PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships in the UK

Prof A Politi, Dr E Ullner

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 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 human brain is possibly the most intriguing complex system we know. The combination of experimental work and theoretical approaches has gained many insides in the last century but we are still far away from a real understanding.

Noisy translation: modelling of stochastic effects on protein production

Prof C Romano, Prof I Stansfield

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 focus on the mathematical modelling of a fundamental process in the cell. translation of the messenger RNA into a protein.

Quantitative Risk Assessment for Food Safety (allergens, microbial pathogens or chemical contaminants)

Prof N Strachan, Dr F Perez-Reche

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 use computational methods to assess risks. An expectation of the society we live in is that the food that we eat is safe.

Statistical Data Analysis of medical health records

Prof B Schelter, Prof M Thiel

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 this project we will use advanced statistical and mathematical modelling techniques to analyse patient health records in order to support medical decision making.

Statistical physics of DNA replication

Dr A Moura, Prof C Romano

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 goal of this project is to apply statistical physics and probability theory to the problem of DNA replication in living cells.

The mathematics behind the smartness of neural networks

Dr M S Baptista

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.

Intelligence is one of the pillars that allows animals to master their environment. Scientific approaches recently proposed have been capable of simulating networked systems that reproduce similar emergent manifestations of behavior as those observed in the brain.

QUADRAT DTP CASE: Acoustic detection & characterisation of cod in the north east Atlantic

Dr P Fernandes, Prof J Dick

Application Deadline: 22 January 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

After decades of overexploitation in the 20th century, most fish stocks in the North east Atlantic are now sustainably fished and showing strong signs of recovery (Fernandes and Cook, 2013).

QUADRAT DTP CASE: Environmental Impacts of Offshore Wind Turbines: A life cycle assessment of Bottom-fixed versus Floating Wind Turbine Concepts

Dr A Hastings, Dr M Karimirad

Application Deadline: 22 January 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

Laws enacted by the UK and devolved administration mandates achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. Floating offshore wind is a key technology to decarbonize electricity generation as the sites available for fixed structures are limited.

QUADRAT DTP CASE: How effective are Protected Areas in conserving biodiversity?

Dr L Ross, Dr D Pincheira-Donoso

Application Deadline: 22 January 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

Protected Areas (PAs) are of critical importance to biodiversity conservation at a time of unprecedented rates of biodiversity loss due to multiple and interacting anthropogenic drivers of change.

QUADRAT DTP CASE: Is a trophic cascade framework useful for predicting the outcome of rewilding in plantation forests?

Prof X Lambin, Dr P Caplat

Application Deadline: 22 January 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

Rewilding is a novel approach to conservation that captures the public’s imagination and focuses on ecosystem processes rather than necessarily restoring a system to its antecedent state.