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We have 626 biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Marine Mammals as Sentinels for Humans - Exposure to dietary environmental pollutants & population health (OneHealth) - GREECE & UK

Brunel University of London

Brunel Engineering

This project addresses an urgent Global Challenge – the growing widespread incidence of AMR in the aquatic ecosystems and human food chain. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Troisi, Dr A Houlden

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Engineering solutions to Save Dolphins from Net Entanglement

Brunel University of London

Brunel Engineering

Over 300,000 whales and dolphins are estimated to die annually due to bycatch and entanglement in fishing gear according to the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Troisi, Prof G Fern

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Epitranscriptomic mechanisms underlying human neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases

University of Nottingham

School of Life Sciences

Project Overview. This study aims to use high throughput sequencing technologies and molecular approaches to understand how RNA epitranscriptomic processes, i.e. Read more

Supervisor: Dr HM Knight

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Benzofused Azabicycles and Spiropiperidines via Biocatalytic Oxidation-Cycloaddition Cascades

The University of Manchester

Department of Chemistry

o-Quinoid species (e.g. quinones, quinone imines, quinone methides) are versatile reactive intermediates for the synthesis of a variety of complex molecules.[1-4] They readily undergo a range of reactions including 1,4-conjugate additions, 1,3-oxazole formation, and Diels−Alder cycloadditions. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Wong

31 August 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Rab GTPases as therapeutic targets in paediatric brain tumours

University of Nottingham

School of Life Sciences

Background. Brain tumours are among the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in children. While surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have increased survival rates these tumours still cause many deaths among patients. Read more

Supervisors: Dr AH Hume, Dr B Coyle

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Natural toxins and their synthetic analogues as tools to study ion channels and as potential drugs and pesticides

University of Nottingham

School of Life Sciences

The project will use a combination of electrophysiological techniques such as voltage-clamp and patch-clamp with molecular biology and protein expression to understand how natural neurotoxins and their synthetic analogues act on ion channels in the nervous system and other excitable tissues. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Mellor

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Personalised Survival Prediction and Treatment Optimisation in Oesophageal Cancer

University of Portsmouth

School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6 year part-time PhD project. The PhD will be based in the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and will be supervised by Dr Shamsul Masum, Dr Edward Smart and Philip Pucher (Consultant from Portsmouth Hospital University Trust). . Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Masum, Dr E Smart, Dr P Pucher

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Understanding the evolution of calcium signal decoding mechanisms in plants (MILLER_U26DTP3)

University of East Anglia

School of Biological Sciences

Primary Supervisor. Dr. Ben Miller. Plants need to respond to the environment in order to adapt and grow. Plants often modify the concentration of calcium ions in their cells in response to different environmental stimuli and stresses [1]. Read more

Supervisor: Dr B Miller

30 July 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Population Connectivity and Biological Assessment of Non-Target Fisheries Species in the Ross Sea

Victoria University of Wellington

School of Biological Sciences

We are seeking a PhD student for a project that aims to investigate basic biology and population connectivity of several non-target species that are… Read more

Supervisor: Dr PA Ritchie

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Plants with Purpose: Enhancing the Role of Scotland’s Urban Forest for Landscape-scale Nature Recovery

University of Stirling

School of Biological & Environmental Sciences

Background. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor, Dr E Bush, Prof K Park, Ms C Johnstone

6 August 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Novel photonic sensing for marine environment monitoring

University of Strathclyde

Department of Physics

Light is a key driver for several fundamentally important processes in the ocean including ocean warming, photosynthesis and animal behavior. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D McKee, Dr J Macarthur

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Developing, Testing and Validating Indicators of Wild Insect Welfare

University of Lincoln

School of Natural Sciences

About the Project. Insects are, by a huge margin, the most numerous animals on Earth, yet almost everything we know about their welfare comes from the small fraction that are farmed or studied in captivity. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Soulsbury

2 August 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Developing realistic placental blood vessel virtual phantoms for optimisation of ultrasound scans

University of Auckland

Auckland Bioengineering Institute

Doppler ultrasound is an important diagnostic tool in the field of obstetrics allowing for clinicians to assess haemodynamics of the placenta during pregnancy. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Clark

Year round applications PhD Research Project Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding

Using single-cell transcriptomics to understand plant disease (MA_S26DTP3)

The Sainsbury Laboratory

Graduate Programme

Primary Supervisor. Professor Wenbo Ma. With the human population projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, the looming challenge of feeding the rapidly growing population is threatened by plant pathogens, which cause significant losses in crop yield each year. Read more

Supervisor: Prof W Ma

30 July 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Interactions of Plant Diversity and Climate on Ecosystem Phenology and Resilience

University of Technology Sydney

Faculty of Science

Vegetation phenology—the timing of plant life cycle events—is a key bioindicator of climate change, a critical biodiversity variable, and a major driver of ecosystem processes and resilience. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Huete

29 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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