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university of bristol PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 80 university of bristol PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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EPSRC Energy Transfer Technologies Doctoral Training Hub

Are you passionate about applying research to real-world problems? Are you considering a PhD but are also interested in a career in industry? Are you interested in collaborating with researchers across disciplines including physics, electrical engineering, data science and chemistry? If so, the EPSRC Energy Transfer Technologies Doctoral Training Hub could be the perfect place for you. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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EPSRC Energy Transfer Technologies Doctoral Training Hub

Are you passionate about applying research to real-world problems? Are you considering a PhD but are also interested in a career in industry? Are you interested in collaborating with researchers across disciplines including physics, electrical engineering, data science and chemistry? If so, the EPSRC Energy Transfer Technologies Doctoral Training Hub could be the perfect place for you. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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EPSRC Energy Transfer Technologies Doctoral Training Hub

Are you passionate about applying research to real-world problems? Are you considering a PhD but are also interested in a career in industry? Are you interested in collaborating with researchers across disciplines including physics, electrical engineering, data science and chemistry? If so, the EPSRC Energy Transfer Technologies Doctoral Training Hub could be the perfect place for you. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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EPSRC Energy Transfer Technologies Doctoral Training Hub

Are you passionate about applying research to real-world problems? Are you considering a PhD but are also interested in a career in industry? Are you interested in collaborating with researchers across disciplines including physics, electrical engineering, data science and chemistry? If so, the EPSRC Energy Transfer Technologies Doctoral Training Hub could be the perfect place for you. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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EPSRC Energy Transfer Technologies Doctoral Training Hub

Are you passionate about applying research to real-world problems? Are you considering a PhD but are also interested in a career in industry? Are you interested in collaborating with researchers across disciplines including physics, electrical engineering, data science and chemistry? If so, the EPSRC Energy Transfer Technologies Doctoral Training Hub could be the perfect place for you. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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Self-funded PhD - The genomic basis of major evolutionary transitions

Life on Earth has undergone major evolutionary transitions that reshaped its biology, including the emergence of multicellularity, adaptation to terrestrial environments, and parasitism. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Paps
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Modelling stroke progression and treatment in the brain

Ischaemic stroke, the disease that occurs when a clot blocks a large blood vessel in the brain, causing brain tissue to die, remains a common cause of death and a leading cause of disability. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof SP Payne
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EngD Novel design and manufacturing concepts for enhanced aerostructure competitiveness sponsored by Rolls-Royce

High-performance composite materials are a key enabler for lightweight construction of aerostructures. Hence, they are one of the key technologies on the Rolls-Royce UltraFan® demonstrator aero engine, which offers a 25% fuel burn improvement on the first generation of Trent engine. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Hallett, Prof J Barton
 30 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Shaping Collective Traffic Behaviour through Multi-Agent Learning-Based Control

The next generation of mobility will be redefined by mixed autonomy — connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and human drivers sharing the same road. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr KFC Chu
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How does sleep affect your chance of brain disease?

Why we sleep and what happens to the brain during sleep remain very open questions. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof SP Payne
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Optimal ultrasonic imaging for structural integrity prediction

  Research Group: Ultrasonics & NDT
Non-destructive testing (NDT) is vital to ensure structures are safe and to reduce operating costs by facilitating predictive maintenance. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Drinkwater
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Learning and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Public Health

Decision-making under uncertainty is a fundamental challenge in AI and data science, particularly in dynamic settings where observations are collected sequentially and decisions influence future outcomes. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Zhang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Multimodal World Models for Reasoning about the Physical World

Current AI systems are good at recognising and describing what they see, and large language models can reason fluently about the world in text. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CT Tang
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Embodied Cooperative Agents

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) studies how multiple learning agents behave when they coexist in a shared environment. When several agents learn at the same time, open problems arise. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr KFC Chu
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Efficient Reasoning and Decision-Making in AI Agents

AI agents built on large models can now plan, use tools, and carry out tasks over many steps. They are, however, very inefficient. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CT Tang
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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