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We have 5,885 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Metabolic remodelling across tissue compartments in psoriatic arthritis

Global estimates of the prevalence of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are between 0.3 and 1%. PsA causes pain, disability and systemic inflammation. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Clarke, Dr L Coates, Prof J Tomlinson
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS 2027). Development of a Multifunctional Anti-Biofilm Wound Dressing for Precision Infection Control and Accelerated Tissue Regeneration

Chronic and infected wounds remain a major clinical burden due to persistent biofilm formation, delayed healing, and limited efficacy of conventional dressings. Read more
 Supervisor: Assoc Prof AC Chuah
 31 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Infection-Driven Mechanisms of Inflammatory Arthritis

Immune-mediated inflammatory arthropathies, including Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), and therapy-induced inflammatory arthritis, are chronic disabling conditions whose initiating triggers remain poorly understood. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Coles, Prof C Buckley, Dr C Dendrou, Dr S Davidson
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS: 2027). Development of next-generation fluorescent peptide probes for bacterial infection imaging

Infectious diseases remain a major global health burden, with early and accurate diagnosis continuing to pose significant clinical challenges. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr TTH Thet Htar
 31 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mechanisms of viral induced polyarthritis

Chikungunya (CHIK) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus that has caused major outbreaks across Africa, Asia, and South America. While the acute infection is often self-limiting, a substantial proportion of patients develop persistent, painful polyarthritis that can significantly impair quality of life. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Coles, Prof C Buckley, Dr C Dendrou, Dr S Davidson
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI-driven discovery of microbial surface structures that prime the early-life immune system

Early life is a critical developmental window for the human microbiome and the immune system. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Pust, Dr S Sansom
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Next-Generation High-Throughput Light Sheet Microscopy for Quantitative Analysis of Immune–Cancer Cell Interactions

Understanding immune–cancer interactions requires experimental platforms that capture the enormous heterogeneity of cell behaviour. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Fritzsche, Dr N Karedla, Dr V Pfannenstill
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Does membrane lipid chemistry control inflammatory cell death and tissue damage?

Inflammatory cell death is an essential defence against infection, but when uncontrolled it becomes a major driver of tissue injury in diseases including sepsis, acute liver failure, ischaemia-reperfusion injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Bezbradica Mirkovic, Prof I Udalova
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Self-Funded PhD Opportunities: School of Liberal and the Creative Arts

Applications are invited from people wishing to undertake a self-funded PhD at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London. This is an open and ongoing call, with PhD enrolments taking place every February and October. Read more
 Self-Funded PhD Students Only  PhD Research Programme
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Deciphering the immune architecture of human atherosclerosis

Are you fascinated by how immune and metabolic responses shape cardiovascular disease? The immune system is integral to the cardiovascular health and disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Monaco, Prof A Handa, Dr S Sansom, Dr A Boikova, Dr E Solomonidis
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Advanced radar models, systems and processing

In the last years we have seen how the paradigm of armed conflict has dramatically shifted towards the development of offensive strategies with advanced capabilities and significantly reduced costs. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Clemente
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Join a graduate school at the interface of biology and computation: IMPRS-BAC in Berlin

We seek exceptional graduates from around the globe and are delighted to offer them the ideal environment for advancing their scientific careers. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Max Planck Research Programme
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Understanding gene regulation through computational and AI-based methods

  Research Group: Bornelöv
Project overview. Gene regulation is a fundamental aspect of life, in which cells control when and to what extent specific genes are activated to produce a protein. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Bornelöv
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding
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Next Generation AI-driven Tools for Genetic Variant Extraction, Visualisation and Classification

Accurate genomic variant reporting is essential for rare disease diagnosis, yet scientific papers, clinical reports, and database submissions routinely contain erroneous variant descriptions and omit crucial clinical evidence such as ACMG scores and pathogenicity classifications. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Pettifer, Dr PF Freeman, Dr R Batista-Navarro
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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AI-Driven Approaches to Real-Time Spatial Audio for Augmented Reality

