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PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 3,694 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Towards the Miniaturisation of Quantum Gravimeters and Gradiometers

Supervisors. Prof Ivette Fuentes Guridi i.fuentes-guridi@soton.ac.uk. Prof Hendrik Ulbricht H.Ulbricht@soton.ac.uk. Prof Alexander Belyaev A.Belyaev@soton.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof I Fuentes Guridi
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI-Designed Metasurfaces for Quantum Light Manipulation

Supervisors. Dr Bruce(Jun-Yu) Ou bruce.ou@soton.ac.uk. Dr Alberto Politi A.Politi@soton.ac.uk. Project Title. AI-Designed Metasurfaces for Quantum Light Manipulation. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr B Ou
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Seabed response to mooring lines for floating offshore wind

This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Leonardi, Dr A Petalas, Dr E Bowman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Physics-Informed Digital Twin for Guided Wave-Based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations

  Research Group: Dynamics Research Group
This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Rogers, Dr P Xu, Dr H Laalej
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Physics-Informed Digital Twin for Guided Wave-Based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations

This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Rogers, Dr P Xu, Dr H Laalej
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Low maintenance reliable main bearings for large wind turbines

Almost all the bearings in wind turbine transmissions are rolling element type [1]. That includes slow and high-speed shafts, gearboxes, blade pitch bearings, and the main bearing that supports the rotor. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R Dwyer-Joyce, Dr T Khan, Mr WS Song, Dr S Tan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Enhancing the Resilience of Offshore Wind Electrical Systems through Digital Twin Tools

The UK’s expansion of offshore wind is changing the dynamics of the electricity grid, particularly due to the lack of generation inertia worsening power system stability. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Griffo, Dr X Chen, Dr M Smailes, Dr A Nambiar
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Centrifuge Physical Modelling of Floating Offshore Wind Moorings in Layered Soils

The future of offshore wind energy lies in floating turbines, enabling the capture of wind power in deep waters where conventional foundations (like monopiles and jackets) are not economically viable. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E Bowman, Prof C Augarde, Prof C Smith
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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AI-assisted grading of end-of-life wind turbine composite materials for a circular economy

This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield.  The successful applicant will undertake six months of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Maguire, Dr T Rogers, Prof C Ó Brádaigh
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Quantum Technologies for GNSS-denied navigation: a Quantum Inertial Navigation Sensor Simulator

Supervisors. Prof Tim Freegarde timf@soton.ac.uk. Prof Blair Thornton B.Thornton@soton.ac.uk. Project Title. Quantum Technologies for GNSS-denied navigation. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Freegarde
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Control of Nonlinear Engineering Systems: Traditional and AI-Integrated Approaches

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V Vaziri
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Optical Fibre Applications for Sensors, Lasers or Communications

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Nakkeeran, Dr T Thevar
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Electromagnetic Sensing for High-Temperature Microstructural Evolution

This PhD redefines electromagnetic sensing by moving beyond magnetic permeability-dominated approaches to establish a conductivity-driven eddy-current framework for tracking microstructural evolution at high temperature. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Davis, Dr F Zhou
 25 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD in Chemistry: Electrolysis Technologies for H2 production Catalysed by Plastrons and Foams.

Green hydrogen is hydrogen produced by water electrolysis using renewable electricity. Its production reduces dramatically CO. 2. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Pera-Titus
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Understanding how low UPF1 expression leads to drug resistance in bladder cancers

Currently, standard of care for muscle invasive bladder cancer after surgery involves radiation and platinum therapy in combination with other DNA damage-inducing agents and replication inhibitors [8]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Thompson, Prof S Hussain
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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