If you’re a Masters degree holder and seeking Fully Funded PhD Programs, Newcastle University, England has several online applications open for PhD programs. Explore the PhD opportunities across diverse research areas and submit your application soon.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science: AI for Robotics in Agriculture
Summary of PhD Program:
This project seeks to explore how advanced AI techniques, such as reinforcement-, transfer-, and continual-learning, can be used to address these challenges, with a focus on the application of unmanned ground vehicles, and potentially also unmanned aerial vehicles, to automated crop inspection tasks. Advanced deep learning pipelines will be developed and evaluated both in simulation, and on real-world robotic platforms at the university’s 800-hectare research farm facilities, with the aim of working towards a fully autonomous ground-based crop inspection platform.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science: AI and Machine Learning Explainability
Summary of PhD Program:
One of the main issues with machine learning algorithms is that they are black boxes to human users. It is difficult to make sense of why a machine learning approach has provided a particular result as output. In this project, students will create explainable systems for machine learning systems. Through visualisation techniques, we will help open the black box of the model to understand training and/or predictions. This area, broadly speaking, is the target and applicants could help shape the project in this domain. We are also interested in understanding the learning dynamics (i.e., loss landscape and backwards propagation) and feature interaction (i.e., attention mechanism) at a large scale neural networks using novel visualisation approaches.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in children’s social care and/or education and health inequalities
Summary of PhD Program:
The proposed PhD project is a collaborative partnership between Newcastle University (Newcastle Health Innovation Partnership) and Newcastle City Council’s (NCC) Health Determinants Research Collaboration. The specific focus of the research can be proposed by the applicant. Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss their ideas with the below contacts before submission to ensure their research interest is aligned to the strategic priorities of NCC. Priorities include but are not limited to school exclusions, reducing care entry and late adoption breakdown. Research should include exploring innovative strategies to enhance outcomes for disadvantaged children and families within Newcastle and seek to develop the evidence base and generate actionable recommendations for policy and practice. We are particularly interested in applications that adopt multidisciplinary and multi-methods approaches.
Application Deadline: Friday 7th June 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development of Water-Soluble and Biodegradable Detergent Ingredients from CO2 and Bio-renewable Sources
Summary of PhD Program:
The PINZ CDT will train the next generation of process and chemical engineers, and chemists, to develop the new processes, process technologies and green chemistries required for the process industries’ transition to Net Zero. Fast moving consumer good, such as fabric and home care products, have a high market volume and can contribute positively for industrial and consumer sustainability. This project is co-funded by Procter and Gamble and will be focused on the development of novel renewable and biodegradable water-soluble detergent ingredients through a circular economy approach.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Optimizing Pulse-Jet Cleaning for Sustainable Energy: A CFD Approach to Emissions Control
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will explore Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methodologies for optimising filter cleaning processes, with the goal of enhancing filtration efficiency, reducing emissions, and improving the sustainability of energy production. The results will feed directly into real-world applications by leveraging tools such as generative design, CAD/CAM and 3D printing. The successful applicant will be based at Newcastle University’s School of Engineering, benefiting from comprehensive academic guidance, access to cutting-edge facilities, whilst also working closely with Durham Filtration’s industry professionals at their Jarrow headquarters, with opportunities for field work on energy facilities around the UK.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Historic landscape character and climate change adaptation: modelling impacts and opportunities
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will examine how cutting-edge methods could help us use relevant historic landscape characteristics to address risks associated with increasingly intense rainfall, focussing on soil erosion and flood risk. The project is original because it will use specific case-studies to develop a new methodology and create knowledge about the long-term environmental value of key historic character types in the UK. It is important because this knowledge has the potential to underpin strategies which use historic character in climate change adaptation. The project includes the opportunity for a placement with Historic England during the fourth year of the research.
Application Deadline: 21/06/2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing a Novel Imaging Flow Cytometer for Label-Free Characterisation of Human White Blood Cells in Health and Disease
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you interested in developing a 3D Imaging Flow Cytometer for biomedical applications? White blood cell (WBC) analysis is crucial in medical diagnostics, disease monitoring, and fundamental biological research. Traditional flow cytometry methods are limited to measuring cell surface markers and require labelling with fluorescent dyes, which may alter the cell’s properties or introduce artefacts.
You will develop a 3D Imaging Flow Cytometer, including hardware (fast-imaging, optics and microfluidics) and software, for the acquisition and real-time processing of WBCs. You will become an expert in several techniques and will be supervised by academics from the Faculty of Medical Sciences and the School of Engineering to deliver this ambitious research. Previous experience in optics, image processing and coding is desirable.
