Research opportunities
We offer MPhil, PhD, Engineering Doctorate (EngD) and Industrial Doctorate postgraduate degree programmes. All of these pathways lie within our Doctoral Programme, which is aligned to the key research areas of our two broad-based research Institutes:
Our Doctoral Programme (Postgraduate Research)
MPhil & PhD
You can apply for our one year MPhil or three year PhD programmes at any point during the year. We welcome speculative research proposals or you can select from our list of defined PGR projects offered by our Institutes.
All PhD students will be enrolled in the Postgraduate Certificate in Researcher Professional Development programme (PgCert RPD).
This certificate is designed to support you with your research and rewards you for things you'll do as a research student here. It'll help you improve skills which are important to professional development and employability:
- the knowledge and intellectual abilities to conduct your research
- the personal qualities to succeed in your research and chosen career
- the standards, requirements and conduct of a professional researcher in your discipline
- working with others and communicating the impact of your research to a wide range of audiences
All you have to do is plan these activities alongside your PhD, documenting and reflecting your journey to success along the way.
EngD
We offer EngD programmes in two research areas:
- Optics and Photonics Technologies
- Non-Destructive Evaluation
These are delivered in partnership with a number of other reputable UK universities, so do not worry if you are directed to another university website to submit your application. You can apply for these all year round. EngD students are not required to enrol on the PGCert RPD.
Industrial Doctorate
An Industrial Doctorate offers those currently in work, the opportunity to gain a PhD through undertaking a three year industrial-focused research project with their employer. Your project focuses on issues relevant to the company, enabling it to gain valuable knowledge, supporting its growth and development.
Contact Carol Brady for further information. Industrial Doctorate students are not required to enrol on the PGCert RPD.
Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades During Full-scale Testing
The project aims at developing Structural Health Monitoring methodologies to monitor global response and damage evolution in large-scale wind turbine rotor blades during full-scale testing. To integrate data-driven techniques for describing and predicting structural damage behaviour and evaluating structural integrity.
Deadline:
31 July 2018Funding:
fundedEPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks & Smart Grids
Are you interested in addressing the global energy challenge? The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks & Smart Grids - a partnership between Strathclyde and Imperial College - has 10 funded four-year PhD studentships on offer.
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fundedEPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Wind & Marine Energy
Are you interested in the application of renewable energy technology and policy? The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Wind & Marine Energy Systems - a partnership between Strathclyde and the University of Edinburgh - has 10 funded four-year PhD studentships on offer.
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fundedPhD Advanced Algorithms for Breast Cancer Diagnosis from Tactile Images
A 42-month fully-funded PhD project, supported by EPSRC and industry partner PPS, focused on developing a system for automatically diagnosing and classifying lesions associated with breast cancer from tactile images.
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fundedPhD Synthetic and Natural Ester liquids: The Roadmap Towards Practical Use of Environmentally Friendly Liquid Dielectrics in the Pulsed Power Industry
A 36-month full-time, fully-funded PhD, supported by the University of Strathclyde and our major Pulsed Power industrial partner, focusing on the use of environmentally friendly non-toxic dielectric liquids (natural and synthetic ester fluids) in advanced power and pulsed power systems for high voltage insulation.
Deadline:
31 August 2018Funding:
fundedPhD Laser Gas Sensor Development for Combustion Processes using Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscropy.
A 36-month full-time, fully-funded PhD in collaboration with a number of industry partners, including Rolls-Royce, to further support the research work in laser gas sensors currently being carried out in an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Platform Grant.
Deadline:
30 September 2018Funding:
fundedPhD Power Systems Dynamic Security Assessment using machine learning.
This 42-month full-time, fully-funded PhD, supported by EPSRC focusing on the area of power system stability and dynamics using powerful machine learning tools that enable informative and fast online dynamic security assessment.
Deadline:
30 June 2018Funding:
fundedPhD Imaging the sound of light: laser ultrasonic phased arrays for remote sensing in extreme environments.
A 42-month full-time, fully-funded PhD, supported by EPSRC, focusing on remote ultrasonic imaging in extreme environments using laser ultrasonics.
Deadline:
31 July 2018Funding:
fundedPhD Automated Defect-Free Fusion Welding - "Inspect while you weld".
A 42-month, full-time, fully-funded PhD, supported by EPSRC focusing on sensor enabled robotics and quality control inspection during welding operations, directly aligned and supported by Nuclear, Aerospace, Oil & Gas, Marine, Defence and High-Value Manufacturing companies.
Deadline:
31 August 2018Funding:
fundedPhD Effective EEG analysis for advanced AI-driven BMI/BCI systems
A 36-month full-time, fully funded PhD project aiming to analyse and understanding EEG signals and how they are linked to our human brain activities. Modelling such mechanisms can further help strengthen BCI and BMI systems.
Deadline:
31 August 2018Funding:
fundedPhD Inspection of Nuclear Assets using Robotically Deployed Techniques
A 42-month fully-funded PhD, supported by the Nuclear Decommission Authority and National Nuclear Laboratory focusing on the automated inspection of waste package dimensions and deformations through life, using novel optical sensor and inspection strategies, aligned to current and future nuclear requirements.
Deadline:
30 June 2018Funding:
fundedPhD Automated Quantitative Inspection of Nuclear Canisters and Assets
An exciting 42-month fully-funded PhD, supported by a leading Nuclear Reprocessing Site, focusing on the automated inspection of nuclear canisters in challenging and hostile environments, using novel sensor and inspection strategies, directly aligned to current and future Nuclear requirements.
Deadline:
30 June 2018Funding:
fundedIndustry Funded PhD Scholarship on Trust and Transparency: Understanding and Communicating with Machine Learning and Artificially Intelligent Agents
This Industry Funded PhD Scholarship will explore how people trust and understand the actions and decisions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) agents and develop methods to communicate and interact efficiently and effectively with such agents.
Deadline:
31 July 2018Funding:
fundedTeam-Based Agent-Human Collaboration in High Pressure Information Environments
This EPSRC iCase PhD project with British Aerospace Engineering (BAE) will blend human computer interaction (HCI) with Machine Learning (ML) to develop artificially intelligent agents that can collaborate effectively with teams of humans to ensure success in high pressured and stressful environments.
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1 July 2018Funding:
fundedA tensor network approach to the quantum many body problem
A shared PhD between Strathclyde and ICFO that will address collective emergence in the framework of quantum many-body systems described through tensor networks.
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fundedNanoscale 3D transfer printing for hybrid photonic device fabrication
This project will develop chip scale optoelectronic systems through the 3-dimensional printing of nanoscale building block components such as nanolasers and thin film electronics.
