Key information
- Funding
- Self-funded
- School
- Textiles and Design
- Location
- Scottish Borders
- Award
- PhD
- Delivery type
- Full-time, Part-time
- Start date
- September
Many Textile Technology PhDs have been supervised at the Scottish Borders Campus, across a wide range of topics including: materials and pressure testing of medical compression, smart textiles for medical and health applications, nano-spinning, developing new test methods: e.g. fibre fragmentation (micro-plastics) or multiaxial measurement of fabric tension and shear properties, new product innovation and testing, development of new materials and dyes from waste.
The vast majority of the textile technology projects seek solutions to technical problems or to make the textile processes more sustainable. With a fully-equipped and conditioned textile testing laboratory, a wet laboratory and sample production facilities (knit, weave, print), the campus is purpose built to support a range of research practices.
Entry requirements
Candidate criteria
Contact the School to discuss and for advice on undertaking a research degree and developing your research proposal.
Funding information
Status | Full Time | Part Time |
---|---|---|
Scotland | £5,006 | £2,503 |
England / Wales / N Ireland | £5,006 | £2,503 |
International | £19,816 | £9,908 |
- Status: Your residency status is usually defined as the country where you have been ordinarily resident for the three years before the start of your course.
- International: 'International' includes applicants from European Union countries who do not hold Pre-Settled or Settled status in UK. (This does not include students from the Republic of Ireland - see above).
We offer a number of competitive funded scholarships for research degrees. Full or partial support may be available for well-qualified candidates from UK research councils, research pools, charities or industry.
View our full range of scholarships.
Why Heriot-Watt
We're the top university in Scotland for graduate outcomes which means that more of our graduates are employed or in postgraduate education than any other institution in the country and we ranked 5th in the UK.
We're also rated number one in the UK for CEO or MD roles, meaning more of our graduates go on to become CEOs or MDs than any other university in the whole of the UK. On top of that, we have beautiful campuses, across the globe, so you'll get a truly international education. Our Edinburgh Campus is home to Oriam, Scotland's National Sports Performance Centre combined with plenty of wellbeing resources, prioritising fitness and mental health for all students. Our Global Research Institutes look at solving real world issues such as climate change and saving our oceans as well as working on the next medical technological breakthrough and the future of AI and robots.
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