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We have 632 fully funded PhD PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Community-Centric Heritage Tourism and Post-Industrial Regeneration: A Participatory Study in Scotland (VC2602)

University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is seeking to attract a PhD candidate of outstanding ability and commitment to join its vibrant and growing programme of internationally excellent research. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Khodadadi, Dr S Carnicelli
 15 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Towards Scalable and Reliable Human Evaluation Frameworks for NLP Systems

  Research Group: Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Project Description . Human evaluation remains a central component of assessing modern natural language processing (NLP) systems, particularly for tasks where correctness, usefulness, or appropriateness cannot be fully captured by automatic metrics. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Alva Manchego, Dr N Verdezoto Dias
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Human-AI Collaboration for High-Stakes Text Production

  Research Group: Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Project Description . As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems (such as Large Language Models) are increasingly used to support high-stakes text production, understanding how humans and AI systems should collaborate becomes critical. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Alva Manchego, Prof S Schockaert
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PhD Position in Comparative Psychology

The Animal Minds Lab investigates intelligence, emotions, and welfare across species. A central question driving our research is whether the human mind is an evolutionary one-off—or if similar cognitive mechanisms evolve repeatedly across species through convergent evolution. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Taylor
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding
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Regulation of apoptosis-induced compensatory cell proliferation and its implications for cancer and tissue regeneration

In multi-cellular organisms, coordinated cell death (e.g. apoptosis) and cell replacement is critical for tissue recovery in response to stress or damage. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Fan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Opportunity in Fire Engineering: Exploring Extended Reality (XR) as a Supplement to Traditional Firefighter Training

Applications are invited for one fully funded (three years maximum) PhD scholarship in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch - New Zealand), to explore the use of Virtual and Augmented Reality for firefighting training (supervisors. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AK Khan, Prof DN Nilsson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends

Applications are invited for this exciting, fully-funded, 42 month PhD studentship at the University of Aberdeen. This project is part of the newly established Anthony & Margaret Johnston Centre for Doctoral Training in Plant Sciences enabled by a generous legacy gift. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof L Lancaster, Dr R Henry, Dr A Humphreys
 21 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Science Australian Research Council Postgraduate Research Scholarship

The Faculty of Science Australian Research Council (ARC) Scholarship is designed to support research candidates in conducting research that directly contributes to the Australian community. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr H HDR
 9 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD position in behavioral neurobiology

The Neural Mechanisms of Natural Behavior Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence in Germany has an opening for a pre-doctoral researcher to join an HFSP-funded research project investigating the neural mechanisms of avian biosonar behavior. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Hoffmann
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Exploring how Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses nutrients

This PhD project will investigate how Mycobacterium tuberculosis utilises nutrients and how changes in nutrient transport influence pathogen biology by combining microbiology, biochemical and analytical approaches. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof EF Fullam
 30 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Unconstrained Object Understanding using Deep Learning for Computer Vision in X-ray Security Screening

X-ray security screening is widely used to maintain aviation/transport security, and its significance poses a particular interest in future automated screening systems that can be deployed for transportation and border security screening alike. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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What differs? - Deep Learning for Anomaly and Out of Distribution Detection in Computer Vision (Visual AI) Applications

Anomaly detection, and the synonymous topics of novelty and out-of-distribution detection, addresses the computer vision ("visual AI") challenge of automatically identifying outliers within the scene or image based on their appearance, motion or behaviour characteristics. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Addressing Racial Bias in Face Recognition Based on Deep Learning Enabled Computer Vision

Facial recognition is one of the most academically studied and industrially developed areas within computer vision where we readily find associated applications deployed globally. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Porphyry systems: Ores, critical elements, and volcanic connections

The energy transition will require significant increases in the quantities of mined base metals and critical minerals to capture, transport, and store low-carbon energy. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Richardson, Dr M Hartley, Dr DN Neave
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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People-Led Net Zero: Cellular Agriculture Manufacturing

The Centre for People-Led Net Zero (P-LNZ) has three, fully funded, three-year PhDs available to commence before October 2026. The aim of P-LNZ is to accelerate the UK’s transition to Net Zero using systems approaches. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof LBN Newnes
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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