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

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(UoM - Peking University) Mineral–Fluid–Rock Interactions for Sustainable Subsurface Energy Technologies

Subsurface geological formations play a vital role in supporting the energy transition, including geothermal energy extraction, geological CO₂ storage and underground energy storage. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Shang, Assoc Prof YH Hu
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(UoM - Peking University) Metal-Organic Framework Materials for Gas Adsorption and Catalysis

There is increasing concern over global air quality, with high concentrations of smog posing significant health risks and environmental problems worldwide. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Schröder, Prof S Yang
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(UoM - Peking University) Advanced energy materials for bright and efficient optoelectronic devices

About 20% of the world’s electricity production is used for lighting and powering our displays, which account for 6% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Romanov, Prof Z Liu
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(UoM - Peking University) Developing density functional approximations for accurate modelling of magnetic organic conjugated systems

Density functional theory (DFT) has become the most widely employed approach for electronic structure calculations, with broad applications spanning chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, and related fields. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr I Roncevic, Dr C L Li
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(UoM - Peking University) Uranium and Thorium in Arene-Trigonal-Donor Environments

A fully funded Dual Award PhD Studentship between The University of Manchester and Peking University is available for a highly motivated, outstanding chemist to undertake in the field of actinide synthesis, structural, spectroscopic, magnetic, and computational characterisation. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Liddle, Prof W Huang
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Seeing Trust: How Visibility, Space and Time Shape First Impressions of Faces

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Trust is fundamental to human social life, shaping decisions in domains such as financial lending, romantic relationships and criminal justice. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Manassi, Dr C Sutherland, Dr R Chakravarthi
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Investigating mammalian cell adaptation using engineered reporter cells, microfluidics and quantitative approaches

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Living cells continuously sense and respond to changes in their environment through signalling pathways. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Giuraniuc, Prof V Speirs, Prof C Grebogi
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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EastBio: Optimising Vermicomposting for Sustainable Soil Fertility Management in Ethiopia

year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Ethiopian farmers face increasing challenges from declining soil fertility, rising fertiliser costs and limited access to sustainable nutrient sources. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J Smith, Prof P Hallett, Prof C Watson, Dr G Yakob
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Analysing toxin action using cell-based assays

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Organisms are exposed to numerous harmful environmental insults of physical, chemical or biological origin. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Kolb, Dr T Abdelghany
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Reading emotions: testing predictive processing accounts with EEG and computational modelling

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Understanding what another person is feeling is one of the most fundamental abilities in human social life. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Bach, Dr M Jackson, Dr J Rommers
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Inflammatory Fat: Understanding how the immune system drives adipose tissue dysfunction using spatial lipidomics

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. In obesity, adipose tissue can become inflamed with the infiltration of immune cells, particularly macrophages, which surround adipocytes to create crown-like structures. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J.L Griffin, Dr J Rochford, Prof H Wilson
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: From microbial cargo to host immunity: decoding bacterial extracellular vesicle-mediated signalling in the human gut

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr I Mukhopadhya, Dr W Houssen, Dr T Vogwill
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Applying AI to vaccine development in tackling a climate change-driven parasitic disease of salmonid fish.

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Myxozoan parasites are unusual animal parasites causing severe disease in wild and farmed fish species. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Holland, Dr A Jaglarz, Dr H McSorley
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: A synbio approach to generate artificial molecular muscles

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. “Molecular muscles” is a term referring to molecules that can contract and stretch under a chemical signal. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr W Houssen, Prof M Jaspars
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Regulation of Cholesterol Metabolism and Intercellular Communication in Metabolic Disease

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Obesity and metabolic dysfunction are associated with profound changes in immune cell function, lipid metabolism, and tissue homeostasis. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Mody, Prof M Delibegovic
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)