As an ambitious and innovative University, we’re investing an initial £100m into our new research strategy, ‘Excellence with Impact’ and are awarding studentships to the most exceptional candidates across a range of research areas. As a research student you will be an integral part of Coventry’s lively and diverse research community and contribute to our reputation for excellence. With our exceptional facilities and superb support mechanisms you are afforded every opportunity for academic success.

Please click on the individual studentship links below for further information:

The Centre for Flow Measurement and Fluid Dynamics leads research focusing on novel measurement techniques for complex and multi-component flows to allow end users to optimise their processes.

• Smart Tanks for Space
• Modelling and measurement of oil-water two-phase flows
• Advanced oil-water separation monitoring for enhanced oil recovery
• Novel remote interrogation technique for flow measurements in a subsea environment using optical fibre technology
• Monitoring techniques for CO2/brine dissolution in wellbores
• Improving oil and gas recovery through optimal flow measurement
• Advanced turbulent combustion modelling of stationary gas-turbines with alternative gaseous fuels
• Advanced modelling of turbulent spray flames in aero gas-turbines with liquid bio-fuels
• The effect of the top surface morphology on CO2 Storage

 

The Centre for Low Impact Buildings focuses on delivering research solutions to close the design versus as-built performance gap found in the built environment.

• Active Living Envelopes
• Investigation of a novel light-weight sustainable cementitious material
• Building better schools by understanding the differences between students’ and teachers’ perception of internal comfort criteria
• Evaluating the quality of the internal environment in UK Higher Education buildings
• Paving elements using the novel Aer-Tech material
• Development of cold-formed steel elements for sustainable building solutions
• Development of connection systems for round bamboo structures
• Ultrasonic treatment of waste pozzolans to improve cementitious property of binders
• Specialist conductive coating anode system for cathodic protection of steel in concrete structures
• Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete Beams against Torsion
• Thermal behaviour of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete
• UHPFRC Protective Structures against Impact and Blast

 

The Centre Manufacturing and Materials Engineering’s expertise lies in the successful delivery of research into materials and manufacturing processes for enhanced product performance.

• Assessing strength of joints for high pressure vessels
• A fundamental study into novel methods to selectively metallise materials using a magnetic field to enable more sustainable processing in high value manufacturing sectors
• Effect of microstructure and texture on crack propagation and residual stress stability in complex fatigue loading environments
• Plasticity Length-scale Effects Fundamentals: Investigate dislocation generation and mobility as a function of applied stress distribution and stacking fault energy
• Design optimisation of composite material for improving the energy management for hybrid vehicle application
• Critical defect size in additive manufactured metallic components – development of structural integrity assessment methods through novel experimentation and computer modelling
• Defects and fatigue damage in additive manufactured aluminium
• Remanufacturing and repair of metallic components using additive manufacturing
• Non-Destructive Evaluation of Stress and Heterogeneity using Acoustic Methods

 

The Centre for Mobility & Transport focuses on inclusive, sustainable and safe transport integrating the strongest research elements in design and engineering.

• Wheel force estimation and control allocation using strain gauge measurements
• CFD modelling of swirling flows in automotive aftertreatment systems
• Modelling Flow And Pressure Losses In Gasoline Particulate Filters
• Human Centred Design of Angle of Attack (AoA) Systems
• Flight Performance & Handling Qualities Assessment of Frederick Lanchester’s 1897 Aeromachine
• Distributed Predictive Control Strategies for Active Suspension Systems with Preview
• Thermal comfort and its contribution to the user experience of transitional transport spaces
• Condition Monitoring of Electric Motors for Electric Vehicle Applications
• Adaptive vehicle structure concepts for reduced crash pulse severity
• Automated post processing of topology optimisation results
• Muscle fatigue in full body musculoskeletal models
• WorkBuddy: Enabling people with learning disabilities to get to work
• The Effects of Haptic Feedback on Pilot Performance & Workload
• Novel Sensing for Angle of Attack (AoA) Systems
• The Effects of Intelligent Mobility on Transient and Complex Journeys
• Modeling Nanofuel Spray and Combustion Processes
• Monolithic Power Integrated Circuits for compact high performance electronics in electric vehicles
• Cross the age gaps: An investigation of the ability of generational codesign to inform product system service design in transport with communities
• Women’s mobility: the marginalisation of women in transport
• Solar/Wind powered on grid / off grid electric vehicle charging station
• Planetary gearboxes Prognosis and Diagnosis
• Autonomous vehicles and driver situation awareness
• Comfort Perception in Automated Vehicles
• Methods and Tools for Designing Secure Telematics Applications
• On-going development of safety and security cases using big-data analytics
• Blended fuel droplets heating, evaporation and ignition
• Analysis of the barriers to women in transport
• Investigation of the current and future mobility requirements of older travellers

 

The School of Computing, Electronics and Maths

• Statistical physics of complex systems
• Hybrid Intelligent fusion for meeting feedback from affective state of participants
• Robot homing deeply reinforced by another robot
• Ambient Intelligent Systems for Modelling Distributed Cognition in Dementia Care
• Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in extreme magnetic fields
• Numerical magnetohydynamics on the stability analysis of liquid metal batteries
• Services Recommendations Based on a Dynamic IoS Data Driven Method
• Intelligent Environmental Control Using Deep Neural Network and Reinforcement Learning
• Integrated supply chain planning and scheduling in uncertain environment

 

 

The School of Energy, Construction and Environment

• Assessing the spatiotemporal variability of environmental parameters for oil spill modelling in the Bonny River Channel
• Novel Interaction Method with End-users for Energy Behaviour Transition
• Non-invasive Damage Detection & Classification of the Bond Beneath Overlays in Pavements. A pilot study
• Developing a cement composite board using waste materials and polymeric fibre mesh

 

The School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Automotive Engineering

• Wind turbine icing prediction and evaluation
• Enhancing the sustainability of anaerobic digestion systems by using multi-objective optimisation algorithms