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We have 834 part-time PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Seeing the Forest from the Trees: AI and Variational Methods for Forest Biomass Monitoring

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Earth Observation (EO) is vital for monitoring biomass, forest health, wildfire risk, illegal logging, and the impacts of climate change. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F M Watson, Dr JL Latz
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Accelerating Chemical Process Development via Uncertainty-Aware Modelling and Experimental Design

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Chemical processes are essential to medicines, materials and clean energy but are complex and difficult to scale. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Waite, Prof S Kaski
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Multimodal Virtual Patients for In-Silico Decision Making

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. In-silico trials rely on virtual patient populations that represent clinically meaningful variation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr XY Yang, Dr O Rivasplata, Prof AF Frangi
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Machine Learning for Understanding and Predicting Stochastic Algorithm Performance in Combinatorial Optimisation

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Combinatorial optimisation problems arise widely in logistics, transport and manufacturing. As many cannot be solved optimally within reasonable time, heuristics are used. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AK Kheiri, Dr NP Pavlidis
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Map-based simulation-based inference for cosmology from galaxy clusters and weak lensing

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Galaxy clusters are among the most sensitive probes of the growth of structure, but extracting cosmology from them traditionally requires a chain of analysis and modelling choices susceptible to systematic uncertainties. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AN Nicola, Dr BH Hadzhiyska, Dr JS Snell
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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NIHR ARC South West Doctoral Award: Evaluating the use of probiotic implementation in preterm babies to prevent necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)

Overview. Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is a life-threatening bowel condition that is a leading cause of death and long-term disability in preterm babies. Read more
 Supervisors: Assoc Prof S Redwood, Dr IW Ward, Prof K Luyt, Dr R Denholm
 22 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Human-in-the-Loop Decision-Making for Lipid Nanoparticle Reactor Design

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) underpin mRNA vaccines and a growing class of nucleic acid therapeutics. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Basha, Dr O Rivasplata
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Trustworthy multi-agent AI: Uncertainty, Alignment and Adaptive Reasoning

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Large language models are increasingly used in multi-agent systems where specialised agents communicate through natural language, shared memory and multimodal representations, access external tools and make sequential decisions. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Ananiadou, Dr MA Alvarez
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Human-in-the-loop explainable decision making

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) continue to drive the success of AI, there has been a growing concern regarding the ethical and legal use of DNNs in sensitive tasks (e.g., healthcare). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Jamnik, Dr MEZ Espinosa Zarlenga
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Algorithmic stability in machine learning

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Algorithmic stability has recently been emerging as an umbrella concept in theoretical statistics, machine learning, and computer science. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr PLL Loh
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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From satellite to street: Earth embeddings for local environmental decisions

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Nitrogen dioxide levels beside a busy road can be much higher than in a park a few hundred metres away. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr SJ Jaffer, Prof AM Madhavapeddy, Dr D Topping
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Multi-Agent Orchestration for Trustworthy and Productive Decision-Making

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Building powerful AI agents is not sufficient for deployment in high-stakes settings such as education, healthcare, and public safety [0]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr UB Bhatt , Dr M Jamnik
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Machine Learning Weather Prediction: Beyond Physics Models?

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Background. Weather forecasting is essential for transport, agriculture, industry and public safety. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof RT Turner, Mr CHE Henrik Ek
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Executable World Models for Robot Manipulation

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. An intelligent agent must infer how the physical world works from partial observations. A world model enables it to predict outcomes, compare actions and choose safely, particularly when mistakes are costly or irreversible. Read more
 Supervisors: Assoc Prof AT Tewari, Prof FF Forni
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Evaluating AI for Human Agency: Towards Helpful, Agency-Preserving Decision Support

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. AI increasingly supports high-stakes decisions in areas such as healthcare, policing and social care. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MZ Zilka, Prof RT Turner
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)