Postgraduate research & PhD opportunities
Take a look at our postgraduate research and PhD opportunities we have on offer at the University of Strathclyde.
An Investigation into Droplet Splashing and Levitation Phenomena in Multiphase Systems
Opens:22 November 2017
With this project, we propose an investigation into a variety of dynamics and effects produced by the interaction of a droplet or a group of droplets with a solid or liquid surface. Related technological applications abound in the fields of thermal, mechanical and chemical engineering.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, InternationalSubject
Mechanical and aerospace engineering, Chemical and process engineering, PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
High Resolution Methods for Assessment of Heat loss From Plants and Arrays of Buildings
Opens:19 December 2017
With this project, we propose an investigation into a variety of dynamics and effects produced by the interaction of an array of buildings (or a set of heat sources in an industrial plant or in a power plant) with a cross flow (horizontal wind).
Fee status
Subject
Civil and environmental engineering, Mechanical and aerospace engineering, Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
PhD Design and development of novel, gas-filled plasma closing switches for pulsed power applications
Opens:1 June 2017
A three-year PhD project offered by the High Voltage Technologies (HVT) Research Group based within the Institute of Energy & Environment.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Electronic and electrical engineering, PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
PhD Fine and ultra-fine particles in air: electromagnetic and low temperature plasma decontamination
Opens:1 June 2017
A three year PhD project offered by the High Voltage Technologies (HVT) Research Group, focused on the development of advanced impulsive non-thermal plasma systems for air cleaning and aerosol decontamination operations.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Electronic and electrical engineering, PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
PhD Non-thermal transient plasma discharges for environmental applications
Opens:1 June 2017
A three year PhD investigating the efficiency of transient non-thermal plasma discharges for different environmental applications is offered by the High Voltage Technologies (HVT) Research group within the Institute for Energy & Environment.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Electronic and electrical engineering, PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
10 Fully Funded PhD and EngD research studentships within Centre for Doctoral training in Future Ultrasonic Engineering (FUSE)
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:1 January 2021
UKRI EPSRC are funding FUSE CDT, based in the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde with >30 industrial partners covering a broad range of application areas. There are 10 four-year research studentships available for a September 2021 start.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
Electronic and electrical engineering, Computer and information sciences, Mechanical and aerospace engineering, Chemistry, Mathematics and statistics, PhysicsMode of Study
Full Time, Part TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendExpanding Measurement Limits of Fibre-Optic Voltage and Current Sensors for Smart Grid Applications
Opens:11 September 2019
A 36-month full-time, fully funded Strathclyde/NPL/Synaptec PhD Studentship with the aim to investigate a range of electrical, mechanical, photonic and materials science aspects of hybrid fibre-optic voltage and current sensors in order to drive the limits of their measurement performance in smart grid applications.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
Electronic and electrical engineering, PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, Travel costs, StipendAutomated In-Process Inspection of Additively Manufactured Components Using Eddy Currents and Ultrasound Testing
Deadline:31 August 2021 Opens:11 January 2021
This is an exciting 42-month fully-funded PhD, supported by EPSRC focusing on the robotic deployment of electromagnetic and acoustic sensors for inspection of additively manufactured (AM) components. The project aims at quality assurance of High-Value Manufacturing AM components.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
Electronic and electrical engineering, Mechanical and aerospace engineering, Naval architecture, ocean and marine engineering, PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, Equipment costs, Travel costs, StipendIntegrated Systems Design of Composite Casings for Power Electronic Converters for Aircraft Applications.
Deadline:5 March 2021 Opens:1 February 2021
A 42-month full-time, fully-funded PhD, supported by EPSRC and Rolls-Royce, focusing on integrated design of power electronic converters with carbon fibre composite cases, for light-weighting of electrical power systems on aircraft, directly supporting reduced green-house gas emissions from aircraft.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
Electronic and electrical engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, Travel costs, StipendIn-process Material Evaluation of Welding and Additive Manufacturing
Deadline:7 March 2021 Opens:5 February 2021
A 42-month full-time, fully-funded PhD, supported by EPSRC and two departments (EEE & DMEM) at University of Strathclyde, focusing on Robotics, Non-destructive Testing & Evaluation (NDT&E), Additive Manufacturing, Welding, Industry 4.0, Automated Inspection, and Process Modelling.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
Electronic and electrical engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, Travel costs, StipendPhD Studentship in Optoacoustic (laser ultrasound) sensing for remote, chemical process monitoring
Deadline:19 April 2021 Opens:11 February 2021
A 42-month full-time, fully-funded PhD, supported by the EPSRC and focusing on remote sensing for bio-/chemical sensing and monitoring. The sensors will be wireless and optically excited, making them suitable for minimum impact on the tested system and hazardous or sterilised environments.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
Electronic and electrical engineering, Chemical and process engineering, Chemistry, PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, Travel costs, StipendPhD - Optical Measurement Techniques for Combustion Diagnostics
Deadline:30 April 2021 Opens:15 February 2021
A 42-month full-time PhD fully funded for UK students only. An experimental PhD focused on photonics instrumentation design, supporting an EPSRC research grant in collaboration with Rolls-Royce, Siemens and the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton, Sheffield and Loughborough.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
Electronic and electrical engineering, Biomedical engineering, Chemical and process engineering, Chemistry, PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, Travel costs, StipendAdvanced BioMaterials for Construction and Civil Engineering
Opens:6 September 2017
This PhD will explore how bacterially generated materials can be modified by incorporation of polymers and nanoparticles to enhance their mechanical properties. In this way, bacterially generated materials could be modified for specific tasks, such as earthquake and weather resistance.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Civil and environmental engineering, Mechanical and aerospace engineering, Chemistry, Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
bio-deterioration of concrete and conservation of architectural heritage
Opens:18 October 2017
Bio-deterioration of concrete strongly affects much of our built heritage and is particularly notable in wet territories like the UK or South East Asia. How to effectively solve bio-deterioration of concrete sculptures and buildings is an environmental, societal and scientific challenge.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Civil and environmental engineering, ChemistryMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Engineering vegetation to stabilise slopes at the catchment scale
Opens:12 October 2017
The project focuses on laboratory and field investigation of the effects of root architecture on evapotranspiration processes and hydraulic conductivity of the rhizosphere. This is aimed at designing remedial measures to prevent diffuse shallow landsliding.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
Civil and environmental engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Robotic monitoring and maintenance of civil infrastructure
Opens:12 October 2017
This PhD will practically explore how robotically applied sensors, repairs and smart materials can be used to enhance the integrity and safety of civil infrastructure.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
Civil and environmental engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Health effects of exposure to traffic-related air pollutants
Opens:19 December 2017
This PhD project will assess the effects of air pollutant exposure on the efficacy of medical treatments for respiratory and cardiovascular conditions, in collaboration with and the NHS in Scotland and Ricardo Energy & Environment.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Civil and environmental engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendApatite Biomineralization Technologies for Waste Treatment
Opens:2 May 2018
There is growing research interest in exploiting biologically-mediated mineral precipitation to develop new methods for nuclear waste treatment. This PhD project will investigate using bacterial apatites to remove radionuclides, such as 3H and 36Cl from gaseous and aqueous waste streams.
