Current research degree projects

Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
This project focuses on understanding and modelling the vibroacoustic mechanisms of early British pianos. The goal is to create virtual replicas of these historical instruments, with an emphasis on the design of hammers, strings, and soundboards, to preserve and appreciate their original sounds.
This PhD project aims to develop low-carbon, high-performance cementitious materials to combat marine corrosion and reduce global CO₂ emissions. Using advanced material characterisation techniques, this project explores microstructure evolution and long-term durability for sustainable ocean infrastructure.
Scaffolds are important physical substrates for cell attachment, proliferation and differentiation, ultimately leading to the regeneration of tissues. This research aims to develop a novel multi-material functional gradient scaffold that mimics the natural bone and cartilage structure, promoting the regeneration of both, particularly the transition zone between the two.
Composite materials are at the forefront of airframe technologies successfully providing reliable and high performance aerospace structures. A key barrier to greater deployment of next generation composites for new and novel vehicle concepts is the time and cost associated with certification of new designs.
This project aims to develop advanced digital twin technology for space object re-entry monitoring, addressing multiphysics coupling and hybrid uncertainties. The project focuses on uncertainty quantification, robust model updating, and real-time data integration to improve re-entry prediction accuracy.
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are playing an increasing role in studying our oceans. While they can be equipped with a range of physical sensors, options for chemical monitoring are limited for smaller AUVs. This project looks to address this by developing new AUV systems for measuring ocean chemistry.
This project aims to develop, fabricate, and test new technology for studying sediments that will enable scientists to gain new insights into our coastal environment.
Reliable batteries, surpassing the energy storage capacity of the state of the art, are needed for critical applications such as communications systems for national security. This project aims to make them a reality by combining solid and liquid or gel materials to form quasi-solid materials with versatile chemistry and mechanical robustness.