Funded Studentships

You can use our search listing to find the right project for your skills, passion and expertise. The listing includes:

  • An extensive portfolio of PhD projects, with expert supervisory teams based in one of our leading research centres.
  • A number of PhD programmes with international partner universities around the world.

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Numerical Investigation of Liquid Metal Magneto-Coriolis-Centrifugal Convection

This PhD project will focus on the modelling of electro-magnetic effects, in particular, clarify the possible role of Alfvén waves in planetary core convection.


Ensuring sustainability of teacher workforce in England: Identifying the antecedents of early career Mathematics teachers’ attrition and developing strategies to improve their retention

The Centre for Global Learning is pleased to invite applicants to a funded opportunity on the sustainability of teacher workforce in England.


Designing and Testing Safer Public Transport for Women

We are looking for a motivated, passionate individual with a keen interest in practical, impactful research to join us for this PhD studentship.


Post-Hurricane Damage and Recovery: A remote assessment of agricultural resilience in the Caribbean

This project will address a knowledge gap by assessing the impact of hurricanes on agriculture in the Caribbean, 2010-2020.


Pathogen Transport in River Systems

A fully funded PhD studentship in numerical modelling of transport and dispersal of waterborne disease pathogens during flood events.


Pathophysiology of heart failure: the role of arterial stiffness and endothelial function

The aim of this fully funded research programme is to two fold; firstly, to assess and compare arterial stiffness, endothelial function and cardiovascular response to stress testing in different types of heart failure.


Towards reliable detection of uterine contraction: Development of a nanostructured biocompatible electrohysterography electrode array system

The Centre for Intelligent Healthcare is seeking applicants for a fully funded Studentship. The successful candidate will enrol at Coventry University, UK as their home institution and will spend up to 2 years at the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) of A*STAR.


Mechanistic insights into Family B G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) using SMA-like polymers

Centre for Health and Life Sciences have a fully funded studentship with stipend. The project will address this knowledge gap by focusing on the molecular pharmacology of three CLR-containing GPCRs.


Evaluating Regional Specific Training Stimulus (RSTS) for people with COPD attending pulmonary rehabilitation

The Research Centre for Healthcare and Communities is excited to invite application for their fully funded studentship. This PhD project aims to evaluate the proof of concept and feasibility of an alternative paradigm of exercise training for older adults with COPD.


Interrogating Situated Colonial Practices in the Dance Archive

This fully funded PhD project will examine the historical and geographical relevance of colonial histories in relation to dance and archival practices within the Centre for Dance Research.


Atlantic Stories, Colonial Legacies and the Bodleian Library, 1650-1800

The Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities have a fully funded studentship project, which examines the legacies of English transatlantic colonialism as preserved in the collections of the Bodleian Libraries.


Integrated Sensing and Communications for Vehicular Networks

The Centre for Future Transport and Cities is seeking applicants for a fully funded Studentship. 


Using Extended Reality (XR) to improve team performance and enhance training for maintenance of future vehicles

The Centre for Future Transport and Cities is inviting applications from suitably qualified computer science, game design, and electronic engineering graduates who have an interest in human-computer interaction and human factors for an exciting Dstl funded PhD studentship.


Designing Advanced Electrolytes for Hybrid Electrode Batteries (Deakin Starting)

This fully funded Studentship in the Centre for E-Mobility and Clean Growth will aim to develop a new type of battery hybrid device, utilising various battery and supercapacitor materials and hybridising at the electrode level.


Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and metabolic syndrome in different ethnicities

The Research Centre for Healthcare and Communities have a fully funded Studentship to understand the relationship between OSA and metabolic dysfunction in different ethnicities and test a pilot intervention on lifestyle intervention in the ethnic minority population.


Trailblazers: The Early Career Researcher and PhD Candidate Partnering Scheme

The scheme provides PhD candidates with an innovative and dynamic intellectual space in which to undertake transformative research, whilst fully supported by a team of experienced supervisors.


Critical geopolitics and international relations in South Asia

This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.


Electric Drives System of High Speed Permanent Magnet Motor Control

This project aims to enhance the system performance of high-speed permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) drive which are critical in numerous applications where high power rate and compact size are required.


AI enhanced 3D human body shape estimation and garment redressing from clothed 3D scan sequences

The Centre for Computational Science and Mathematical Modelling invite applicants to a fully-funded studentship which will consider how UK fashion retailers have long struggled with the cost of returns and look into 3D body scanning technology.


The efficacy of a wearable intervention in treating poor mental health in the early postnatal period and the role of circadian rhythm and prolactin during mental health recovery

This research will explore new, non-pharmacological, affordable, and effective treatment options for poor mental health in the early postnatal period.