Fee status
Subject
Civil and environmental engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendAssessing the value of data for engineering seismology
Opens:6 August 2018
The aim of this project is to develop a practical approach to estimate the economic value of data used within engineering seismology, i.e. the assessment of the earthquake loading that a structure or infrastructure may be subjected to during its lifetime.
Fee status
Subject
Civil and environmental engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Development of low cost, modular sensors to de-risk suction caisson foundations for offshore wind
Deadline:30 June 2021 Opens:18 January 2021
This fully-funded PhD offers an exciting opportunity to undertake research on the development of a low cost, modular sensor platform for intelligent offshore wind foundation monitoring.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Civil and environmental engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendAnalysis of microseismic data to inform the siting, construction and operation of a geological disposal facility in the UK
Deadline:25 March 2021 Opens:9 February 2021
A fully-funded 4-year industrial CASE PhD studentship is offered by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and RWM Ltd., a public organisation established by government and responsible for planning and delivering geological disposal in the UK.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Civil and environmental engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, Equipment costs, Travel costs, StipendImpact-based weather forecasting for the renewable energy sector
Deadline:9 April 2021 Opens:15 February 2021
This UKRI-funded PhD project will explore the potential of impact-based forecasts of extreme weather events for the energy sector as it transitions to a net zero, low carbon future.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Civil and environmental engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, Equipment costs, Travel costs, StipendAdvancing the Performance and Health Analytics of a Geographically Distributed Rotating Equipment Monitoring Platform
Opens:19 November 2020
The NMIS (National Manufacturing Institute Scotland) Doctorate Centre in Advanced Manufacturing, along with Howden Compressors are looking to jointly fund a 4 year PhD studentship in the area of industrially applied data analysis for providing real-time insights into machinery condition.
Fee status
Subject
Design manufacture and engineering managementMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendOptimized manufacturing through physics based models
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:16 December 2020
The overall aim of this project is to further develop thermo-mechanical finite element models, mechanical material subroutines and simplified microstructure evolution models and compare the results against the vast existing data from our AFRC facilities.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, InternationalSubject
Design manufacture and engineering managementMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendUnderstanding mental imagery processes in creative design synthesis
Opens:24 February 2021
This PhD project will combine qualitative and quantitative methods from design and psychology to provide new understanding about the role of mental imagery in creative design synthesis.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EUSubject
Design manufacture and engineering managementMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendUnderstanding the relationship between personality cognition & creativity in product design
Opens:24 February 2021
This PhD project will combine qualitative and quantitative methods from design and psychology to provide new understanding about the relationships between personality, cognition, and creativity in product design.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EUSubject
Design manufacture and engineering managementMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendImproving purity of crystalline pharmaceutical products using advanced nano-tomography techniques
Opens:12 February 2021
Filtration and washing of pharmaceutical products is classically undertaken empirically. This project will use nano-computed tomography (nano-CT), a high-resolution cross-sectional imaging technique to track the progress of washing at high resolution in real time.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Sustainable paper making using foam
Opens:27 February 2021
This modelling and simulation study will investigate the complex processes that occur when foam, rather than water, is used as a carrier for fibres during papermaking, with a view towards reducing the overall water footprint of the paper production process.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Predicting drug solubility in different solvents using molecular simulation and machine learning
Opens:24 February 2021
This project aims to develop a new computational tool, combining molecular simulations and machine learning approaches, to predict the solubility of complex pharmaceutical molecules in a variety of solvents.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
New methods for removal of pollutants from water
Opens:12 February 2021
Focussed on the development of novel sorption systems for water remediation, the project combines materials development, characterisation and testing for a range of pollutants, including pharmaceuticals and heavy metal species.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
New methods of carbon capture using green materials
Opens:28 February 2021
The project aims to address the issues related to low capacity and poor kinetics of sorbents used for post combustion carbon dioxide capture applications.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Robust modelling of biomass conversion processes to meet low carbon objectives
Opens:17 February 2020
This project is to develop and assess modelling methods to obtain a deeper insight into the physico-chemical processes of biomass conversion.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Valorisation of wet biomass waste for sustainable production of fuels and chemicals
Opens:20 February 2021
This project will undertake studies on the processes and technology required to convert biomass waste into a range of hydrocarbons. This research project requires both modelling and experimental studies to analyse the waste to energy process and the fuel properties of hydrocarbons and chemicals produced.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
International fee, Home fee, StipendDirect numerical simulation of polymeric-fluid flows
Opens:24 February 2021
The purpose of this project is to apply a formulation to polymeric turbulent boundary layer flows and, in this way, to make some first, yet decisive, steps in the physics and algorithmics of fully-coupled polymeric boundary layer turbulence.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Finite temperature superfluid turbulence flow-structure interactions via immersed boundary methods
Opens:17 February 2020
The research is a co-operation with researchers at California Institute of Technology, and will pioneer superfluid flow-structure interactions with are of key importance in technological and astronomical applications.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendWhat makes particle packings stable? Novel answers to a baffling question
Opens:17 February 2020
Soils, catalysts, tablets, dunes: all are packings of particles. Whether a packing is stable or collapses is a key question in nature and industry. The project uses computational methods to explore what features of a packing’s microstructure makes it stable.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Designing colloidal films and membranes with complex interactions
Opens:24 February 2021
Many applications rely on structured films and membranes, such as selective filters, adsorbents, and biological systems. The project will use computer modelling to analyse how particles with complex interactions aggregate to form films with complex structure and complex time-evolution.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Inhibiting amyloid development using natural compounds: a molecular dynamics study
Opens:17 February 2020
This project will utilise molecular dynamics simulation, exploiting the ARCHIE_WeSt supercomputer at Strathclyde to understand how the inhibitors interact with protein aggregates; how they interfere with the nucleation and growth pathway of the fibrils, and if aggregation can be reversed.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Investigation of pharmaceutical crystallisation using small angle x-ray scattering
Opens:17 February 2020
The project will focus on the applications of latest Small-angle X-ray scattering system in CMAC (EPSRC Centre of excellence in continuous manufacturing and crystallisation) to provide mechanistic understanding of interparticle interaction in dense system under repulsive or attractive interactions.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Development of a spatially resolved spectroscopy probe for application in pharmaceutical drying processes
Opens:17 February 2020
In this project, the student will be involved in an industrial funded project to develop and use spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) and spatially resolved diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (SR-DRS) for obtaining insight into sub-surface powder drying behaviour.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Modelling the effect of the electric double layer on electron transfer kinetics
Opens:17 February 2020
This project will combine recent theories for the influence of charge correlations on the structure of the electric double layer with a simple quantum description of charge transfer to to develop a new model for electrochemical reactions.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Developing a multiscale description of complex fluids from the molecular to the continuum scales
Opens:17 February 2020
This ambitious project attempts to build a single, unified description of complex fluids that incorporates molecular-level detail but can be applied on a wide range of length and time scales that extends to the continuum scale.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Computational design of bio-inspired silica materials for carbon capture
Opens:17 February 2021
This project aims to develop a new multi-scale simulation model to describe the entire synthesis process of bio-inspired silica materials. The model will then be used to design an ideal material for carbon capture applications.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Foam improved oil recovery
