Do you have a Master’s degree and are looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Newcastle University, England is now accepting applications for several funded PhD programs across a range of research areas.
1. Fully Funded PhD in Process Industries: Net Zero – Decarbonisation of thermal separation processes for removing water and organic solvents from high-performance ingredients
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This PhD project is part of the CDT in Process Industries: Net Zero. The successful PhD student will be co-supervised by academics from the Process Intensification Group at Newcastle University. Established in 1925, Croda is the name behind sustainable, high-performance ingredients and technologies in some of the world’s most successful brands: creating, making and selling speciality chemicals that are relied on by industries and consumers everywhere. This project will help to support Croda’s “Net Zero by 2050” strategy, enabling them to invest in low-carbon, intensified processes that meet their future manufacturing needs.
Application Deadline: 26th January 2025
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2. Fully Funded PhD in Process Industries: Net Zero – Data Driven Optimisation for Process Scale-up
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This PhD project is part of the CDT in Process Industries: Net Zero. The successful PhD student will be co-supervised by academics from the Process Intensification Group at Newcastle University. Nestling has designed a containerised cultivation and processing plant for a broad range of microorganisms with a focus on mycelium. The system is fully automated; the SCADA system is connected to the cloud and provides performance data, enabling the monitoring of critical process parameters (CPPs) and critical quality attributes (CQAs). Nestling wishes to collect the data and apply machine learning techniques to identify process efficiency improvements and enable prediction across scales for a given biological process.
Application Deadline: 26th January 2025
3. Fully Funded PhD in NERC Resilient Flood Futures (FLOOD-CDT). Understanding Record Breaking Flood Events
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This PhD project will develop a process-driven view of risk estimations that invokes a bottom-up approach in which will start with a specified flood level (e.g. flood barrier). Our main research question will be: ‘what rainfall volume is needed to exceed a given flood level and what combination of conditions could produce this level? This will aim to envision what such event might look like and identify the main contributing factors, the plausibility of their co-occurrences, and their projected changes in climate simulations.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
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4. Fully Funded PhD in NERC Resilient Flood Futures (FLOOD-CDT). Understanding in-stream runoff attenuation features
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Flooding is a major problem worldwide and it is difficult to solve. Land use change and a growing population increase flood risk year on year. Climate change, resulting in wetter winters and more intense summer storms, will exacerbate these effects. In recent years there has been a move away from traditional large, engineered structures to manage flooding to many small-scale interventions distributed across the landscape, an example of which are in-stream leaky barriers (LBs), which can take many forms from completely natural (e.g. beaver dams, fallen trees in waterways) to highly engineered designed barriers.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
5. Fully Funded PhD in NERC Resilient Flood Futures (FLOOD-CDT). Quantifying Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) hazard and risk in Bhutan
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This project aims to quantify hazard and risk from Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in Bhutan. This will be achieved by i) developing low-cost, near-real time sensors for monitoring GLOFs and their potential triggers; ii) modelling potential flood pathways, to inform sensor locations and; iii) in-person surveys, to explore the needs and behaviours of at-risk downstream populations.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
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6. Fully Funded PhD in Improving flood protection across scales: novel geophysical methods to investigate vulnerable linear flood defences
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This project will attempt to translate our understanding at the local asset scale to larger network scales. It will investigate optimal strategies of combining rapid screening of defences at the catchment scale with targeted localised non-invasive investigation, making use of novel geophysical methodologies (mobile sensor arrays, UAVs and advanced 3D imaging techniques) and geotechnical sampling.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD in Exploring the trade-offs in flood protection and security of water supply when adopting nature-based solutions
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Working with partners in the Environment Agency’s Climate Change and Resource Efficiency team, this project aims to address this knowledge gap by developing a holistic multi-model framework that simulates multiple interacting aspects of the water system. The framework will be used to further understanding and inform the management of evolving flood and water supply risks. The project will focus on a UK-based case study but will have international relevance for countries facing flooding and drought hazards.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD in Disentangling groundwater from fluvial flood risk across Northern Ireland’s permeable flood plains
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The Centre for Doctoral Training for Resilient Flood Futures (FLOOD-CDT) will train the next generation of research practitioners who will make a tangible difference to future flood management in the UK and internationally. Our goal is to provide a nurturing and inspiring training environment to develop the independent future leaders we need who can translate research and innovation into practice.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD in Assessing the eco-hydrological and geomorphic effects of floodplain restoration
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This project will investigate the conservation and restoration of healthy floodplains, which potentially could mitigate the projected increasing frequency of extremes of flooding and drought associated with climate change and reverse biodiversity losses. Understanding floodplain responses to these multifaceted drivers of change and their controls will help underpin successful management of floodplains and plan restoration projects.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD in A sub-hourly quality controlled blended UK precipitation dataset to understand uncertainty in flood predictions
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This research aims to explore optimal methods to provide blended high-resolution (15-min) UK precipitation datasets, developing bias-correction, disaggregation and quality control methods to preserve extreme rainfall statistics. Resulting precipitation datasets will significantly enhance understanding of rainfall dynamics, inform flood risk assessment, and support climate adaptation. This is critical for addressing the urgent need for reliable rainfall data in a rapidly changing climate, with wide-ranging implications for hydrodynamic flood modelling and infrastructure resilience.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD in GREEN: Growing Rare Earth Elements in the Northeast
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Your aim is reutilizing an obsolete and environmentally pervasive mine waste as the resource to obtain critically minerals to achieve the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. Applicants who would like a project with a large component of field and laboratory work are encouraged; you should enjoy applying chemical and/or biology concepts to find engineering solutions to sustainability problems.
Application Deadline: 10th February 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD in Developing Guidance for Reporting Evidence and Gap Maps (EGMs) and Web-based Evidence Portals
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Increasingly web-based visual outputs from evidence synthesis are being produced, often located on project or organisation websites. Outputs such as EGMs enable knowledge users to tailor the evidence in different formats, such as locating evidence from specific settings or populations. These outputs can also support the production of living reviews, where updates of the evidence can be undertaken more rapidly than traditional publication processes.
Application Deadline: 6th January 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD in Accelerating emerging PV deployment through standardized device to system level operational testing
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This project will support faster commercialisation of emerging photovoltaic (PV) technologies by establishing a platform for system level operational testing, in real world settings. It would be of interest to candidates with a science or engineering background, with an interest in emerging photovoltaics and how they behave under real-life conditions. The collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) will enable the specific features of emerging PV technologies such as perovskite PV at device and system level to be evaluated. Metrics for such features will be determined and through system level data analysis, modelling and lab measurements.
Application Deadline: 10th February 2025
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14. Fully Funded PhD in Staphylococcus aureus interactions in cystic fibrosis polymicrobial infections
Summary of Funded PhD Program
You will engineer GFP promoter fusions to assess T7SS ‘switching on’ in response to the CF environment, clinically relevant antibiotics and presence of other bacteria. You will assess ability of Sa wild type, T7SS mutants and secreted toxin mutants to form biofilms with other CF pathogens, in particular Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa), looking at spatial localisation and survival in the biofilm. You will determine how Sa interacts with airway commensals and whether/how they modulate Sa/Pa interactions.
Application Deadline: 17th January 2025
