Current research degree projects
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
To meet the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement, aviation (~3% of human global CO2 emissions) must do its share. The target for air transportation is a 75% reduction in CO2 and a 90% reduction in NOx by 2050. To achieve such goals, the sector is looking at new energy carriers (batteries, fuel cells, hydrogen) and distributed propulsion concepts, as well as new configurations such as Ultra-High Aspect Ratio Wings (UHARW). Although the UHARW concept presents the distinct advantage of reduced induced drag, consequently leading to reduced fuel consumption and extended range, it concurrently introduces challenges associated with substantial aerodynamic load-induced wing bending moments and shear forces. These factors give rise to heightened structural weight, thereby constraining the overall advantages of the UHARW design. To tackle this challenge, some strategies can be employed, for example, integrating novel configurations, such as strut-braced wings, with novel technologies, such as active and passive load alleviation.
If you are a student of aerodynamics, chances are that you have drawn a conventional airfoil with nice, laminar incoming flow at some point. Enough of those steady, uniform streamlines! We welcome you to join us in disturbing the incoming flow and unravel in its unsteadiness using some of the best experimental facilities in the UK. If you are excited by the idea of subjecting bio-inspired wings to different types of canonical disturbances, measuring their aerodynamic responses, and taming their behaviour, then the vibrant and world-renowned Experimental Fluids Group at the University of Southampton is the place for you!
The Department Aeronautics and Astronautics of the University of Southampton is welcoming applications for PhD scholarships in the field of composite materials and structures.
The University of Southampton, in collaboration with Network Rail, is offering an exciting opportunity to inform future railway signalling strategy through a programme of PhD research.The PhD focuses on future control, command and signalling strategy (F-CCS) that sets out a heavily automated future for the railway. But with little previous research on how such advanced signalling control might impact performance in the wider sociotechnical system, this programme seeks to understand the benefits of automation and how human performance fits in with that at all stages of the lifecycle.
This project will develop and test microfluidic systems that can be deployed aboard small robot submarines (micro-AUVs) to sample and analyse aquatic chemistry.
Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship to investigate power electronic converters integrating energy storage and renewable generation into EV charging stations. The PhD will also investigate techniques for implementing online electrochemical impedance spectroscope (EIS), battery diagnostics and protection, and energy management within the control system of the converter. This PhD will support a wider research team working on a new EPSRC funded Programme Grant entitled ‘Future Electric Vehicle Energy networks supporting Renewables (FEVER)’, grant ref: EP/W005883/1.
Do you have expertise and enthusiasm for human factors in healthcare? Do you want to carry out research that could have real benefits for staff and patient safety?If the answer is ‘yes’, then you should apply for this funded PhD project to address fatigue risk management in healthcare.
An opportunity has arisen for a PhD research student to work on an exciting project “Storage of liquid hydrogen fuel for net-zero maritime transportation” in the Infrastructure Research Group at the Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering Department in University of Southampton.