Opens:27 February 2021
This modelling and simulation study will investigate processes that occur when foam injection is used to displace fluids from an oil reservoir, and in particular what happens as the foam front changes direction as additional injection wells are brought online.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Nucleation of organic crystals in flows
Opens:17 February 2020
This project investigates how crystals nucleate and how fluid flows can be used to influence crystallisation, using cutting edge experimental facilities, including high speed high resolution imaging, Brownian microscopy, static and dynamic light scattering and small angle X-ray scattering.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Development of learner autonomy in student-centred learning environments in engineering
Opens:17 February 2020
This project will investigate behavioural and performance characteristics of students when working in Problem-Based and Enquiry-based learning activities in order to elucidate the link between the use of these approaches and the development of learner’s autonomy.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Source detection and treatment of microplastics
Opens:17 February 2020
This project aims to enhance the understanding of point-source detection of microplastic fragments using spectrophotometry and chemometric methods.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Clean energy technologies for a rapidly developing world
Opens:17 February 2020
The PhD study will explore conceptual, theoretical, and experimental approaches in biomass utilisation and thermochemical conversion to develop innovative energy solutions and/or processes as well as a circular economy concept for resource recovery.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Atomic/molecular insights into the formation of valuable products from waste biomass
Opens:17 February 2020
Quantum Chemistry and Molecular Dynamics calculations will be carried out to explore the mechanism and kinetics of lignocellulosic biomass processing and the conversion of waste into valuable products.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendSystem design on co-production of transport fuel and value-added chemicals from waste biomass
Opens:17 February 2020
In this project, an integrated system will be designed and developed to ensure efficient generation of liquid transportation fuels whilst maximising the value of biomass into value-added chemicals by controlling structure and functionality as they form.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendElectroforming 4.0
Opens:17 February 2020
The project involves the development of a pilot scale reactor with instrumentation that will enable the interrogation and optimisation an electroforming process. Both scientific and statistical techniques will be employed to interpret process data enabling process control.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Embedded optical sensors for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells
Opens:17 February 2020
This project aims to develop embedded optical fibre sensors for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells to characterise catalyst degradation mechanisms under realistic operating conditions.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Hydrogen production from electrolysis of biomass
Opens:17 February 2020
This project aims to develop a new process for hydrogen production using biomass electrolysis.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Design of sustainable biocomposites
Opens:27 February 2021
This project aims to use molecular dynamics simulations to understand how the interaction between filler, coupling agent and polymer influence the composite properties.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendTuning materials from within: growing endo/exo-particles for energy conversion devices
Opens:7 May 2020
This PhD project will explore the design, characterisation and application of exsolved materials for power-to-X energy conversion devices where X can be fuels, chemicals, heat or power, all essential for transitioning to a clean, sustainable energy economy.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Instant-on solid oxide cells for hydrogen production and power generation
Opens:7 May 2020
This PhD project will develop reversible solid oxide cells based on a newly discovered class of materials, so called exsolved or emergent materials.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Data-driven approaches for in-line monitoring of particle attributes in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing processes
Opens:7 May 2020
The project will investigate Machine Learning and Deep Learning approaches to extract and fuse multiple data streams from multi-sensor setups in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing through a combination of experimental work, data analytics and process simulation.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Electronic and electrical engineering, Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Hybrid data-driven and first principles models for crystal nucleation and growth
Opens:7 May 2020
The project will explore the use of hybrid models that combine the advantages of data-driven and physics-based first principles models to enhance the performance of current models for crystal nucleation and growth in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Detecting and characterising airborne microplastics and asbestos fibres through Machine Learning
Opens:7 May 2020
The project will contribute to the ongoing efforts in monitoring and improving air quality through the application of machine learning and deep learning algorithms for detection and characterisation of airborne microplastics and asbestos fibres.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Electronic and electrical engineering, Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Circular nutrient metabolism for Mars exploration
Opens:14 May 2020
The study will assess potential applications of Chemical & Process Engineering on circular nutrient metabolism with focus on urine utilization under the resources available and the constraints existing on Mars.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Water metabolism in cities: towards a deeper understanding of the lifecycle of drinking water in the urbanocene
Opens:14 May 2020
The study will focus on the current and future challenges of drinking water metabolism in cities to effectively respond in sustainable operational approaches and to support human well-being in urban environments.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Effects of hydrogen addition on soot formation in flames: experimental investigation by laser imaging
Opens:27 January 2021
This projects involves the application of laser imaging techniques to study soot formation. The particular interest is in flames where hydrogen is blended with hydrocarbon fuel. The ultimate goal is improved understanding (and thus minimisation) of pollutant formation.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendFinite temperature superfluid turbulence flow-structure interactions via immersed boundary methods
Opens:24 February 2021
The research is a co-operation with researchers at California Institute of Technology, and will pioneer superfluid flow-structure interactions with are of key importance in technological and astronomical applications.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendThe birth of crystals: new understanding of nucleation by localised triggering and direct measurement
Opens:28 February 2021
We will develop an innovative technique to study crystal nucleation, using an optical tweezer to generate a localized shear flow in a crystallizing solution, thus triggering nucleation in a known position enabling direct measurement of the growing nucleus.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendTense solid oxide cells – boosting clean energy conversion through nanoscale strain
Opens:3 February 2021
This PhD project will explore the design, characterisation and application of new materials for electrochemical power-to-X conversion (X = fuels, chemicals) devices essential for transitioning to a clean, sustainable energy economy.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemical and process engineeringMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendStudent Excellence Awards (SEA) 2021/22
Deadline:5 March 2021 Opens:1 October 2020
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is pleased to invite applications from excellent students with original research proposals for the University of Strathclyde Student Excellence Awards for commencing study in October 2021.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Physical activity for health, Politics, History, Modern languages, Speech and language therapy, Education, Law, Creative writing, English, Psychology, Social work and social policy, Journalism, Gender studies, CounsellingMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendDean's Global Research Award (PhD, MPhil): Humanities & Social Sciences - 2021/22
Deadline:5 April 2021 Opens:10 February 2021
The Dean’s Global Research Award will help to cover the difference between the tuition fee for a UK postgraduate student and that chargeable to an international, self-funded postgraduate research student. The award will apply for each year of study up to 3 years.
Fee status
InternationalSubject
Politics, History, Modern languages, Speech and language therapy, Education, Law, Creative writing, English, Psychology, Social work and social policy, Journalism, Gender studiesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
International feeIdentifying chemical probes to characterise intrinsically disordered drug targets through novel ion mobility-based screening capabilities
Opens:4 February 2021
Ion mobility mass spectrometry will be used to characterise an intrinsically disordered protein that is involved in cancer. Screening methods will be developed to identify small molecules that affect the behaviour of the protein, to be used as chemical probes for its validation as a suitable drug target.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
Chemistry, Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendAn investigation into an aspect of Science Education Research
Opens:20 December 2019
You will work under the supervision of Dr Fraser J. Scott to investigate an aspect of Science Education Research. This will likely be on a topic involving the overlap of Science and Mathematics education, but the specific topic is open for discussion.
