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Human-in-the-loop machine learning for expert-guided environmental impact assessment of offshore wind farms (Ref: AURA27-ND)

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) for offshore wind farms is one of the most data-intensive and expert-dependent processes in the energy transition. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof ND Dethlefs, Dr S Dora
 15 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Precision Medicine DLA - Collaborative: Precision Modulation of Macrophages using Chemokine-RNA Therapeutics to Regress Fibrosis and Address Treatment Inequalities in Chronic Liver Diseases

Collaborative Project - MRC’s Collaborative awards provide students with experience of collaborative research with a non-academic partner, enabling the student to spend a period of time with the partner (usually no less than three months over the lifetime of the PhD). Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Vendrell, Dr P Ramachandran, Dr F N Nadal-Bufi
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Impact of future fuels on UK airports and ports air quality

Introduction. UK has set an ambition for ports and airports to decarbonise in the next 10 -15 years to become net zero. Whilst operations at these transport hubs can be decarbonised though electrification and use of on site renewable energy generation, fuels involve a transition to cleaner energy sources. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Purvis, Prof J Lee, Prof D Carslaw
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – Divergent structural genomic instability trajectories in mesothelioma: linking tumour evolution to socioeconomic and occupational health inequalities

  Research Group: Institute of Cancer Sciences
Mesothelioma is an asbestos-driven cancer with a median survival of around one year. The UK currently has the world's highest incidence, reflecting historical asbestos utilisation and ongoing environmental exposures. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof K Blyth, Dr T Robertson, Prof C Semple
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Wake, Mix, Repeat: Engineering the Environmental Footprint of Deep-Water Wind (Ref: AURA27-CL)

The future of UK offshore wind farms lies in deep waters, a dynamic physical environment where water column density varies with depth. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Lloyd, Prof R Dorrell, Prof C Keylock
 15 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Urban VOCs: the effect of indoor emissions

Outdoor air quality in the UK has undergone a major improvement in recent years, particularly through reductions in emissions from vehicle exhausts. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J Lee, Dr M S Shaw, Prof N Carslaw
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – Defining molecular endotypes of respiratory viral disease for precision medicine

  Research Group: Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation
Respiratory viral infections cause highly variable disease, reflecting differences in viral types, infection contexts and the host response. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A daSilva Filipe, Prof D Robertson, Dr K McLuskey, Prof D Dockrell
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Digital Social Licence for Offshore Wind: Misinformation, Public Discourse and Coastal Community Resilience (Ref: AURA27-MS)

Offshore wind is central to the UK energy transition. Its long-term success depends on more than technology and infrastructure. Public trust, community resilience and the quality of public discussion also matter. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Sykora, Dr S Elayan, Prof J Downey
 15 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Experimental Study of Stratified Waters to Enable Deep Water Offshore Wind Farms (Ref: AURA27-LC)

Offshore wind is at the heart of the UK's transition to a clean-energy future. As wind farms move into deeper waters, engineers and scientists face new challenges that have never been encountered at scale before. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R Dorrell, Dr L Corredor-Garcia
 15 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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FULLY FUNDED PhD in Health Economics – ACROSS Programme, Bangladesh

TO APPLY, PLEASE CLICK INSTITUTION WEBSITE. This is a unique opportunity to undertake a fully funded, three-year PhD in Health Economics, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and registered with the University of Glasgow, UK. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof E McIntosh, Dr MF Faruque
 9 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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3D Concrete-Printed Scour Protection for Offshore Wind Foundations (Ref: AURA27-ABA)

Offshore wind is essential to the UK's transition to clean energy, but the foundations that support wind turbines face a major challenge. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Blanco-Alvarez, Prof R Buswell, Prof R Dorrell
 15 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Precision Medicine DLA – Mapping gamma delta T cells in colonic pre-malignancies

  Research Group: Institute of Cancer Sciences
Colorectal cancer (CRC) develops through a well-characterised adenoma-carcinoma sequence, yet the immunological events governing early malignant transformation remain poorly understood. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Coffelt, Dr P Dunne, Prof J Edwards, Prof F Din
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – Towards personalised diagnostic biomarkers for chronic pain

  Research Group: Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation
Chronic pain impacts over 28 million people in the UK, yet therapeutic progress remains hampered by treating chronic pain as a single condition rather than distinct mechanistic sub-types. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof N Basu, Dr MS Svanera, Dr D Lyall
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Probabilistic Genomics in the Era of Long Read Sequencing and Artificial Intelligence

Modern genomics is generating vast amounts of sequencing data, but most analytical pipelines treat genetic variants as if they were known with certainty. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Jacobs, Dr MF Farrell, Prof D Husmeier
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Next-Generation Cardiac CT: Photon-Counting and Phase-Contrast X-ray Imaging for Coronary Plaque Characterization

