PhD and postgraduate research opportunities in the College of Arts, Environment and Technology

Join a thriving and expanding postgraduate research community.

What are my study options?

Studentships

Our offered studentships are in specific subject areas required by industry, and occasionally the project itself will already be defined. Your tuition fees and living expenses are usually covered for three years and applications need to be submitted by a set deadline. 

Self-funded opportunities

If you already know what you want to study (and it fits within one of our areas of expertise), then you have the choice to self-fund your studies, providing more flexibility in what it is you research. Some of our current students are sponsored by their employers, so this can be another option. 

Our research expertise

We welcome applications for full and part-time PhD study in topics that reflect and enhance the research interests of the University.

Air Quality Management Resource Centre

Find out about expertise and teaching at the Air Quality Management Resource Centre, which undertakes a continuous and extensive programme of research around air quality and carbon management.

For further information about AQMRC research opportunities, please email AQMRC (aqmrc@uwe.ac.uk).

Architecture Research Group

Find out about the Architecture Research Group, which was established to address both methodological and thematic concerns within design and practice based research.

For further information about postgraduate opportunities, please email Professor Piers Taylor (piers.taylor@uwe.ac.uk).

Bristol Robotics Laboratory

Find out more about postgraduate opportunities at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, the most comprehensive academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK. BRL is a collaborative partnership between UWE Bristol and the University of Bristol.

For further information about research opportunities, please email BRL (info@brl.ac.uk).

Centre for Advanced Built Environment Research

View all our postgraduate opportunities in the Centre for Advanced Built Environment Research across a range of built environment themes.

For further information about CABER research opportunities, please contact Professor Alice Moncaster (alice.moncaster@uwe.ac.uk) or Professor Patrick Manu (patrick.manu@uwe.ac.uk).

Centre for Machine Vision

Find out more about the Centre for Machine Vision. Part of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), we solve real-world practical computer vision problems. Our particular excellence lies in 3D reconstruction and surface inspection.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Professor Lyndon Smith (Lyndon.Smith@uwe.ac.uk).

Centre For Print Research

The Centre For Print Research (CFPR) is a unique, multidisciplinary research centre that finds creative solutions for the future of printmaking.

For further information about postgraduate research opportunities, please email cfprinfo@uwe.ac.uk.

Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments

View all our postgraduate opportunities in the Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments. Join projects which are focused on creating places that are environmentally sustainable, socially just and economically competitive.

For further information about SPE research opportunities, please email Danielle Sinnett (Danielle.Sinnett@uwe.ac.uk).

Centre for Transport and Society

View all our postgraduate opportunities in the Centre for Transport and Society across our seven strategic theme areas, from promoting low carbon travel to supporting sustainable mobility strategies.

For further information about CTS research opportunities, please email Professor Graham Parkhurst (Graham.Parkhurst@uwe.ac.uk).

Centre for Water, Communities and Resilience

View all our postgraduate opportunities in the Centre for Water, Communities and Resilience. Join established inter-disciplinary teams working on different national and international water security initiatives at UWE Bristol.

For further information about CWCR research opportunities, please email Professor Lindsey McEwen (Lindsey.McEwen@uwe.ac.uk).

Computer Science Research Centre

Find out more about the Computer Science Research Centre and our research activities that cover many of the facets of 21st century computer science, from artificial intelligence to graphene sensors for Internet of Things applications.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Professor Larry Bull (Larry.Bull@uwe.ac.uk).

Creative Technologies Laboratory

Find out more about the Creative Technologies Laboratory, an interdisciplinary research group that spans and intersects computer science and the creative arts, aiming to create and evaluate seamless interfaces between people and technology.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Dr Tom Mitchell (Tom.Mitchell@uwe.ac.uk).

Digital Cultures Research Centre

Find out about expertise and teaching at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, an open and collaborative network of critical thinkers and doers based at UWE Bristol who interrogate, articulate and create practical approaches to responsible technological futures.

