8 PhD Degree-Fully Funded at Coventry University, England
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
About Coventry University, England – Official Website
Coventry University is a public research university located in Coventry, England. Its origins date back to 1843 with the founding of the Coventry School of Design. The institution was known as Lanchester Polytechnic from 1970 until 1987, and later as Coventry Polytechnic until the Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 granted it university status, at which point it adopted its current name.
Coventry University is the larger of the two universities in the city, with the other being the University of Warwick. It is the UK’s fastest-growing university and the fourth largest overall. The university has two main campuses: one located in the city center of Coventry, where most of its activities take place, and another in Central London, which specializes in business and management programs.
In addition to its primary campuses, Coventry University oversees several other higher education institutions: CU Coventry, CU Scarborough, and CU London, which present themselves as alternatives to traditional higher education.
The university offers approximately 300 undergraduate and postgraduate courses across its four faculties, each comprising a variety of schools and departments. It also boasts 11 research centers, which focus on a wide range of fields, including agroecology, peace studies, and the future of transport.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Trailblazers: The Early Career Researcher and PhD Candidate Partnering Scheme
The Trailblazer PhD studentships have been devised and developed by leading early-career researchers at Coventry University. The scheme provides successfully appointed doctoral researchers with an innovative and dynamic intellectual space in which to undertake transformative research, whilst being fully supported by a team of experienced supervisors.
Candidates will form part of an interdisciplinary cohort dedicated to trailblazing and innovative research.
Trailblazer candidates will also be embedded within Coventry University’s Doctoral College and Centre for Research Capability and Development which provides support with high-quality training and career development activities for researchers from PGR to Professor.
Deadline : Open until filled
(2) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Energy transfer in rotating stably stratified turbulence
One characteristic of turbulent flow is that energy transfers from one length scale to another in a unique way referred to as the cascade of energy.
This project focuses on understanding how energy transfers and cascades at synoptic scales (~1000 km, e.g., mid-latitude cyclones) and mesoscales (5–100s km, e.g., sea breezes) in the presence of rotation and stable stratification. To understand the origins of these energy transfers, we will perform direct numerical simulations using the global spectral method with extremely high precision to capture even the smallest scale present in the problem.
Research Impact: The outcomes of this project will contribute to improving weather prediction models and climate pattern analysis, advancing our understanding of energy transfer and cascade processes in atmospheric turbulent flows. Results will be shared through publications in leading journals and presentations at major fluid dynamics conferences.
Deadline : 27 May 2025
(3) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: The peace potential of everyday economic spaces and practices in conflict-affected societies
Everyday economic spaces and practices give insight into how people in conflict-affected communities adapt to conflict and manage to continue with the necessities of everyday life. The research will consider the following questions that are so far under-researched in peace and conflict studies:
- Which everyday economic spaces are constructed in communities affected by violence?
- Who partakes in these spaces, and to what use?
- In what ways does economic cooperation encourage/drive acts of everyday peace
- How can everyday economic spaces enhance bottom-up peacebuilding in conflict-affected societies? These questions shift away from the predominance of macro-economic conflict transformation embedded in current peacebuilding paradigms. They focus on the necessity to bring food to the table amid precarious economic and security situations, as a pre-requisite for building peace.
This research will focus on two case studies using multiple methods, enabling comparison between places. The findings will offer insight into how everyday economic spaces and practices help overcome violence and tensions in conflict-affected societies, encourage cooperation in divided communities, and build peace from below.
Additional requirements
Deadline : 27 May 2025
(4) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Modelling of Timber and Hybrid Structures for Automotive Crash Analysis and Optimisation
The motivation of this PhD is to develop a robust simulation framework which reliably captures the main failure mechanisms in vehicle structures under the governing loading conditions.
The aim of the PhD is to define and verify a rigorous and robust Finite Element model, methodology and/or framework specifically for timber and hybrid timber material compositions for automotive crashworthiness analysis and optimisation.
The model/methodology should capture the governing material failure mechanisms of wood as well as the influence of specific material properties e.g. the influence of wood density which is the main difference of different wood species.
