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Hydrogen, Clean and Sustainable Energy

Loughborough University

Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Generating clean and sustainable energy is a key global challenge and a real strength of the school, with work spanning fundamental research into novel materials and technologies all the way through to the scale up of these techniques towards industry readiness. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Wagner

31 July 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Exhaled microbes and their detection by facemask sampling

University of Leicester

College of Life Sciences

Research Group: Microbiology and Infection

We all breathe out numerous microbes, even when we are sleeping. Our group knows this through our work on facemask sampling (FMS). . Read more

Supervisors: Prof M Barer, Dr N Garton

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

Sustainable and Smart Materials

Loughborough University

Department of Materials

Materials lie at the heart of many of the world’s global challenges from how we generate our future energy, through the sustainable use of resources and the reduction of use of rare materials to designing for recycling. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Hogg

31 July 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Genome dynamics of tandem repeat expansions in lung disease

University of Leicester

College of Life Sciences

Research Group: Genetics

Project Summary. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive and fatal lung disease affecting approximately 50 per 100,000 individuals in the UK. Read more

Supervisors: Prof E Hollox, Dr R Badge

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

Computational Neural Networks (CNNs), foundational large language models (LLMs), and pretrained transformers (GPTs) for phylogeny, biodiversity and functional genomics

University of Leicester

College of Life Sciences

Research Group: Genetics

Artificial intelligence will transform the identification, measurement, conservation and exploitation of biodiversity and the understanding and applications that can come from genomics, transcriptomics and genome assemblies. Read more

Supervisor: Dr PHH Heslop-Harrison

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

The long and the short of human non-crossover recombination

University of Leicester

College of Life Sciences

Research Group: Genetics

Meiotic recombination plays a central role in generating DNA diversity, which in turn provides the capacity for a species to evolve. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C A May, Dr J Higgins

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

Utilising Patient-Derived Explants to Elucidate Mechanisms of Resistance to PD-1/PD-L1 Inhibitors

University of Leicester

College of Life Sciences

Research Group: Cancer Sciences

Project Summary. Immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting PD-1 and PD-L1 have transformed the therapeutic landscape for several solid cancers. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Miles, Dr GV Viticchie

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

Assessing the tumour microenvironment and treatment response in endometrial cancer patient derived explants

University of Leicester

College of Life Sciences

Research Group: Cancer Sciences

Project. Endometrial cancer is the most common gynaecological malignancy in many countries and although it is typically associated with a good long-term outcome the prognosis of metastatic endometrial cancer (EC) is very poor. Read more

Supervisors: Dr E Moss, Dr G Miles

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

Deciphering Pan-Cancer Tumour Microenvironment Ecosystems Using Single-Cell Atlases and Patient-Derived Explant Models

University of Leicester

College of Life Sciences

Research Group: Cancer Sciences

Background/project proposal. Cancer is characterized by multi-cellular communities with complex interactions that shape disease progression, treatment responses, and patient survival [1]. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Miles, Dr GV Viticchie , Dr CD Demetriou

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

Liquid biopsy for early detection and disease monitoring of aggressive T-cell lymphomas

University of Leicester

College of Life Sciences

Research Group: Cancer Sciences

Background. T-cell lymphomas are rare but highly aggressive blood cancers. Despite advances in cancer research, outcomes for patients with these diseases have seen little improvement in the past 30 years. Read more

Supervisors: Dr MA Ahearne, Dr H Walter

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

Theory and Design of Complex Nanostructures for the Control of Light Scattering and Absorption

University of Strathclyde

Department of Physics

Electromagnetic scattering is the fundamental mechanism by which light allows us to perceive the world. At the same time, scattering from particles sets a fundamental limit on our ability to transmit and receive information using optical beams. Read more

Supervisor: Dr F Papoff

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

Laser Frequency Comb Technology for the Extremely Large Telescope

Heriot-Watt University

Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences (IPaQS)

We are seeking to appoint a talented PhD candidate to join the Ultrafast Optics Group at Heriot-Watt by 1 October 2026 and help us to build cutting-edge laser technology for the world’s largest telescope—the ELT—creating ultra-precise “astrocomb” lasers that will enable some of the most exciting science in modern optical astronomy. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Reid

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

Advanced Dual-Comb LiDAR: Precision 3D Metrology for Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing

Heriot-Watt University

Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences (IPaQS)

We are seeking to appoint a talented PhD candidate to join the Ultrafast Optics Group at Heriot-Watt, to start by 1 October 2026, to develop a faster and more sensitive implementation of dual-comb ranging—an optical metrology technique combining interferometry-like precision with time-of-flight accuracy. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Reid

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

Sex Determination and the Extinction Vortex

University of Leicester

College of Life Sciences

Research Group: Genetics

This PhD will investigate whether the risk of extinction in Hymenoptera is greater than most other insect species because of a synergistic interaction between extrinsically driven decline and an intrinsic factor, their mechanism of sex determination. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Hammond

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

Crystal growth and neutron scattering of functional materials

University College London

London Centre for Nanotechnology

PhD Opportunity. Crystal growth and neutron scattering of functional materials. (UCL Crystal Growth Laboratory @ Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus). Read more

Supervisor: Prof R Perry

Year round applications PhD Research Project Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding

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