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CVD Growth of Isotopically Engineered Carbon-Doped hBN Single-Photon Emitters

Nanyang Technological University
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
This PhD develops a new chemical vapour deposition (CVD) route to wafer-scale, quantum-grade hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) for room-temperature single-photon emitters, the building blocks of quantum communication and photonics. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof Tay, R.Y. Tay
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Adaptive Indoor Soundscape Augmentation

Nanyang Technological University
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
This PhD research explores how AI can be used to create healthier and more productive open-plan offices by improving their acoustic environment. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof W.S.Gan Gan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The Overheating Paradox of Low-Carbon Retrofit: Developing a Sustainable Framework for Delivering Year-Round Thermal Resilience in the UK Housing Sector.

Kingston University
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
Background and Context. The UK housing sector is undergoing a major transformation driven by net-zero commitments, energy security concerns, and the need to improve the energy performance of an ageing housing stock. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr B Ogunsanya
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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(Em)Powering Regional Prosperity: Renewable Energy, Local Value Creation and Economic Resilience in Europe

University of Greenwich
Business School
The purpose of this PhD is to investigate how renewable energy expansion can contribute to regional value creation, economic resilience and inclusive development across Europe. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr VW Weghmann
 23 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Scalable 'Sense-then-Stimulate' tACS for Personalized Alcohol Craving Intervention

University of Sheffield
School of Psychology
Alcohol Use Disorder affects over 600,000 people in the UK, contributes to 25,000+ deaths, and costs £52 billion annually. Current treatments carry ~70% relapse rates, and a critical opportunity is being missed. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Mandali
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Addressing Healthcare Inequality: Mitigating Nocebo Effects and Improving Medication Adherence in Minoritised Ethnic Groups

University of Sheffield
School of Psychology
A major challenge in modern healthcare is patient non-adherence to prescribed medication, often driven by the experience of distressing side effects. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Webster, Dr C Wood
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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The Systemic Link: Characterising Neurovascular Breakdown in Mixed Vascular and Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology.

University of Sheffield
School of Psychology
Despite the global burden of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), disease-modifying treatments remain. elusive. Traditional research has focused on amyloid-beta (Aβ) and tau protein, yet the. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Howarth, Dr J Berwick
 14 July 2027  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Reducing Weight stigma and its health impacts

University of Sheffield
School of Psychology
Obesity is one of society’s greatest challenges with 2/3rds of UK adults living with overweight or obesity. Weight stigma (anti-fat attitudes, weight-based prejudice and discrimination) is experienced by 54% of adults. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Wood, Dr N Buckland
 20 April 2027  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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AI Methods for the Design and Optimization of Wide-Bandgap CMOS Power Electronics

University of Portsmouth
School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6 year part-time PhD project. The PhD will be based in  the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and supervised by Dr Mahsa Mehrad and Dr. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Mehrad, Dr A Tawfik
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Intelligent Coordination Framework for Residential Energy Assets in Net-Zero Homes

University of Portsmouth
School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6 year part-time PhD project. The PhD will be based in the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and will be supervised by Dr Shanker Prabhu, Dr Hongjie Ma and Dr Shamsul Masum. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Prabhu, Dr H Ma, Dr S Masum
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Rational Design of Ionic Liquid Based Systems for Explosives Detection

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Project Supervisors. Professor Chris-Kriton Skylaris and Professor Jonathan W. Essex. Biosensors could enable low-burden detection of energetic compounds, but challenges arise because many explosives exhibit poor solubility or complex behaviour in water. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof C K Skylaris
 1 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Hybrid Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Multi-Vector Energy System Optimisation

University of Portsmouth
School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6 year part-time PhD project. The PhD will be based in the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and will be supervised by Dr Shamsul Masum, Dr Anton Hettiarachchige Don and Dr Edward Smart. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Masum, Dr A Hettiarachchige Don, Dr E Smart
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Aerodynamic and Aeroelastic Analysis of Bio-Inspired Flexible Wings

Kingston University
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
Bio-inspired flight has attracted increasing attention in recent years, particularly through the study of bat wings, which demonstrate remarkable aerodynamic performance, agility, and efficiency at low flight speeds. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Lin
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Human-Centric Green AI: Balancing Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Carbon Efficiency in Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence

Kingston University
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming society, but its rapid growth faces a critical sustainability crisis. Large-scale AI models require massive data centres, leading to soaring carbon footprints and significant electronic waste. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Pattnaik
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Trustworthy Agentic AI for Clinical Documentation: Safe, Transparent and Human-Centred Electronic Health Records

