Postgraduate Research Scholarships

The NERC Panorama Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) encompasses three broad themes: Atmosphere and Climate, Earth Processes and the Living World. Panorama prepares the next generation of environmental science leaders for industrial, governmental, NGO and academic careers and provides exceptional training across the range of environmental science in world-class research teams through an innovative, exciting and multi-disciplinary programme. The programme will equip students with the skills necessary to understand the complex interactions within the Earth system, so they can contribute to the development of scientific, policy and industrial solutions for the national and global scale problems we face in coming decades.

Scholarships

Visual systems as “magic traits” and their role in the evolution of biodiversity

The slippery slope to resolving enigmatic river system dynamics

Remote Characterisation of the Carbon Storage and Containment Capacity of Sedimentary Basins

Animal population abundance and resilience: the role of polyandry and genome size as drivers of ecology

Mobilisation of metal mining waste in rivers a changing climatological regime

Assessing the impacts of floodplain rehabilitation on fish population dynamics: a novel approach using conventional fish surveys, biotelemetry and biochemical analysis

Assessing the threat to Antarctic shallow marine ecosystems from hitchhikers on non-native kelp

Cranial biomechanics in squirrels: adaptation to feeding

Can you stop a PDC? Assessing the impact of natural and engineered barriers on deadly volcanic flows in the built environment

Application deadline 4 January 2023.

Find out more about the Nerc Panorama Doctoral Training Partnership

The European eel is widely distributed throughout European estuarine and inland waters, but concern over the status of eel stocks is so great that the European Union has specific legislation for their protection from human mediated activities including impingement and entrainment at water intakes.

Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship investigating the interaction between European eel and physical screens, starting 30 January 2023.

Application deadline 12 December 2022.

Find out more about Screening intakes for European eels

We need the world’s brightest minds to join us in developing solutions to the environmental and engineering challenges the offshore wind industry is facing. The UK has committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and clean energy produced by offshore wind will be a cornerstone in reaching this target. Already providing over 10% of the UK’s electricity and growing at an unprecedented rate, by 2030 it is expected to provide over 30% of the UK’s energy needs.The Aura Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Offshore Wind and the Environment is led by the Energy and Environment Institute at the University of Hull with partners Durham, Newcastle and Sheffield Universities. Working closely with over 20 Industry partners, the Aura CDT invites high-quality applications for 4-year taught and research PhD scholarships. These funded PhD opportunities are for exceptional graduates from a range of STEM backgrounds and could unlock a career in this new and innovative industry.

Webinar

Join us at a free webinar at 6pm on Tuesday 29 November for more information about the funded projects available through the Aura CDT. You will be able to hear from PhD supervisors and ask questions about the programme.

Scholarships

Application of novel sensors to assess vessel, porpoise & dolphin activity during development of a floating wind farm off Blyth, UK

Biorenewable honeycomb adsorbents from wind turbine wood waste for high capacity carbon capture

Computer modelling of irregular nonlinear surface waves and their effects on offshore wind turbine structures

Coordinated Active Reliability Improvement for Power Converters in Offshore Wind Farms

Design, analysis and evaluation of robust dampers for controlling wind turbine vibrations throughout their lifecycle

Digital Twins for Life Prediction of Wind Turbine Pitch Bearings 

Economic and Socio-cultural implications of offshore wind on fishing communities

Effect of blade surface contamination on wind turbine energy production

Effects of very large scale offshore wind deployment on physical processes in the North Sea

Experimental and numerical modelling of the interaction between internal solitary waves and offshore wind infrastructure

Human-informed Artificial Intelligence for improved wind turbine health monitoring

Impact of changing estuaries on offshore wind infrastructure: Identifying key environmental drivers

Impact of Offshore Windfarm Development on Marine Benthos: Interaction with Ecosystem Level Stressors

Innovative decommissioning for offshore foundation systems

Integrating offshore wind with Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS) for a Net Zero Humber

Next generation bearings for reliable power transmission in large wind turbines

Optimisation of the Internal Structure of Wind Turbine Blades

Primary production and carbon export across the Flamborough frontal system: interaction with offshore wind energy (coming soon)

Submarine Landslide Dynamics and Impact on Offshore Wind Infrastructure

The role of biofouling on the performance and survivability of dynamic subsea cables in floating offshore renewables

The Role of Fabric Anisotropy on Cyclic Ratcheting of Offshore Sands Under Generalised Loading Conditions

Wake induced mixing of stratified seas by offshore wind infrastructure

For more information visit the Aura website.

Application deadline 4 January 2023.

