Apply for a fully funded PhD Scholarship at Newcastle University, England.
Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Newcastle University, England invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Neural circuits
Summary of PhD Program:
Social cognition disorders, such as anxiety and autism spectrum disorders, can have a serious impact on an individual’s quality of life. However, the brain circuits underlying these disorders are still poorly understood, which has limited the development of effective treatments. Therefore, a robust preclinical model is needed to assess social and cognitive behavioural characteristics of individual animals, and to quantitatively assess phenotypic traits associate with social cognitive disorder that will enables us to target specific brain circuits to advance treatment options in selected animals.
Application Deadline: 1 November 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
There is increasing interest in hydrogen as a viable carbon-free alternative for power and propulsion. Hydrogen behaves significantly differently from conventional hydrocarbons; in particular, it burns an order-of-magnitude faster. To control flame speeds and temperatures, hydrogen can be burned lean (with an excess of oxygen), but this can lead to flame instabilities due to the high diffusivity of the fuel (known as the thermodiffusive instability). The instability can make the flame difficult to control, as well as increase NOx emissions. The thermodiffusive instability is not well understood, and there is a complex dependence on reactant conditions (pressure, temperature and equivalence ratio).
Application Deadline: 31st October 2023
3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Drug Delivery Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
Although many studies on cocrystal design are found in the literature, cocrystal formulation development has thus far been marked by a lack of understanding of cocrystal solution chemistry that governs drug supersaturation. The selection of additives remains a largely empirical and time-consuming process. The expected outcome of this research is a conceptual framework for designing cocrystal formulations where a target in vitro drug concentration can be achieved through the rational use of thermodynamic properties and predictions, in combination with drug precipitation kinetics and oral absorption properties.
Application Deadline: 24 November 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cyber Security
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking candidates to develop hardware-assisted mechanisms for securing Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Relevant directions include:
- Enhancing CPU designs, e.g. RISC-V, to support instruction-level encryption and authentication.
- Methods for file-based and full-disk encryption, and establishing trust in constrained devices.
- Building ‘encryption by default’ into general and real-time operating systems (RTOSs), e.g. Linux and Zephyr.
The candidate will develop prototypes combining theory and practice; strong low-level skills (Assembly, C/C++/Rust) are essential. Experience in FPGA development, microcontrollers, and system security would be advantageous.
Application Deadline: 20 November 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing Wearable Sensors to Improve Multimorbidity Care
Summary of PhD Program:
Our previous research focused on developing novel polymer-based sensors for COVID-19 detection and diagnosing cardiac conditions. Molecular imprinting was used to develop polymer receptors, which were immobilised onto screen-printed electrodes to facilitate accurate, rapid, and low-cost measurements. Your role will be to advance this research by adapting our sensing technology to monitor numerous biomarkers relevant to multimorbidity and integrate the sensor into a wearable device. This will involve polymer synthesis, characterization techniques, electrochemistry, device fabrication, and gathering patient/clinical feedback.
Application Deadline: 30th November 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cancer Imaging
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a highly motivated student with a background in a quantitative discipline such as physics, mathematics, engineering, computing etc. The student will join a highly productive and rapidly expanding multidisciplinary team, including medical physicists, cancer biologists, oncologists, radiologists and surgeons, to deliver the project in three stages of methodology development, optimization and clinical translation. The student will acquire transferable skills in numerical simulation, large data analysis, scanner programming, and expert knowledge in MR spectroscopy and imaging, and the clinical translation of novel medical imaging methods.
Application Deadline: 27 October 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Social Sustainability in Livestock Supply Chains
Summary of PhD Program:
The social aspects of livestock production systems, compared to environmental and economic aspects, are not always fully accounted for in the sustainability discourse. However, sustainability assessment is a critical step in supporting the attainment of sustainability goals in food systems. Social sustainability is defined at two levels: internal (farm and family) and external (society). These values are related to societal expectations, are constantly changing and are likely to vary across different species. This raises the questions of ‘are public and farmer valuation of different social sustainability criteria consistent?’ and ‘where are the key points of convergence and divergence?
Application Deadline: 14th November 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Health Economics Group
Summary of PhD Program:
Early economic modelling can be used to determine whether a technology has the potential to be cost effective early in its development cycle. Furthermore, they can inform where future research would be best undertaken to reduce decision uncertainty through a value of information analysis. The adaptive design of trials is a methodology aimed at improving the efficiency and increasing patient benefit from controlled trials. Traditional evidence generation via controlled trials is an expensive and lengthy business and HTA bodies such as NICE are developing frameworks for the incorporation of real-world data into decision-making. The use of synthetic data and/or real-world data in combination with early economic modelling to develop a framework for informing adaptive trial design may offer a more efficient way of conducting research.
Application Deadline: 23 November 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
Autonomous agent systems have the promise to improve our lives with applications ranging from a swarm of drones in mission-critical tasks to sophisticated robots in care homes. To realise this potential, these systems need to be trustworthy (safe to employ by users), transparent (accountable for humans to scrutinise), and self-ware (capable of collaborating with other agents/humans), in particular, under an environment pervaded by uncertainty.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2024
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