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We have 202 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Evaluating the environmental, health, and equity impacts of mobility hubs

Supervisory Team. Rich McIlroy. Mobility hubs integrate transport and community services to promote active, sustainable travel. Despite growing UK adoption, evidence on their impacts is limited. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R McIlroy
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Interfacing semiconductor quantum dots with alkali-atom-based quantum memories

Supervisory Team. Dr Patrick Ledingham. The future Quantum Internet requires efficient devices that store and recall arbitrary quantum states of light. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Ledingham
 1 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Molecular ion beams: from spacecraft propulsion to ion beam etching

Supervisory Team. Charlie Ryan and Alex Wittig. Ready to revolutionize microfabrication? Traditional gallium ion sources limit ion beam flexibility, but Ionic Liquid Ion Sources (ILIS) unleash a vast variety of ions for precision etching. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Ryan
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Pushing the Boundaries of Light: Fabricating the Next Generation of Hollow Core Fibres

Supervisory team. Dr Ian Davidson, Dr Ghafour Amouzad Mahdiraji and Professor Francesco Poletti. This project focuses on developing novel Hollow core fibres designs using cutting-edge fabrication techniques. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr I Davidson
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bismuth-doped fibre amplifiers for extended transmission bands in optical communications

Supervisory Team. Professor Jayanta Sahu, Professor Johan Nilsson and Dr Yongmin Jung. This project aims to develop advanced bismuth-doped optical fibres with optimised design, fabrication, and material properties. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof J Sahu
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Development of a miniaturised plug-and-play in-situ plasma measurement instrument for small satellites

Supervisory Team. Dr. Taiwo Raphael Tejumola and Prof. Andrea Cammarano. This project aims to design and develop “PlasmaCube,” a real-time plasma measurement payload for CubeSats using Langmuir probe principles. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Tejumola
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI-driven silicon photonics circuits design

Supervisory team. Professor Goran Mashanovich, Dr. Milos Nedeljkovic and Dr. David Rowe. This PhD applies AI to inverse design, a method that works backwards from desired performance to generate efficient photonic circuits. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G Mashanovich
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Development of advanced intelligent systems for enhancing reliability and mission assurance of small satellites

Supervisory Team. Dr. Taiwo Raphael Tejumola and Dr. Alexander Wittig. This project will address the systems engineering challenge of enhancing mission assurance for small satellites by developing an AI-powered risk assessment framework. . Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Tejumola
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Investigating surface textures to optimize flow dynamics using multi-fidelity surrogate modeling

Supervisory team. Haris Moazam Sheikh. This project will develop a multi-scale surrogate modeling framework to optimize passive surface textures (like dimples) for maximum fluid drag reduction. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr H Sheikh
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI-Driven Durability Design of Sustainable Concrete for Marine Infrastructure

Supervisory team. Dr Ye Li. This project develops AI-assisted models to predict the durability of sustainable, low-carbon concrete in marine environments. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Li
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Ultra-stable Hollow core fibre photonics

Supervisory Team. Prof. Radan Slavik, Dr. Meng Ding and Dr. Giuseppe Marra. About the project. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Slavik
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Sounds of healthy soil – foundations of acoustic monitoring of soil bioturbation and soil health

Supervisory team. Dr Michal Kalkowski and Dr Siul Ruiz. Soil health underpins numerous processes critical to food security. Current methods for evaluating soil health are local, lab-based, and not scalable. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Kalkowski
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Distributed acoustic sensing for complex environments

Supervisory team. Dr Michal Kalkowski and Prof Jen Muggleton. This project investigates the fundamental physics of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) using optical fibres. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Kalkowski
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Integrated solid-state quantum memories for light

Supervisory Team. Dr Patrick Ledingham. About the project. The future Quantum Internet requires efficient devices that store and recall arbitrary quantum states of light. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Ledingham
 1 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Transition and turbulence simulations for high-speed aerodynamics applications

Supervisory team. Prof Neil Sandham. New computer hardware is enabling us to carry out computer simulations of the most pressing problems in aerodynamics, relating to boundary layer transition and turbulence. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof N Sandham
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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