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PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 3,651 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance development of Sustainable Electrochemical Flow Technologies

A competition-funded PhD studentship is available in the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham to develop and apply nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging to advance electrochemical flow technologies, such as redox flow batteries, multivalent metal ion batteries and/or capacitive deionisation. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M M Britton
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Regulation of bacterial adherence to human cells by ZDHHC5-mediated S-acylation of cell surface proteins.

This project will investigate the role of ZDHHC5, a cell surface-localised protein S-acyltransferase, in regulating cell adhesion and bacterial adherence to human cells. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Collins, Dr L Green
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Molecular Quantum Dynamics of Isomerising molecules

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 M Law, Dr P A Henderson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Frustrated Hydrogen Bonds for Functional Materials

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 S Fop, Prof A McLaughlin, Prof A Donnadio
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Computational Design and Study of Peptide-Like Foldamers for Supramolecular and Medicinal Chemistry

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 L Trembleau, Prof H Deng
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Design and synthesis of liquid crystal molecules exhibiting new nematic phases

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 R Walker, Prof J M D Storey
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Synthesis and Investigation of Novel Electrolytes for Application in Next Generation Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

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: Prof A McLaughlin, Dr S Fop
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Discovery of novel pharmaceuticals from marine and desert microorganisms

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: Prof M Jaspars, Dr R Ebel
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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MAPS - Machine-learning Assisted Prioritisation of natural product Scaffolds

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: Prof H Deng, Dr L Trembleau
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Development of novel phosphide and sulfide catalysts for sustainable hydrogenation processes

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 A McCue, Dr I Graca
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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From patience to peril: how do C. difficile spores decide when it's safe to germinate?

  Research Group: Materials and Biological Physics
Background. Clostridioides difficile is the leading cause of healthcare-associated infections and is notoriously difficult to treat. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr W Durham, Dr R Fagan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Leveraging sequencing technologies to advance identification of bacterial pathogens

This four-year PhD project aims to advance sequencing-based bioinformatics methods for identification and characterisation of bacterial pathogens in diverse clinical and surveillance samples. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Wan, Prof N Williams, Prof S Paterson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Investigate the role of NHSL1 in vesicle trafficking and receptor recycling promoting cancer cell invasion using CRISPR-Cas9, microfluidics, and advanced live cell imaging.

Cancer is a devastating disease. more than one in three people in the UK will develop cancer in their lifetime. Metastasis is the primary cause of cancer related deaths. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Krause
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Using a novel anal epithelial cell culture model to better understand the human papillomavirus lifecycle and anal cancer progression

The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2025/26. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Macdonald, Prof A Whitehouse
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Interacting dark energy models in light of cosmological data

  Research Group: Applied Mathematics
The current cosmological standard model, the LCDM model, comes under scrutiny from recent cosmological observations. on the one hand, the expansion rate today, as measured from early time and late time probes does not agree. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof C van de Bruck
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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