We offer exciting research opportunities, including EngD, PhD, MPhil, MSc by Research and Cranfield Junior Research Fellowships. Our research studentships can be worth up to £17,900 per annum together with your tuition fees paid*.  

Environment and Resource Management

• PhD studentship - Assessing the balance between greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions from Irish pastures
• PhD Studentship - Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in animal slurries: impact of slurry pre-treatment and soil conditions
• Engineering Doctorate (EngD) - Evaluation of field soil compaction for optimal mechanisation systems in controlled and non-controlled traffic systems
• PhD studentship - Enhanced separation of fat, oil and greases (FOGs) in relation to wastewater.
• PhD studentship - Fireside Corrosion and Protection of Heat Exchangers in Advanced Power Systems
• PhD studentship - Hot corrosion, oxidation and protection of gas turbine components in advanced power systems
• PhD studentship - Manipulation of plant diversity within grassland buffer margins to enhance soil biodiversity
• PhD Studentship - Steam Oxidation and Protection of Heat Exchangers in Advanced Power Systems

Manufacturing

• MSc by Research - An intelligent cost modelling approach for production scheduling in the corrugated industry
• MSc by Research - Analogy based cost estimating for automotive components
• MSc by Research - Development of a framework to implement product cost management within the new product introduction process
• Two PhD studentships - Evolutionary computation-based optimisation of micro/nanosystems
• PhD studentship - Development of high precision surfaces using multi-axis grinding
• Ten funded PhD studentships in product-service systems
• PhD studentship - Dynamic inter-organisational innovation communities
• PhD studentship - The effectiveness of ‘closed’ to ‘open’ innovation models
• PhD studentship - Set based lean design tools for lean product and process development

Materials

• MSc by Research - Environment-friendly microfabrication of titanium biomedical devices
• PhD studentship - Microinjection moulding of microfluidic biomedical devices

Microsystems and Nanotechnology

• PhD studentship - Development of zinc oxide nanorods for all-inorganic nanostructured solar cells
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• PhD studentship - Selective capture layers for biofluid dosimetry
• PhD studentship - Novel device designs for MicroElectroMechanical (MEMS) sensing and actuating systems

Precision Engineering

• PhD studentship - Design of ultra precision micro machining facility
• PhD studentship -Metrology of large optics
• PhD studentship - Ultra precision fabrication of advanced optics - reactive plasma technology
• PhD studentship - Ultra precision fabrication of astronomy optics - diamond turning
• PhD studentship - Ultra precision structured surface laboratory facilities development
• PhD studentship - Ultra precision fabrication of astronomy optics - abrasive techniques

Water

• MSc by Research - Electrolytic scale control

Welding

• PhD studentship - High power laser welding

In addition to studentships for specific projects, we also welcome applications from candidates with First or Second class UK Honours degrees (or their international equivalent) who are interested in undertaking research.