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Reclaiming Residues: Brazil Nut Shells and the Future of the Development of Circular Construction Materials

University of Bath

Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering

This PhD project explores the potential of Brazil nut shells and other agro-forestry residues from the Amazon rainforest as innovative, sustainable construction materials. Read more

Supervisors: Dr T Abdelmagid, Dr J Holley, Dr LB Bufalino

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Ecology and infection in the respiratory tract

University of Birmingham

Department of Microbes, Infections and Microbiomes

Project Details. The lower respiratory tract has a microbiome. It is sparser than the gut microbiome and much less well characterised, but similarly varies in health and disease, has stable composition and has direct interactions with the immune system. Read more

Supervisor: Dr MJ Cox

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying spinal cord regeneration

The University of Manchester

Division of Developmental Biology and Medicine

Motor nerves connect the spinal cord and brain with muscles in our face, arms, legs and internal organs. The motor nerves send signals which tell these muscles to contract. Read more

Supervisors: Dr K Dorey, Dr N Roberts

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Text entry in XR

University of Birmingham

School of Psychology

We are looking for outstanding PhD student candidates to join a collaborative research project with Google on next-generation text entry in immersive environments. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Di Luca

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Robot skill acquisition, transfer and augmentation for indusrial automation

University of Birmingham

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Project overview. We are recruiting a self-funded PhD student to join an EPSRC project, STAMAN. Though the studentship will not be provided, attending conferences, consumables, and industrial engagements will be funded and supported. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Wang

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Robotics for circular economy and sustainable manufacturing

University of Birmingham

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Project overview. We are recruiting a self-funded PhD student to join an EPSRC project, STAMAN. Though the studentship will not be provided, attending conferences, consumables, and industrial engagements will be funded and supported. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Wang

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self-funded PhD - Growing pains – how do plants measure developmental time?

University of Bristol

School of Biological Sciences

During their life-cycles multicellular organisms progress through a series of different developmental phases. To ensure that development occurs in the right sequence and at an appropriate rate, the correct timing of transitions between phases is essential. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Fouracre

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Silicon devices for nonlinear photonics and applications

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Prof Anna Peacock & Dr Meng Huang. Closing date 31 October 2026. This project seeks to develop compact and power efficient nonlinear silicon photonics devices for use in wide ranging applications such as telecommunications, medicine and spectroscopy. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Peacock

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Biometric recognition systems with artificial intelligence techniques

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team - Dr. Sasan Mahmoodi. About the project. Machine learning as well as deep learning techniques are employed in this project to design novel biometric recognition systems. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Mahmoodi

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Stacked Intelligent Metasurface (SIM) for Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS)

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Chao Xu. This project will explore the combination of Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIM) and Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) in the context of Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) applications. . Read more

Supervisor: Dr CX Xu

1 October 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Artificial intelligence techniques for illness detection by using MRI

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr. Sasan Mahmoodi and Professor Brigitte Vollmer. Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) affects babies' brains during the childbirth due to shortages of oxygen. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Mahmoodi

14 October 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Next generation silicon photonic modulators

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Professor David Thomson and Dr Bharat Pant. This project will focus on research into the next generation of optical data communication technology enabling key applications such as high-performance computing and artificial intelligence to thrive. . Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Thomson

30 September 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Programmable silicon photonic circuits

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Prof David Thomson, Prof Professor Goran Mashanovich & Dr Bharat Pant. Closing Date. 30 September 2026. This project will focus on the development of reliable and efficient programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) on a silicon photonics platform. . Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Thomson

30 September 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Metasurface technology for next-generation automotive sensing and 3D facial recognition

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Xu Fang and Dr Eric Plum. This project will develop metasurface-engineered optical systems for next-generation automotive and biometric sensing. Read more

Supervisor: Dr X Fang

20 September 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Integrated polysilicon photonics

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Prof Anna Peacock and Prof David Thomson. This project seeks to develop a simple, low-cost laser materials processing procedure to fabricate high quality polysilicon photonic platforms that will ease issues associated with optoelectronic integration. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Peacock

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Understanding the electrosolvation force between colloidal particles and molecules in solution

University of Oxford

Department of Chemistry

The Krishnan Lab works in the broad area of soft condensed matter at the nanometer scale and has a long-standing interest in measuring, understanding and manipulating interactions between charged particles and molecules in solution (Nature 2010, Nature Nanotech 2012, 2015, 2017, 2024). Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Krishnan

