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Applications open for PhD studentships at The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources
11 December 2024
Applications are now open for UCL ESPRC DTP's 2025-26 studentships, spanning Energy, Environmental Design and Engineering, Heritage, and Sustainable Resources.
About the ESPRC Doctoral Training Partnerships
EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTP) provide funding to UK universities, including 50 fully-funded PhD studentships at UCL for the 2025-26 academic year. This will support students' across four years of doctoral training in any areas of engineering and the physical sciences with relevance to the EPSRC remit.
What does a studentship provide?
The definition of a PhD studentship is a grant or payment made to support a student's education, awarded on the basis of academic or other achievement.
All studentships:
- Are fully-funded for four years, covering fees at the Home rate.
- Provide a maintenance stipend at the UCL EPSRC DTP enhanced rate (was £22,237 in 2024-25, rises each year).
- Provide a Research Training Support Grant (RTSG) to cover additional costs of training eg courses, project costs, conferences, travel.
- Provide a UCL award for overseas fee status students to cover the fee difference between the Home and international fee rate.
Our research topics
Across our four sustainability-focused Institute’s at The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, we have proposed 12 research topics for PhD students to join us from 2025.
Our proposed PhD studentship topics are:
- A machine learning aided high-fidelity urban building modelling approach for energy-efficient, low-carbon and climate-responsive buildings
- Benchmarking Environmental Building Data for Enhanced Performance and Improved Insights
- Energy-aware Transport Digital Twins: Real-time Calibration and Update
- Enhancing Net-Zero Carbon Cities with Photovoltaic and Green Roof Integration for Adaptation to Extreme Climate Events
- Humidity Benchmarking for Optimal Indoor Comfort and Cognitive Performance (HOPE)
- Investigating Acoustic Interventions to Inhibit Mould Growth in Buildings
- Modelling system flexibility and renewable generation surplus: A key to enable investment and achieve a Net Zero electricity system.
- Non-Destructive Testing and Hygrothermal Simulation for Sustainable Retrofit Design
- Real-World Performance of Domestic Photovoltaics (RP-PV): Self consumption, flexibility, storage and long-term performance
- SNIFF (Smell-based Novel Investigation for Fungal Findings)
- Systems, Decision-making and Transdisciplinary in Climate and Health Policy Implementation
- The impact of climate change and inequalities on indoor environments within retrofitted dwellings in deprived English settings
In addition to our proposed list of topics from The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, you may apply to any of the projects available in the project catalogue.
Key information
Applications close
28 January 2025, 13:00 GMT
Interviews held
Between 24 and 28 February 2025. Applicants are advised to make sure they would be available during this week to attend the interview if shortlisted.
Expected start date
1 October 2025, unless exceptional circumstances require an alternate start date. Exceptional circumstance include, but are not limited to, disability and caring responsibilities.
Additional considerations
- Students will be initially registered for four years and are expected to submit their thesis within the four-year funded period. The project should be designed and supervised to facilitate this.
- Studentships are open to both Home and International fee status students, however EPSRC caps the number of International students at 30% so a maximum of 15 International students can be recruited and competition for these places will be particularly strong.
For full eligibility criteria and details on how to apply, please visit the UCL EPSRC DTP website .
Interested in the PhD Programmes at The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources?
Discover more about our four MPhil/PhD courses on UCL prospectus pages: