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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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(PDS Award) Sensing Nature: Designing and Evaluating Interventions that Enhance Environmental Empathy and Nature Connectedness (SEEEN)

How do people sense and make sense of the natural world around them, and can we help them connect with it more deeply? This PhD will design and evaluate interventions that strengthen nature connectedness and environmental empathy, which attract growing interest as drivers of wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviour. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr SM MacQuarrie, Dr IT Thornhill, Dr M Vigo
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(PDS Award) Dangerous interventions: Understanding the patterns and impacts of attacks on aid and health

This project will make a critical interdisciplinary and methodological contribution to the study of violence against aid and health in conflict settings, and the impacts of this violence. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof L Fast, Prof I Hall
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(PDS Award) Immersive Reality Experimentation at Scale for Urban Planning Decision-Making

How can cities involve larger, more representative populations in planning decisions? Although public participation is central to democratic planning, consultation processes often rely on drawings, maps and technical documents that many citizens find difficult to interpret. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Pinto, Dr M Vigo
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(PDS Award) Sensing menopause in the workplace: embodied experiences across everyday life-worlds

This interdisciplinary PhD project investigates how menopause is experienced as an embodied and sensory phenomenon, and how changing experiences of the body shape the ways people sense, feel and make sense of themselves and their everyday lives. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Hall, Dr AB Barron, Dr AC Clayson
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(PDS Award) Sensory integration in speech production - insights from speakers with hearing loss

How are the senses integrated in speech production? This PhD project uses hearing loss as a natural test case to investigate how speech production changes with age and hearing loss. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Strycharczuk, Dr A Heinrich
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Work-place related injuries, emergency health-care use and economic impacts among farmers in Northern Ireland

  Research Group: Psychology
OPEN TO UK AND REPUBLIC OF IRELAND STUDENTS ONLY. Summary. Northern Ireland (NI) is heavily dependent on the agricultural industry for employment and its economy. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R McDowell, Prof J Murphy
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Harnessing Non-Equilibrium Effects in Nanomagnetic Devices (Ref: NL/PH/2027)

Modern information technologies demand ever-increasing computational power and data storage capabilities. However, these advances come with significant energy costs, as a substantial fraction of the electricity consumed by today's computing hardware is ultimately dissipated as heat. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Leo
 1 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Hidden Signals Beneath Our Feet: AI and Soil eDNA for Predicting Ecosystem Health and Drought Resilience (Ref: 2027-LU05)

Can multimodal and agentic AI reveal hidden signals in soil biodiversity and help predict ecosystem resilience to drought?. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof B Li, Dr HG Glanville
 7 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Seeing extreme winds - Machine learning applied to video clips to better estimate site-specific wind hazard (Ref: CENTA2027-LU02)

Extratropical cyclones such as Storm Eunice inflict extreme winds on the UK, causing billions of pounds in insured losses. Yet the peak 3-second gusts that drive damage vary greatly over short distances in cities, and weather stations and models cannot capture this. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Hillier, Dr S Bugby, Dr T Marjoribanks
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Plastic confetti’s origins, pathways and fate on heavily-littered shorelines (Ref: CENTA2027-LU06)

This project responds to a four-year marine litter monitoring campaign on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK. It builds on Loughborough University’s 50 Years of Litter on Skye and associated research projects. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Stanton, Dr F Hatton, Dr K Tomlinson
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Fast multi-wavelength variability of accreting compact objects

Introduction. As matter falls onto compact objects like black holes and neutron stars, due to the presence of turbulence, matter emits a huge amount of strongly variable radiation. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr F V Vincentelli
 15 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Multidimensional ultrafast spectroscopy of vibrational coupling in perovskite semiconductors

The terahertz and infrared vibrational modes of metal halide perovskites (MHPs) strongly interact with electrons, limiting the mobility of these solution-processable materials with otherwise outstanding light emission and absorption performance. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof J Lloyd-Hughes
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Accelerator design for leather tanning and related applications

This project focuses on the use of electron beams to tan leather in a novel process described by industry as potentially the biggest disruption to the process in 150 years. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Apsimon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Multimodal Sensor Fusion and Large-Language-Model-Driven Muscle Fatigue Wearable Monitoring Systems

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Z Yu, Dr R Li
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PhD Studentship in Physics ‘Quantum optics using Rydberg qudits’

Project description. We perform experiments where photons are mapped into Rydberg excitations allowing strong photon-photon interactions. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof C.S. Adams
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)