PhD Opportunities in Petroleum Engineering in United Kingdom

Newcastle University is offering a four-year PhD studentship through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Process Industries: Net Zero. The project focuses on developing an endurant power and propulsion system for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs operating in offshore energy infrastructure. AUVs are increasingly important for inspecting offshore wind installations, subsea cables, and fixed or floating energy platforms. Current inspection and maintenance approaches often depend on crewed...

This fully funded PhD project investigates how human impacts affect the growth of juvenile fishes during their first summer in dynamic, wave-swept sandy beach environments. The research will combine laboratory trials at Brixham Laboratory with extensive field sampling on beaches in Devon and Cornwall. The project will bring together biochemical, physiological and geochemical techniques to examine how warmer temperatures and high levels of beach visitation influence fish growth and the functionin...

The University of Liverpool is inviting applications for a PhD project titled Air2Fuel – Integrating and studying CO2 reduction electrocatalysts into artificial photosynthetic devices . The research will focus on developing, testing, and studying photocatalysts and CO2-reduction electrocatalysts. The project offers practical work with cutting-edge materials alongside the use of spectroscopic tools to investigate catalyst behavior and performance. Professor Alexander Cowan, Professor of Chemistry...

Microgrid Resilience PhD at the University of Nottingham will develop a modelling approach for assessing the resilience of small-scale, converter-dominated microgrids. The project addresses reliable electricity supply in systems that integrate renewable and distributed energy resources. The research will examine how microgrids can operate autonomously when the upstream grid fails, improve electricity-system resilience, reduce energy not supplied and potentially provide financial benefits through...

University College London is inviting applications for fully funded PhD projects in the Infrastructure Resilience and Asset Management (iRAM) research group within the Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering. Led by Assistant Professor Manu Sasidharan, the group investigates infrastructure resilience, infrastructure asset management, risk, and transport systems. Its research is grounded in real-world data and challenges through close collaboration with national and internationa...

The University of Glasgow is offering a funded 3.5-year PhD studentship through the ExaGEO DLA on the next generation of AI-driven earth observation . The doctoral research will focus on transforming UK land cover classification using artificial intelligence and earth observation approaches. The project is positioned to support improved understanding and monitoring of environmental change, with the broader aim of helping address global environmental crises. This is a multidisciplinary research o...

This PhD project investigates how humanitarian risk pools can respond to a changing climate and make resilient financial decisions under uncertainty. Risk pools such as Start Ready, African Risk Capacity, and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility use predefined triggers, including flood forecast probabilities, to release pooled funds before or after disasters. The research will examine how climate science, data science, and decision science can be combined to improve the modelling th...

Newcastle University is advertising two PhD studentships through the Process Industries Net Zero (PINZ) Centre for Doctoral Training, focused on offshore energy and maritime decarbonisation. The research is connected with industrial partners and the university’s Marine Technology and marine hydrodynamics environment. Optimising Green Methanol Utilisation for Net-Zero Offshore Vessels This project will investigate technologies for methanol-powered offshore vessels. The successful researcher will ...

UKRI Future Leader Fellowships is a cross-UK Research and Innovation scheme supporting early career researchers and innovators with outstanding potential to develop research or innovation independence. The fellowship is hosted through the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and is open to applicants from the UK and internationally, provided they are supported by an eligible UK host organisation. The scheme is designed for candidates working across the full UKRI remit, ...