EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLA) | School of Computing

PhD Studentships in Computer Science

The School of Computing at Newcastle University expects to offer three full time PhD studentships on a subset of the following projects:

DLA2631 - Dynamic Validation of AI Systems in Digital Twins: A Real-Time Safety Framework for Critical Infrastructure Resilience

DLA2632 - Autonomic Computing and Agentic AI for the Internet of Things and Edge Systems

DLA2633 - From Formal Requirements to Specification-based Automated Testing for Safety-Critical Medical Device Software Certification

DLA2634 - Edge AI: Building Efficient, Trustworthy and Distributed Intelligence at the Edge

DLA2635 - Trustworthy Computational Stewardship in Industry-Grade Data Protection Assistants

Prospective Students are encouraged to contact potential supervisors for more information on each project. Applicants can apply for more than one project.

Application deadline 15 February 2026.

You can find out more information about about the application process here.

If you are a self funded student, we are currently advertising a number of PhD projects in the areas of data science and computer vision, cybersecurity, human computer interaction, internet of things, distributed systems, and many more.

If you have any other queries please contact us at computing.pgradmin@newcastle.ac.uk