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ACCE+ DLA Programme: Small size, big impact: the importance of mosses and lichens in Arctic ecosystem function

University of Sheffield
School of Biosciences
ACCE+ DLA is committed to recruiting extraordinary future scientists regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, faith or religious belief, pregnancy or maternity, parental or caring responsibilities or career pathway to date. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof G Phoenix, Dr R Mills, Dr J Bjerke, Dr H Croft
 7 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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More data, less energy: multicore fibre amplifiers and components for future submarine networks

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisors. Dr Yongmin Jung and Dr Sijing Liang. The internet’s next big leap could happen beneath the oceans. Meta’s planned petabit-scale cable signals a new era for multicore fibres. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Jung
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Developing high content imaging technologies to capture the complexity of the brain’s innate immune system

Newcastle University
Faculty of Medical Sciences Graduate School
CASE. The innate immune system is central to our health and wellbeing, orchestrating our first line of defence and maintaining tissue homeostasis. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Harris
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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How did the first supermassive black holes grow so fast?

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
  Research Group: Astronomy
Supervisory team. Professor Francesco Shankar and Dr. Sandra Raimundo. James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found black holes that seem too massive, too early. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr F Shankar
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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QUANTIFYING HABITABILITY WITH A MORE-THAN-HUMAN LENS. Exploring Positive Feedbacks between Ecosystem Health and Societal Wellbeing with a Knowledge Graph Approach. [YES-27-E-01]

University of Leeds
School of Earth & Environment
What if ecological flourishing and societal wellbeing are locked together in a virtuous cycle, and we could map, model, and quantify it? This project offers an exciting opportunity to build a Knowledge Graph that connects ecological flourishing with societal wellbeing and reveals the complex, non linear positive feedback loops that link them. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Cremades
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mylnefield Trust: Tiny Vesicles, Big Defence: Enhancing Crop Immunity Through Extracellular Vesicle Trafficking

The James Hutton Institute
Postgraduate Training
Can we unlock the hidden communication system plants use to fight disease, and use it to protect the crops we depend on?. Plant diseases threaten global food security, costing billions annually and driving reliance on chemical pesticides. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Wang, Dr P Boevink, Dr A Roberts, Prof P Birch
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Turning Back the Epigenetic Clock: How Diet and Metabolism Reprogram Ageing

University of Leicester
College of Life Sciences
  Research Group: Genetics
Can diet and metabolism genuinely slow the pace of ageing, not just extend life but reprogram the biological clock that measures it? This project puts you at the centre of one of the most exciting open questions in ageing biology, using epigenetic clocks, the most accurate biomarker of biological age currently available, to find out. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof E Mallon, Dr K Chen
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Spatio-temporal drivers of biodiversity and biogeographical processes

University of Leeds
Faculty of Biological Sciences
The School of Biology invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2027/28. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Hassall, Dr R Neely, Assoc Prof E.J. Duncan
 31 May 2027  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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[FSE PhD President's Doctoral Scholarship] The Role of Adaptive Evolution in the Microbial Sensing of Anthropogenic Molecules

The University of Manchester
Department of Chemistry
Introduction. There is now a realisation both in the public and scientific communities that discarded plastic materials present a growing hazard to the natural environment and human health across the globe. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Wong, Dr M Lagator
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Predicting the next pandemic by enhancing viral surveillance

University of York
Department of Biology
Are you driven to tackle global health challenges at the intersection of AI, computational biology, and wet-lab innovation? This PhD project offers a rare opportunity to bridge computational science, evolutionary biology, and advanced laboratory assays to forecast dangerous viral variants before they trigger global outbreaks. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Jeffares, Prof GJ Wright, Dr J Agirre
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Antarctic glacial meltwater and its importance for ocean circulation and climate SHEEHAN_UEA_ARIES27

University of East Anglia
School of Environmental Sciences
Scientific background. West Antarctica’s fast-melting ice shelves release fresh water into the shelf seas that surround the continent (Sheehan et al., 2023). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr PS Sheehan
 16 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Changing climates: Unlocking the past to improve predictions of the future

University of Leeds
School of Earth & Environment
Background. Equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is the long-term global mean temperature increase expected from a doubling of atmospheric CO₂ concentration compared to pre-industrial levels. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Ivanovic
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Modelling the impacts of climate change mitigation strategies on the water - carbon - food - biodiversity nexus

Imperial College London
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, supervised by Dr. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Moustakis
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Engineering Marine Bacterial Communities for Bioprotection of Offshore Wind Infrastructure and Reduction of Metal Leaching into Ocean Ecosystems

Durham University
Offshore Wind CDT
Offshore wind energy is expanding rapidly as nations transition toward low-carbon energy systems. However, the long-term durability of offshore wind infrastructure remains threatened by corrosion and metal leaching from steel foundations, sacrificial anodes, coatings, and associated submerged components. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Munoz, Dr M Quintela-Baluja
 15 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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(BBSRC NWD) Reading the regulatory code of placental diversity: large language models to decode gene regulatory network evolution across mammals

The University of Manchester
Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics
  Research Group: Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics
The placenta is the most varied organ in mammals. In some species, such as pigs and cows, it sits against the lining of the womb; in others, such as humans and mice, it invades deep into maternal tissue. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M O'Connell, Prof J McInerney, Prof S Griffiths-Jones
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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