Fee status
Subject
Chemistry, Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full Time, Part TimeFunding
Accelerating the clinical introduction of novel antibiotic combinations effective against Gram-negative pathogens
Opens:6 January 2020
You will work under the supervision of Dr Fraser J. Scott to investigate Strathclyde Minor Groove Binders in combination with existing antibiotics. Experimental work will involve in vitro susceptibility testing, toxicity testing, and mechanism of action studies on clinical isolates.
Fee status
Subject
Chemistry, Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full Time, Part TimeFunding
Towards the development of a novel class of broad-spectrum anti-infective drugs
Opens:20 December 2019
You will work under the supervision of Dr Fraser J. Scott to develop Strathclyde Minor Groove Binders as anti-infective agents. Experimental work will include organic chemistry, but also biochemical (enzyme assays), biophysical (UV-vis, NMR) and biology (in vitro activity) aspects.
Fee status
Subject
Chemistry, Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full Time, Part TimeFunding
Determination and behaviour of microplastics in terrestrial systems
Opens:2 March 2020
This PhD involves the development of analytical methods and their application to investigate the behaviour of microplastic pollutants in the environment. Laboratory and field studies will be used to assess the ability of microplastics to transport potentially toxic elements in terrestrial systems.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
ChemistryMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Understanding and Deploying Nickel Catalysis for Cross-Coupling
Opens:2 March 2020
The student will investigate and quantify structure/reactivity relationships in nickel catalysis using a range of techniques including organic/organometallic synthesis, physical organic chemistry, and density functional theory, as appropriate.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
ChemistryMode of Study
Full Time, Part TimeFunding
Portable screening of illicit drugs for forensic analysis
Opens:2 March 2020
Developing novel methodologies for portable detection of a variety of illicit substances including but not limited to drugs of abuse, explosives, gunshot residue and / or screening of bodily fluids at crime scenes.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Forensic science, ChemistryMode of Study
Full Time, Part TimeFunding
Developing point of care sensors for biomedical diagnostics
Opens:2 March 2020
Developing novel methodologies for portable, rapid, point-of-care detection of a variety of biomedically relevant markers for use in biomedical diagnostics
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemistry, Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full Time, Part TimeFunding
Second generation nano-carriers for pancreatic cancer therapy
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:31 March 2020
In this project we would like to use established chemistry from our proof of concept studies in order to form a range of second generation particles exploiting combined therapies of laser released anticancer drugs for pancreatic cancer treatment.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemistry, Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Understanding How Cancer Cells Respond to Treatment Using Raman Spectroscopy
Opens:1 April 2020
This project will investigate Raman scattering and its variations (surface enhanced (SERS) and stimulated (SRS)) to assess cancer cells and tissue prior to and following treatment with conventional anticancer drugs and particularly new alternative drugs that have shown promise as anticancer agents.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
ChemistryMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Biocatalytic Atom Transfer Radical Polymerizations
Opens:7 April 2020
Some enzymes catalyze atom transfer radical polymerizations (ATRP). They represent an environmentally friendly and non-toxic alternative to conventional catalysts. To unlock the potential of bioATRP, advanced polymerization techniques such as electrochemically mediated ATRP and flow chemistry will be investigated.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
ChemistryMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Raman probes to determine cellular redox potential
Opens:7 April 2020
The discovery of new medicines to treat disease requires the identification, understanding and validation of biological pathways and targets. This project resides in the Healthcare technologies theme, aligning with the growth area of Chemical Biology and the areas of Analytical Science and Synthetic Organic Chemistry.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Chemistry, Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Equipment costs, Travel costsDeveloping an ultrawide dynamic range analytical platform for biomarker panel analysis
Opens:1 June 2020
The aim of this project is to address the challenge of directly detecting disease biomarker panels in serum featuring target species whose relative concentrations span many orders of magnitude.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Biomedical engineering, Chemistry, Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Novel Preconditioned Iterative Methods for Radial Basis Linear Systems
Opens:26 January 2018
This project will develop effective solvers for linear systems in these RBF methods. In particular, we will focus on certain iterative methods (Krylov subspace methods) that start with an initial guess of the solution that is improved at each step.
Fee status
Subject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Thin-Film Flows
Opens:26 January 2018
The proposed project will use a variety of analytical and numerical methods to bring new understanding into a range of real-world problems involving thin films of both simple and complex fluids.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, InternationalSubject
Mathematics and statistics, PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Microfluidics
Opens:25 February 2018
In recent years there has been an explosive growth of interest in the behaviour and control of fluids at small (typically sub-millimetre) scales motivated by a range of novel applications including ink-jet printing and lab-on-a-chip technologies.
Fee status
Subject
Mathematics and statistics, PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
How and Why of Matrix Balancing
Opens:27 February 2018
Matrix balancing aims to transform a nonnegative matrix A by a diagonal scaling by matrices D and E so that P = DAE has prescribed row and column sums. Historical motivation for achieving the balance has included interpreting economic data, preconditioning sparse matrices and understanding traffic circulation.
Fee status
Subject
Mathematics and statistics, PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
On the edge of the abyss: Mathematical modelling of salmon energetics and marine migration
Deadline:30 April 2021 Opens:9 December 2020
This project combines mathematical modelling of Atlantic salmon migration, foraging, and growth with long-term observational data and high-resolution 3D ocean models to test hypotheses about how climate change, ocean currents, and plankton ecology come together to shape the salmon’s past and future.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full Time, Part TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendNumerical Methods for SDEs under the Local Lipschitz Condition
Opens:27 February 2018
The aims of this PhD is to develop the truncated EM method are to study the strong convergence in finite-time for SDEs under the generalised Khasminskii condition and its convergence rate and to investigate the numerical stability of the nonlinear SDEs.
Fee status
Subject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Stochastic Modelling of Saving Accounts Linked to Stock Market
Opens:27 February 2018
This project is to perform the stochastic and numerical analysis on the stock market linked savings accounts in order to establish the theory on the mean percentage of return (MPR).
Fee status
Subject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Time-dependent Scattering Problems
Opens:5 March 2018
Time dependent wave propagation and scattering is important in acoustics, electromagnetics and seismology.
Fee status
Subject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Multidimensional Visibility Graphs and Submonolayer Deposition
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:6 July 2020
The project deals with VISIBILITY GRAPHS. It will involve numerical work as well as methods of network and graph theory, primarily spectral analysis of adjacency matrices and Laplacians of the visibility graphs, and centrality and communicability indices of these graphs.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendWhat is the role of discarding in the dynamics of the demersal fish community of the Firth of Clyde?
