performance of ships and boats. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Townsend

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

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Automated hydrodynamic characterisation for seakeeping and manoeuvring performance from focused experimental datasets

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr N.C. Townsend, Prof D.A. Hudson and Dr J.A. Bowker (industrial). Project description. Ship model testing is expensive and time consuming. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Townsend

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

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Building-resolved large-eddy simulations of wind and dispersion over a city scale urban area

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Zhengtong Xie, Lois Huggett @metoffice. Project description. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Z Xie

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

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Robust data driven modelling for nonlinear and large-scale structures and systems

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr. Jie Yuan, Dr. David Toal. Project description. The rapid development of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies is revolutionising the engineering design process for the next generation of aerospace engineering products. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Yuan

31 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Fund your PhD in Geography at Southampton through the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership

University of Southampton

Applications are now open for the 2024 entry round of fully-funded PhD studentships through the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP). Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership

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Experimental Aerodynamics and Environmental Flows

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Christina Vanderwel. Project description. Join our world-leading experimental fluid mechanics research group with this PhD studentship studying Experimental Aerodynamics and Environmental Flows. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Vanderwel

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

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Investigation of the lifetime limiting effects within electrospray thruster spacecraft propulsion

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Charlie Ryan, Dr Alex Wittig. Project description. Typical high performance electric propulsion options for large satellites, such as gridded ion thrusters or Hall Effect thrusters, do not work well for nano satellites. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Ryan

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

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Intelligent Biosensing Systems for Healthcare

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Chengchen Zhang, Prof Hywel Morgan. Project description. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Zhang

31 December 2023 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Passive propulsion in vortex wakes

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Melike Kurt, Nicholas Townsend, and Gabriel Weymouth. Project description. Dead fish can generate propulsion force in the wake of a cylinder and whales can save energy by following large ship wakes. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Kurt

1 March 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Development of RF MEMS for 6G communication

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Kees de Groot & Harold Chong. Project description. Applications are invited for this prestigious 3.5-year Industrial PhD studentship to work on an exciting collaboration between Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton and Analog Devices Inc. Read more

Supervisor: Prof K De Groot

29 March 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Statistical multi-target tracking methods to image dynamic processes using X-ray transmission imaging

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Thomas Blumensath (ISVR), Daniel Clark (ECS), Mark Mavrogordato (Engineering). Project description. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Blumensath

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

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Four-year funded integrated PhDs in Translational Biomedical Sciences

University of Southampton

The University of Southampton (UoS) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) are Russell Group universities with world-leading research programmes and are proud to offer Medical Research Council funded doctoral training programme (MRC DTP) PhD studentships. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) MRC Doctoral Training Partnership

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Efficient machine learning approaches for X-ray tomographic image reconstruction with limited training data

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Thomas Blumensath (ISVR) and Richard Boardman (Engineering). Project description. Machine learning has revolutionised many scientific fields over recently years and has become an increasingly useful tools in a wide range of image processing applications; including in X-ray tomography. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Blumensath

31 March 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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We have 224 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students in Southampton

PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students in Southampton

We have 224 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students in Southampton

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