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We have 3,657 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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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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Movement through space and time; realistic movement for species abundance methods

Evidence-based conservation and ecology are reliant on wildlife surveys. As a result, there exists a range of methods that have been developed specifically with the aim of estimating animal abundance and animal distribution. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Worthington, Dr M Papathomas
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Improving estimates of uncertainty in wildlife population assessments

  Research Group: Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling
Reliable estimates of wildlife population size are fundamental to effective management and conservation. One important component of reliability is the precision (or, conversely, variance) of the estimate. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof L Thomas
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO: Tracing the fitness effects of new mutations across evolutionary timescales

  Research Group: Statistical Medicine and Molecular Biology
Mutations are the raw material of evolution. they generate the variation on which natural selection acts. Understanding their fate is therefore key to a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Borges, Dr C Kosiol
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding the uncertainty in the decomposition of cancer gene or protein expression data

Many tools exist that will take the expression profile of a tumour sample and decompose that signal into components arising from different tissue types (e.g. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Papathomas, Prof A Lynch
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Stochastic modelling and inference for live-cell gene expression time-series data to unravel the mechanisms of stem cell differentiation

  Research Group: Mathematical Biology Group
This project will develop statistical methodology for noisy time-series data and stochastic computational models to analyse live-cell imaging data provided by the lab of our collaborator Dr Cerys Manning at the University of Manchester. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Minas, Dr J Kursawe
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Deep Vision - A Machine Vision Framework for the Detection and Classification of non explored Pig Behaviour

Traditional methods for monitoring pig welfare on large farms are labour-intensive and often fail to detect early signs of distress. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Alameer, Dr T Mansouri
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Stochastic simulation, analysis, and inference of non-linear dynamical systems

This project aims to create a new framework for studying the dynamics of systems that exhibit periodic behaviour or multiple equilibria. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Minas
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Obesity, Prostate Cancer and DNA methylation

  Research Group: Statistical Medicine and Molecular Biology
Prostate Cancer is the most common cancer in men in the US and UK. Obesity is a known risk factor for many cancers and levels of obesity are increasing. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Lynch, Dr BB Baer
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Inferring Events from Phylogenetic Analysis of Eyewitness Testimony in the Historical and Forensic Record

This project will consider if we can use phylogenetic analysis to correct for imperfections in eyewitness testimony. Eyewitness testimony from events with multiple witnesses is often inconsistent and sometime contradictory. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr BB Baer, Dr CP Paxton
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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