This post lists the available EU funding for PhD and Academic Projects at various universities in United Kingdom (UK), as listed by our experts at Fastepo.

EU Funded PhD and Academics in the United Kingdom (UK)

29 March 2022

This post lists the available EU funding for PhD and Academic Projects at various universities in the United Kingdom (UK), as listed by our experts at Fastepo.

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Available EU Funding for PhD and Academic Projects in the United Kingdom (UK)

The following is a list of available EU Funding for PhDs and Academic Projects in the United Kingdom (UK), along with details and deadlines.

Title: Ukrainian Short-Term Fellowships (molecular life science)(EU Funding UK)

ORGANISATION NAME: Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)

ORGANISATION COUNTRY: United Kingdom

FUNDING TYPE: Funding, Mobility Incoming

DEADLINE DATE: Apply anytime in 2022

RESEARCH FIELD: Natural sciences

CAREER STAGE: Recognised Researcher (R2) (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent)

Description

The Ukrainian Short-Term Fellowships from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies support molecular life scientists who are currently residents of Ukraine or displaced from Ukraine as a result of the war in the country. The applicant must hold a PhD and should be a member of the Ukrainian Biochemical Society or hosted by a scientist who is a member of a FEBS Constituent Society. The fellowship provides 12,000 EUR for 4 months to visit a host laboratory and cover travel and subsistence costs. Applicants may apply at anytime in 2022.

What is funded:

12,000 EUR of fellowship funding. 

Duration:

4 months.

Eligibility:

Ukrainian PhD-holding biochemists.

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Title: Audio Target Calibration and Localisation in Augmented Reality (AR) (EU Funding UK)

ORGANISATION NAME: Cardiff University

ORGANISATION COUNTRY: United Kingdom

DEADLINE DATE: Applications accepted all year round

RESEARCH FIELD: Professions and applied sciences

Description

Beyond the initial benefit to the general idea of ‘immersion’, the ‘uses’ of audio within AR technology are many and varied. There are Cognitive, User Experience and User Interface benefits to utilising audio more deeply in AR. Including audio in moving cues (e.g. skill based or shooting games) can reduce reaction time up to 50% (Barde, Ward, Helton & Billinghurst (2016)). Localising targets that emit sounds as users travel through space in games — whether it’s a whirring engine, a shuffling footstep or smooth servo sound adds to immersive experience; audio cues help users to understand the world around them before they have the time to turn their head in the direction the sound is coming from.

For highly immersive spatial audio, these spectral cues can be mimicked by calibrating headphones to head-related transfer functions (HRTFs). Since we all have different-sized heads and torsos, delivering audio through head-tracking headphones, calibrated to our unique, custom-measured HRTFs, is the challenge timely for AR and VR technologies.

One approach for customised HRTF for an individual AR headset-wearer would be HRTF data is captured by placing microphones inside user’s ears, and recording data on how sound waves hit the body as audio is played in a 360-degree manner around the user. This process is too onerous to do at scale, “generalist” HRTFs are encoded into the algorithms of many spatial audio technologies. (The generalist HRTF data comes from publicly available data sets, obtained from a generalist set of people’s heads and torsos.) However, emerging AR technologies are equipped with sensors designed to begin a custom “HRTF anatomy calibration” process.

This proposal aims to investigate the ability to acoustically conform the sound in the Experience to the environment that the device is placing it in. All AR technologies (handheld and head-worn) currently available have restrictions on the field of view that they have with their ability to be aware of the room that the device is in. Whether this is through inside-out tracking or stereo cameras capable of depth perception. Mobile AR is able to detect surfaces and allow movement around AR objects with the double-camera array that is included on iPhone X and AR-ready iPads (2017). Hololens, Meta and other AR headsets are able to detect the extent and depth of a room. Lower end mobile devices with only one camera are still able to detect surfaces, but do not have the same level of depth detection.

This work will investigate the efficiency and efficacy of some capture or calibration of the space to use this data for advanced acoustical rendering (similar to how a user must calibrate a VR setup to ensure the external cameras ‘know’ where the headset is in space). This type of calibration can be either stored on a mobile device to be used for processing or a real-time geometry-based rendering algorithm can be executed on non-tethered devices. Currently, physical rendering is only possible with a small number of software spatialisers (such as SteamAudio and NVIDIA).

This idea could be expanded to:

  • Sonification of the world visible through the AR window
  • Haptic feedback in AR / Mobile AR
  • Understanding and modelling the contents in the AR window

What is funded:

Self-Funding Students Only

Eligibility:

Academic Criteria:

A 2:1 Honours undergraduate degree or a master’s degree, in computing or a related subject. Applicants with appropriate professional experience are also considered. Degree-level mathematics (or equivalent) is required for research in some project areas.

Applicants for whom English is not their first language must demonstrate proficiency by obtaining an IELTS score of at least 6.5 overall, with a minimum of 6.0 in each skills component.

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Title: Advanced Training Awards (cross-discipline postdoctoral fellowships in cardiovascular science) (EU Funding UK)

ORGANISATION NAME: British Heart Foundation

ORGANISATION COUNTRY: United Kingdom

FUNDING TYPE: Funding, Mobility Incoming

DEADLINE DATE: Rolling submissions

RESEARCH FIELD: Professions and applied sciences

CAREER STAGE: Recognised Researcher (R2) (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent)

Description

The Advanced Training Awards are postdoctoral fellowships from the British Heart Foundation for recent PhD graduates interested in exploring cardiovascular science as their new field of study. Research must be conducted in the UK; there are no citizenship/residency requirements and applicants are eligible for the UK Global Talent Visa. Applicants must be within 3 years of submitting their PhD. Applicants may apply at any time.

What is funded

Applicant´s salary + additional benefits.

Duration

2-3 years

Eligibility

Recent PhD graduates (within the past 3 years) interested in exploring cardiovascular science as their new field of study.

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Title: Immediate Postdoctoral Basic Science Research Fellowships (UK cardiovascular research) (EU Funding UK)

ORGANISATION NAME: British Heart Foundation

ORGANISATION COUNTRY: United Kingdom

DEADLINE DATE: Rolling submissions

RESEARCH FIELD: Professions and applied sciences

CAREER STAGE: Recognised Researcher (R2) (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent)

Description:

The Immediate Postdoctoral Basic Science Research Fellowships from the British Heart Foundation provide postdoctoral funding for newly qualified postdoctoral researchers to develop their independent research careers at an established UK cardiovascular research center. The Fellowship must not be carried out at the same institution as where the applicant received their PhD training. Successful applicants who do not have working rights in the UK are eligible for the UK Global Talent Visa. The Fellowship provides 4 years of salary funding. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and applicants are encouraged to apply at any time.

What is funded:

Postdoc stipend.

Duration:

4 years. 

Eligibility:

PhD holders with relevant expertise to cardiovascular research. 

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