FSE PhD President's Doctoral Scholarship

[4-year PhD studentship with annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate (currently £21,805 per year) plus £1,000 per annum enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This PhD studentship at The University of Manchester explores how emerging autonomous systems could reshape the international flower trade, with a particular focus on road haulage and cold-chain delivery. The project looks at the move from traditional refrigerated trucks to futur...

PhD Scholarship Project at Imperial College London in the Department of Chemical Engineering. This funded PhD focuses on vanadium recovery , spent sulfuric acid catalysts , low-carbon cement additives , techno-economic analysis , and life-cycle assessment . The project builds on preliminary work at Imperial College London to develop a circular process for selectively leaching vanadium from spent vanadium pentoxide catalysts and valorising the silica-rich residue as a supplementary cementitious m...

PhD opportunity at the University of Waikato (Hamilton Campus, New Zealand) on Sustainable Timber Packaging for Steel Coil Transport . This funded PhD scholarship, developed with Ferrier Industrial Limited , focuses on the sustainability, performance, and compliance of timber packaging and dunnage used for steel coil transport. The project aims to develop reusable and returnable packaging systems that can replace consumable packaging and support circular-economy practices in steel manufacturing,...

Sharing a fully funded Commonwealth PhD opportunity for 2027–28 at the University of Nottingham , focused on sustainable steel structures . This opportunity is relevant to students interested in structural engineering , civil engineering , materials science , and sustainability-oriented research on steel structures. The post does not include the full project brief, supervisor details, eligibility criteria, or deadline in the text, but it clearly indicates a funded PhD opening and refers applican...

The University of Cambridge is offering a four-year 1+3 MRes/PhD studentship through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero, in collaboration with Network Rail. The project investigates low-carbon cements and alternative cementitious binders for lower-strength and lower-risk applications across Great Britain's rail infrastructure. Potential applications include walkways and kerbs, blocks and pavers, drainage channels, cable troug...