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We have 5,842 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Molecularly Imprinted Polymers targeting Extracellular Vesicles: Capture and Sensing

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanoparticles naturally released by cells and they transport molecular cargo (proteins, peptides, lipids, nucleic acids) around the body. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof NT Turner, Prof D Lambert, Dr NP Peake
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Fully funded PhD studentships at the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Statistics and Operational Research in Partnership with Industry (STOR-i)

Fully funded PhD studentships at the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Statistics and Operational Research in Partnership with Industry (STOR-i). Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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Next-generation 2D nanomaterials for understanding bone crosstalk and skeletal repair

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 Supervisors: Dr A Ruiz Estrada, Prof R Falconer, Prof W Brackenbury
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Improving the Representation of Subgrid-Scale Orography through a Physical Understanding of Terrain–Atmosphere Interactions

Understanding Atmospheric Flow Over Mountains. Mountains play a fundamental role in shaping atmospheric flow across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Quimbayo-Duarte, Dr CC Chemel, Dr A Ross
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Lights, camera, ABAction! Realtime bioimaging of plant hormone dynamics to dissect interplay between light, abscisic acid and CO2 signalling pathways.

Climate change is creating unprecedented challenges for global agriculture, making it essential to understand how plants perceive and respond to fluctuating environmental conditions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Casson, Dr J Rowe
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How daytime light regulates sleep and circadian biology?

  Research Group: Division of Integrative Physiology
Sleep and circadian rhythm disruption are increasingly common and have major impacts on physical health, mental wellbeing and quality of life. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr BB Bano-Otalora, Prof R Lucas, Prof T Brown
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Cavity-Enhanced Quantum Communications for Long-Distance Networks

Quantum communication technologies promise fundamentally new approaches to secure information exchange. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Lucamarini
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Investigating how Rett syndrome protein MeCP2 binds to chromatin

  Research Group: Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder caused by loss of function mutations in the chromatin protein MeCP2. MeCP2 is highly abundant in brain cells and helps regulate the structure and activity of chromatin. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Wilson, Prof A P Bird
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Aerosol Representation in Regional Climate Models

Regional climate models underpin many of society's most important climate decisions. They provide the detailed information needed to assess future risks from heatwaves, flooding, drought, poor air quality and other extreme events that affect communities, infrastructure and ecosystems. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L A Regayre, Prof K Carslaw
 7 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Simulation of Large Communication Networks for 6G

The simulation of communication networks is often required, either as part of fundamental research into new network technologies, or to evaluate the likely performance of a new network before it is actually built. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Burr
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Semantic Communications for Safe Autonomous Systems

The classical information theory which lies behind many of the developments in communication systems such as 5G, WiFi, etc takes no account of the meaning or significance of the data being transmitted. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Burr
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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3-Year PhD Studentship: How do Cyclic Antimicrobial Peptides Recognise Bacterial Lipids? A Chemical Biology Study

Supervisor. Professor Alethea Tabor. Application deadline. 4/1/2027. Interview date. 25/1/2027 – 29/1/2027. Proposed start date. 1/10/2027. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Tabor
 4 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Investigating a polarity switch in bird wing feather development

How do birds organise their feather pattern to make flight possible?. The evolution of flight in birds is one of the most remarkable events in natural history. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Towers, Prof G Fletcher
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Fatigue, Wellbeing and Safety in Offshore Wind (Ref: AURA27-FM)

Fatigue, Wellbeing and Safety in Offshore Wind. help shape the future of workforce health, safety and wellbeing in one of the world's fastest-growing renewable energy sectors. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof F Munir, Dr L Harvey
 15 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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CFD-Based Design Optimisation of 3D Concrete-Printed Scour Protection for Offshore Wind Foundations (Ref: AURA27-TM)

This PhD will develop hydrodynamically efficient scour-protection concepts for offshore wind monopiles using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and design optimisation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Marjoribanks, Prof R Dorrell, Dr A Blanco-Alvarez
 15 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)