PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Aerospace Engineering in United Kingdom

[For eligible students, the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship investigates how bee behaviour shapes pollination services in structurally diverse floral habitats. The project focuses on the way bees move through complex rural landscapes in Devon, where vertical barriers such as hedgerows can alter travel costs and change how pollinators access floral resources. The research will combine behavioural observations, environmental data, and...

Queen Mary University of London is offering a postdoctoral research position in the Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation within the School of Mathematical Sciences. The project, “Gravitational Waves from Worldline Quantum Field Theory,” is funded by Dr Gustav Mogull’s Royal Society University Research Fellowship. The successful researcher will contribute to the continuing development of Worldline Quantum Field Theory (WQFT) and its applications to bound binary systems and gravitational ...

[Funded through the CENTA3 DLA and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Covers an annual stipend, tuition fees at home-fee level, and a Research Training Support Grant.] This PhD studentship investigates how the jaws of sharks have evolved and how different jaw forms affect feeding function across both living and fossil elasmobranchs. The project is framed around the remarkable diversity of shark ecologies, from suction feeding and filter feeding to shell-crunching, and asks how the ...

[Home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend for eligible students.] This PhD studentship is based at the University of Exeter and explores whether AI can be trusted to support biodiversity conservation decisions. The project asks when automated monitoring produces reliable ecological evidence, and when errors in machine detection may distort conclusions about species presence, abundance and population trends. The research brings together large biodiversity datasets , simulation and statis...

This PhD project investigates how turbulence shapes the development and dispersion of smoke, pollutants and airborne particles in environmental flows. The research will examine interactions between buoyancy, wind patterns and turbulent mixing, with potential applications in wildfire smoke, atmospheric pollution, urban air quality and weather prediction. The project will address the fundamental fluid mechanics of buoyant plumes and particle dispersion in turbulent flows. Its precise focus will be...

[3.5-year PhD studentship with a tax-free annual stipend at the UKRI rate of £21,805 for 2026/27 (subject to annual uplift) and tuition fees fully covered.] This PhD studentship at The University of Manchester explores advanced modelling and simulation for particle-based long-duration energy storage systems. The project combines computational fluid dynamics , high-fidelity multi-physics modelling, and physics-informed artificial intelligence to understand how high-temperature particle thermal st...

[Fully funded PhD studentship; funding amount not specified.] This PhD project explores radicals and reactive intermediates in heavy main-group chemistry , with a particular focus on accessing and understanding open-shell species based on heavy pnictogens and related elements. The research aims to develop new routes to authentic main-group radicals and to open-shell fragments such as carbenes, nitrenes, and higher homologues in the vicinity of heavy elements. The project is centred on inorganic ...

This PhD scholarship project, “Playful acoustics: The impact of space on expression, skill and enjoyment of music learners,” investigates how the acoustic and spatial characteristics of learning environments shape musical development. Based within the Sound Futures doctoral network , the research connects the psychology of music with acoustics, music education and sustainable sound. The doctoral researcher will explore how different spaces influence learners’ musical expression, the development ...

Cranfield University is offering a PhD project on the modelling and control of large space structures (LSSs) for future space missions, including space-based solar power systems, ultra-wide telescopes, space data centres and large antenna systems. The research will address the challenging interaction between attitude and orbit control systems and the nonlinear flexible structural dynamics of very large orbital structures. These systems may extend from hundreds of metres to kilometres and may be ...