This PhD project will develop next-generation CT imaging methods for improved diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. Conventional CT has limitations in identifying subtle features of coronary artery disease, particularly under the challenging conditions of heart motion. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Perelli, Dr R Bates
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Representing and interacting with virus-infected cell data via natural language

Recent advances in deep learning applied to modelling biological complexity are enabling new approaches to understanding cells and viral infection. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof D Robertson, Dr C MacDonald, Dr K yuan
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Kinetics and Photochemistry of New “Green” Solvent Breakdown in Air

Kinetics and Photochemistry of New “Green” Solvent Breakdown in Air. Dr. Terry J. Dillon (York) and Prof. Paul Seakins (Leeds). Background. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T J Dillon, Prof P Seakins
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The Biophysics of knotted DNA

DNA can become knotted, and these topological entanglements can interfere with genome function, yet their physical behaviour remains poorly understood. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Colloms, Dr M Tassieri
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Designer quantum sensors from optically readable molecular spins

  Research Group: Quantum Optospintronics
Overview. How can we build molecular-scale quantum sensors and deploy them to probe complex environments, such as biological systems? You will experimentally investigate electronic spins in luminescent molecules as nanoscale quantum sensors. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Bayliss
 29 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Entangling single spins in optically addressable molecular qubits

  Research Group: Quantum Optospintronics
Overview. How can we isolate, control, and entangle individual spins from the bottom up? You will develop optical interfaces to spins in chemically synthesised molecules, using laser spectroscopy and pulsed optically detected magnetic resonance to demonstrate molecular qubits with new entanglement capabilities. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Bayliss
 29 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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NorthWestBio Fully Funded Doctoral Training Programme HOME CANDIDATE Studentship 2027

NorthWestBio (NWB) is a doctoral landscape award (DLA) led by the University of Glasgow in partnership with Lancaster University, Queen's University Belfast, and the University of Strathclyde. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  4 Year PhD Programme
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NorthWestBio Fully Funded Doctoral Training Programme HOME CANDIDATE Studentship 2027

NorthWestBio (NWB) is a doctoral landscape award (DLA) led by the University of Glasgow in partnership with Lancaster University, Queen's University Belfast, and the University of Strathclyde. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  4 Year PhD Programme
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NorthWestBio Fully Funded Doctoral Training Programme HOME CANDIDATE Studentship 2027

NorthWestBio (NWB) is a doctoral landscape award (DLA) led by the University of Glasgow in partnership with Lancaster University, Queen's University Belfast, and the University of Strathclyde. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  4 Year PhD Programme
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NorthWestBio Fully Funded Doctoral Training Programme HOME CANDIDATE Studentship 2027

NorthWestBio (NWB) is a doctoral landscape award (DLA) led by the University of Glasgow in partnership with Lancaster University, Queen's University Belfast, and the University of Strathclyde. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  4 Year PhD Programme
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Redefining qRT-PCR normalisation and imputation methods with innovative advanced statistical techniques

This project offers an exciting opportunity to advance the accuracy and reliability of RNA quantification by developing and testing novel computational statistics methods. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J.D. McClure, Dr S Mackenzie, Dr M W S Macauley, Dr M Gupta
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Blood Rheology as a Mechanical Biomarker for Heart Failure

Can blood mechanics reveal heart disease before symptoms appear?. This PhD explores a new paradigm. treating blood not just as a carrier of biomarkers, but as a mechanical biomarker itself. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Pellicori, Dr M Tassieri, Dr P Maffia
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Field-deployable diagnostics for APOL1 genotyping and kidney function assessment

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant global health challenge, with high prevalence among people of recent sub-Saharan African ancestry. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A MacLeod, Dr J Reboud
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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APPLY NOW: Fully funded PhD studentships in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Lancaster University

The School of Mathematical Sciences at Lancaster University is seeking excellent candidates for fully funded PhD studentships starting in October 2027. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  4 Year PhD Programme
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CASE: Utilising the Host Immune Response for Rapid Diagnosis of Disease

Rapidly diagnosing the cause of infection or inflammation is crucial for the judicious treatment of human disease. While many diagnostics focus on pathogenic antigens and nucleic acid biomarkers, the human body’s (host’s) own immune response can also be examined. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Baker, Prof S Perrier
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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CASE: Developing evidence-based methods to assess and improve the welfare of farmed insects

Insect farming is expanding for food and animal feed. Scientific understanding of insect welfare remains limited, although an emerging body of research is beginning to provide guidance for some farmed species. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Campbell, Dr S Ward, Dr E Williams, Dr ST Segar
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)