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Ecology and infection in the respiratory tract

University of Birmingham
Department of Microbes, Infections and Microbiomes
Project Details. The lower respiratory tract has a microbiome. It is sparser than the gut microbiome and much less well characterised, but similarly varies in health and disease, has stable composition and has direct interactions with the immune system. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MJ Cox
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying spinal cord regeneration

The University of Manchester
Division of Developmental Biology and Medicine
Motor nerves connect the spinal cord and brain with muscles in our face, arms, legs and internal organs. The motor nerves send signals which tell these muscles to contract. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Dorey, Dr N Roberts
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Text entry in XR

University of Birmingham
School of Psychology
We are looking for outstanding PhD student candidates to join a collaborative research project with Google on next-generation text entry in immersive environments. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Di Luca
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Robot skill acquisition, transfer and augmentation for indusrial automation

University of Birmingham
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Project overview. We are recruiting a self-funded PhD student to join an EPSRC project, STAMAN. Though the studentship will not be provided, attending conferences, consumables, and industrial engagements will be funded and supported. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Wang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Robotics for circular economy and sustainable manufacturing

University of Birmingham
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Project overview. We are recruiting a self-funded PhD student to join an EPSRC project, STAMAN. Though the studentship will not be provided, attending conferences, consumables, and industrial engagements will be funded and supported. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Wang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Self-funded PhD - Growing pains – how do plants measure developmental time?

University of Bristol
School of Biological Sciences
During their life-cycles multicellular organisms progress through a series of different developmental phases. To ensure that development occurs in the right sequence and at an appropriate rate, the correct timing of transitions between phases is essential. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Fouracre
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Silicon devices for nonlinear photonics and applications

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisory team. Prof Anna Peacock & Dr Meng Huang. Closing date 31 October 2026. This project seeks to develop compact and power efficient nonlinear silicon photonics devices for use in wide ranging applications such as telecommunications, medicine and spectroscopy. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Peacock
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Biometric recognition systems with artificial intelligence techniques

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisory Team - Dr. Sasan Mahmoodi. About the project. Machine learning as well as deep learning techniques are employed in this project to design novel biometric recognition systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Mahmoodi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Stacked Intelligent Metasurface (SIM) for Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS)

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisory Team. Dr Chao Xu. This project will explore the combination of Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIM) and Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) in the context of Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) applications. . Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CX Xu
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Artificial intelligence techniques for illness detection by using MRI

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisory Team. Dr. Sasan Mahmoodi and Professor Brigitte Vollmer. Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) affects babies' brains during the childbirth due to shortages of oxygen. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Mahmoodi
 14 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Next generation silicon photonic modulators

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisory Team. Professor David Thomson and Dr Bharat Pant. This project will focus on research into the next generation of optical data communication technology enabling key applications such as high-performance computing and artificial intelligence to thrive. . Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Thomson
 30 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Photonic fibres for renewable energy

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisory Team. Dr Pier Sazio, Dr Peter Horak and Prof Mike Zervas. This project repurposes photonic fibre technologies—central to global telecoms—for renewable energy applications, including solar generation and low-cost storage. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Sazio
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI directed materials discovery and atomistic modelling

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisory Team. Dr Pier Sazio and Dr Ioannis Zeimpekis. About the Project. This project develops chalcogenide glass materials for optical and electronic applications using cleanroom fabrication and AI-driven simulations. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Sazio
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mid infrared metaoptics and diffractive optical computing

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
This project focuses on designing and fabricating novel photonic computing devices using chalcogenide glass materials such as sulfur (S), selenium (Se) and tellurium (Te). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Sazio
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Programmable silicon photonic circuits

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisory Team. Prof David Thomson, Prof Professor Goran Mashanovich & Dr Bharat Pant. Closing Date. 30 September 2026. This project will focus on the development of reliable and efficient programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) on a silicon photonics platform. . Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Thomson
 30 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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