School of Engineering PhD Studentship

Fully funded PhD studentship in Human-Robot Interaction at King's College London , linked to the CO-STAR project (C0-designing Socially inTelligent Assistive Robots for Future Healthcare) and led by Dr Oya Celiktutan . The project sits within the Social AI & Robotics Lab (SAIR) and involves collaboration with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust . The research focuses on robot learning algorithms with social reasoning capabilities to support safe, adaptive, and socially intelligent human-ro...

PhD grant opportunity in Computer Vision at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), within the Robotics Group in Barcelona, Spain. The project is framed under the predoctoral Call FPU2026 and supports research in computer vision, with a specific interest in world models and video understanding. This is a full-time temporary PhD position for up to 4 years. If the PhD thesis is completed before the end of the grant, the remaining time may continue as a postdoctoral orientatio...

The University of Leeds School of Computer Science is offering a funded PhD opportunity for home students through the EPSRC DLA Scholarship. The opportunity is connected with trustworthy distributed intelligence, an area concerned with developing distributed computational systems that can operate reliably, responsibly and effectively. The opening is promoted by Professor Evangelos Pournaras , whose academic role focuses on trustworthy distributed intelligence. Prospective researchers would join ...

[Full tuition fees plus a stipend to cover living costs; open to UK fee payers and international students.] PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham in an Integrated Intelligent Safe Environment (IISE) for the nuclear industry. This project addresses a major challenge in nuclear operations: enabling robots, autonomous systems, and human operators to work together safely within the same safety envelope. The research aims to develop technologies, methodologies, and assurance frameworks that...

MPhil/PhD studentship at the University of Derby in the College of Science and Engineering, focused on physics-informed vibration-based structural health monitoring of wheel-rail contact defects . This project sits at the intersection of mechanical engineering , railway engineering , dynamics , vibration analysis , signal processing , numerical modelling , and machine learning . The research will investigate how vibration measurements and physics-informed machine learning (PIML) can detect and a...