University of Birmingham – School of Chemistry Qualification Type: PhD Location: Birmingham Funding for: UK Students, EU Students Funding amount: £21,805 Hours: Full Time Placed On: 18th September 2026 Closes: 1st January 2027 Thermal batteries (often termed primary reserve batteries) offer several key advantages over primary and secondary batteries due to their long shelf life, … Read more
University of Birmingham – Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering Qualification Type: PhD Location: Birmingham Funding for: UK Students Funding amount: £21,805 Hours: Full Time Placed On: 18th September 2026 Closes: 7th January 2027 Swallowable sensors are limited by how long they stay in place. A capsule passes through the gut within a day or two, … Read more
Project Overview Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in the Tribology of Tyre and Road particle emissions within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial. The project is a collaboration between engineering scientists at Imperial College London and medical scientists at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Within this project, two PhD students will … Read more
The South East Doctoral Training Arc (SEDarc) The South East Doctoral Training Arc (SEDarc) is pleased to offer Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding for PhD students for September 2027 entry. We welcome applications from talented individuals working across the social sciences to be based at one of six higher education institutions in London … Read more
University of Warwick Qualification Type: PhD Location: Coventry, University of Warwick, Warwick Funding for: UK Students Funding amount: £21,805 Hours: Full Time Placed On: 17th September 2026 Closes: 31st October 2026 From electric vehicles to grid-scale energy storage, the future of clean energy relies on breakthroughs in battery technology. This PhD will develop cutting-edge terahertz … Read more
University of Exeter – ESE Qualification Type: PhD Location: Devon, Exeter Funding for: UK Students Funding amount: UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 per year Hours: Full Time Placed On: 8th September 2026 Closes: 2nd November 2026 Reference: 5554 https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW230/phd-studentship-materials-reinforced-multifunctional-coatings-for-built-environments Porous construction materials, such as concrete, brick, or wood, … Read more
University of Nottingham Qualification Type: PhD Location: Nottingham Funding for: UK Students Funding amount: Not Specified Hours: Full Time Placed On: 14th September 2026 Closes: 14th December 2026 Electric motors and the systems they drive consume half of global electricity. These systems are typically very inefficient and contribute to a significant amount of energy wasted. … Read more
University of Birmingham – School of Computer Science Qualification Type: PhD Location: Birmingham Funding for: UK Students Funding amount: Centre-UB studentships cover tuition fees, a maintenance stipend, support for research training, as well as research activity support grants. Hours: Full Time Placed On: 4th September 2026 Closes: 26th October 2026 The Centre for National Training … Read more
A humanities research proposal should explain an interpretive problem, the sources needed to examine it and the approach that will make the analysis persuasive. It does not need to imitate a laboratory experiment. This guide offers an annotated fictional history proposal about newspaper debates on education. Fictional teaching example: the two newspaper titles and proposed … Read more
An engineering proposal needs more than a promising material or device. It should define what will be compared, how performance will be measured and which conditions limit the conclusion. This annotated example uses a small environmental engineering experiment to show that logic. Fictional teaching example: this is an invented project, not a tested filter design … Read more