lancaster PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Fully-funded PhD Studentship in Disposal MOX for Immobilisation of the UK’s Plutonium Inventory: A Study of Its Fabrication and Stability under Geological Disposal Conditions

Supervisors: Prof C Boxall, Dr B Robinson

The UK has a substantial inventory of separated plutonium from its historical reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. The Government’s preferred option for this is re-use as a Mixed uranium-plutonium OXide (MOX) fuel. Read more

31 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Lancaster University Lancaster University Management School

PhD Programmes in Business and Management

Join us for a PhD experience that will enhance your research capabilities and help you make a real impact in your discipline. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Business Research Programme

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Social Sciences Research Programme

PhD/MSc+PhD in Economics

Lancaster University

The Department of Economics at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) is inviting applications for entry into its PhD and Integrated PhD (one-year Masters plus four-year Doctoral study) programmes. Read more

Fully Funded PhD studentship on selective conversion of flue gas for a sustainable energy and environment

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

Supervisors. Dr. Yanping Du, Prof. Jianqiao Ye, School of Engineering, Prof. Crispin Halsall, Lancaster Environment Centre. A fully funded PhD studentship is available for a motivated candidate to undertake advanced applied research in the field of Clean Energy and Decarbonization. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Du

Lancaster University Physics Department

Quantum phenomena and energy conversion in two-dimensional materials nanostructures

The new PhD project in fundamental and applied physics is announced at Lancaster University Quantum Technologie Centre (LQTC) https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/quantum-technology/research/quantum-nanomechanics/… Read more

Supervisor: Dr O Kolosov

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

Lancaster University Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Probabilistic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence

We are currently seeking a number of PhD researchers in areas of Probability, Statistics and Machine Learning for the £8.5m EPSRC-funded hub on Probabilistic AI (Prob_AI Hub). Read more

Supervisors: Prof P Fearnhead, Prof Chris Nemeth

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Fully-funded PhD Studentship in Spent Nuclear Fuel: Its Behaviour During Geological Disposal

Supervisors: Prof C Boxall, Prof M Joyce

The expected remaining lifetime of the UK’s Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors (AGRs) will result in the generation of ~5,000t of AGR Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF). Read more

31 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Lancaster University Department of Chemistry

Developing Electrically-switchable Glazing for Electric Vehicles

Project description. Lancaster University and Jaguar Land Rover are pleased to offer a fully-funded 3.5-year PhD position focused on the development of electrically-switchable glazing for electric vehicles. Read more

Supervisor: Dr XH Hua

28 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Lancaster University Physics Department

Laser-plasma acceleration: high energy particle acceleration with lasers

Lancaster Physics is leading a UK-wide research programme in laser-plasma acceleration utilizing high-energy particle accelerator and laser facilities at Daresbury National Laboratory. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Jamison

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

Fully-funded PhD Studentship in The Corrosion of Magnox Spent Nuclear Fuel

Supervisors: Prof C Boxall, Dr F Andrieux

The safe storage of the UK’s nuclear legacy is one of the key aims for Sellafield. Part of that legacy, Magnox reactors were fuelled using uranium metal rods clad in a magnesium-aluminium alloy. Read more

31 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Fully-funded PhD Studentship in Controlling Transport of Colloidal Particles in Complex Fluids in Microfluidic Devices

Supervisors: Dr N Singh, Dr J Hardy

Supervisors. Primary supervisor. Dr Naval Singh, School of Engineering (Chemical Engineering). Secondary supervisor. Dr John Hardy, Department of Chemistry. Read more

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

Lancaster University Department of Chemistry

Understanding decoupled electrochemistry for energy storage, conversion and electrosynthesis

Background. Decoupled electrochemistry is broadly the process of using a mediating chargeable redox species to drive an electrochemical process with a freely dispersed catalyst instead of a reaction directly at an electrode. Read more

Supervisor: Prof K Toghill

27 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Lancaster University Physics Department

Laser-driven ultrafast electron diffraction

Lancaster Physics department and partners in the Cockcroft Institute are world leading in the use of femtosecond lasers and non-linear optics for manipulating electron beams. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Jamison

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

Laser-plasma and direct-laser acceleration: high energy particle acceleration with lasers

Supervisor: Prof S Jamison

Lancaster Physics is leading a UK-wide research programme in laser-plasma acceleration utilizing high-energy particle accelerator and laser facilities at Daresbury National Laboratory. Read more

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

Lancaster University School of Computing & Communications

Cloud XR QoE for Programable Networks: Understanding how to deliver high-quality immersive XR experiences over future programmable networks.

