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Play, Belong, Stay: Identifying best practices for recreational football provision across the female lifespan in Ireland

South East Technological University (Waterford)

Project Key Words. Recreational football; women and girls; sport participation. Post summary. Recreational football has significant potential to promote physical activity, wellbeing, social. Read more

Supervisors: Dr L Finnegan, Dr A McGrath, Prof N Murphy

15 July 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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PhD in Computational Modelling of Battery Interphase Formation

University of Warwick

WMG

Project overview. We are looking for a highly motivated and talented PhD candidate to join a fully funded four-year research project supervised by Dr Bora Karasulu at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) University of Warwick; and Professor Emma Kendrick at the University of Birmingham. Read more

Supervisor: Dr BK Karasulu

11 September 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Ionospheric, Auroral and Ocean Clutter Models for Monostatic and Bistatic HF Sensing Systems

University of Birmingham

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

High-frequency (HF) sensing is one of the few technologies able to detect objects and characterise environments far beyond the horizon. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Elvidge

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

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The AITHYRA International PhD Call in AI for Biomedicine (all genders)

AITHYRA Institute

AITHYRA, the Research Institute for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna will open a call for PhD students in September 2026. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Austria PhD Programme

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(MRes) – Development of valid, standardised, and reliable methodologies to assess exercise efficiency (Project ID SAS0223)

Edinburgh Napier University

School of Applied Sciences

Exercise efficiency is a key determinant of endurance performance reflecting the ratio of mechanical work output to metabolic energy expenditure (MacDougall, Falconer, & MacIntosh, 2022; Brooks, Gaesser, & Poole, 2024; Hopker et al., 2009). Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Bossi, Dr I Gallagher, Prof J Hopker

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

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Longitudinal Genotypic and Phenotypic Analysis of Ocular Development and Diseases in Children: A Follow-Up Study Using Handheld OCT Imaging

University of Leicester

College of Life Sciences

Research Group: Psychology & Vision Sciences

Project. Understanding how genes shape the development of the human eye from infancy to adolescence is crucial for predicting and preventing childhood ocular diseases. Read more

Supervisors: Dr ZT Tu, Dr M Thomas

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

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Scalable and Interpretable Time Series Machine Learning for Industrial Systems

University of Bradford

Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Modern manufacturing, engineering and automotive systems generate vast volumes of time series data at high speed. Read more

Supervisors: Dr MB Middlehurst, Prof S Konur

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

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Optimising research efficacy: Research literacy and information practices of novice and expert researchers

Edinburgh Napier University

School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Expertise is considered advantageous for effective task completion and is associated with length of experience in a domain (Hambrick et al., 2018). Read more

Supervisor: Dr RS Salzano

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

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Advanced Proprioception for Robotic Legs

University of York

School of Physics, Engineering and Technology

Research Group: Intelligent Systems and Robotics

Humans are complex mechanical systems of interconnected bodies with a high degree of freedom (DOF). Our inner structures/bodies have naturally evolved with advanced proprioception and control, enabling us to perform a wide range of actions/movements, such as running, walking, sitting, and jumping. Read more

Supervisors: Dr BJ Jamil, Dr P Ellison

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

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Computational Modelling of the Retinal Microcirculation to Predict Patient Outcomes

University of Liverpool

Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences

Background. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness globally. Current treatments involve the injection of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor. Read more

Supervisor: Dr W El-Bouri

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

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The social impact of mis-information or dis-information

Edinburgh Napier University

School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

This is an open call for research proposals related to topics of mis-information or dis-information in social influence. Proposals should focus on the ways in which mis- and dis-information impact human information behaviours and practices in a social or societal context. Read more

Supervisors: Dr FR Ryan, Dr D Brazier

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

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Designing Meaningful Mixed Reality Experiences

Edinburgh Napier University

School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The aim of this research project is to investigate the design of Mixed Reality Experiences, with the long-term objective of investigating how they can be designed, developed and deployed in engaging, impactful, and ultimately more meaningful ways, in any given application context. Read more

Supervisors: Dr DD Darzentas, Dr HW Wagner

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

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Revising value sets for health economic evaluation: exploring the criteria required to justify updating population value sets using the ICECAP-A capability wellbeing measure as a case study

University of Bristol

Bristol Medical School

Health economic evaluations have become an important tool to guide the cost-effectiveness of health and care resource allocation decision making in the 21st century. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Mitchell, Prof J Coast

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

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Towards a Cleaner Industrial Environment

Edinburgh Napier University

School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Industrial manufacturing has long been associated with environmental pollution, particularly in the form of airborne particulate matter generated during machining and processing activities. Read more

Supervisors: Prof I Shyha, Dr LK Khaddour

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

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Federated Unlearning for Neuro-Symbolic Autonomous Driving

Edinburgh Napier University

School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Federated learning (FL) enables vehicles to collaborate on model training without sharing raw data, while neuro-symbolic AI combines perception from neural networks with rule-based reasoning for compliance and explainability. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Z Tan, Dr KB Babaagba

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

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We have 834 data science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

data science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 834 data science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Play, Belong, Stay: Identifying best practices for recreational football provision across the female lifespan in Ireland

PhD in Computational Modelling of Battery Interphase Formation

Ionospheric, Auroral and Ocean Clutter Models for Monostatic and Bistatic HF Sensing Systems

The AITHYRA International PhD Call in AI for Biomedicine (all genders)

(MRes) – Development of valid, standardised, and reliable methodologies to assess exercise efficiency (Project ID SAS0223)

Longitudinal Genotypic and Phenotypic Analysis of Ocular Development and Diseases in Children: A Follow-Up Study Using Handheld OCT Imaging

Scalable and Interpretable Time Series Machine Learning for Industrial Systems

Optimising research efficacy: Research literacy and information practices of novice and expert researchers

Advanced Proprioception for Robotic Legs

Computational Modelling of the Retinal Microcirculation to Predict Patient Outcomes

The social impact of mis-information or dis-information

Designing Meaningful Mixed Reality Experiences

Revising value sets for health economic evaluation: exploring the criteria required to justify updating population value sets using the ICECAP-A capability wellbeing measure as a case study

Towards a Cleaner Industrial Environment

Federated Unlearning for Neuro-Symbolic Autonomous Driving

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