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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Probing the Standard Model vacuum: AI-assisted searches for QCD instantons and electroweak sphalerons at ATLAS

This PhD project will develop new searches for QCD instantons and electroweak sphalerons at the ATLAS experiment. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Pilkington, Prof C Doglioni
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Dynamic, individualised prediction of the kidney–heart cascade: multistate joint models for irregular primary care and hospital data

Kidney disease and heart disease feed each other. Kidney function declines, cardiovascular risk rises, and a cardiovascular event or its treatment damages the kidneys further. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Bhattacharjee
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Quantum sensing using radioactive molecular ions for fundamental physics.

This PhD project will develop quantum technology to prepare and study radioactive molecules for searches of physics beyond the standard model. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof K Flanagan, Dr K Lynch
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Spatiotemporal Quantum Correlations

Dr. Philip Taranto offers projects with scope to work on a range of interlinked questions in quantum information theory, open quantum systems, and quantum foundations. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P T Taranto, Prof A Nazir
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Understanding the physics of AlGaN for UV-C LEDs

Nitride semiconductors are an outstanding success story with InGaN based LEDs now largely replacing less efficient conventional lighting devices and GaN transistors offering major performance advances for high power and very high frequency applications. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Binks, Prof M Halsall
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Forgetting unwanted memories during sleep

About the Project. The University of York's Department of Psychology is excited to offer a PhD studentship funded by the European Research Council to begin in September 2027. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof SC Cairney
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] 2D Nanoelectronics beyond Moore's law based on spintronics and thermoelectrics

As conventional electronics approaches fundamental scaling limits, alternative approaches based on electron spin and heat transport offer new opportunities for energy-efficient information processing. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr I Vera-Marun, Prof T Thomson
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6 new fully funded positions in the SNI Nanoscience PhD program

The Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) at the University of Basel invites highly motivated young scientists to apply for a fully funded PhD position in the SNI PhD program. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Switzerland PhD Programme
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Hybrid ML-Physics Agents for Design of Pharmaceutical Reactors

Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are central to mRNA vaccines, but their performance depends on the complex fluid physics governing mixing and particle formation during manufacturing. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Basha, Dr C Pereira da Fonte
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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The vulnerability and sustainability approaches to assess and maintain the structural integrity of pipes buried in shrink-swell soils

Shrink-swell (expansive) soils are probably the most challenging soils globally. They pose several challenges to the infrastructure and built environment in general. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E N Ngezahayo
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Investigating Pathogenic Mechanisms And Therapeutic Approaches For mtDNA Mutations In Cellular Models And Patients

Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are the most common cause of inherited mitochondrial disease and are increasingly implicated in common age-related conditions including neurodegeneration. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R Horvath, Prof M Minczuk, Dr J van den Ameele
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Investigating Pathogenic Mechanisms And Therapeutic Approaches For mtDNA Mutations In Cellular Models And Patients

Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are the most common cause of inherited mitochondrial disease and are increasingly implicated in common age-related conditions including neurodegeneration. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R Horvath, Prof M Minczuk, Dr J van den Ameele
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Wales Graduate school for the Social Sciences (WGSSS), ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) - General Studentship

The School of Psychology at Cardiff University are delighted to offer several fully funded Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) (ESRC DTP) studentships in the Psychology Pathway starting in October 2027. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Social Sciences Research Programme
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Investigating Pathogenic Mechanisms And Therapeutic Targets For mtDNA Mutations

Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are the most common cause of inherited mitochondrial disease and are increasingly implicated in common age-related conditions including neurodegeneration. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A J Whitworth
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Investigating Pathogenic Mechanisms And Therapeutic Targets For mtDNA Mutations

Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are the most common cause of inherited mitochondrial disease and are increasingly implicated in common age-related conditions including neurodegeneration. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A J Whitworth
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Fully-Funded WGSSS ESRC general studentship via the Linguistics and Bilingualism Pathway (School of Global Humanities)

