PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships in the UK

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 will investigate how the decisions made by an AI system operating as part of a group can be explained.

Novel Approaches to Engaging Land Managers in Monitoring the Impact of Agri-Environment-Climate Schemes

Aberdeen University
Department of Geography and Environment

Dr K Prager, Prof S Redpath

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

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.

Agri-environment-climate schemes (AECS) are a voluntary policy mechanism to incentivise and compensate farmers for undertaking environmental measures as part of their land management.

SEESALT: Novel ways to ’SEE’ coastal ’SALT’ marshes using low-cost drones and sensors

Aberdeen University
Department of Geography and Environment

Dr D Green, Dr D Mauquoy

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

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.

Saltmarshes are found extensively along low wave energy coastlines resulting from fine sediment accumulation and vegetation establishment.

Sustaining partnership approaches – evaluating effectiveness, health and longevity of agri-environmental collaboratives

Aberdeen University
Department of Geography and Environment

Dr K Prager, Dr T Potts

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

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.

A multitude of partnerships have developed between actors from the farming, environment, conservation, community, business and government sectors.

Re-evaluation of the Volcanic, Sedimentological and Structural nature of the Scott/Telford Fields within the Central North Sea:A route to extended field life?

Aberdeen University
Department of Geology

Dr N Schofield, Prof D Jolley, Prof A Hartley

Application Deadline: 1 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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 North Sea has provided a highly important resource to the UK and its economy for over the last 50 years. With the basin in overall production decline, it is important to examine ways of prolonging and extended the life of this now mature basin.

Algebraic groups, geometric invariant theory and boundedness

Prof B Martin, Dr E Meir

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

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.

Group theory is the mathematical study of symmetry. Algebraic groups are certain groups of matrices with entries coming from a field such as the real numbers, the complex numbers or the integers modulo a prime.

Algebraic Methods in Musical Composition

Dr W Turner, Dr E Henke

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

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.

Algebraic operations have been used as compositional tools for centuries. For example, the group theoretical operation of translation on the integers can be identified with the musical operation of transposition.

Applications of topology to soft matter physics

Dr M Grant, Dr R Hepworth

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

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 will address mathematical problems in the research field of algebraic topology, inspired by the theory of topological defects in soft materials.

Applied Algebraic Topology in Geometry

Dr R Hepworth, Dr M Grant

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

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.

In recent years the techniques of algebraic topology have been applied to data analysis with great success, and the resulting subject areas of Applied Algebraic Topology and Topological Data Analysis have seen rapid growth.

Combinatorial Representation Theory: Partitions and Basic Sets

Dr J.B. Gramain, Dr W Turner

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

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.

The representation theory of many families of finite groups can be presented in terms of combinatorial objects. The most famous example is the symmetric groups, where the irreducible complex representations are parametrized by partitions.