Application Deadline: 3rd June 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Defining the mechanisms underpinning HIF-1 and HIF-2 dependent transcriptional specificity in hypoxia
Summary of PhD Program:
The cellular response to low oxygen levels (hypoxia), is crucial for cell survival and identity. At the cellular level, the transcriptional response is primarily orchestrated by the transcription factor Hypoxia-Inducible Factor (HIF). In low oxygen conditions, HIF is rapidly stabilised, initiating transcription of genes involved in processes such as metabolism and angiogenesis, to restore oxygen balance and promote cell survival. Hypoxia and HIF activation underpin many diseases like cancer and neurodegeneration, emphasising the need to understand HIF’s regulatory mechanisms.
Application Deadline: 14th June 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Application of artificial intelligence to identify risk patterns and potential solutions for patients with Multiple Long-Term Conditions with a focus on eye disorders
Summary of PhD Program:
Our research theme embraces the exceptional capacity of Machine Learning (ML) to identify patterns in vast collections of electronic health records and imaging data (http://ai-multiply.co.uk/). We aim to discern risk patterns at both population and individual patient levels, enabling earlier intervention. Exploring the trajectories and care pathways of MLTCs in the ophthalmology service will be core to this PhD.
Application Deadline: 29th May 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrical and Electronic Engineering: Future Electric Machines Manufacturing
Summary of PhD Program:
This is a unique PhD scholarship based in the Newcastle University Electrical Power Group and working alongside the Future Electric Machines Manufacturing (FEMM) Hub team of researchers at Newcastle, Sheffield and Strathclyde Universities, AMRC and NMIS research institutes. This PhD will help you direct your career toward the sustainable electrification of society. You will be a detailed and organised person with a blend of skills across manufacturing, technology, engineering, mathematics, simulation, and experimentation.
Application Deadline: 31st May 2024
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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D-Printed Reactors for Shrinking Chemical Processes
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, novel laboratory-scale continuous reactors will be designed and 3d-printed, and applied to a variety of real reactions from industry, currently performed in batch, to demonstrate “process intensification” and rapid, scalable process development/optimisation. Previous work in the area by the Process Intensification Group has demonstrated that many batch processes can be made significantly “greener” via this method of process development. One recent example is a 200-fold reduction in reactor size while removing an organic solvent altogether, whilst maintaining productivity and improving yield/selectivity etc.
Application Deadline: 31st May 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring Media Design for Young People’s Wellbeing through an Internet of Sensations
Summary of PhD Program:
The wellbeing of children and young people (CYP) is increasingly shaped by their production and consumption of online media, with evidence showing its addictive nature, impacting CYP behaviour and development of healthy lifestyles and skills. Innovations in tangible and pervasive media open up new embodied experiences online, and CYP may navigate a newly distributed ‘internet of sensations’, with wellbeing implications. Are you interested in the opportunity to research and design interactive tools for positively shaping CYP wellbeing through embodied interactions with online media?
Application Deadline: 31 July 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bioprocess Intensification for carbon dioxide and waste-derived feedstock conversion to bio-based products
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will combine bioprocess intensification with data analytics to deliver a novel biological conversion route for waste derived feedstocks into an array of bio-based products. To effectively address the climate crisis, we must transition towards a net-zero future and embrace a circular economy framework. The process industries play a significant role in greenhouse gas emissions, making it crucial for them to adopt sustainable practices. This includes utilising renewable fuels, materials, and resources to decarbonize operations and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
Application Deadline: 31st May 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Renewable and Advanced liquid fuels from Lignocellulosic Residues
Summary of PhD Program:
The PINZ CDT will train the next generation of process and chemical engineers, and chemists, to develop the new processes, process technologies and green chemistries required for the process industries’ transition to Net Zero. Renewable and advanced liquid fuels will play an important role in the transition to Net Zero emissions by 2050, particularly in “hard-to-abate” sectors. Although lignocellulosic residue- derived liquid fuels have been investigated via bio/chemical and thermochemical processes, significant challenges remain in that pre-treatments remove large percentages of the feedstock (lignin), low yield overall and/or low quality of products. This project will focus on the development of a novel approach to convert the residues to advanced liquid fuels with minimum upgrading requirements. This is a co-created project with PuriFire Labs Ltd.
Application Deadline: 30th June 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Systematic investigation of pyrolysis process and products for sustainable biochar production
Summary of PhD Program:
PhD project 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. Circular Carbon is one of the largest producers of biochar (ca 3000t/a) in Europe to date, with an industrial facility recovering agricultural residues from the global market leader in cocoa butter production (Barry Callebaut). Circular Carbon currently uses pyrolysis, a thermochemical conversion technology, for biochar production and currently uses the gaseous product of pyrolysis for renewable pyrolysis steam production. While currently successful, the increasing demand for biochar and its by-products in high-value applications necessitates a thorough examination of the existing process and products to optimize efficiency and enhance overall performance.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data Driven Optimisation for Process Scale-up
Summary of 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: 31st May 2024
