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Advances in Cognitive Robotics: Image Processing, Tactile Sensing, and Hyperspectral Systems

  Research Group: Intelligent Systems
OPEN TO HOME AND REPUBLIC OF IRELAND STUDENTS ONLY. The cognitive robotics team applies cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced machine perception to solve critical operational challenges across modern manufacturing, robotics, and agri-food sectors. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Kerr
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Bath Engineering & Design Studentships: Passive Flow Rectification for Hydrogen and Energy Systems

This project is one of a number in competition for a studentship from the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Sell
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Future-proofing the environment: evaluating the environmental impacts of next-generation plastics. TOLHURST_UEA_ARIES27

Scientific background. Increasing production, low recycling rates (below 10%), and single-use packaging are driving a global crisis in plastic pollution, with millions of tonnes of plastic accumulating in ecosystems each year. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Tolhurst
 16 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Adaptive collective decision-making in robot swarms

Supervisory team. Dr Mohammad Soorati. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Soorati
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Hydroelasticity of floating platforms for tidal turbines

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 Supervisors: Dr A A-G Arrendondo-Galeana, Dr Z Y Yuan
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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The cycling of climate-active sulfur compounds by major crops TODD_UEA_ARIES27

Scientific background. Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is known as a marine anti-stress compound made by algae and bacteria. It has key roles in global nutrient and sulfur cycling, signalling, and microbial DMSP catabolism releases climate-active gases (CAG), notably dimethylsulfide (DMS). Read more
 Supervisor: Prof J Todd
 16 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Human-Centred AI for Personalised Health, Healthy Ageing and Independent Living

  Research Group: Intelligent Systems
OPEN TO HOME AND REPUBLIC OF IRELAND STUDENTS ONLY. Summary. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating new opportunities to transform health and care through personalised monitoring, early identification of health risks, intelligent assistance and technologies that support people to live independently. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr p Yogarajah, Dr FJ Jamil, Dr P Chaurasia, Prof J Condell
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Optimal perturbations in turbulent flows

Supervisory team. Dr Davide Lasagna. Which disturbances produce the largest response in a turbulent flow? This project will develop mathematical and computational methods to answer this question while accounting for the changing flow state. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Lasagna
 30 June 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Fully funded PhD position at ISEY - Institute for the Science of Early Years and Youth

Reading Together. Interpersonal Neural Mechanisms of Learning in Caregiver-Child Interactions. A funded PhD position is available to address a fundamental question in developmental science. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (European/UK Students Only)  Social Sciences Research Programme
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Bath Engineering & Design Studentships: Enabling organisations to identify hotspots of embodied supply chain risk by leveraging carbon accounting

This project is one of a number in competition for a studentship from the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr s Cooper
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Particle-fluid Interactions in Environmental Flows

Supervisory team. Sergio Maldonado. About the project. Consider a major global environmental issue. Perhaps you thought about ocean plastic pollution, air pollution, or sea level rise leading to coastal erosion. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Maldonado-Villanueva
 1 May 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Multi-agent reinforcement learning for safe navigation of multiple robots

Supervisory team. Dr Mohammad Soorati. As robot swarms increasingly operate alongside people, robots must do more than avoid collisions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Soorati
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance of Responses to Environmental Stress TAYLOR_R_UEA_ARIES27

Background. Natural environments are changing rapidly due to anthropogenic climate change. How populations respond to these changes determines whether they adapt to more stressful environments via plasticity and/or evolution, or whether they become extinct. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Taylor
 16 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Human-swarm interaction by communicating intent and understanding multi-robot behaviour

Supervisory team. Dr Mohammad Soorati. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Soorati
 31 May 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Scientific Machine Learning for Fluid Dynamics and Hydraulics

Supervisory team. Sergio Maldonado. About the project. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Maldonado-Villanueva
 1 May 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)