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We have 5,885 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Circuit quantum electrodynamics to probe strongly interacting electronic phases in atomically thin nanoelectronic devices

Atomically thin layers of various materials can be combined - almost at will - into novel artificial materials, with graphene structures being the most prominent examples. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Baumgartner
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Warwick Business School: PhD Programme

Develop yourself as an early career researcher with our prestigious Doctoral Programme. We value our doctoral researchers and aim to attract students from across the globe who are independent thinkers, restless to learn more and challenge themselves. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Business Research Programme
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Phase-locked Deep Brain Stimulation to restore neural dynamics in Parkinson’s Disease

Background. Applications are invited from both Home students and International students to join a multidisciplinary team of researchers studying phase-locked deep brain stimulation to improve movement and sleep in people with Parkinson’s disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof H Tan, Dr S He, Prof A Sharott
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Developing and Testing Brain Stimulation Patterns to Promote Half-Harmonic Entrainment for Therapeutic Benefit in Parkinson’s Disease

Background. Applications are invited from both Home students and International students to join a multidisciplinary team of researchers studying the synchronisation of brain activity to deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Duchet, Prof H Tan
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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University of Reading PhD and doctoral study opportunities

Our thriving and diverse community of researchers leads the way in understanding the issues that most concern the world today. Join us as a doctoral researcher at Reading and we will support you at every stage, helping you to deliver research that counts. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Opportunities
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PhD Opportunities in Art, Media Arts and Design

We invite applications for full-time or part-time self-funded PhD study. About the PhD programme. Research in the Art, Design and Media Research Centre (ADMRC) employs critical and imaginative art, media and design strategies to investigate and problematise social and cultural norms. Read more
 Self-Funded PhD Students Only  Arts Research Programme
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Discovering and translating physiological biomarkers for personalised adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s disease

Background. Applications are invited from both Home students and International students to join a multidisciplinary team of researchers studying how neural, movement and behavioural signals can be used to personalise adaptive deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Assoc Prof A Oswal, Prof T Denison, Assoc Prof H Cagnan, Dr B Abdi-Sargezeh
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Smart Nanomaterial Characterisation

This project is part of cohort 4 of the EPSRC CDT in Developing National Capability for Materials 4.0, with the Henry Royce Institute. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Hondow, Prof A P Brown, Dr S Wilson
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Multiple Long-Term Conditions PhD Programme for Health Professionals Fellow

The Clinical PhD Research Fellowships are fixed term 3-year appointments offering training, mentoring and support to health professionals undertaking a PhD on the topic of multiple long-term conditions (MLTC), also known as multimorbidity. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  Clinical PhD Programme
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Developing a Finite Element Based Model for Pellet Relocation in Nuclear Reactor Fuel (HAYNEST_U26EMPAMENTUM)

Primary supervisor - Dr Thomas Anthony Haynes. Pellet-clad interaction (PCI) is a complicated phenomenon, relatively poorly captured in current commercial fuel performance codes. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr TH Haynes
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging and Biomedical Data Analysis

This PhD project will develop artificial intelligence methods for analysing complex medical imaging and biomedical data. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr HZ Zhao
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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P22) New tools for bioconjugation using novel rearrangement reactions

Protein bioconjugation is a vital tool in modern biomedical and biotechnological research. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof W Unsworth, Dr C Spicer, Prof M A Fascione
 13 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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P21) Sustainable diversification of therapeutic peptides via amino-carbonylation

In this project we will develop new strategies to chemically modify peptides via late-stage, transition metal catalysed reactions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Spicer, Prof I J S Fairlamb
 13 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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P18) Sustainable Supramolecular Structured Liquids

Structured liquids play a vital role in a wide range of industrial applications, particularly in consumer and personal care products, where gel-like materials have an important role in providing products with appropriate physical performance. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D K Smith
 13 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Deciphering mechanisms of immune dysfunction in immunodeficient patients with RNA Polymerase III/tRNA-related gene defects

Gene variants that impair the development or function of T cells cause combined immunodeficiency, leaving infants and young children vulnerable to life-threatening infection. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Hambleton, Dr K Engelhardt
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Estimating the family and wider societal health economic impacts of genomic therapeutics

A major hurdle to integrating genome-targeted therapies, such as antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) and CRISPR-based therapies, into routine care is the health technology assessment process and the need to demonstrate cost-effectiveness to agencies such as NICE. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Wordsworth, Prof C Rinaldi
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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P15) New Molecular Architectures for Targeting the Respiratory Chain of Mycobacteria

The Ineos Oxford Institute (IOI) spearheads sustainable drug discovery against devastating mycobacterial diseases, primarily tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Parkin, Prof J Blaza
 13 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mapping and Editing Gene Regulatory Networks to Develop Therapies for Genetic Disorders.

