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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Fire-Damaged Engineered Timber: Image-Based Characterisation and Modelling of Splitting and Debonding

The University of Manchester
Department of Civil Engineering and Management
Engineered timber is increasingly used in modern construction because of its structural efficiency and potential contribution to more sustainable buildings. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Alhamd, Dr LC Cunningham
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Building Human Nerve-to-Muscle Systems to Transform Muscular Dystrophy Research

Nottingham Trent University
School of Science & Technology
Imagine being able to build a miniature human neuromuscular system in the laboratory and use it to study devastating diseases that currently have no cure. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Santos
 22 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Destruction of organic pollutants using novel electrochemical oxidation technology; Evaluating impact of metals on the removal efficiency.

The University of Manchester
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Increased discharge of potentially toxic, hard-to-remove organic pollutants (pesticides, antibiotics etc) is causing major environmental/economic damage worldwide. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Van Dongen, Dr S Boult, Dr IS Strashnov
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Quantitative Limit Theorems in Mathematical Statistics via Stein’s Method

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
Distributional approximations arise throughout probability and statistics. Here one is interested in approximating the (possibly intractable) distribution of a quantity of interest by a simpler, well-understood distribution, allowing one to make inference. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Gaunt, Dr X Jin
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Flow and transport control and optimization in microfluidic devices

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
Microfluidic devices can be used as lab-on-a-chip analogues for human organs, which themselves involve flow through and around many layers of tissues of varying properties. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Thompson, Dr RT Tank
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Exploring Novel and Unfamiliar Data Visualisations

The University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science
Each year, research explores new ways to visualise data. Read more
 Supervisors: Mr G Strain, Prof C Jay, Prof A Stewart, Dr P Warren
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Volcanic fluid flow and release of greenhouse gases as drivers for Paleocene-Eocene paleoclimate

The University of Manchester
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Simulations of Earth’s response to current and future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are limited by our current knowledge of Earth-climate feedbacks, creating large uncertainties in numerical climate models. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Schroeder, Dr B Van Dongen, Dr G Holland, Dr R Tartese
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Deflation Techniques for Optimization Algorithms

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
Many optimization problems have a large number of local minima, making it difficult to identify the global minimum, or even a representative collection of good candidate solutions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Webb, Dr JL Latz
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Natural Fibre Insulation for Housing Sector

The University of Manchester
Department of Civil Engineering and Management
Buildings use about a third of global energy consumption, and about 40% of the total operational energy in buildings worldwide is used for space heating and cooling. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Achintha, Dr Jaise Kuriakose
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] 4D Nanoscale Imaging of Clay–Fluid Interactions under Extreme Conditions

The University of Manchester
Department of Chemical Engineering
Clay-based materials are found across natural, engineered and functional systems, where their ability to interact with water and ions can fundamentally alter structure, transport and mechanical behaviour. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Ma, Prof R Boya
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] New Activation Modes in Red Light Photocatalysis

The University of Manchester
Department of Chemistry
Red Light Photocatalysis. A PhD in Next-Generation Catalysis. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Trowbridge, Dr LN Natrajan
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Resource-Efficient Execution of Data Centre-Grade Workloads with Lightweight Operating Systems on Emerging Capability Hardware

The University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science
Modern data-centre workloads (e.g., agentic AI) demand strong security guarantees and high performance, which come today at a high resource cost. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Olivier, Dr P Petoumenos
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Multiple-bubble interactions in Hele-Shaw cells

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
The study of air bubbles and fingers in Hele-Shaw cells at low Reynolds number is an area with surprisingly rich dynamics, in terms of nonlinear dynamics, fluid mechanical modelling and experimental fluid mechanics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Thompson
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GW4 BioMed3 MRC DLP PhD project: Understanding and improving the provision of clinical services for youth with disruptive behaviour disorders

University of Bath
Department of Psychology
This project is one of several in competition for funding from the GW4 BioMed3 MRC Doctoral Landscape Programme (DLP), which is offering up to 17 studentships for entry in October 2027. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G Fairchild
 21 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Fluid-Injection Fault-Reactivation Experiments Illuminated by High-speed Camera & Acoustic Emissions

The University of Manchester
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Understanding when fluid injection reactivates faults and triggers earthquakes is essential for reducing seismic risk as subsurface technologies become central to the green energy transition. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Mecklenburgh, Dr N Farrell
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