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1 plus 3 PhD PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 152 1 plus 3 PhD PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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The Department of Mathematics

The Department of Mathematics at King’s College London invites applications for PhD students to start in October 2026. There are a number of fully-funded studentships available on competition for excellent candidates. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Maths Research Programme
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Microplastics and Nanoplastics as Emerging Risk Factors in Neurodevelopmental and Neurodegenerative Condition

Project Overview. Microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) are ubiquitous environmental pollutants raising concerns due to their potential adverse effects on human health. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Kevei
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Robust Model-based Predictive Control for Hybrid Robotic Arms

  Research Group: Intelligent Systems and Robotics
In contrast to conventional robots, hybrid (soft-rigid) robots offer enhanced interaction safety alongside sensorised, repeatable performance. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr BJ Jamil
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Superconducting thin film coated radio-frequency cavities

Project Background. The superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities made of bulk niobium (Nb) are used in charged particle accelerators for more than 50 years. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G Burt
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber-physical systems for Medicines Development and Manufacturing (CEDAR)

Our CEDAR CDT is offering 17 fully funded PhD studentships for ambitious individuals who are passionate about using cutting-edge technology to translate new molecules into medicines. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (European/UK Students Only)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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Development of new generation corrosion-resistant aluminium alloys

Applications are invited for a full time PhD studentship in research on new generation corrosion-resistant aluminium alloys at the Department of Materials, The University of Manchester. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof X Zhou
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Determinants of Clonal Fitness in SF3B1-Mutant Clonal Haematopoiesis

A 2027 Crick PhD project with Dominique Bonnet. Project background and description. Background. Clonal haematopoiesis (CH) is an age-associated condition in which haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) clones carrying somatic mutations acquire a competitive advantage and progressively expand [1]. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Bonnet
 2 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[FSE PhD President's Doctoral Scholarship] Mechanochromic molecules for cellular forces sensing

Tensile forces influence a variety of important cellular processes including cell division, stem cell differentiation and gene expression.1 At the tissue level these forces play a crucial role in morphogenesis, wound healing, the immune response and in pathological processes such as cancer metastasis. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof G De Bo, Dr M.A Amer
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[FSE PhD President's Doctoral Scholarship] Sensing BRCA2 Loss: Synthetic Antibodies for Precision Prostate Cancer Treatment

Prostate cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer in men worldwide and remains a major cause of cancer mortality. Loss of BRCA2, a protein essential for DNA repair, is associated with aggressive disease and can confer sensitivity to poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Peeters, Dr A Sachdeva, Prof R Bristow
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(PDS Award) Sensing Political Worlds: AI, Situated Knowledge and the Reading of Political Graffiti

Graffiti and murals offer communities in conflict-affected societies a way of reading their surroundings. In Belfast, for instance, painted kerbstones or a crown on a wall signals whose area this is and for whom feels safe. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr BV Vogel, Dr T Mu
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(PDS Award) Caring for the dead: developing an integrated care-based approach for the curation and conservation of human remains in archaeology

How should 21st century Britain make sense of and care for the dead stored and displayed in its museums? This is the question being asked by the current DCMS review of Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums (2005), mindful of rapid changes in consultative, collaboration-led ethics and repatriation practice with descent communities for ancestral remains. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof MG Giles, Dr HA Aleem, Prof MN Nirmalan
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Exploring the relationship between Parental Mental Illness and Coercive Control

  Research Group: Psychology
Summary. The proposed PhD project will investigate the relationship between parental mental illness (PMI) and coercive control within family relationships, with a particular focus on families in Northern Ireland. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Lagdon, Dr N Anyadike-Danes
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Equipped for Adulthood: Investigating the Role of Therapeutic Recreation in Developing Life Skills and Self-Management for Young Adults with Serious Illness.

  Research Group: Psychology
OPEN TO UK AND REPUBLIC OF IRELAND STUDENTS ONLY. Summary. This project evaluates the Barretstown Young Adult Programme (YAP), which delivers the "Five to Thrive" framework—a practical, choice-led wellbeing programme supported by Holland & Barrett. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E Henderson, Prof R Lowry, Dr A Cahoon
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Low-Cost Monitoring of Dynamic River Channels to Improve Flood and Drought Forecasting (Ref: CENTA2027-LU08)

Flood and drought models routinely treat river channels as fixed, yet erosion and deposition continuously reshape them, introducing unquantified error into flow estimates across the UK’s monitoring network. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Wolstenholme
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Digital Biomarkers for Mobility Decline and Falls in Dementia

Supervisory team. Prof Michael Hornberger (Applied Dementia Research, Clinical & Experimental Sciences) and Prof Liudi Jiang (Biomedical Engineering); Faculty of Engineering. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Hornberger
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)