The Green Energy initiative at Queen Mary University of London supports and link up academics through a range of initiatives aimed at accelerating the transition to a zero-carbon world.
Bringing together the collective expertise of the University to tackle the grand technical and intellectual challenges that must be overcome to achieve a global transition to a zero-carbon future, this initiative is to be launched in early 2022 with more than 45 academic members of staff across four schools within the Faculty, whose research is focussed on driving the energy transition away from fossil fuels. Working with universities, research institutions, industry, funding agencies, UK and foreign government departments, benefactors, and other organisations, our mission is to support research in energy transitions. We will establish a central role in supporting energy research across the University, fostering new connections between exciting energy research areas.
As part of the launch of the Green Energy initiative, we are excited to announce the support of 38 PhD studentships, to start in October 2022. The students will benefit from a cutting edge cohort-based training, comprising of formal lectures and practical training in the sciences and the broader social sciences/humanities, within a university, external provider and industrial setting. Application deadline is 30th January 2022, and applicants should follow the application procedures outlined in each School.
We have 9 EPSRC/Principle studentships open to all UK and international students shown below, and a large number of Chinese Scholarship Council, CONACtyT and Colfuturo studentships supported by the Faculty, only available to eligible students from these country-specific schemes. These can be accessed below by expanding the subheadings below.
We invite applications to the following projects across the 4 Schools involved in this initiative. The studentships are open to UK and international applicants, although we note that we have a limited number of international scholarships available. Please apply directly via the Schools using the links provided. Please contact the supervisor directly if you have any questions.
We invite applications to the following funded European Research Council project. We note that this is open to UK Nationals only. Please apply directly via the Schools using the links provided. Please contact the supervisor directly if you have any questions. Please note this project has a later application deadline (28th February 2022).
Below are is the list of projects supported by the Faculty for CSC funding. Application deadling is January 30th. If you have any questions, please contact the supervisors directly. For those projects below without a project description, please contact the supervisor for further information.
Below are is the list of projects supported by the Faculty for CONACtyT and Colfuturo funding. Application deadling is January 31st. If you have any questions, please contact the supervisors directly.
We are happy to accept enquiries from PhD students who wish to apply for or already have secured an alternative funding method. Projects will be arranged on a case-by-case basis with the supervisors. If there is a particular area you want to work in, and you know the supervisor, then please make contact to start the discussions about projects, timescales etc.
Schemes we are aware of that may fund PhDs are (noting that these schemes may no longer offer funding, or may be limited in what they can offer):
In addition, we are willing to consider self-funded PhDs.