Opens:13 March 2019
The purpose of this project is to conduct a comprehensive extraction and synthesis of all the relevant data for demersal fish species in the Firth of Clyde.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendDynamics of Self-Rewetting Droplets
Opens:2 March 2020
There is currently great interest in self-rewetting fluids whose surface tension exhibits a local minimum with temperature. The aim of the project is bring new insight into the understanding of these novel fluids, and hence to harness the properties of droplets of such fluids in a range of technological applications.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Fast solvers for PDE problems
Opens:27 February 2020
Many problems are described by partial differential equations that are too difficult to solve analytically. Numerical solutions must be used, which typically require the solution of linear systems. This project will look at how to solve these linear systems efficiently.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full Time, Part TimeFunding
Permutation tableaux, the Abelian Sandpile Model and Asymmetric Exclusion Processes
Opens:2 March 2020
Study permutation tableaux such as the Le- and EW-tableaux, their connections to Abelian Sandpile Model and Asymmetric Exclusion Processes, and the connection between these two models afforded by the tableaux.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Graph representations
Opens:31 March 2020
Graph representations became crucial with the advent of the computer era for storing graphs in computer memory. However, graph representations, e.g. those involving patterns in words, are also useful in solving problems on graphs as they may allow transferring a graph problem to that on other objects hence solving it.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Uniform Distribution of Resources within a City
Opens:31 March 2020
To ensure that a person taking any route in a city has the same experience, e.g. seeing a city map, we need methods to cover the routes without over-deploying resources. We will use tools in Graph Theory and Combinatorics to optimally deploy resources across a city to have maximum effect on those navigating it.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Computational Fluid Dynamics of Liquid Crystals
Opens:6 April 2020
Liquid crystals are fluids that show local orientational order. The interplay between orientation and flow in these substances is very intricate and can lead to interesting macroscopic phenomena, many of which are not yet fully understood. This project will study such phenomena using mathematical and numerical models.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Monotone Grid Classes of Permutations
Opens:7 April 2020
The goal of this project is the exact enumeration of classes of permutations that can be plotted on monotone curves in grids. At present, an effective procedure is only known for so-called “skinny” classes. The general problem is challenging because permutations have multiple ways of being plotted on the curves.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Spectral biclustering
Opens:1 March 2020
Effective methods have been derived for dividing a network into coherent communities using spectral information obtained from the network. Biclustering has received far less attention. We will develop new methods and analysis for this problem, starting from recent work using a bistochastic representation of a network.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full Time, Part Time, DistanceFunding
Principal Permutation Classes
Opens:1 September 2020
The goal of this project is to explore fundamental structural questions concerning sets of permutations that avoid a single pattern. The study of these combinatorial objects was initiated by Donald Knuth in the 1960s when he investigated which permutations could be sorted by being passed through a stack.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Theory of elasticity of unconventional nematic liquid crystals
Opens:1 October 2020
The aim of this project is the generalise the existing molecular-statistical theory of elasticity of nematic liquid crystals to the case of bent-core nematics, composed of biaxial and polar molecules, using the preliminary results obtained in recent years.
Fee status
Subject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Theory of cholesteric ordering in lyotropic liquid crystals
Opens:1 October 2020
The aim of this project is to develop a molecular-statistical theory of chirality transfer in cholecteric nanorod phase, determined by steric and electrostatic chiral interactions, and quantitatively describe the variation of helix pitch as a function of rod length, concentration, dispersity and temperature.
Fee status
Subject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Plankton size diversity in UK coastal waters: observations and modelling
Deadline:30 April 2021 Opens:10 December 2020
Plankton are critically important for marine habitats supporting their food webs and influencing ecosystem health. Plankton size also determines how much food is available to upper trophic levels such as fish. Therefore, it is crucial for us to understand what controls plankton size structure in the ocean.
Fee status
Home (Scottish)Subject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full Time, Part TimeFunding
Home feeRobust numerical models for high-frequency wave propagation problems
Opens:3 February 2021
The aim of this project is to build and analyse a new generation of spectral preconditioners based on generalised eigenvalue problems allowing a robust behaviour with respect to the physical properties of the medium. This requires a combination of numerical analysis and spectral analysis tools.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendElectrohydrodynamics of Droplet Pairs
Deadline:14 March 2021 Opens:29 January 2021
The project involves studying the dynamics of a pair of droplets subject to electric ˝elds. The well-known stan-dard methods of solving Laplace and Stokes equations in-volving singularity solutions will be employed. See below for some related papers on the topic.
Fee status
Home (Scottish)Subject
Mathematics and statisticsMode of Study
Full Time, Part TimeFunding
Home feeInformation seeking for profound needs
Opens:2 October 2017
The profound is deep and sublime; activities such as religion, altruism, wisdom that give meaning to life. Information such as poetry, religious texts, life stories are often used to create profound activities that help us understand how to live a good life.
Fee status
Subject
EducationMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Algorithmic Bias in Search Engines
Opens:27 March 2018
We are looking for PhD Students interested in making search engines (and machine learning in general) fairer, more transparency and explainable.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Computer and information sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
3-D nanoscale structural analysis in the scanning electron microscope through application of direct electron detectors
Opens:1 January 2017
This project is focused on developing and applying next generation detectors for the scanning electron microscopy techniques of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and electron channelling contrast imaging (ECCI).
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
A new super-resolution optical microscopy method for live cell imaging
Opens:1 April 2017
A project to develop and use a new super-resolution optical microscope to obtain very high spatial resolution images of fluorescently labelled live cells.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration at Strathclyde/SLAC/UCLA/RadiaBeam
Opens:1 March 2017
Motivated PhD candidates, ideally with a background in laser and/or beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration are required to help lay the foundations in the quest towards 5th generation light sources and ultra-compact electron accelerators - the time-resolved microscopes of the 21st century.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Structured Light Lasers
Opens:1 January 2017
In this PhD project – funded by the Leverhulme Trust and in collaboration with Dr. Sonja Franke-Arnold at the University of Glasgow – you will demonstrate storage and processing of OAM information in a rubidium vapour.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Yu Chen, Energy Transfer at the Nanoscale
Opens:27 July 2017
PhD position available to undertake frontier research in nanotechnology of noble metal nanoparticles.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Quantum Information Theory
Opens:1 January 2017
An EPSRC funded studentship in theoretical quantum information, specifically the relationship between decoherence, non-classicality, and the efficacy of quantum information tasks.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Super-resolution imaging of biological organisms: seeing below the classical limits
Opens:1 March 2017
This PhD project aims to develop a comprehensive suite of tools and techniques that will enable superresolution imaging of nanodiamonds in living tissue, with a particular emphasis on imaging neurons.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
Physics, Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Theory and simulation of generation of frequency combs in micro-resonators
Opens:1 January 2017
The project develops, optimises, and strategically compares accurate mathematical models for the generation of frequency combs in micro-resonators in a close connection with the experiments performed at NPL in Dr Del'Haye's laboratory.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Ultra-intense laser-plasma interactions: High field physics and ion acceleration in the radiation-dominated regime
Opens:1 January 2017
A fully-funded PhD studentship is available in high power laser-plasma physics, working within a vibrant team of experimentalists and theoreticians, to investigate the onset of a new regime of high-field relativistic plasmas.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Studies of the interaction of intense laser pulses with plasma as ultra-compact accelerators, plasma-based laser amplifiers, and coherent and incoherent attosecond x-ray sources
Opens:1 January 2017
PhDs are available in an exciting and challenging research area, with a vibrant group of experimentalists and theoreticians developing and applying ultra-compact accelerators and x-ray sources based on laser-plasma interactions.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Ultrahigh Gain Thin Films
Opens:26 July 2018
The project will study the properties of amplifying and nonlinear films both analytically and numerically. Collaboration with an experimental team at the University of Glasgow will also be exploited.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Microscopic mapping and spectroscopy of III-nitride semiconductors and devices
Opens:1 August 2017
This project involves different microscopic techniques to investigate semiconductor heterostructures and light-emitting diode devices, performed on our suite of scanning electron microscopes, providing information on material properties at length scales ranging from nanometres to centimetres.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Laser cooling and Bose-Einstein condensation
Opens:1 August 2017
This PhD will investigate novel ways to laser cool two-electron atoms all the way to Bose-Einstein condensation – to provide new insight into the formation of condensates, and potential applications in precision measurements.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Ultra-precise Atomic Magnetometry for Unshielded Measurements
Opens:1 June 2020
A fully-funded position to undertake research in the ground-breaking field of quantum sensing and measurement, after the first year specialising in Magnetometry.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Quantum Technologies: Atomic Clocks
Opens:1 June 2020
A fully-funded position to undertake research in the ground-breaking field of quantum sensing and measurement, after the first year specialising in Atomic Clocks.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Quantum Technologies: Atom Interferometry
Opens:1 June 2020
A fully-funded position to undertake research in the ground-breaking field of quantum sensing and measurement, after the first year specialising in Atom Interferometry.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Quantum nonlinearities in dielectric nanoparticles
Opens:28 November 2017
We focus on new nonlinear regimes with input powers so low that they enable all-optical processing and the exploitation of the fundamental advantages of quantum technologies at the nanoscale.
