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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Targeting the senescence associated secretory phenotype (SASP) as a strategy to ameliorate the burden of age-related fibrotic disease

This project will investigate how ageing cells contribute directly to fibrosis, a major feature of many age-related diseases. Senescent cells accumulate with age because they are no longer efficiently removed by the immune system. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof E Laird, Prof R Medina-Benavente
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Developing and characterising antivirals to treat neuronal complications of non-polio enterovirus infection

Enteroviruses are a diverse group of picornaviruses infecting, among other sites, the central nervous system (CNS). Poliovirus, the most well known subtype causes paralysis in 1 in 200 infections and remains on the WHO eradication list. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof E Emmott, Dr WD Hong, Dr M Benedict, Dr A Smielewska
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Characterising Earthquakes in Oceanic Lithosphere: New Seismological Constraints on Plate Stresses and Deformation

This project will characterise earthquakes occurring at shallow depths in oceanic lithosphere, determining their location, depth, source mechanism, and rupture characteristics, down to magnitudes not previously possible, and use the resulting dataset to explore the tectonic and geodynamic implications of the distribution of seismicity. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Craig, Dr J Elliott, Prof A Copley, Assoc Prof JH Hawthorne
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Mechanistic investigation into covalent kinase inhibitor-induced liver injury following checkpoint inhibitor treatment

Despite years of intensive research, cancer has poor patient outcomes largely due to late-stage diagnosis, limited treatment options, and lack of biomarkers for early detection. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof D Naisbitt, Dr X Meng, Dr S Bates
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Integrated assessment of Immune Fitness in Patients with lung cancer: AI-enabled Immune Phenotyping and CT-based Assessment of Sarcopenia

Lung cancer is the cause of most cancer related death worldwide. Patients with lung cancer exhibit striking differences in clinical outcome despite apparently similar tumour stage and treatment. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Ottensmeier, Dr S Chee, Prof Y Zheng
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Unlocking the Geological Potential of Salt Caverns for Hydrogen Storage in the North Sea, UK

Why Hydrogen storage?. Hydrogen is increasingly used as a source of energy to reach UK Net Zero targets by 2050. It is a clean alternative to methane gas, which is used in cars, houses, and for industrial applications. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C D Botter, Dr A McArthur
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Decoding protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases using advanced mass spectrometry methods

Project Description. Neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and Parkinson's disease (PD) are characterised by the misfolding and aggregation of proteins into toxic assemblies that damage neurons. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Calabrese, Prof F. Sobott, Prof S E Radford
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Using machine learning to model and predict Earth’s magnetic field

Project overview. The geomagnetic field is a fundamental part of planet Earth, existing for at least 3.5 billion years. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof W Livermore, Prof C Davies
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Evidencing natural flood management in lowland wetlands

Lowland wetland systems such as those around the Norfolk Broads in eastern England play a role in both fluvial and tidal-influenced flood protection. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J Holden, Dr R Grayson
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Decoding pneumolysin-specifc T cell fate in pneumococcal infection

Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) is the leading bacterial cause of pneumonia and remains a major global health challenge despite the availability of vaccines and antibiotics. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Kadioglu, Dr RX Xu
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Smart Multimodal AI for Refining Thalamic Targeting and Tremor Outcome Prediction

Essential tremor (ET) is the most common movement disorder, affecting millions of people worldwide and causing uncontrollable shaking that can make everyday activities such as writing, eating and dressing difficult. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Macerollo, Prof Y Zheng, Mr JO Farah
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Agentic AI to drive functional annotation and drug discovery in a priority fungal pathogen

Fungal disease kills an estimated 3.75 million people a year worldwide — six times more than malaria and three times more than tuberculosis. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A R Jones, Dr M Bromley, Dr P Kritsiligkou
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Machine Intelligence for Paediatric Rare and Complex Disease

Applications are invited for a 3.5-year PhD studentship within Professor Payam Barnaghi’s TMI Lab in the Department of Brain Sciences, at Imperial College London, supported by funding from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Barnaghi
 30 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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EASTBIO SRUC Are happy chickens healthier?

Are you interested in animal behaviour, welfare, physiology, and sustainable livestock production? This exciting PhD at SRUC will investigate one of the most important emerging questions in animal welfare science. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V Bombail
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO SRUC Sea lice and wild salmonids: understanding infection risk, connectivity and genomic resistance across Scotland’s coastal waters

Lepeophtheirus salmonis (sea lice) are one of the most significant challenges facing both salmon aquaculture and the conservation of wild Atlantic salmon. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Landeryou
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The Quaternary is the key to our future: using outcrop analogues to reduce uncertainties in offshore windfarm developments

Globally, the scale of offshore wind as a renewable energy source is increasing at a remarkable rate. In the North Sea and Irish Sea, the appraisal of offshore windfarm sites has uncovered a complex Quaternary stratigraphy. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof DM Hodgson, Dr M Thomas, Prof A Booth
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO SRUC From Field to Fibre: genomics-led breeding of flax for a resilient Scottish linen industry (CASE)

Linen is one of Europe’s oldest and most sustainable fabrics, yet almost all of it now comes from a narrow band of northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Sharma
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: How does pancreatic injury trigger life-threatening organ failure?

Acute pancreatitis is one of the most common gastrointestinal causes of emergency hospital admission. While the disease begins in the pancreas, the most severely affected patients develop inflammation and failure of distant organs, most commonly in the lungs. Read more
 Supervisors: Mr R Mukherjee, Prof R Sutton, Prof P O'Neill
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO SRUC Beyond the average fish: personality as a predictor of resilience and welfare

Like humans and other animals, fish have personalities and differ in how they behave. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Prentice, Dr A Boerlage, Prof M Haskell
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear) EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Nuclear Energy

Take your place in the next generation of nuclear experts by joining our fully funded four year Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD in SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear). Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear) EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Nuclear Energy

Take your place in the next generation of nuclear experts by joining our fully funded four year Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD in SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear). Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear) EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Nuclear Energy

Take your place in the next generation of nuclear experts by joining our fully funded four year Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD in SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear). Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear) EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Nuclear Energy

Take your place in the next generation of nuclear experts by joining our fully funded four year Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD in SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear). Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear) EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Nuclear Energy

Take your place in the next generation of nuclear experts by joining our fully funded four year Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD in SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear). Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear) EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Nuclear Energy

Take your place in the next generation of nuclear experts by joining our fully funded four year Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD in SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear). Read more
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Novel chemical reactions for protein isotope labelling

Overview. Understanding how proteins interact with potential new drugs requires precise information about their structure. Protein NMR provides unique opportunities to gather this information in real-time and in solution, but is complex and time consuming to analyse. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Spicer, Dr M Plevin, Prof W Unsworth
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Source and fate of microfibres in river catchments

Source and fate of microfibres in river catchments. Introduction. Plastic pollution is arguably the hottest topic in water quality science at the moment and developing strategies to use plastics sustainably is a key aim of research. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Kay, Dr R Blackburn
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO SRUC Understanding and Addressing Rural Hedgehog Population Declines (CASE)

Hedgehogs have been voted as Britain’s favourite mammal, yet populations in the UK and Western Europe have been declining at an alarming rate over recent decades. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Littlewood
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Risks and storylines of extreme air quality episodes under future climate change

Motivation. Exposure to ambient air pollution is one of the major environmental health challenges of our time, responsible for more than 4 million premature deaths globally each year, imposing global economic costs of trillions of $US. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Arnold, Dr CL Reddington, Dr S Turnock
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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SWBio DTP PhD Project: The role of gene organisation in parasitism

This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding from the South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWBio DTP). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V L Hunt
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)