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Single molecule science: new experimental approaches to measuring the charge, size and 3D conformation of single biomolecules in solution

University of Oxford

Department of Chemistry

Prof. Madhavi Krishnan's group is looking for bright, highly motivated and committed students for PhD research in the broad area of single molecule biophysics and nanoscience. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Krishnan

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Predicting the Evolution of Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 Viruses

University of Cambridge

Department of Zoology

Our research focus is to design and develop analytical, computational, and mathematical methods to understand the fundamental processes that govern the evolution of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viruses. Read more

Supervisors: Prof D Smith, Prof H Baylis

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Ph.D. student in Energy Mechanics and Sustainability Program

University of Delaware

Department of Mechanical Engineering

1-2 Ph.D. students (Spring or Fall 2026 entry). Research project. (1) Multiphysics modeling and characterization of next-gen batteries; (2) Machine-learning assisted battery manufacturing and prognostics. Read more

Supervisor: Dr JX Xu

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Functional Mechanisms of Genetic Risk Factors for Immune-Related Disease

King’s College London

School of Medicine

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Supervisor: Prof T Vyse

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Tightening the Science: A Comprehensive Study on Girth Tension, Saddle Pressures, and Horse Performance

Anglia Ruskin University ARU

Writtle School of Agriculture, Animal and Environmental Sciences

Proposed supervisory team. Prof Roberta Blake. Dr David Marlin. Dr Nnenna Ugwu. Theme. Equine. Summary of the research project. The girth is a critical yet understudied component of the saddle system. Read more

Supervisors: Prof R Blake, Dr N Ugwu

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Assessing the welfare impact of concurrent husbandry procedures in newborn lambs

Anglia Ruskin University ARU

Writtle School of Agriculture, Animal and Environmental Sciences

Proposed supervisory team. Prof Roberta Blake. Dr Jon Amory. Dr Nnenna Ugwu. Theme. AgriTech, Animal, and Environment Management. Read more

Supervisors: Prof R Blake, Dr J Armory, Dr N Ugwu

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Heat networks that support the national grid

University of Reading

School of the Built Environment

Heating accounts for about 37% of total greenhouse gas emissions in the UK (DESNZ 2024). Decarbonisation of heat is, therefore, critical to meeting national net zero carbon targets. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Shahrestani, Prof S Smith

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Tackling Membrane BioFouling

University of Edinburgh

School of Engineering

Surfaces in wet environments biofoul, which is a pressing issue affecting many industries, including water treatment industries. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Semião, Prof M Graham

10 October 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

Postgraduate Research at the University of Sydney

University of Sydney

PhD Opportunities

Our research is driven by the big picture. We're proudly home to some of the world's brightest and most accomplished researchers dedicated to finding solutions to the most pressing issues of our times. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) International PhD Programme Australia PhD Programme

Fully Funded PhD Positions in Control and Robotics

San Diego State University

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dynamic Systems and Intelligent Machines (DSIM) Lab at the San Diego State University has PhD positions in the area of control of robotic systems. Read more

Supervisor: Dr ZNA Nili Ahmadabadi

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Engineering Developable Biopharmaceuticals

University of Leeds

Faculty of Biological Sciences

The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2025/26. Read more

Supervisors: Prof D B Brockwell, Prof S E Radford

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Targeting protein acetylation to reduce microglia activation in neurodegenerative disorders

University of Leeds

Faculty of Biological Sciences

The School of Biomedical Sciences invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2025/26. Read more

Supervisor: Prof I Wood

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Optimising functional independence across the life and healthspan using neurostimulation

University of Leeds

Faculty of Biological Sciences

Neuroplasticity is integral to recovery and maintenance of functional independence as we age, and even more crucial in individuals with developmental disorders such as Cerebral Palsy and those with injuries to their brain and/or central nervous system (Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke, MS). Read more

Supervisors: Prof S L Astill, Dr R M Ichiyama

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Control and inhibition of virus replication

University of Leeds

Faculty of Biological Sciences

The Tuplin group explores how RNA viruses regulate replication and translation of their genomes through dynamic interactions between structured viral RNA, host and viral proteins and host-cell non-coding RNAs (including siRNAs, lncRNAs, and circRNAs). Read more

Supervisor: Dr A.K Tuplin

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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