Fee status
Subject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Nanoscale 3D transfer printing for hybrid photonic device fabrication
Opens:4 December 2017
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.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
Electronic and electrical engineering, PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Diamond for laser engineering: lasers for manufacturing and sensing
Opens:4 December 2017
Diamond is an exciting and enabling material of laser engineering. This project will aim to exploit diamond directly as a laser gain material so as to fully exploit its excellent thermal and mechanical properties.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Multiscale neural imaging - from synapse to whole organism
Opens:12 February 2018
Advances in microscopy allow imaging on scales ranging from single molecules to whole organism. This project involves developing a microscope that will allow images of whole invertebrates (likely C. Elegans nematode worms) be correlated with nanoscopic (super-reolution) images of sub-cellular regions within them.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendUltracold fermions in a quantum gas microscope
Opens:7 March 2018
We invite outstanding and motivated students to join our team, for research on ultracold atoms in optical lattices. We use a quantum-gas microscope to measure the dynamics of ultracold fermions at the single atom level.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendAdvanced image analysis of semiconductor structures
Opens:23 March 2018
This project is focussed on advanced modern image analysis and pattern recognition methods to study the microscopy and spectroscopy of semiconductor structures and devices. Developing automated and robust methods to look at images and video will revolutionise this area.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendTheory and simulation of micro-resonator devices for quantum technologies
Opens:24 April 2018
We explore nonlinear quantum regimes of the coupling between light and matter for ultra-low power micro and nano-lasers. These are promising candidates to achieve high efficiency, high speed, and a small footprint.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendTheoretical and numerical studies of high intensity laser-plasma interaction and applications
Opens:13 August 2018
Two PhD positions for UK and EU students are available funded by University of Strathclyde and collaboration partners to work on laser-plasma based particle accelerators and plasma photonics for high power lasers via theory and large scale of numerical simulation.
Fee status
Subject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendQuantum Dot Spin State Tailoring for Scalable On-Chip Quantum Information Processing
Opens:31 January 2019
In this project we will investigate various approaches for on-demand engineering of trapped spin states in charged quantum dots through a series of coherent control experiments that will explore how the different approaches affect the performance of all optically operated universal single qubit gates.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Jamming-free quantum lidar
Opens:29 April 2019
This project in quantum optics will analyse practical quantum radar and lidar scenarios with realistic detectors in a jamming/spoofing environment.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendProbing Quantum States With Silicon Carbide Nanoelectronics
Opens:26 June 2019
This project focuses on the realisation of quantum phenomena in commercially-compatible electronic devices, such as transistors and diodes in silicon carbide. The main goal is to couple electron spins to electromagnetic radiation, in order to manipulate and read quantum states.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendCharacterisation of Ga2O3 materials for ultraviolet optoelectronic devices
Opens:18 November 2019
Gallium oxide is an emerging semiconductor offering promises for applications in ultraviolet optical devices. The project aims to improve our understanding of the material, elucidate the mechanisms leading to its optical properties, and exploit the findings to produce better devices.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendPhase transitions in open quantum systems
Opens:15 January 2020
This project will develop new numerical techniques for studying many-body quantum systems far from equilibrium, exploring the possible phase transitions which can be realised.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendRemote gas quantum sensing systems using chip-scale deep ultraviolet LEDs and single photon detectors
Deadline:31 May 2021 Opens:17 December 2020
This project will develop remote Raman spectroscopy systems based on digitally interfaced Gallium Nitride light-emitting diodes and silicon single-photon avalanche diodes.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendQuantum properties of integrated frequency combs for applications in computing, communications and sensing
Opens:18 November 2020
This experimental project will investigate the quantum properties of the frequency combs generated via parametric processes in integrated platforms (waveguides and microresonators). The student will work on the generation, characterisation and applications of highly entangled cluster states.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Theory and simulations of frequency combs in micro-ring resonators
Opens:1 April 2020
Modelling of laser light propagating in micro-ring resonators in collaboration with experiments performed at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen (Germany). Applications of these devices are in atomic clocks, quantum technologies, telecommunication, GPS and integrated photonic circuits.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full Time, Part TimeFunding
International fee, Home fee, Equipment costs, Travel costs, StipendFuture Free Electron Laser light sources
Opens:6 April 2020
Free-Electron Lasers (FELs) use electron beams produced by particle accelerators to generate intense electromagnetic radiation from microwaves into the hard X-ray, which is of particular interest to a wide range of users. This project will look at developing new types of FEL output further enhancing their applications.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Photoconduction of wide bandgap semiconductor materials and devices
Opens:11 November 2020
Wide bandgap semiconductors are vital materials for applications in ultraviolet optoelectronic devices. The project will investigate the photoconduction properties of several wide bandgap semiconductors, with a particular focus on corundum phase alpha Gallium Oxide (α-Ga2O3).
