Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the University of Nottingham, England, United Kingdom. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development and application of recombinant antibodies to map pathology-related changes in glycosaminoglycans on breast cancer cells
Summary of PhD Program:
This studentship will aim to isolate a range of recombinant antibodies that bind to GAGs, producing highly specific probes. The post will use the very latest developments in antibody phage display technology, coupling the binding of vast antibody-phage libraries containing billions of potential binders with the screening power of next generation sequencing (a process termed next generation phage display, NGPD). The studentship will apply NGPD to target cell surface GAGs from breast cancer cell populations, identify specific binders, clone and express binders and finally, characterise binding against breast cancer cell populations and defined GAG structures.
Application Deadline: 14 August 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Joint modelling of latent trajectories for dynamic prediction of competing outcomes in patients with liver disease
Summary of PhD Program:
This studentship combines novel methods in dynamic prediction, longitudinal data analysis, survival and competing risk models, and latent class modelling within a probabilistic framework. The goal is to develop methods to significantly change how we care for patients with liver disease by identifying whether patients would benefit from specialist care, which specialty, and when or when not to intervene within the reality of a resource-stretched healthcare system.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Business
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking to recruit two high calibre and enthusiastic PhD researchers who will undertake original research at Nottingham University Business School. To this end, we have made available two full scholarships, which are aimed at one international and one home PhD students. The international scholarship will cover tuition fees of £23,500 and a yearly stipend of £19,237, while the home scholarship will cover tuition fees of £5,350 and a yearly stipend of £19,237. Both these PhD scholarships are for a period of three years and are expected to commence on 1st February 2025.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Artificial Intelligence for Laser Ultrasonic Polycrystal Imaging
Summary of PhD Program:
This exciting opportunity is based within the Optics and Photonics Research Group at the Faculty of Engineering (FoE), University of Nottingham which conducts cutting-edge research into the development of imaging technology for material characterisation. The Faculty of Engineering provides a thriving working environment for all PGRs creating a strong sense of community across research disciplines. Community and research culture is important to our PGRs and the FoE supports this by working closely with our Postgraduate Research Society (PGES) and our PGR Research Group Reps to enhance the research environment for PGRs.
Application Deadline: 20 August 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biochar Demonstrator: Advanced Methods for Assessing the Permanence of Biochar
Summary of PhD Program:
Regulators and carbon trading platforms require an evidence-based assessment of how much biochar carbon will persist for timescales of thousands of years. This knowledge is essential to justify payments for carbon sequestration. We have developed an analytical pyrolysis technique, hydropyrolysis (HyPy) that measures the fraction of stable polycyclic aromatic carbon (SPAC) in biochar, and also allows characterisation of the labile carbon fraction by mass spectrometry. HyPy is the only method available that achieves this on a secure, highly reproducible chemical basis.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Functional Structural Colour Devices through 3D Printing
Summary of PhD Program:
Small, repetitive structures with spacings on the nanometre scale can refract and reflect light to create structural colours, which are being explored to produce anti-counterfeit markings, dye-free colour images, humidity and chemical sensors, anti-glare coatings and optical filters. This project will develop additive manufacturing of devices with actively controlled structural colour. You will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of structural colour devices, integrating optically and electronically active materials, including 0D and 2D nanomaterials.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Functional 3D/4D Printing of Responsive Structures
Summary of PhD Program:
3D-printed functional devices interact with their environment, responding to electrical, magnetic, chemical, humidity, temperature, or other signals, including devices that change shape over time, using “4D-printing”. In complex devices, multiple “trigger” stimuli can be encoded, each to its own shape change response; however, these multiple responses are independent of one another. This project will develop new materials and designs for functional 4D-printed devices with fast, self-resetting responses, applicable to biomedical, micromechanical, or optoelectronic applications.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D-Printed Micro-Robots for Medical Applications
Summary of PhD Program:
The field of medical therapeutics has valuable applications for mobile devices for efficient drug delivery, called micro-robots. Recently, 3D printing has been used to manufacture such devices with functional features that enabled them to respond to environmental cues, including temperature, pH, light, magnetic fields, and ultrasound. This project will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of medical micro-robots, exploiting combinations of functions to achieve advanced control necessary for complex and customisable micro-robots to provide personalised healthcare solutions.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D printing next-generation actuators for soft robots and devices
Summary of PhD Program:
An ideal candidate will have interest in 3D printing and its applications, knowledge of materials sciences, mechanical engineering, or digital design, and an inquisitive spirit motivated to develop a world-leading expertise. They will have a background in engineering, materials science, or chemistry, but will also be willing to learn new disciplines and innovate to achieve the project goals. This studentship will prepare you for routes into both industry and academia, and will equip you with skills in photopolymer chemistry, materials development for 3D printing, device engineering, and materials processing for additive manufacturing.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Composite Materials, Sustainability and Manufacture
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited to undertake a PhD programme within the Centre for Doctoral Training for Sustainable Composites Manufacturing, based at the University of Nottingham. The student will undertake an industrially focused project, conducting cutting-edge research to address the key challenges in achieving sustainable manufacture of fibre-reinforced polymer composites. Students will follow a taught programme of exciting composite-specific modules at the University of Bristol, as part of a large national cohort.
Application Deadline: 26 September 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Impact Failure of Amorphous Polymers
Summary of PhD Program:
There is a need, therefore, to produce material models that can be used in computer simulations of ballistic events, and which contain enough physical understanding of deformation and failure behaviour to provide insight into how processing affects the final response. This project will address this problem through a combination of modelling at the University of Nottingham and experimental development at the University of Oxford, using polycarbonate as a model material. The ultimate goal is to provide models to understand and simulate phenomena observed in polymers under impact, and the effect of different polymer histories on these phenomena.
Application Deadline: 29 September 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in From waste to resource: opportunities, challenges and economic viability of biorefineries in South Africa
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this PhD project is to investigate the economic viability of bioethanol production in South Africa using local invasive species and waste materials. Building up from previous studies and analyses reported in the literature and done within our groups, the successful candidate will carry out an extensive review of various business models, in particular those developed in the biorefinery industry in Brazil, with a focus on local distribution and benefits for the local communities. Experiments to assess glucose yields using a variety of pre-treatment methods, enzymatic cocktails and reaction conditions will also be carried out over the course of the project to support the development of a potential business model.
Application Deadline: 14/07/2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited for an industrial led PhD studentship aimed at developing new, sustainable, advanced concrete materials with carbon negative footprints. To achieve this breakthrough we will use a multi-discipline approach incorporating organic and polymer chemistry, materials science and leading-edge data analysis, including machine learning/AI approaches. We are looking to attract applicants from chemistry/materials chemistry with an innate drive and curiosity to deliver new solutions to building materials that are needed within the next 10 years.
Application Deadline: 15 July 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite suitably qualified and highly motivated applicants from STEM disciplines to apply for a series of multidisciplinary PhD scholarships hosted by the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University. In partnership with leading industrial stakeholders we are launching a new collaborative approach to PhD projects.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in High Impact sulphur flavour compounds in hop products
Summary of PhD Program:
An exciting opportunity has arisen to study for a PhD alongside our commercial partner, Totally Natural Solutions Limited (TNS), to develop novel, clean label and sustainable flavourings for use in brewing and other industries. TNS specialize in the use of green extraction techniques, such as liquid or supercritical CO2, to prepare flavour extracts from hops and other botanicals. Converting these feedstocks into flavour enriched extracts offers efficiencies in their distribution, storage and use in brewing, providing sustainable solutions to the brewer relative to processes such as dry hopping which can incur significant beer losses.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2024