Deadline :27 May 2025
(5) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Investigating the Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Benefits of Classroom Exercise Breaks in School-Age Children
The present proposal aims to address the urgency of undercovering the underlying mechanisms by which CEB might improve cognitive performance in school-age children by using an interdisciplinary approach.
The novelty of using a portable neuroimaging device (i.e., fNIRS) can be a significant advantage as it can be used in school settings compared to other traditional methods, often requiring lab visits (EEG/fMRI). Given this, we aim to advance the field by revealing underlying mechanisms of the ultimate benefit of CEB for children’s executive function.
Deadline : 27 May 2025
(6) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Practicing (Post-)Publishing (PPP)
We invite applications for PhD projects that challenge and intervene into the prevailing systems of scholarly publishing which prioritise research outputs (such as books and papers) as well as competitive, individualistic authorship models as the main metrics for academic recognition and success. This conventional approach often reduces scholarly works to commodities, neglecting the intricate socio-material processes of knowledge creation and sharing, which are inherently collaborative involving both human actors (authors, editors, reviewers, programmers) and non-human ones (digital texts, research cultures, technologies).
Doctoral proposals are welcomed that focus on how alternative approaches to publishing can foster collaboration and mutual support over individual competition, social processes over quantifiable outputs, and knowledge equity and diversity in scholarly publishing. This includes but is not limited to applications that explore publishing and editorial collectives in- and outside the university, publishing practices (including joint writing, open peer review, shared annotation, alternative licencing, and collective editorship), as well as open, processual, and versioned books.
The members of the supervisory team have expertise in critical, experimental, activist, and academic print and digital publishing; radical open access publishing; social justice, knowledge equity and diversity in academia; as well as in curatorial studies and spatial practices. We welcome applications that focus on specific case studies, engage in practice-research, and/or want to conduct an experimental publishing projects.
Deadline : 30 April 2025
(7) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: The role of health technology in menopause support: co-designing culturally and socially appropriate solutions
Social and cultural attitudes and values also contribute to these varied perceptions and experiences, meaning that effective support needs to take these factors into account. There is a growing range of technology emerging to assess and treat menopausal symptoms and offer help and support. There is, however, much debate about the use of ‘FemTech’ in terms of privacy, the nature of the advice offered, user control and empowerment, and accessibility to all.
With a focus on seldom heard voices, this interdisciplinary research will seek to explore a range of experiences and support needs related to the menopause.
The research seeks to identify and understand the needs and priorities of people experiencing the menopause through language-based and creative methods, investigating how such methods can facilitate the discussion of sensitive issues. The role of technology in menopause support will be considered, and the findings from the needs identification will be translated into design requirements for culturally and socially appropriate solutions.
The project will be supported by the NIHR Devices for Dignity HRC who specialise in the development of innovative health technologies for people with long-term conditions and have a key national role in developing technologies to improve women’s health.
Deadline : 27 May 2025
(8) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Transparency and Secrecy: The paradoxes of tech whistleblowing in the digital era
The EU, the UK and the US have whistleblowing laws which seem not to work for the protection of whistleblowers. Several tech scandals in the US as well as in the EU and the UK have raised concerns whether internal voices are heard. Several tech scandals in the US as well as in the EU and the UK have raised concerns whether internal voices are heard.
The ‘laissez-faire’ regulatory approach and oversight of the technological sector by national governments have left the tech industry with a wide margin of discretion on what they are developing. Grey legal areas, unregulated sectors, lack of understanding and the absence of ethical rules have created an uncomfortable and potentially not secure environment for consumers and citizens.
While technological advancements are important and necessary, their control and overview is essential to ensure the respect of the rule of law, societal and ethical values. Ethical and trustworthy AI is an important issue and whistleblowers may play a key role in safeguarding the ethical development and use of AI and other new technologies. This research aims to compare the technological sector in the EU, UK and US in terms of legislation, oversight, and ethical considerations.
Once these are assessed, the research will focus on interviews with relevant stakeholders (empirical research). When the legal comparison is done and the interviews are completed, the research will map best practices and drawbacks and solutions will be presented on how to better protect whisteblowers in the tech sector as well as on how to enhance scrutiny.
Deadline : 27 May 2025
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