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full Time, Part TimeFunding
Integrated Control Electronics for Semiconductor Quantum Devices
Opens:30 November 2020
The advance of integrated electronics for the control and readout of semiconductor quantum devices will be the focus of this experimental project. The student will develop both classical and quantum hardware and will characterise it at cryogenic temperatures.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, Travel costs, StipendQuantum Enhanced Imaging using High-Speed, High-Density Spatiotemporally Controlled Illumination
Deadline:31 May 2021 Opens:9 December 2020
This project will develop light-emitting diode based structured illumination systems with high spatial resolution and MHz switching rates for applications in photon-level imaging and communications. These illumination sources will operate in conjunction with single photon sensitive image sensors.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendPhotonic Technologies for Ultrafast Neuromorphic Information Processing
Deadline:31 May 2021 Opens:30 November 2020
This PhD project will develop neuromorphic (brain-like) photonic systems built from semiconductor lasers and other advanced optical components, capable of performing complex data processing tasks at ultrafast speeds, for use in Artificial Intelligence functionalities (e.g. image processing, pattern recognition).
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendVisible light photonic circuits for quantum technology applications
Deadline:31 May 2021 Opens:11 December 2020
Design, micro-fabrication and characterisation of on-chip optical circuits in the visible spectral region. Efficient photon generation and manipulation targeting quantum optical applications.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendNanoscale assembly methods for manufacturing of quantum photonic systems
Deadline:31 May 2021 Opens:11 December 2020
The student will design and fabricate nanoscale systems for quantum applications using state-of-the-art 3D assembly tools, nano-accurate microscopy and will measure the devices in optical laboratories.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UK, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendIndustrial CASE PhD Studentship in Quantum devices based on silicon carbide transistors
Opens:21 January 2021
The development of quantum electronics in silicon carbide will be the main focus of this project. Through a balanced mix of academic and industrial research activities, the student will design, manufacture and test novel electronics relevant to the nascent fields of quantum computing and quantum sensing.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
PhysicsMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, Travel costs, StipendState-dependent and cell-type-specific auditory cortical processing on multiple timescales
Opens:17 December 2020
Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, Ageing, Machine Learning
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Role of mast cells in the development of obesity and diabetes
Opens:17 February 2020
Immunology, infection, diabetes, mast cells, autoimmunity, obesity Cellular Basis of Disease
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Is there a universal mechanism for biological ammonium transport
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:14 February 2020
The vision of this PhD project is to establish whether there is a universal mechanism for biological ammonium transport. Beyond the elucidation of a central biological process, this work will have important medical implications, offering a mechanistic explanation to correlate Rh malfunction and associated diseases and
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Development of novel tumour-targeted nanomedicines for cancer therapy
Opens:16 November 2020
The student will have the opportunity to learn a wide range of multidisciplinary techniques: synthesis and characterization of the nanomedicines, cell culture, in vitro analysis techniques (cytotoxicity assay, confocal microscopy) and in vivo analysis
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Growth factor mediated trafficking of the tumour suppressor Sprouty-2
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:21 February 2020
Cellular basis of disease, membrane trafficking
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
DNA-Binding Antibiotics – Targeting multidrug resistant bacteria
Opens:17 February 2020
Molecular Biology Microbiology Genomics Antibiotic Resistance Gene Regulation Transcription Chemical Biology Medicinal Chemistry
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Development of novel Inhibitors of CXCL12 production as new medicines for cancer and inflammation
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:17 February 2020
CLXL12, cancer, Nuclear factor kappa B, signalling, molecular. Cellular Basis of disease/Drug discovery
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Multiscale characterization of particle dissolution
Opens:27 February 2020
Advanced manufacturing (Daniel Markl), Drug Delivery (Health and Wellbeing – Z Rattray)
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Development of a vaccine against leishmaniasis
Opens:17 February 2020
Leishmaniasis is a serious health threat. Current there is no clinical vaccine. This project will build on pervious studies to develop a recombinant protein vaccine to protects against leishmaniasis.
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Regulation of cellular coupling in the healthy and diseased heart
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:14 February 2020
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Cell Biology
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Control of Human Inflammatory Responses and Cell Pathology mechanisms by Prostanoid and endocannabinoid receptors
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:14 February 2020
Immunology, immunopharmacology inflammatory/ metabolic cell pathology
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Metabolomics-guided study of antibiotic compounds from marine microbial symbionts and terrestrial endophytes
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:14 February 2020
Secondary metabolomics; marine natural products; antibiotics; anti-cancer drugs; NMR; MS; drug discovery; multivariate analysis
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Disarm and disengage: repurposing old drugs for bad bugs
Opens:13 November 2020
Microbiology and Industrial Biotechnology; Streptomyces; Antimicrobial resistance; natural product biosynthesis
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Comparative metabolomics of phylogenetically diverse actinomycetes
Opens:14 November 2020
Marine microbial chemistry Actinomycetes Marine natural products Specialized metabolism Comparative metabolomics Antibiotic Discovery
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Characterisation of novel streptomycete telomeric proteins
Opens:17 February 2020
Microbiology and Industrial Biotechnology, antibiotic-producing bacteria, genomics, genetics
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Application of pharmacoepidemiological approaches to investigate the utilisation pattern, clinical effectiveness and safety of the novel medications used in the management of cardiovascular diseases
Opens:17 February 2020
Drug utilisation research; adherence; clinical effectiveness; Antimicrobial Resistance; antimicrobial stewardship; Health Service Research
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Advances in medicine development using decracemisation by crystallisation to give single enantiomer drug molecules – facilitating the drug pipeline and production
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:21 February 2020
Drug development; Drug discovery; chiral synthesis, organic synthesis, decracemisation by crystallisation, Veidma Ripening, medicinal chemistry, single crystal X-ray crystallography, XRPD, HPLC, pharmaceutical analysis
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Understanding the role of specific immune molecules in the development of multiple sclerosis
Opens:28 February 2020
Neuroscience, immunology, multiple sclerosis
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Effect of hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic compression on pharmaceutical materials
Opens:28 February 2020
Materials & Manufacture. High-pressure; co-crystals; polymorphism, diffraction, spectroscopy.
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Anti-parasitical drug targeting and validation
Opens:17 February 2020
Helminth, parasite, drug therapy Cellular Basis of Disease
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Role of the microbiome in gastrointestinal nematode induced enteropathy
Opens:13 November 2020
Inflammation, microbiome, helminths, mast cells, immunology, cytokines, costimulation Cellular Basis of Disease
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Investigating anti-cancer drug induced cardiotoxicity in different cell types of the heart
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:14 February 2020
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Cell Biology
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Continuous manufacturing of liposome formulations incorporating anti-cancer agents: Exploiting novel methods in microfluidics.
Opens:27 February 2020
Advanced manufacturing (Y Perrie); Drug Delivery (Health and Wellbeing – Y Perrie, Z Rattray); Particle Characterization (Measurement and Enabling Technologies, Z Rattray)
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Multimodal in-situ monitoring and modelling of particle dissolution
Opens:27 February 2020
Advanced manufacturing (D Markl), Drug Delivery (Health and Wellbeing – Z Rattray)
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Targeting the Nuclear Import Pathway as a Treatment for Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Opens:4 March 2020
Cellular Basis of Disease (Health and Wellbeing- Z and N Rattray), Metabolomics (Health and Wellbeing, Measurement and enabling sciences- N Rattray), Drug Delivery (Health and Wellbeing – Z Rattray)
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Extracellular Vesicles and Metabolic Disease
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:4 March 2020
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Cell Biology
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Proximity Labelling proteins near glucose transporters
Opens:4 March 2020
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Diabetes Cell Biology
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Multicomponent materials under extreme conditions
Opens:4 March 2020
Materials & Manufacture. High-pressure; co-crystals; polymorphism, diffraction, spectroscopy
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Development of a light treatment device for cutaneous leishmaniasis
Opens:13 November 2020
Leishmaniasis is a serious health threat. We have preliminary data to show that light can have anti-leishmanial activity and the aim of this project is to design a medicinal device that can be used to treat cutaneous leishmaniasis.
