Research Degree Scholarships in Engineering

Vice Chancellor’s Scholarships

Project Code: Code: SCE_2024_VCS

If you’re a Huddersfield graduate, looking to undertake a full-time or part-time research degree, you may be eligible for a full fee-waiver on your research degree.

The scholarship is open to home and international candidates. 

Please note, for international students our Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship Scheme provides a 50% fee waiver on full-time or part-time research degrees. 

 
Eligibility criteria 

Our Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship Scheme is a competitive application process and to be eligible, you must have achieved one of the following: 
 
- a first-class honours degree 
- a distinction at taught Master’s 
or 
- be recommended based on your Master’s by Research by your supervisor and academic school 
and 
- graduated from the University of Huddersfield in the last three years.  

Any offer will be conditional on your degree outcome if you are graduating in the current academic year.  

 

General  

Available for research undertaken on a full-time or part-time basis including PhD, Master of Arts by Research, and Master of Science by Research.  

Scholarship is only available for the standard registration period only,  

For doctoral awards, or PhD, the fee waiver will be for 3 years full-time or 6 years part-time 

For Master’s by Research awards, the fee-waiver will be for 1-year full time or 2 years part time.  
 
The fee waiver will not apply to any research undertaken outside of this standard registration period, including any write up period.  
 
The University of Huddersfield reserves the right to vary or withdraw the waiver at any point in future academic years.  

Please note, that this fee waiver is subject to availability.  
 
If you have any queries or require further information, please contact study@hud.ac.uk 

 

How to apply 

Applications for scholarship opportunities are made by first submitting an Expression of Interest following which successful candidates will be invited to submit a full application. Please see the webpages below for more information on this process:

Engineering Scholarships

Expressions of Interest

How to Apply

The above links and Expression of Interest Form give full details of what is required in order for your application to be considered include the following:

• Qualification certificates and academic transcripts
• References from two individuals
• Research proposal (if applicable)
• Two-page curriculum vitae (CV)
• Passport or alternative ID
• Proof of IELTS 6.0 (with no element below 5.5) or equivalent English language requirements (if applicable)
• More information on international entry requirements for international can be found here: https://www.hud.ac.uk/international/where-are-you-from

If you have any queries or require further information, please contact sce.research.admin@hud.ac.uk

School of Computing and Engineering Scholarships

Project Code: SCE_2024_SCES

School of Computing and Engineering Scholarships are awarded for 100% of tuition fees for the standard registration period only for either PhD or Master's by Research study. Excellent candidates may also be awarded a small tax-free stipend, paid monthly.

Candidates must meet the standard entry requirements for the course for which they are applying.

If you are due to graduate in the current academic year, any offer will be conditional on your final degree outcome.

Reapplications for a scholarship within the School of Computing and Engineering will not be considered within 12 months of a previous unsuccessful application study.

All scholarships are subject to satisfactory academic progress including successful completion of Progression Monitoring.

Applications for scholarship opportunities are made by first submitting an Expression of Interest following which successful candidates will be invited to submit a full application. Please see the webpages below for more information on this process:

Engineering Scholarships

Expressions of Interest

How to Apply

The above links and Expression of Interest Form give full details of what is required in order for your application to be considered include the following:

• Qualification certificates and academic transcripts
• References from two individuals
• Research proposal (if applicable)
• Two-page curriculum vitae (CV)
• Passport or alternative ID
• Proof of IELTS 6.0 (with no element below 5.5) or equivalent English language requirements (if applicable)
• More information on international entry requirements for international can be found here: https://www.hud.ac.uk/international/where-are-you-from

If you have any queries or require further information, please contact sce.research.admin@hud.ac.uk

Chancellor's Anniversary Scholarships

Project Code: SCE_2024_CAS

We are seeking the very best graduates from across the UK to participate in our Chancellor’s Anniversary Scholarships Scheme, which gives those selected access to a full tuition waiver on their research degree.

To celebrate 200 years of the University of Huddersfield, which in 1825 was established as The Science and Mechanics Institute, we are awarding up to 60 Chancellor’s Anniversary Scholarships across all PhD disciplines.

These scholarships are available across all academic disciplines for research undertaken on either a full-time or part-time basis where there is sufficient supervisory capacity.

Our Chancellor’s Anniversary Scholarships are available for the standard registration period only; for doctoral awards this will be either 3 years full-time or 6 years part-time. The scholarship will not apply to any research undertaken outside of this standard registration period, including any write-up period.

Our Chancellor’s Anniversary Scholarships Scheme is a competitive application process open to home (UK resident) candidates and to be eligible you must have achieved one of the following:

• 2:1 honours degree or above;
• Distinction at taught Master’s;
• Master’s by Research degree and have a letter of recommendation from your supervisor.

This scholarship applies to eligible research degrees for 2023/24 and is open to home candidates (UK only).

Candidates must meet the standard entry requirements for the course for which they are applying.

If you are due to graduate in the current academic year, any offer will be conditional on your final degree outcome.

Reapplications for a scholarship within the School of Computing and Engineering will not be considered within 12 months of a previous unsuccessful application study.

All scholarships are subject to satisfactory academic progress including successful completion of Progression Monitoring.

