Industrial Chemistry
Lancaster University
About the Project Project description Lancaster University is pleased to offer a fully funded PhD studentship as part of the Faraday Institution PhD Training Programme, focused on understanding the structure-property relationships of graphene-based conductive carbons for next-generation battery electrodes.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 September 2026
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Gender Studies
Lancaster University
About the Project Roma mothers experience significant inequalities in mental health and access to support, shaped by discrimination, poverty, insecure housing, migration, social exclusion and previous encounters with health and social care. Yet Roma women remain markedly underrepresented in mental health research, particularly research examining complex or severe mental health difficulties, motherhood under adversity and help-seeking.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 1 October 2026
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Inorganic Chemistry
Lancaster University
About the Project Background The energy crisis and climate emergency demand novel ways to store energy from renewable sources and achieve net-zero carbon emissions. We need better battery materials for the next generation of mobile transport and energy storage, and to understand in depth how these materials behave to optimise them for industrial applications. This challenge motivates the research of Dr. Michael Mercer’s and Prof.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 October 2026
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project Project Background Laser wakefield acceleration has demonstrated the production of GeV-scale electron beams in centimeter-scale accelerators using plasma waves as a driver. These electron beams are uniquely short and compact and are useful for producing bright radiation from x-rays to gamma-rays, or even for conducting strong field QED experiments.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project This project focuses on the use of electron beams to tan leather in a novel process described by industry as potentially the biggest disruption to the process in 150 years. The tanning industry produces large quantities of wastewater which can be potentially harmful to the local environment if not properly treated. However, wastewater treatment is both energy intensive and introduces substantial cost to tanneries.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Control Systems
Lancaster University
About the Project Develop autonomous underwater inspection systems that combine control of the vehicle with structural assessment to obtain reliable, uncertainty-aware integrity maps.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Bioengineering
Lancaster University
About the Project The rapidly evolving field of microfluidics, in which fluids are manipulated at a microscopic scale, finds many applications in industries, ranging from the pharmaceutical to the oil industry. Most ubiquitous fluids are non-Newtonian and complex such as paints, blood, inks and personal-care products are just a few examples.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project Project Background Industrial applications is one of the three key areas of the Cockcroft Core grant, whereby security linacs has been identified as one of the priority areas supported by the BDG. This proposal will focus on the design of a cargo scanning linac for security applications. Lancaster has also been involved in the development of security accelerators for cargo scanning for a number of years in collaboration with Rapiscan.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Artificial Intelligence
Lancaster University
About the Project EPSRC Doctoral Landscape (DLA) PhD Opportunity: Developing Next-Generation Attack Surface Mapping Techniques We invite applications for a fully funded PhD studentship at Lancaster University in collaboration with SP Electricity North West (SP ENWL).
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project Project Background The superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities made of bulk niobium (Nb) are used in charged particle accelerators for more than 50 years. They exhibit a million times lower power dissipation than ones made of copper, and allow to accelerate charges particle with high acceleration field up to ~50 MV/m.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Artificial Intelligence
Lancaster University
About the Project An embedded edge-intelligence framework for real-time contact-state estimation in constrained nuclear maintenance and decommissioning tasks.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project About the Project This project is a unique opportunity to join a vibrant research team from Lancaster University, University of Manchester and The Cockcroft Institute at Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK, developing world leading concepts for novel acceleration using laser-generated THz pulse.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Climate Science
Lancaster University
About the Project OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND. The extraction of energy from the wind yields the formation of low-speed regions (wakes) behind wind farms (WFs). Wakes are particularly persistent offshore [2], and were recently shown to affect the heat exchange between sea and atmosphere, due to reduced convective heat transfer close to the sea surface [1].
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project This project sits at the intersection of particle physics, accelerator science and computational modelling, and would be of interest to anyone wanting to use computer simulations to understand the behaviour of fundamental particles and to contribute to the design of the machines we use to probe the nature of matter.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project There is immense interest in femtosecond-duration high-energy electron beams in both the condensed matter and high-energy particle physics scientific communities, for their application in exploring femtosecond processes in materials, and for future particle colliders. Conventional Radio-frequency concepts that have been highly developed for well over 50 years are reaching fundamental limits in this quest.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Electronic Engineering
Lancaster University
About the Project Huge resources, both nationally and internationally, are being deployed for the development of quantum computing. While there are several different quantum computing platforms, one of the leading ones is based on superconducting qubits, because solid state solutions are more scalable. However, superconducting qubits require an awkward combination of mK temperatures and several RF signals per qubit to operate them.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Control Systems
Lancaster University
About the Project Develop a shared-autonomy teleoperation framework built on tele-visual-tactile fusion for contact-rich nuclear decommissioning tasks. Lead Supervisor: Dr Ziwei Wang School of Engineering, Lancaster University Second Supervisor: To be confirmed Industry Partner: TG0 Ltd (Confirmed - formal agreement in progress) Project Start: TBC Target Background: 1st or 2:1 / Master's in Robotics, Control Engineering, Mechatronics or Human-Robot Interaction.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project Project Background The superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities made of bulk niobium (Nb) are used in charged particle accelerators for more than 50 years. They exhibit a million times lower power dissipation than ones made of copper, and allow to accelerate charges particle with high acceleration field up to ~50 MV/m.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Electromagnetism
Lancaster University
About the Project Lancaster University is pleased to offer a PhD studentship supported by Green Future Fellowship project: Terahertz magnetic recording for green data storage technology. The PhD position is available for admission in October 2026. Applicants should have a Master's degree in Physics before the programme starts.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)