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
The use of machine learning in diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis
Opens:13 November 2020
Leishmaniasis is a serious health threat. Diagnosis can be completed using different techniques but the gold standard is identifying parasites in stained samples from infected individuals. In this project we will look at using machine learning in parasite diagnosis
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Development of a novel drug formulation for the treatment of lung cancer
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:14 February 2020
There are 1.3 million new cases of lung cancer per year world-wide and it has one of the lowest survival rates. In this project we will reformulate an existing cancer drug into a drug delivery system to target the drug to the cancer cells.
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Developing novel treatment for Alzheimers disease through understanding the disease immunopathogenesis
Opens:5 March 2020
Neuroscience immunology neurodegenerative diseases
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Flagellum length regulation in Leishmania
Opens:5 March 2020
Protein kinase, Leishmania, signal transduction, protein-protein interaction. Cellular Basis of Disease/Cancer and Inflammatory Disease
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Identifying genetic factors that protect against neurofibrillary tangles pathologies in Alzheimer’s disease
Opens:5 March 2020
Cellular Basis of Disease: Neurodegeneration, Cell Biology, Molecular Genetics
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Biomedical use of Silk
Opens:5 March 2020
Drug and stem cell delivery using biopolymers
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Investigating Extracellular Vesicle release of pro-coagulant biomarkers
Opens:5 March 2020
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Cell Biology
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Does mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatases (MKP-2) play a critical role in regulating neurotransmitter release and synaptic transmission?
Opens:5 March 2020
Neuroscience & Mental Health MKP-2, synaptic vesicles, neurotransmitter, synaptic transmission
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Is PAR2 activation neuroprotective in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s Disease?
Opens:5 March 2020
Neuroscience & Mental Health proteinase-activated receptor 2, Alzheimer’s disease, β-amyloid cytokines, major depressive disorder, treatment-resistant depression
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Does proteinase-activated receptor 2 (PAR2) activation play a key role in depression?
Opens:5 March 2020
Research group: Neuroscience & Mental Health Key words: proteinase-activated receptor 2, inflammation, cytokines, major depressive disorder, treatment-resistant depression.
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Investigating cardiac glucose transport and mitochondrial function in a pharmacological model of hypertension
Opens:20 May 2020
The project will explore novel strategies to study cardiac cellular metabolism using isolated primary adult cardiac cells and the use of spheroids.
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Development of novel Inhibitors of CXCL12 production as new medicines for cancer and inflammation
Opens:16 November 2020
CLXL12, cancer, Nuclear factor kappa B, signalling, molecular. Cellular Basis of disease/Drug discovery
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
The role of right coronary artery perfusion on right ventricular function in pulmonary arterial hypertension
Opens:11 December 2020
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Cardiovascular physiology and biology, pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular function, right coronary artery perfusion, right ventricular ischemia
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Control of transporter function in health and disease
Opens:11 December 2020
Cardiovascular disease Diabetes Obesity Membrane transport Membrane trafficking
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Mechanism of action and therapeutic potential of the anti-inflammatory parasitic worm product ES-62
Opens:17 December 2020
Parasitic worm; immunomodulation; inflammation; anti-inflammatory drug development
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Development of simulated paediatric intestinal fluid to better predict drug absorption in children
Deadline:22 March 2021 Opens:19 January 2021
Biopharmaceutics; pharmaceutical science; Drug discovery, Formulation and Delivery (DDFD)
Fee status
Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendBrain state in Alzheimer’s disease
Opens:29 December 2020
Neuroscience, Neurophotonics, Ageing
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EUSubject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendUnderstanding the role of cholesterol in the survival and treatment resistance of glioblastoma and its feasibility as a druggable target
Opens:29 January 2021
cancer, brain tumours, glioblastoma, radiation, cholesterol, mitosis, radiotherapy, mitotic inducers, mouse models, three-dimensional cell culture A fully funded 3-year PhD studentship is available to work with Dr Natividad Gomez-Roman at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendExploring the role of the gut microbiome and its interaction with food components in patients with Crohn’s disease - an integrated systems biology approach
Opens:2 February 2021
Crohn’s Disease, targeted mass spectrometry, metabolomics
Fee status
Home (Scottish), EU, Rest of UKSubject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendWhat factors in human blood cause insulin resistance and promote development of Type 2-Diabetes?
Deadline:26 March 2021 Opens:8 February 2021
A Diabetes UK-funded PhD studentship
Fee status
Home (Scottish)Subject
Pharmacy and biomedical sciencesMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendChildhood Education and Skill Development: Evaluating the Effects of Policy and School Environments
Deadline:30 April 2021 Opens:6 January 2021
A three-year Economics PhD scholarship for candidates who wish to evaluate the effects of Universal Credit on the educational outcomes of disadvantaged children in the UK and to assess how features of the school environment in developing countries impact skill development.
Fee status
Subject
Economics, Education, BusinessMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendSexualized Aesthetic labour and sexual harassment in the tourism and hospitality industry in a period of socioeconomic crisis
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:18 January 2021
This PhD project explores the experiences of hospitality workers with sexual harassment, especially by customers. The research explores the post-Covid19 environment, where concerns about socioeconomic instability and unemployment mean that employees may feel pressurised to tolerate and accept harassment by customers.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UKSubject
Hospitality and tourism, Business, Human resource managementMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendIntegrated production and maintenance planning in the age of big data
Deadline:30 April 2021 Opens:18 December 2020
This project aims to develop an integrated production and maintenance planning model by use of big data. The researcher is expected to develop a collaborative learning of the sensor data and production information to improve the production and maintenance process.
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Business, Computer and information sciences, Design manufacture and engineering management, Mathematics and statistics, Physics, Management scienceMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendSmart Asset Management of Wastewater Treatment Processes
Deadline:30 April 2021 Opens:18 December 2020
This research aims to develop an integrated diagnosis, prediction and maintenance strategy with the goal of identifying reliable signals in wastewater treatment process and then advising on optimal cost-effective maintenance actions. New machine learning algorithms will be developed and evaluated to extract information
Fee status
Home (Scottish), Rest of UK, International, The Channels Islands and Isle of ManSubject
Civil and environmental engineering, Business, Computer and information sciences, Chemical and process engineering, Mathematics and statistics, Management scienceMode of Study
Full TimeFunding
Home fee, StipendEntrepreneurial Education: Towards greater geographical and cultural relevance
Deadline:31 March 2021 Opens:19 January 2021
This scholarship provides an opportunity to explore cultural factors affecting entrepreneurial thinking and action (mindset) in different geographic locations and how those shape perceptions of relevance of entrepreneurial education.