Inherited diseases are often caused by mutations within genes, but an increasing number arise from variants in the regulatory elements that control when and where genes are switched on. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Davies, Prof R Chakraverty
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Reprogramming Human Envelope Proteins for Neuronal Genome Editing

Targeted delivery remains the principal bottleneck for therapeutic genome editing, particularly in the central nervous system where efficient delivery to defined neuronal populations remains challenging. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr JH Haldrup, Prof S Hyde, Prof C Rinaldi
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Developing a Precision RNA Editing Platform for Therapeutic Applications

RNA editing is a natural and widespread post-transcriptional modification in mammalian cells, primarily involving adenosine to inosine (A-to-I) conversions mediated by ADAR enzymes, and cytosine to uridine (C-to-U) conversions facilitated by APOBECs. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Rinaldi, Prof S Sanders
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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P14) Sustainable Synthesis for Medicinal Chemistry in 3-Dimensions: Bioisosteres, PROTAC Linkers, Scaffold Hopping and Unnatural Amino Acids

The O’Brien group has an ongoing interest in exploring sp3-rich scaffolds for use in medicinal chemistry. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P O'Brien
 13 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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P10) Machine Learning Guided Sustainable Automated Synthesis and Target-based Screening of Metal-based Antibiotics

Antibiotics make modern medicine possible. From routine surgery to cancer treatment, many hospital interventions rely on effective antibiotics to prevent deadly infections. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Frei
 13 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Physical Attacks on Confidential Computing and Trusted Execution

The project. The research group of Prof David Oswald at Durham University, UK, is looking for PhD student(s) to work on physical attacks on confidential computing and trusted execution environments (TEEs), including those extending to GPUs. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Oswald
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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P7) Photochemical arylative carbonylation and formylation using manganese and tandem manganese/palladium catalysis

The project will explore the potential of earth abundant metal (EAM) catalysts for arylative carbonylation reactions employing suitable aromatic and heteroaromatic halide / pseudohalide and organoboron coupling partners in the presence of a safe carbon monoxide-releasing surrogate and activator. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof I J S Fairlamb, Prof J M Lynam
 13 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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P20) Sustainable Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles from Bio-based Feedstocks

In this collaborative project, bio-based feedstocks will be utilized for the synthesis of a range of unsaturated and saturated nitrogen heterocyclic building blocks. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof H Sneddon, Prof P O'Brien
 13 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Application of Artificial Intelligence to Fluid Mechanics: Reduced-Order Modelling and Data-Driven Flow Analysis

Prof. Xuerui Mao's research group at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) is seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic PhD student in the field of fluid mechanics, machine learning, and data science. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof X Mao
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Asymptotic Analysis of Hypersonic Flow over Forward- and Backward-Facing Steps

Prof. Xuerui Mao's research group at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) is seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic PhD student in the field of fluid mechanics, asymptotic analysis, and computational methods. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D. Exposito, Prof X Mao
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS 2027). Decoding the climate–resistance link: spectral and transcriptomic responses of resistant and sensitive E. coli to environmental stress

Climate change is intensifying the environmental stresses bacteria face, and rising temperatures are increasingly linked to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr THS Hock Siew
 31 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS 2027). Climate Change and ESKAPEE Pathogen Resistance: A Localised Mixed-Methods Study

Growing evidence shows that climate-induced temperature rises directly accelerate bacterial growth and resistance mutations, while extreme weather events indirectly affect healthcare disruptions and antibiotic misuse. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr NAJ Johari
 31 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS 2027). Shotgun Metagenomic Profiling of Seasonal and Climatic Effects on Gut Microbiome and Resistome Dynamics in a Community Cohort

Climate change and extreme weather events are increasingly recognised as drivers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), yet their influence on the human gut microbiome and resistome remains poorly understood. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr PY Yap
 31 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)