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Compare 14 doctoral research opportunities connected with Acoustics Engineering, including project summaries, funding and application deadlines.
Acoustics Engineering
Newcastle University
100% home fees covered, and a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £21,805 (2026-27 UKRI rates).
Acoustics Engineering
Loughborough University
About the Project Automotive vehicles are becoming heavier with wider tyres to support this weight. Above a speed of around 30 miles per hour, the noise produced by the tyres is the dominant source. Environmental noise pollution is only one design attribute for vehicles and yet is one of the most important attributes relating to people who don't purchase the vehicle but are impacted by it.
Acoustics Engineering
Kingston University
About the Project Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) offers a key pathway for aviation decarbonisation by enabling the use of renewable, waste-derived carbon sources and captured CO₂ to produce jet fuel alternatives. As a drop-in replacement for conventional Jet A-1 fuel, SAF is compatible with existing aircraft and infrastructure while offering significant life-cycle greenhouse gas emission reductions.
Acoustics Engineering
University of Birmingham
About the Project Are you passionate about understanding the underlying physical principle of noise generation by unsteady turbulent flows? Do you want to contribute to cutting-edge research that will lead to a breaking towards achieving silent aircraft design?
Acoustics Engineering
University of Bristol
About the Project Small aerial robots can reach places that are difficult or unsafe for humans, but reliable navigation remains challenging when GPS is unavailable and vision is degraded by low light, textureless surfaces, dust, smoke, or clutter. This PhD project will develop a micro aerial robot that navigates robustly by combining bio-inspired, multimodal sensing (e.g., optical flow) to perceive nearby obstacles, motion, and free space across diverse environments.
Acoustics Engineering
University of York
About the Project The University of York is at the forefront of transformative research in data-centric engineering, digital twins, and AI. Our pioneering work is revolutionizing the design of complex systems by harnessing the power of data. By synergizing these two powerful tools, we are gaining new insights into future systems, enabling us to approach them with greater realism. We are currently inviting applications for a Ph.D.
Acoustics Engineering
University of York
About the Project The University of York is embarking on transformative research in data-centric engineering, digital twins, and AI, revolutionizing the way systems are designed and operated. As part of this initiative, we are seeking applications for PhD positions in the field of Autonomous Intelligent Transportation Systems and Data Science. This doctoral research project focuses on the optimization of maintenance practices using advanced large language models.
Acoustics Engineering
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project Billions of people use headphones, earbuds, and loudspeakers every day, yet we still know surprisingly little about how loud they really listen, how long they are exposed, and what this means for long-term hearing health. The World Health Organisation warns that over one billion young people are at risk of hearing damage due to unsafe listening practices, but most existing evidence is based on self-report or lab-based studies.
Acoustics Engineering
University of Reading
About the Project Speech is a complex task requiring highly coordinated movements of a large group of respiratory, laryngeal and articulatory muscles and involves precise integration with auditory and somatosensory feedback to plan and execute speech movements. Speech production deficits in individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) include a range of symptoms comprising reduced loudness, monopitch, imprecise articulation, and reduced respiratory control (bradykinesia).
Acoustics Engineering
University of Sheffield
About the Project This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The successful applicant will undertake six months of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at the University of Sheffield.
Acoustics Engineering
University of Sheffield
About the Project This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at the University of Sheffield.
Acoustics Engineering
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project Hospitals are among the most acoustically complex and stressful environments. Alarms overlap, conversations cross thin curtains, and background noise prevents rest. These conditions contribute to alarm fatigue for staff, anxiety for visitors, and poor recovery outcomes for patients. While medicine advances rapidly, the way sound is managed in clinical settings has changed very little.
Acoustics Engineering
University of Birmingham
About the Project Are you passionate about the reduction of aircraft noise? Do you want to contribute to cutting-edge research that will lead to silent airfoil design? Applications are invited for a 3.5-year UK PhD studentship for the project “High-Fidelity Simulation of Noise Generation by Turbulent Flows Passing over Flexible Aerofoil Trailing Edge” to discover the secret of silent flight of owls in the research group of Dr Zhong-Nan Wang at the University of Birmingham.
Acoustics Engineering
Kingston University
About the Project An ultrasonic monitoring system has been built that is able to characterise liquids based on the growth of pendant liquid drops [1]. The system operates as an ultrasonic interferometer, whereby part of the acoustic wavefront interacts with the growing liquid drop and is them recombined with another part of the wavefront which acts as a reference path. The technique has been able to distinguish different types of soft drink, lagers and many other liquids.