For further information about DCRC postgraduate research opportunities, please email DCRC (dcrc@uwe.ac.uk).

Engineering Modelling and Simulation Group

Find out more about the Engineering, Modelling and Simulation Group, which brings academics and researchers together to carry out high-quality research in key engineering fields by applying modern and advanced modelling and simulation techniques.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Professor Yufeng Yao (yufeng.yao@uwe.ac.uk).

Humanities Research Group

Find out about the Humanities Research Group, which brings together staff and postgraduate researchers to conduct interdisciplinary challenge-led research, built on fundamental processes of inquiry that work across History, Literature, Linguistics, Media and Creative Practice.

For further information about postgraduate opportunities, please email Dr Jeanette Sakel (jeanette.sakel@uwe.ac.uk) or Dr Rose Wallis (rose2.wallis@uwe.ac.uk).

Institute of Bio-Sensing Technology

Find out more about the Institute of Bio-Sensing Technology, which collaborates within industry and academia to develop novel bio-sensing technologies together.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Associate Professor Tim Cox (Timothy.Cox@uwe.ac.uk).

Mathematics and Statistics Research Group

Find out more about the Mathematics and Statistics Research Group, which aims to deliver internationally excellent mathematics research, including real-world impact, develop research collaboration, apply its research to outstanding learning and generate income.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Dr Vadim Zverovich (Vadim.Zverovich@uwe.ac.uk).

Robotic Engineering And Computing for Healthcare

Find out more about Robotics Engineering And Computing for Healthcare, which researches robotics technologies, intelligent sensors and machine learning to realise person-focused innovative healthcare solutions.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Dr David Western (david.western@uwe.ac.uk).

Science Communication Unit

Find out more about postgraduate research opportunities at the Science Communication Unit, which is internationally renowned for its diverse and innovative activities, designed to engage the public with science.

For further information about research opportunities, please email SCU (science.communication@uwe.ac.uk).

Screen Research

Read more about the Screen Research, which focuses on historical, theoretical and practice-based research into film cultures, production and education.

For more information on postgraduate opportunities, please contact Dr Mark Bould (mark.bould@uwe.ac.uk) or Dr Charlotte Crofts (charlotte.crofts@uwe.ac.uk).

Unconventional Computing Laboratory

Find out more about the Unconventional Computing Laboratory, which employs complex dynamics in physical, chemical and biological media to design novel computational techniques, architectures and working prototypes of non-linear media-based computers.

For further information about Unconventional Computing Laboratory research opportunities, please email Professor Andrew Adamatzky (andrew.adamatzky@uwe.ac.uk).

Visual and Material Practices Research Group

The Visual and Material Practices Research Group is a group of cross-disciplinary art and design practitioners, historians and theorists interested in visuality and visual culture.

For further information about postgraduate research opportunities, please email Dr Jenny Rintoul (jenny2.rintoul@uwe.ac.uk).

WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments

The WHO Collaborating Centre promotes healthy and sustainable settlements through research, knowledge exchange and publications, working closely with municipalities, planning consultancies and health authorities in the UK as well as the wider WHO European Healthy Cities network.

For further information about postgraduate research opportunities, please email Dr Michael Buser (michael.buser@uwe.ac.uk).

What funding support is available?

Find out more about fees and funding for PhDs and postgraduate opportunities from the UWE Bristol Doctoral Academy.

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How to apply

To apply, please contact one of the relevant Centre contacts from the drop down list above, or visit the how to apply section of the UWE Bristol Doctoral Academy.

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Support during your degree

Support from the Doctoral Academy available to postgraduate researchers at UWE Bristol, including useful contacts.

Skills development for postgraduate researchers

UWE Bristol offers a comprehensive range of workshops which aim to help you complete your doctorate on time, feel part of UWE Bristol’s researcher community and consider your postdoctoral options.

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