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2026 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 1,213 2026 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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QUARTILES DLA: From Ice to Infrastructure: De-risking North Sea Offshore Wind

This fully funded PhD project is part of the QUARTILES Doctoral Landscape Award https://quartiles-dla.ac.uk/ a BBSRC and NERC-funded research and training… Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Newton, Dr B Kurjanski
 23 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Quartiles DLA: Integrated ecological assessment of novel structural typologies utilising repurposed waste concrete and comparison with business-as-usual structural equivalents

This fully funded PhD project is part of the QUARTILES Doctoral Landscape Award, a BBSRC and NERC-funded research and training programme designed to equip… Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Cox, Prof A Hastings, Dr G Amato
 23 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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QUARTILES DLA: Hooked on Tills: Anchoring Floating Offshore Wind in Glacial Seabeds- From Installation to Decommissioning

This fully funded PhD project is part of the QUARTILES Doctoral Landscape Award, a BBSRC and NERC-funded research and training programme designed to equip… Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Kurjanski, Prof A Ivanovic, Prof B Rea
 23 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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QUARTILES DLA: Environmental Impacts on Fish Health: How Climate Change Contributes to Gill Dysfunction in Atlantic salmon.

This fully funded PhD project is part of the QUARTILES Doctoral Landscape Award, a BBSRC and NERC-funded research and training programme designed to equip… Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Martin, Dr M Ritchie, Dr E Król, Dr A Douglas
 23 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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QUARTILES DLA: Microbiome-enabled Precision Agriculture to improve Crop Nitrogen Use Efficiency

This fully funded PhD project is part of the QUARTILES Doctoral Landscape Award, a BBSRC and NERC-funded research and training programme designed to equip… Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Gubry-Rangin, Prof P Hallett
 23 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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QUARTILES DLA: From Seismic Noise to Clean Heat: Low-Cost Subsurface Imaging for Urban Geothermal De-Risking

This fully funded PhD project is part of the QUARTILES Doctoral Landscape Award, a BBSRC and NERC-funded research and training programme designed to equip… Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Cornwell, Dr C Bond, Dr A Gilligan
 23 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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A curious example of hierarchical aggregation: computational modelling, theory and a practical application

The system to be studied involves, as a first step, the reversible binding of small molecules to form a complex. These complexes in turn come together to create aggregates, each aggregate containing ca. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Masters, Dr C Avendano
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Mechanisms linking vascular ageing and excessive bleeding in cardiovascular disease

Rationale. Excessive bleeding complicates 25% of cardiac surgery procedures. Our research suggests that vascular ageing and endothelial mesenchymal transition are important mechanisms underlying bleeding. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof G Murphy, Prof V Codd, Dr T Webb
 23 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding the mechanisms linking myocardial ageing and the type of cell death in people with and without multimorbidity.

Rationale. Current myocardial protection strategies are focused on the prevention of necrosis and apoptosis, and not other important mechanisms of injury such as ferroptosis or pyroptosis. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof G Murphy, Prof V Codd, Dr T Webb
 23 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Designing layered nuclear fuel systems by improved understanding of Cr-X and Cr-Nb-X alloys

Accident tolerant fuel systems are being developed to improve the safety and longevity of nuclear reactors. One promising option is a chromium-based coating applied to the fuel cladding, which can limit oxidation during a loss-of-coolant accident and extend the useful lifetime of the fuel. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Davey
 15 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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EPSRC - Predicting the performance of recycled HDPE for sustainable bottle packaging

Recycled plastics are essential to reducing the environmental impact of packaging, but their wider use is limited by variability in composition, processing history, performance, and contamination. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T McDonald
 10 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Mechanosensitive Nanochannels

Nano- and Angstrom-scale capillaries have been studied intensively because of their importance in many natural phenomena and use in numerous applications. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Boya
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Exploring the impact of indoor pollution on uncontrolled asthma patients and their response to treatment

Despite the increase in research on the indoor environment in recent years, significant knowledge gaps remain regarding exposure to indoor air pollution (IAP) in British homes [1-5]. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Hansell, Prof C Brightling, Dr R Cordell, Dr TR Riveron
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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CDT-GIF: BU-3-4 Optimising Stamping Die Geometries to Eliminate Sheet Metal Scrap

This PhD is one of a number of projects hosted by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures (CDT-GIF). We are offering pioneering research projects that will enable PhD researchers to explore key technologies and solutions that will support UK industry to reach net zero. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Loukaides
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Investigating Non-thermal ‘Cold’ Plasmas for Enhancing the Delivery and Efficacy of Antibiotics and Complex molecules to biofilms of clinically relevant bacteria

  Research Group: Infection and antimicrobial resistance
Biofilms, complex multi-species consortia of microorganisms existing either as surface attached communities or non-surface-attached aggregates, are characterised by significantly elevated tolerance to antimicrobial challenges and often an inability to adequately treat the infection with conventional antibiotics. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof B Gilmore, Dr T Thompson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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