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We have 3,651 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Reconfigurable Surfaces for High-Efficiency RF Energy Harvesting

Background and Motivation. The increasing demand for sustainable and maintenance-free wireless technologies has accelerated interest in radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting, which converts electromagnetic waves into usable electrical power. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr NOP Ojaroudi Parchin, Prof C H See
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Intelligent Metamaterials/Metasurfaces for 5G/6G Wireless Networks

Background and Motivation. Within the framework of 5G/6G infrastructure, advancements in network architectures and service integration are enabling emerging technologies such as Intelligent Metamaterials and Metasurface antenna systems. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr NOP Ojaroudi Parchin, Prof C H See
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Trustworthy Collaboration in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)

Organizations benefit from sharing cyber threat intelligence (CTI), yet direct sharing of raw data, rules, or logs can reveal sensitive business information and undermine security. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Moradpoor, Dr SUJ Ullah Jan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Verifiable, Privacy‑Preserving Decision Accountability for Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV)

As Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) deployments grow, society needs trustworthy, auditable vehicle decisions and coordination, especially at intersections, merging/convoying, and emergency manoeuvres, without exposing sensitive data (routes, identities, internal logic). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Moradpoor, Dr BG Ghaleb
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Secure Software Development and AI Security Methods, Tooling, and Assurance

The Blockchain Identity Lab (BIL) supports world-leading research in cryptography, distributed ledgers, privacy-preserving technologies, and sovereign identity such as decentralised identifiers and verifiable credentials. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr PP Papadopoulos, Prof B Buchanan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Uncovering the role of epigenetics in modifying disease risk

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have uncovered many genetic associations linked to health outcomes but uncovering the mechanisms behind these associations remains difficult. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Min, Dr E Hannon, Dr G Leyden, Prof J MIll
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Federated Unlearning for Neuro-Symbolic Autonomous Driving

Federated learning (FL) enables vehicles to collaborate on model training without sharing raw data, while neuro-symbolic AI combines perception from neural networks with rule-based reasoning for compliance and explainability. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Z Tan, Dr KB Babaagba
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Harnessing PROTAC Degraders to Develop Next-Generation Anti-thrombotic Therapies

Blood clots are central to life-threatening conditions such as heart attacks and strokes. Current antithrombotic treatments, including COX inhibitors and P2Y12 antagonists, are effective at preventing recurrent clots but carry a significant risk of bleeding due to their broad effects on haemostasis. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr I Hers, Prof V Aggarwal, Dr RC Corey
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Mitigating LLM-Generated Disinformation via Machine Unlearning: Toward Safer Generative AI

False and harmful narratives propagated by large language models threaten the integrity of information in elections, public health, and crisis response. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Z Tan, Dr YY Yu
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From ideal to real: Simulation study of laser-plasma imaging performance for future industrial imaging

Department. Physics and Astronomy. Research Group. Accelerator Physics Group. Institution. University of Manchester. Application deadline. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr O Apsimon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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High power laser plasma acceleration – making accelerators smaller, cheaper, better

About the Project. Applications are invited for a fully funded studentship from Oct 2026 in laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (LWFA). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Corner
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Understanding emerging behaviours in networks of pulse-coupled oscillators

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 N Rubido, Dr E Ullner
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Terahertz-Integrated Structures for Novel Accelerators

Develop next-generation particle accelerators powered by laser-driven terahertz (THz) radiation. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Graham
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Modelling the Self-Regulatory Feedback of the Androgen Receptor under Testosterone Influence

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 E Ullner
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Nonlinear Time-Series Analysis for Sparsely Sampled, Noisy Stellar Light Curves

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 G Sandip, Dr M S Baptista
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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