Applications for scholarship opportunities are made by first submitting an Expression of Interest following which successful candidates will be invited to submit a full application. Please see the webpages below for more information on this process:

Engineering Scholarships

Expressions of Interest

How to Apply

The above links and Expression of Interest Form give full details of what is required in order for your application to be considered include the following:

• Qualification certificates and academic transcripts
• References from two individuals
• Research proposal (if applicable)
• Two-page curriculum vitae (CV)
• Passport or alternative ID
• Proof of IELTS 6.0 (with no element below 5.5) or equivalent English language requirements (if applicable)
• More information on international entry requirements for international can be found here: https://www.hud.ac.uk/international/where-are-you-from

If you have any queries or require further information, please contact sce.research.admin@hud.ac.uk

Funded PhD position available in the University of Huddersfield’s Centre for Precision Technologies

As part of the £5.5M EPSRC grant, ‘Next Generation Metrology Driven by Nanophotonics’ awarded to the Universities of Huddersfield and Southampton, we are offering a funded PhD opportunity and are interested in finding UK applicants with 2:1 degree or above in Physics, Mathematics, Engineering or a related discipline and with an interest in photonic metamaterials, nanophotonics and instrumentation.

This PhD project will be hosted at the Centre for Precision Technologies (CPT) which is also leading the recently announced EPSRC Sustainable Manufacturing Hub for Advanced Metrology. This Hub will develop ground-breaking new technologies, such as ultra-fast and compact sensors using nanophotonic metamaterials and quantum sensors, to improve resource efficiency and productivity across the range of sectors which rely on precision manufacturing.

Ultra-compact chromatic confocal sensor implementing metasurfaces for rapid surface topography evaluation

Synopsis - This project will build upon initial demonstrations of a metasurface based compact chromatic confocal sensor, engineering it into an optimised device, suitable for use in real-world measurement scenarios and fully characterising its performance. This project will build on a novel concept based on standalone metasurfaces to a form where all of the elements are realised in one robust monolithic device, attached directly to the end of an optical fibre to form an ultra-compact probe capable of making form and surface measurements on difficult to access structures such as boreholes.

This is a 4 year funded Industrial Case project, co-sponsored by EPSRC and Renishaw plc. This project also offers the option to undertake an industrial placement with Renishaw as part of the programme of study.

Rapid, non-contact, surface topography evaluation probes in a form factor compact enough for integration with coordinate measurement machine (CMM) probe systems represent a technology gap for which the market has yet to provide a robust solution. Non-contact scanning systems currently tend to rely on machine vision or fringe projection which can provide some analysis of form/waviness but struggle to achieve sufficient resolution for surface roughness analysis. Non-contact probes tend to be vision system based and are of such a size that important commercial measurement applications involving difficult access e.g. boreholes cannot be facilitated with these technologies.

This research project will investigate the potential of using a metasurface based chromatic confocal sensors (CCS) as an ultra-compact, non-contact, touch probe alternative, building on our initial proof-of-concept demonstration of this work. This project will investigate how photonic metasurfaces can be used to achieve the necessary miniaturisation of both the probe and interrogation apparatus. The project will also investigate how the incorporation of metasurfaces into an optical measurement system impact on the metrological characteristics, especially in relation to environmental stability. Opportunities for photonic metasurfaces to support miniaturisation of the spectral interrogation required, as part of a hybrid optical system will also be investigated.

The successful candidate for this research project will have a solid background in optical engineering (or another closely related engineering discipline). Experience in building/maintaining optical apparatus, electronic design and programming would also be advantageous.

 

This opportunity is fully-funded, including support for tuition fees and an enhanced stipend of £22,237 per annum. The proposed start date is April 2025.

Please note that this PhD is open to UK students only.

 

Formal applications and enquiries

Interested applicants should email metrology@hud.ac.uk with a CV and covering letter by Friday 14^th February detailing education history and highlighting any relevant experience.

Informal enquiries can be directed to Dr Haydn Martin (h.p.martin@hud.ac.uk).

 

Further information about the Centre for Precision Technologies (CPT)

https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/cpt/

The CPT is a centre of excellence for collaborative metrology solving real-world manufacturing problems through cutting edge metrology research in precision engineering, maintaining strong industrial connections with >100 companies. Its research, over more than two decades, has provided modern, cutting-edge measurement theory and technologies for dimensional and surface texture, machine performance; and mathematics for measurement.

Operating at the forefront of new measurement techniques, we apply novel measurement concepts to solve real world metrology problems. Highly innovative research and strong links with industry resulted in the EPSRC designating the CPT as a National Centre of Excellence in Advanced Metrology in 2011. Building on this success, CPT was awarded a £13M grant by EPSRC to create a Future Manufacturing Research Hub in 2017. Headed by Professor Dame Xiangqian (Jane) Jiang, the Future Metrology Hub’s focus is to transform the UK’s manufacturing performance by delivering technologies that provide significant improvements in the speed, accuracy and cost of measurement.

In 2022 the CPT was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize which recognised the innovative and ground-breaking work in advanced measurement for smart manufacturing.

In May 2024 it was announced that the CPT will lead one of five of the next generation of Sustainable Manufacturing Hubs. The Advanced Metrology Sustainable Manufacturing Hub will be a National Centre of Excellence for research into manufacturing metrology. The Hub links the CPT with other leading institutions such as: University of Oxford; University of Southampton; Queen’s University, Belfast; University of Sheffield; National Physical Laboratory to drive forward metrology research with the aim of addressing sustainability in manufacturing.