Kingston University
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
Generative AI is rapidly transforming healthcare documentation. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into electronic health record (EHR) systems to draft clinical notes, summarise patient histories and support clinical coding. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Kumarapeli
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Context-Aware Reasoning and Interactive Decision-Making for Human-Robot Collaboration

Kingston University
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
As autonomous mobile robots become increasingly integrated into industrial, logistics and service environments, effective human-robot collaboration requires robots to make intelligent decisions that account for both environmental context and human requirements. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Djaid
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Big data analytics and visualization for personalized Type 2 Diabetes treatment and management support

Kingston University
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
Type II (T2DM) is a chronic, multifactorial disease resulting in severe complications that lead to increased morbidity and even death. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Philip
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Leveraging statistics to develop new methodologies for subjective quality assessment

Kingston University
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
Subjective tests for the assessment of the quality of experience (QoE) are typically run with a pool of subjects providing their opinion scores using a 5-point scale. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Martini
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Advancing Sustainable Aviation Fuels through Fuel Design, Combustion and Emissions Characterisation

Kingston University
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) offers a key pathway for aviation decarbonisation by enabling the use of renewable, waste-derived carbon sources and captured CO₂ to produce jet fuel alternatives. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof L C Ganippa
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The investigation of coastal cliff instability due to extreme weather conditions

Imperial College London
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Supervisory team. Dr Tiago Gaspar, Prof. Jamie Standing, Prof. Lidija Zdravković (Imperial College London). Project description. With increasingly evident impacts of climate change, there is a growing focus on safeguarding the resilience of geo-infrastructure under extreme weather conditions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Gaspar
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Security and Assurance of AI Agents in Cyber-Physical and Autonomous Systems

Kingston University
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
AI agents and large-language-model-based autonomous systems are beginning to influence software engineering, cyber defence, robotics, transport, industrial automation and cyber-physical infrastructure. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr H Yuan
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Advanced Propulsion Systems and Ignition Technologies for Next-Generation Aerospace Applications

Kingston University
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
The project focuses on the development and investigation of advanced propulsion systems and ignition technologies aimed at improving the efficiency, reliability, safety, and environmental performance of next-generation aerospace and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Volkov
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Numerical simulation and optimisation of Deflagration and Detonation arresters’ performance

Kingston University
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
Demand for energy and petrochemical products has been on the raise in recent decades leading to huge production, transportation and storage infrastructures all around the world. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Heidari
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Curb-side V2G for Neighbourhood-Level Peak Shaving under High EV Penetration

University of Portsmouth
School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
As EV numbers surge, this work shows how curb-side Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) can turn parked cars into a shared energy buffer, smoothing the sharp neighbourhood demand peak and easing pressure on local networks. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Hettiarachchige Don, Dr S Prabhu, Prof V Becerra
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Biomineralisation for engineered naturalisation of disturbed sites

Cardiff University
Cardiff School of Engineering
Description of Project. Human activities (e.g. mining, construction) disturb soils and associated organisms, which is followed by naturalisation as ecosystems reestablish themselves. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Harbottle, Dr F Windsor
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PREQUeL – Psoriasis Response to time-restricted Eating for Quality of Life

King’s College London
Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
For full project details and how to apply visit institution website. Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that substantially affects quality of life. Read more
 Supervisors: Ms W Hall, Dr R Gibson
 15 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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The Meta-Sharing Epidemic: Assessing and Mitigating the Multi-Dimensional Risks of Social Media Hyper-Sharing

Kingston University
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
From daily personal routines to sensitive workplace settings, modern society is driven by an absolute habit. if it happens, it must be digitally shared. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Pattnaik
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Tees Valley Production Hub: Growing and sustaining performing arts producing at ARC Stockton

Teesside University
Centre for Culture and Creativity
This practice-based PhD will support the development of a new business model for ARC Stockton Arts Centre which will see it establish and grow a theatre and performance production hub for the Tees Valley. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Perks
 14 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Use and development of time-resolved direct electron detectors for imaging and spectroscopy of functional materials

University of Glasgow
College of Science and Engineering
Start date. 01/10/2026. Are you interested in materials physics, data science, or computational physics? Could a PhD working with next-generation cutting edge detectors for electron microscopy be for you? If so, please read on!. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr KF Fallon, Dr D Maclaren
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Semantic segmentation of point cloud data using multi-modal data fusion and deep learning

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Design School
Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data is a fundamental task in computer vision that enables detailed scene understanding for applications such as autonomous driving, robotics and smart cities. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Fan
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