The University of Hull is a member of the prestigious Economic and Social Research Council White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership. We are looking for talented students to join us for a world-class start to your research career by doing a funded social science research degree at Hull.

Application deadline 25 January 2023

Webinar

Join us at a free webinar at 6 pm on Wednesday 23 November for more information about the funded projects available through the ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership. You will be able to hear from PhD supervisors and ask questions about the programme

Scholarships

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The University of Hull has a long history of participating in the China Scholarship Council (CSC) schemes and we have a number of exceptional Chinese scholars undertaking ground-breaking research with us currently.

This scholarship is for candidates who are Chinese nationals and is available for PhD programmes in a variety of subject areas at the University of Hull.

Applications to study a full-time PhD starting in September 2022 are now open to Chinese PhD students in all subject fields.

Application deadline 10 February 2023.

Learn more about the CSC PhD Scholarships here.

This exciting PhD cluster comprises four cross-Faculty inter-linked PhD scholarships to address health inequalities in advanced illness at regional, national, and international levels. In the United Kingdom, demographic changes mean the number of older people is rapidly increasing, with many living with advanced illnesses, complex multi-morbidities, and frailty. Inequalities including ethnic and social differences in access to and provision of care, variable community participation in care and support all markedly impact experiences and outcomes of care. While different conditions are present globally, the end results are similar. Integrated approaches to care are essential if effective and efficient solutions to these challenges are to be found.

Application deadline 10 February 2023.

Webinar

Join us at a free webinar at 6 pm on Monday 28 November for more information about the funded projects available through this cluster. You will be able to hear from PhD supervisors and ask questions about the programme.

Scholarships

Learn more about the individual scholarships:

• The development of cancer pain education resources for patients from ethnically diverse communities in Humber and North Yorkshire and the health professionals caring for them
• Developing and evaluating a serious game to enable voluntary, community & social enterprises to engage and work with communities about advanced illness
• Integrated care systems: can they reduce health inequalities for patients with advanced disease?
• Roles and experiences of informal carers providing care to people with advanced illness in sub-Saharan Africa

Advancing the hydrogen economy is currently recognised as a critical element for decarbonisation. To move both industry and society towards a net zero emission path, there is an urgent need to use hydrogen as feedstock for energy to fuel industrial processes, domestic heating and for transport. In the long term, hydrogen must be produced from renewable and/or low-carbon resources, towards a low-carbon or ‘green’ hydrogen economy. This doctoral training research cluster addresses some of the technical challenges through in-depth research in a number of key areas.

Application deadline 10 February 2023.

Webinar

Join us at a free webinar at 6 pm on Thursday 8 December for more information about the funded projects available through this cluster. You will be able to hear from PhD supervisors and ask questions about the programme.

Scholarships

Learn more about the individual scholarships:

• Modelling and data-driven optimisation for developing hydrogen production and storage materials and technologies
• Selection of hydrogen production and storage options according to industrial application
• Hydrogen production for a net zero society
• Hydrogen storage for a net zero society

Diabetes is a multifaceted disease that reduces life quality and expectancy through a plethora of health complications. As the number of people living with diabetes is increasing, the societal impact of this disease is predicted to rise significantly in the next decades.

Diabetes is a multifaceted disease that reduces life quality and expectancy through a multitude of health complications and comorbidities. The complexity of diabetes requires a multidisciplinary research approach to understand its mechanisms and deliver novel therapeutic tools. This PhD cluster will bring together a multidisciplinary team from five different Schools within the University of Hull to investigate the fundamental aspects of diabetes.

Application deadline 10 February 2023.

Webinar

Join us at a free webinar at 6 pm on Monday 5 December for more information about the funded projects available through this cluster. You will be able to hear from PhD supervisors and ask questions about the programme.

Scholarships

Learn more about the individual scholarships:

• Diabetes and thrombosis: mechanistic links and novel interventional opportunities
• Development and characterisation of novel antioxidant H₂S-releasing compounds to prevent diabetic kidney disease
• The underlying causes of the diabetic foot: revascularisation deficit and novel strategies to boost healing
• Dementia and diabetes: the challenges posed by comorbidity

Our food and energy production systems contribute significantly to environmental problems, including climate change, and technological solutions are often proposed as ways of reducing their carbon footprints. Yet these can be challenging to implement and can have unanticipated effects on the practices of those engaged in farming and fishing. This cluster of projects involves a combination of scientific projects aiming to develop and test different environmental technologies, and social science projects aiming to look at the effects on the practices of primary food producers as society aims for a low carbon world.

Specifically, the cluster will:

1. Advance the development of two technologies for use in terrestrial food production and examine the implications of these for farmers.

