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fully funded PhD for international students PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 657 fully funded PhD for international students PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Humanitarian risk pools responding to a changing climate

Background. In order to meet humanitarian needs both before and after disasters happen, risk pools such as Start Ready, African Risk Capacity, and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility pay out pooled funds to members based on a defined set of triggers, such as flood forecast probabilities. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Thompson
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO - Gene engineering with protein barcodes

Although genome sequencing is now routinely done in the NHS, diagnosis can be difficult because it is often unclear which mutations disrupt gene function and which are harmless. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Kudla, Dr A von Kriegsheim
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Will climate change make sewage pollution worse?

Background. Climate change is testing infrastructure built for a different climate. The UK’s combined sewerage network is a stark example. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A L Lipp
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO: Decoding metastatic niche selection in canine oral melanoma using patient-derived organoid-on-chip models

Metastasis is a complex, multistep process in which tumour cells must escape the primary tumour, survive transit through vascular or lymphatic pathways, and successfully colonise a permissive secondary tissue. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr KB Blacklock, Prof M Chen, Prof EEP Patton
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Seamless regional climate prediction under uncertainty and adaptation decision-making

Background. Planners in climate-sensitive organisations are starting to use information about future climate that match their planning horizons, e.g. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Dessai, Prof JL Lowe
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI in climate information and communication: What’s the benefit? What’s the danger? What do people trust?

Background. The rapid rise of LLMs and implementation of chatbots mean that applications such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are accessible to businesses, organisations and the broader public. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Summers, Dr AL Taylor
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Will Greenland Reach a Tipping Point? Using Ice Age Evidence to Predict Its Future

Background. The Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest contributor to sea-level rise and may undergo irreversible retreat if critical warming thresholds are exceeded. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Gregoire, Dr R Ivanovic
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio - Understanding asymmetric cell division in Drosophila

This PhD project will investigate how mechanical forces and biochemical activity interact to generate rhythmic cellular pulses and drive asymmetric cell division. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R Sknepnek, Prof J Januschke
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Chalcogen Bonding: Elucidating Fundamental Origins and Advancing Innovations in Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis

Research Summary. We are advancing a range of projects focused on chalcogen bonding across synthetic, catalytic, analytical, and computational chemistry. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Greenhalgh
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Exploring Nodavirus diversity from crayfish hosts: assessing implications for human health risks

CASE Project. Teesside University, Durham University, the University of Leeds, and the Environment Agency are delighted to offer a new interdisciplinary PhD opportunity investigating emerging nodaviruses in UK aquatic wildlife. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Bojko
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Integrated techno-economic and life cycle optimisation of sustainable caprolactone manufacturing

Ingevity aims to establish a sustainable manufacturing technology for the production of caprolactone from a renewable platform chemical derived from biomass outside the food value chain. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Conradie
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Disability, care and support following displacement (Project ID SAS0234)

How does displacement shape the lives of persons with disabilities, their relationships and their access to care and support? This PhD offers an opportunity to develop an independent project at the intersection of disability and displacement associated with war, conflict or persecution. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Sharapov
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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UNBURNT: UNcertainty from wildfire hazard to BUilt-environment Response, adaptatioN and insurabiliTy

Background. When wildfire reaches a city, it stops being a wildfire problem. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T S Sun, Dr R Cremades
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Compound Wind and Rainfall Extremes over Europe: understanding uncertainties from climate to financial risk

Background. Europe’s most damaging weather rarely occurs as a single hazard. Winter windstorms can coincide with heavy rainfall, severe events can cluster within weeks, and a single weather system can affect multiple countries. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S J Jain, Dr P Northrop
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: From small data to big biology: discovering shared molecular mechanisms from small datasets

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 Supervisor: Prof V Rand
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)