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We have 3,172 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Semantic segmentation of point cloud data using multi-modal data fusion and deep learning

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data is a fundamental task in computer vision that enables detailed scene understanding for applications such as autonomous driving, robotics and smart cities. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Fan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Nationalism, Identity and Architectural Modernism in the Global south

This project examines the entanglement of nationalism, identity formation, and architectural modernism across the Global South. It investigates how modernist architectural languages were adapted, resisted, or hybridised within postcolonial contexts to construct national identities and negotiate cultural continuity. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P E Akhgar
 19 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mitochindrial DNA repair

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship in Professor Hansong Ma's laboratory within the School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr HM Ma
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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AI-enabled Digital Design of Sodium-ion Batteries Using Advanced Multi-scale Computing and 3D Characterisation Techniques

Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as a scalable and resource-resilient technology for stationary energy storage and low-cost electrified transport, yet their commercial deployment is still limited by coupled materials, interface, microstructure and cell-level challenges. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Z Niu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Anthropomorphic and Non-Anthropomorphic Design Principles for Adaptive Robots

This project will explore novel robotic morphologies through principles including modularity, reconfigurability, detachability, compliant mechanisms, and unconventional joint architectures. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CS Sirithunge
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bio-inspired robotic systems for investigating biological signalling and adaptive behaviour

This project develops bioinspired soft robotic systems as embodied platforms for studying biological signalling and adaptive behaviour. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CS Sirithunge
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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IC-3-9 Sustainable Dyes from Recycled Rare Earth Materials

This PhD is one of a number of projects hosted by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures (CDT-GIF). We are offering pioneering research projects that will enable PhD researchers to explore key technologies and solutions that will support UK industry to reach net zero. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Fennell, Dr J Hallett
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Data-Efficient Training and Edge Deployment of Compact Robot Foundation Models

Robotics is entering a new phase in which foundation models are beginning to connect perception, language and action. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Atapour-Abarghouei
 17 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Efficient Long-Horizon Task Execution in Physical AI

Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from passive prediction towards systems that can reason, plan, interact and act in the physical world. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Atapour-Abarghouei
 17 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Fully funded PhD Studentships in Foundational AI Research

As part of the recently announced UKRI Science of Fundamental AI Research Lab (SOFAIR), UCL will be offering PhD studentships at the cutting edge of foundational AI research. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  4 Year PhD Programme
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Divergence, development and speciation in vertebrates.

How do the environment and ecology interact with genetics and development to produce reproductive isolation between populations, ecotypes and species? Thanks to advances in gene sequencing and editing technologies, we are in a remarkable period of discovery about the genomic and developmental basis of adaptation and speciation and how this depends on the intricacies of ecology and environment. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A MacColl
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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How Do Mechanical Forces Shape Organs? Developmental Biophysics and Bioengineering of Ciliated Tissues

We invite applications from candidates eligible for UK student status for a PhD project investigating how mechanical forces contribute to development, and how these principles can be harnessed to inspire engineering solutions for tissue repair and regenerative medicine. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr F Boselli
 14 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Understanding the impact of bias bullying-victimisation in schools

Bullying remains an important public health issue, with potentially negative short and long-term impacts on individuals (Gorman et al., 2021). Read more
 Supervisors: Prof CPM Monks, Dr A Moon, Prof A Jones Bartoli
 30 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Realising novel sealing architectures for next generation aero-engines

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath is inviting applications for the following fully funded PhD projects, expected to commence in July 2026. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Sangan, Dr J Scobie, Prof G D Lock
 16 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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EPSRC - Cryogenic Fuel Pump Motors for Aerospace

The project is an exciting opportunity to undertake industrially linked research in partnership with Rolls-Royce (RR) at the. RR University Technology Centre (UTC) in Electrical Systems at the University of Manchester. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Durovic
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)