  Research Group: Communication Technologies
The future of Augmented Reality (AR) will be shaped as much by sound as by visuals. For AR to feel truly immersive, virtual sound sources must blend seamlessly with the listener’s real acoustic environment, preserving naturalness, depth, and spatial coherence. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G Kearney
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus Therapy for Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis

Breast cancer metastasis to the bone represents a critical, incurable clinical challenge characterised by severe tumour growth and immune evasion. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Howard, Dr M Muthana
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Social Capital

New communication technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic have encouraged employees to use virtual tools (e.g., Generative AI) to maintain high levels of performance (Bailey & Breslin, 2020; Raghuram, Hill, Gibbs, & Maruping, 2019). Read more
 Supervisor: Assoc Prof M Jungst
 1 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Professional Doctorate of Education (EdD)

Gain a professional doctorate whilst working and transform your professional practice through robust, rigorous research. Our programme provides a solid… Read more
 Self-Funded PhD Students Only  Professional Doctorate
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Fully funded PhD position: Reliability and Materials Engineering for Advanced Photovoltaic Modules

  Research Group: PV Modules and Systems
If you are passionate about the photovoltaics, we invite you to join us to shape the future of photovoltaics (PV) technologies together at the Australian National University (QS ranking 2026. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Ernst
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI-Driven Insect Cognition: Computational Models for Behavior, Brain Imaging and Bio-Inspired Robotics

Understanding how the insect brain functions and generates behaviors is crucial for fields such as ecology, biodiversity conservation, agriculture, pest control, disease prevention and robotics. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr O Riabinina, Dr A Atapour-Abarghouei
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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The future of AI organisational beneficence

PROJECT DESCRIPTION. About the Project. An interdisciplinary foresight stream is seeking doctoral researchers to investigate avenuesof human-AI interaction (HAII). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MC Crawford, Dr BS Sebian, Prof EP Plant
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Innovative Drug Discovery: First-in-Class Small Molecules for Unmet Medical Needs

This PhD project will develop first-in-class small-molecule therapeutic candidates for diseases with substantial unmet medical need. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof X Lei
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Disease Mechanisms: From Phenotypic Discovery to New Therapeutic Targets

Projects in this direction will investigate molecular mechanisms that drive major human diseases and identify new therapeutic targets. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof X Lei
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Synthetic Biology and Biocatalysis for Natural-Product Discovery and Production

Projects in this direction aim to uncover how nature produces structurally complex bioactive natural products and use these insights to develop new biosynthetic and biocatalytic systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof X Lei
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Chemical Biology: Small-Molecule Probes to Decode Biological Processes

Projects in this direction will use small molecules and bioactive natural products to investigate fundamental biological questions across human, plant, animal and microbial systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof X Lei
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Modelling Battery Behaviour During Periods of Disuse

This project offers an opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge modelling research with real-world impact on battery safety, sustainability, and environmental protection. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J E Edge
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Development of high frequency (>1MHz) power converters

  Research Group: Electrical Machines and Power
High density power conversion is critical to a range of fields. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J F Forrester
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Funded International PhD Position: Sunlight-Backscatter Communication for Maintenance-Free Environmental Sensing

With wildfires costing New Zealand an estimated $142 million in a single year, this project will address a key part of that challenge. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Xu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Ph.D. thesis student on operando TEM analysis of ionotronic materials

Context & Job description. Thesis subject. Growth and Characterization of Two-Dimensional Free-standing Functional Oxides. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr AH Tavabi
 13 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Development of Solid-State NMR Methods for Application to Pharmaceutics

Most pharmaceutical treatments, even most recently approved ones, are delivered as solid-state tablets. Thus, once candidate molecules have been identified by drug discovery, and before entering clinical trials, the pharmaceutical industry makes substantial investment in understanding the solid-state landscape. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Brown
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)