Cloud rendered immersive Extended Reality (XR) has many applications across consumer, enterprise, and industry domains. Cloud gaming enables consumers to play immersive games on a variety of client devices by streaming content rendered from remote GPU servers. Read more

Supervisor: Prof NR Race

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

Lancaster University School of Computing & Communications

AI4ME (BBC Prosperity Partnership) - PhD Studentship in Computer Networking & Distributed Systems

AI4ME is an exciting five-year EPSRC & BBC-funded Prosperity Partnership that is addressing the key challenges involved in creating and delivering personalised content at scale. Read more

Supervisor: Prof N Race

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Lancaster University School of Computing & Communications

AI4ME (BBC Prosperity Partnership) - PhD Studentship in Quality of Experience (QoE) in Object-Based Media

AI4ME is an exciting five-year EPSRC & BBC-funded Prosperity Partnership that is addressing the key challenges involved in creating and delivering personalised content at scale. Read more

Supervisor: Prof N Race

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Fully-funded PhD Studentship in Self monitoring, self healing sensor technology

Supervisor: Dr A M D Richardson

The school of Engineering at Lancaster University is inviting applications from engineering graduates for a PhD scholarship in the field of high reliability sensing. Read more

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

Super-macro-particles to improve in Particle-in-cell codes

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

Particle-in-cell (PIC) codes are essential for the numerical simulation of charged particles in both conventional accelerators and plasmas. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Gratus

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Social Sciences Research Programme

Department of Psychology

Lancaster University

This programme presents the opportunity to join our international and interdisciplinary research community working within the fields of infancy and early development, language and cognition, perception and action or social processes. Read more

Laser-driven ultrafast electron diffraction

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

Lancaster Physics department and partners in the Cockcroft Institute are world leading in the use of femtosecond lasers and non-linear optics for manipulating electron beams. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Jamison

Fully-funded PhD in Sustainable High Power RF Amplifiers for Muon Colliders

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

A student is sought for a PhD study on the development of high efficiency RF amplifiers for the Muon Collider design study at CERN. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Burt

Development of sustainable Superconducting RF for UK-XFEL

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

A student is sought for a PhD study on the development of thin film coated superconducting RF cavities for the UK X-ray Free Electron Laser (UK-XFEL) design study. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Burt

The Ghost Collider: developing particle accelerators with no beam transients

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

Present and future high-energy electron-positron colliders are limited by two effects. the energy required to accelerate the beams and the electromagnetic beam-beam disruption. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Apsimon

University of Liverpool Department of Chemistry

Electrochemically switchable materials down to the single molecule level

This project will study the electrochemical properties of materials down to the single molecule level and it will investigate how electrochemical (redox state) switching of the molecules can change useful materials properties. Read more

Supervisor: Prof R Nichols

1 August 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Fully-funded PhD Studentship in the in-situ analysis and discrimination of insoluble beta-emitting activity for contaminated land and effluent characterisation

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

This project addresses the requirement to detect and quantify beta-emitting activity in contaminated land and liquid effluents. Strontium-90 and hence… Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Joyce

University of Sheffield Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering

Nearfield Interactions of Vitrified Intermediate Level Waste; Radionuclide Transport at the Glass-Canister-Backfill Interface

In order to pursue new nuclear power as part of the solution to the UK’s pressing low carbon energy needs, safe disposal of legacy radioactive waste must be achieved. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Thorpe, Prof R Hand

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

University of Worcester Research School

Men’s lives: the consequences of living with high levels of drive for muscularity

Historically, body image research has focused on females and their dieting and weight loss habits. McCreary and Sasse (2000) recognised that although some men desired to be thin for health, occupational, or recreational reasons, high levels of the drive for thinness in men from Western societies is relatively rare. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Edwards

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

The University of Manchester Department of Mathematics

Connections between Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations and Machine Learning

Up to two funded PhD projects are available in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester on Connections between Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations and Machine Learning. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Powell

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)