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PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 3,651 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Driving simulation for assessment and rehabilitation

Supervisory Team. Dr Rich McIlroy, Professor Michael Hornberger and Dr Ruth Turk. This PhD explores how driving simulators can be used to assess and train driving skills, and support rehabilitation following injury, illness, or disability. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R McIlroy
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Waste Utilisation for Sustainable Resource Recovery and Carbon Capture

This project will involve the development of a novel approach that combines waste utilization and carbon capture technologies to address pressing environmental concerns and promote sustainable resource management. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof C Unluer
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Bio-inspired control of non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layers for efficient low-noise aerofoils

Supervisory Team. Professor Jae-Wook Kim. This project aims to study and identify the beneficial effects of using bio-inspired geometry on aerofoils, enhancing aerodynamic efficiency and reducing the noise generated from non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layers. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J.W. Kim
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Design and synthesis of photoresponsive organic spin-state switches

Supervisors. Dr George Williams G.t.williams@soton.ac.uk; Dr Karl Michael Ziems K.M.Ziems@soton.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Williams
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Energy-efficient multicore fibre amplifiers for future submarine networks

Supervisory Team. Dr Yongmin Jung and Dr Sijing Liang. This PhD project develops next-generation multicore fibre amplifiers for sustainable submarine networks. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Jung
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Advancing Sustainable Concrete Production through Industrial Solid Waste Utilisation and Carbon Sequestration

This project will focus on the utilisation of industrial solid wastes in concrete formulations by implementing advanced carbonation techniques and further developing methods to enhance reaction mechanisms. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof C Unluer
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Sparse Variational Quantum Machine Learning

Supervisors. Thomas Blumensath thomas.blumensath@soton.ac.uk. Xaohao Cai X.Cai@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Blumensath
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Optoelectronic device integration for next-Generation photonic memories and neuromorphic computing

Supervisory Team. Professor Dimitra Georgiadou and Professor Frederic Gardes. This project focuses on developing nanostructured optoelectronic devices for next-generation photonic memory and neuromorphic computing. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Georgiadou
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Nanostructured neural architectures for sustainable neuromorphic computing

Supervisory Team. Professor Dimitra Georgiadou. Artificial intelligence is transforming society but comes with a growing energy and carbon cost. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Georgiadou
 17 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Genetic and Acoustic Diversity in an Invasive Parrot

The ring-necked parakeet Psittacula krameri is one of the world’s most successfully introduced species. Native to the Indian sub-continent and sub-Saharan Africa, this species is the UK’s only naturalised parrot, and populations are continuing to increase rapidly across Europe. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr AEL Leedale
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Gallium Oxide-based RF power devices with thermal management

Gallium Oxide-based RF power devices with thermal management. Research Project . High power radio frequency (RF) semiconductor technologies are of critical importance to a wide range of applications including defence, aerospace, science, medicine, and industrial heating. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Kuball
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Characterising the virome diversity of malaria vectors and its potential role in blocking transmission

Malaria is the most devastating vector borne disease worldwide. The World Health Organisation estimates around ~500,000 people are killed each year, with ~250 million infected. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr LB Brettell, Dr HM Matthews
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Space-Time Quantum Metasurfaces for Fault-Tolerant, Scalable Quantum Computing

This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Taravati
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Assessing How Propolis Composition Affects Honey Bee Health

Honey bees are the most important pollinators globally in terms of the diversity and abundance of plants they pollinate. They also pollinate wild plants and produce honey, wax and other bee products. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr GE Ebiloma, Dr LB Brettell
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Causal inference and trial emulation for ecological and/or environmental observational data

Conducting formal causal inference for ecological and/or environmental data is challenging due to the complex observational processes that are usually involved. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr BS Swallow, Dr H Worthington
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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