The School of Global Humanities at Cardiff University are delighted to offer fully funded Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) (ESRC DTP) studentship in the Bilingualism and Linguistics Pathway starting in October 2027. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Social Sciences Research Programme
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Marketing

Develop cutting-edge marketing research with leading scholars. Our faculty combines behavioural research, marketing strategy, analytics, and advanced modelling to address some of the most important questions in marketing today. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Business Research Programme
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Management & Entrepreneurship

Join a research community at the forefront of management, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Our faculty explore how organisations, leaders, and entrepreneurs create value and drive change in a rapidly evolving world. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Business Research Programme
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Finance

Within the Department of Finance, you'll join a vibrant research community shaping the future of financial systems. Our faculty's expertise spans four key areas. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Business Research Programme
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Rewiring the Transcriptional Machinery of Myeloid Blood Cancer: Therapeutic Targeting of Transcription Factors, Co-activators and Co-repressors

We are seeking an outstanding and highly motivated student to join our group for a prestigious, fully funded Cancer Research UK PhD studentship. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T Somervaille
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Reconstruction of Tumour Evolution and Metastatic Spread in Kidney Cancer

TRACERx Renal 300 (Tx300) and PEACE (Posthumous Evaluation of Advanced Cancer Environment) Renal programme together span the full arc of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) disease, from surgical resection of primary tumours through to the metastatic landscape captured postmortem. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Turajlić
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Economics & Public Policy

The Department of Economics and Public Policy offer a stimulating environment for doctoral research, addressing some of the most pressing economic and policy challenges of current time. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Business Research Programme
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From Stem Cells to Cancer Immunotherapy: Engineering Human Blood and Immune-Cell Development

Cell-based immunotherapies are transforming the treatment of cancer. CAR-T cells have produced remarkable clinical responses in patients with leukaemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma and are now increasingly entering the clinic for the treatment of solid tumours, with encouraging advances across several cancer types. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G Lacaud
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Defining regulators of early-stage PDAC tumour development

Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a dismal disease with limited treatment options. Despite being the 11th most frequent occurring cancer, PDAC is currently the 4th leading cause of cancer-related deaths and is projected to be the 2nd leading cause by 2030. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Jorgensen
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Aged immune failure and reversal

Immune decline is one of the defining problems of an ageing population. Elderly people have reduced responses to vaccines, failure of tumour surveillance and chronic inflammation, defined as low-grade immune activation (inflammaging). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Virós, Dr JD Worboys
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Analytics & Operations

Operations Management at Imperial focuses on the systems, processes, and decisions that power modern organisations. Doctoral students join a vibrant, multidisciplinary research community, working alongside experts from Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, and other leading departments. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Business Research Programme
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Predicting Cell State from Chromatin Architecture to Understand Cancer Initiation and Progression

Chromatin structure regulates gene expression and underlies cell identity. Mutations in chromatin regulators are frequently observed in cancer, leading to alterations in chromatin structure, genomic interactions, and modifications. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Sherrard
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Investigating molecular drivers of enhancer rewiring in blood cancers

This is a fully funded 3-year PhD studentship to join the group of Dr Tianyi Zhang in the Department of Cancer and Genomics Sciences to investigate molecular mechanisms of genome regulation in multiple myeloma. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr TZ Zhang, Dr G Pratt, Dr S Dimeloe
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Mapping ceramides in atherosclerotic plaques to understand the role of lipids in cardiovascular disease

This studentship aims to uncover the mechanistic basis of why fats, and in particular a subset of fats called ceramides, are independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) by studying the lipid composition of atherosclerotic plaques - the deposits of fat, cholesterol and dead cells that accumulate in arteries and lead to CVD and heart attacks. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J.L Griffin, Dr M J Macleod
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Bystander-Induced Resistance Evolution Against Antimicrobials from Non-antibiotic Co-stressors

About the Project. This project investigates how everyday non-antibiotic substances, including medicines, environmental toxins such as mycotoxins, and nicotine, may contribute to the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Uzairue
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only