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health communication PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 294 health communication PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Engineering Safer Healthcare Water Systems: Tackling Opportunistic Waterborne Pathogens

  Research Group: Institute of Sustainable Built Environment
Are you passionate about improving public health through innovative engineering solutions? We are seeking an outstanding PhD candidate to undertake interdisciplinary research to investigate how healthcare water systems can be designed and operated to minimise the risk of opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens (OPPPs). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Kelly, Prof M Gormley
 17 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Data Science (HDS CDT)

The EPSRC CDT in Healthcare Data Science is a four-year cohort-based doctoral training programme offering opportunities for doctoral study in computational statistics, machine learning, data engineering and infectious disease analytics within the context of ethically-responsible health research. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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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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3.5 Year PhD Studentship in Artificial Intelligence for Eliciting Patient Histories

A 3.5 year PhD studentship in Artificial Intelligence for Eliciting Patient Histories funded by the National Institute for Health Research UCL UCLH Biomedical Research Centre is available within the Institute of Health Informatics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Taylor
 21 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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BISCI IDLA: Unlocking the Neuroimmune Potential of the Hair Follicle: New Therapeutic Opportunities for Scalp Health & Emotional Wellbeing

Project descriptor. Our skin is a key sensory organ that enables us to interface with our surrounding environment. It is filled with a network of sensory neurons that helps establish the skin-brain axis, a communication highway between our periphery and central nervous system. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Higgins, Mr LK Knight
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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BISCI IDLA: Unlocking the Neuroimmune Potential of the Hair Follicle: New Therapeutic Opportunities for Scalp Health & Emotional Wellbeing

Project descriptor. Our skin is a key sensory organ that enables us to interface with our surrounding environment. It is filled with a network of sensory neurons that helps establish the skin-brain axis, a communication highway between our periphery and central nervous system. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Higgins, Mr LK Knight
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Building Cellular Resilience: Unlocking the Health Potential of Scottish Potato Bioactives

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Cellular resilience describes the ability of cells and tissues to resist, adapt to and recover from biological, environmental and age-related stress. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof H Wilson, Prof G Bermano, Dr G McDougall, Dr A Tawfike
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO: Combining Omics Data and AI Approaches to Dissect the Role of Genetic Factors in Brain Health and Healthy Aging

This project aims to uncover the genetic factors that influence brain health and healthy aging by analysing multi-omics data from large epidemiological cohorts, such as the UK Biobank. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof SP Paracchini, Dr D Harris-Birtill
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Beyond GLP-1: Designing Stable Formulations for Next-Generation Peptide Medicines for Metabolic Health (S3.5-CMB-Wong)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof TS Wong, Dr K Tee
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding How Blood Vessel Cells Communicate in Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis and aortic aneurysms develop when communication between cells in the blood vessel wall becomes disrupted. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr JSC Serbanovic-Canic, Dr V Ridger
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Role of nutrition, and gut function in human health and diseases (sarcopenia, frailty, diabetes and cardiovascular diseas); using metabolomics and genomics

Could what we eat reshape the crosstalk between our gut, muscles and heart as we age? This exciting PhD harnesses cutting-edge metabolomics to decode the nutrition-gut-muscle-heart axis, uncovering biomarkers of healthy ageing and novel targets to prevent age-related cardiovasucal and cardiometabolic disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Isanejad, Dr H Muhamad Ali, Dr U Alam, Dr VPV Pekovic-Vaughan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Safeguarding Language Models: Engineering Protective Responses to Mental Health Crises

  Research Group: Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Project Description. Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in contemporary digital environments, yet their handling of crisis-related interactions remains inconsistent and carries substantial safety risks. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Perez-Almendros, Dr LES Espinosa-Anke, Dr R Evans
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Open uncontrolled burning of plastic waste – measuring / modelling prevalence, emissions and impacts on climate change and human health exposure

Solid waste management remains a major sustainability challenge globally, and especially in the Global South, where substantial quantities of (uncollected) waste are often set in fire as a means of disposal or resource recovery. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CV Velis
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Artificial Medical Intelligence for personalised and preventive healthcare

Supervisor. Dr Rahman Attar. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Attar
 31 July 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Medical AI: From 3D Imaging and Vision-Language Models to Surgical Robotics and Clinical Agents

  Research Group: Digital Healthcare and Medical Imaging Research Group
Applications are welcome from prospective PhD students, research master students, and visiting scholars who are interested in developing advanced artificial intelligence methods for healthcare. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Z Zhang, Prof JL Lima
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)