2. Examine the effects on the small-scale fishing industry of high energy prices and large scale offshore wind deployment.

Being in a cluster means that while PhD students will become specialists in their disciplines, they will also take part in regular inter-disciplinary cluster activities and work with stakeholders in the sectors they are investigating.

Application deadline 10 February 2023.

Webinar

Join us at a free webinar at 6 pm on Thursday 1 December for more information about the funded projects available through this cluster. You will be able to hear from PhD supervisors and ask questions about the programme.

Scholarships

Learn more about the individual scholarships:

• Smart sensors for agricultural sustainability: ‘Federated Learning’ for improving farming efficiencies
• Using on-farm technologies to manage soil carbon and crops: understanding farming knowledges and practices in the deployment of sustainability technologies
• Decarbonising the fishing fleet: social, cultural and behavioural responses
• Fishing for Net Zero Solutions: Using lessons from historical interactions of fisheries, technology and society to identify possible sustainable futures
• Fishing and very large offshore wind development
• Nanophotonics for optimised food growth and lower energy consumption in greenhouses

Theragnostics combines therapy and diagnosis into a single, unified strategy for the management and treatment of disease. The Hull Molecular Imaging Centres (HuMIC) is currently implementing the latest clinically approved theragnostic technology into routine practice at Castle Hill Hospital and planning clinical trials for the benefit of patients in Hull, East Yorkshire and the surrounding area.

To progress our own research in this area and capitalise on our world-class expertise and scientific/clinical infrastructure, we recently formed the Hull University Theragnostics (HUT) cluster, to assemble four PhD studentships pioneering new theragnostic technology and its application to disease. HUT combines two of the most successful scientific research groups in the Faculty of Health Sciences: Molecular Imaging (led by Prof Steve Archibald & Dr Louis Allott) and the Wound Healing research group (led by Prof Mat Hardman & Dr Holly Wilkinson). Together, with the four excellent PhD candidates we seek to recruit, we will explore new and unique scientific ground in the burgeoning field of theragnostics so that we can improve patient health in the region and beyond.

Application deadline 10 February 2023. 

Webinar

Join us at a free webinar at 6 pm on Tuesday 6 December for more information about the funded projects available through this cluster. You will be able to hear from PhD supervisors and ask questions about the programme.

Scholarships

Learn more about the individual scholarships:

• New strategies for the modular design of theragnostic radiopharmaceuticals
• Development and translation of theragnostic agents
• Identifying the next generation of theragnostic targets in cancer
• Molecular Imaging and Theragnostics for Wound Healing

The University of Hull has a long history of welcoming high quality scholars through the Commonwealth Scholarships PhD and Taught Masters schemes. We have a number of exceptional Commonwealth scholars undertaking ground-breaking research with us currently.

Many also choose to study through the Taught Masters scholarship programme and then return to take up a Commonwealth PhD scholarship.

Learn more about the Commonwealth Scholarships Scheme here.

We need the world’s brightest minds to join us in developing solutions to the environmental and engineering challenges the offshore wind industry is facing. The UK has committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and clean energy produced by offshore wind will be a cornerstone in reaching this target. Already providing over 10% of the UK’s electricity and growing at an unprecedented rate, by 2030 it is expected to provide over 30% of the UK’s energy needs.

The Aura Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Offshore Wind and the Environment is led by the Energy and Environment Institute at the University of Hull with partners Durham, Newcastle and Sheffield Universities. Working closely with over 20 Industry partners, the Aura CDT invites high-quality applications for 4-year taught and research PhD scholarships. These funded PhD opportunities are for exceptional graduates from a range of STEM backgrounds and could unlock a career in this new and innovative industry.

For more information visit the Aura website.

Recruitment will reopen in Autumn 2022 for Cohort 5 entry, starting September 2023.

Register now to find out once these scholarships are launched.

Webinar

Join us at a free webinar at 6pm on Tuesday 29 November for more information about the funded projects available through the Panorama DTP. You will be able to hear from PhD supervisors and ask questions about the programme.

The University of Hull Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Centre for Water Cultures is an interdisciplinary research centre exploring humanity’s relationships with water in the green-blue regions of the world, past, present and future.

It pioneers a new, humanities-led, interdisciplinary and transhistorical research area – the green-blue humanities – and equips a new generation of PhD students to take this agenda forward and transform our understanding of humanity's relationships with water.

Applications for these scholarships are currently closed.

See here for more information on Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Centre for Water Cultures.

Register now to find out once these scholarships are launched.

Webinar

Join us at a free webinar at 6pm on Wednesday 7 December for more information about the funded projects available through the Panorama DTP. You will be able to hear from PhD supervisors and ask questions about the programme.