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Trustworthy Human-AV collaboration for nuclear transportation

UWE Bristol (University of the West of England)

College of Arts, Technology and Environment

About the studentship. Reference. 2627-OCT-CATE21. Closing date for applications. 3 June 2026. Start date. 1 October 2026. Transportation of nuclear material at Sellafield Ltd faces a critical scalability challenge, requiring operations to increase from monthly to daily while maintaining safety standards. Read more

Supervisor: Dr AM Hamoud

28 June 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

EPSRC supported EngD: Thermodynamics of Aerosols: Understanding VLE & Phase Transitions for Aerosolised Systems

University of Birmingham

School of Chemical Engineering

Consumer products in the form of aerosols comprise product bases, with a range of physical and chemical properties blended with propellant(s) in a range of base. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Leeke

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Unravelling the Role of Aspergillus in Chronic Airway Disease Exacerbations and Disease Progression

The University of Manchester

Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomic Sciences

Research Group: Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomic

Background. Exacerbations are a major health burden of chronic airway disease such as COPD or bronchiectasis. Read more

Supervisors: Dr CK Kosmidis, Dr A.M Mathioudakis, Dr M Bertuzzi

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

PhD Studentship in Control and Machine Learning Algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles

Imperial College London

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Applications are invited for a research studentship in the field of control, leading to the award of a PhD degree. The studentship is fully funded by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, covering tuition fees and providing a stipend at the UKRI rate. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Kohler

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Non-coding snoRNA Host Genes as novel therapeutic targets in atopic dermatitis and psoriasis

The University of Manchester

Division of Cell Matrix Biology and Regenerative Medicine

Research Group: Division of Cell Matrix Biology and Regenerative Medicine

Atopic dermatitis (AD, also known as eczema) and psoriasis are very common chronic inflammatory skin diseases marked by abnormalities in the functioning of the outer layer of the skin, the epidermis. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Vietri Rudan, Dr S Kurinna, Dr AAJ Al-Janabi

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Assessing human carotid body, cardiovascular and respiratory function in diabetic patients with and without obstructive sleep apnoea

University of Birmingham

Department of Biomedical Sciences

Patients with diabetes have impaired cardiovascular and respiratory responses to multiple stimuli including a fall in blood oxygen (hypoxia), a rise in blood carbon dioxide (hypercapnia) and a decrease in blood glucose (hypoglycaemia). Read more

Supervisors: Dr A H Holmes, Dr J Welch, Dr A Coney

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Identifying the importance of age, sex, ethnicity and obesity in establishing cardiovascular-respiratory reflex responses to heat exposure

University of Birmingham

Department of Biomedical Sciences

One of the major threats to human health is climate change and its association with increased exposure to extreme heat. An important effect is an increase in the frequency, duration and intensity of heatwave exposure. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A H Holmes, Dr J Welch, Dr A Coney

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Environmentally sustainable creel fisheries (based at Heriot Watt Orkney campus)

Heriot-Watt University

School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society

Research Group: Institute of Life and Earth Sciences

Marine regions around the world encounter similar ecological challenges linked to fishing activities, including those arising from fisheries that use passive or static gear such as traps. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Cerbule

5 July 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Studentship Digital Twin Development for Mechanical Fragmentation in Sustainable Plastics Recycling

Imperial College London

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Applications are invited for an exciting fully funded PhD studentship at Imperial College London in the interdisciplinary fields of Mechanics of Materials, Process Systems Engineering, and Sustainable Manufacturing. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Charalambides

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Accelerating and derisking amorphous form development for low bioavailability drug candidates

University of Strathclyde

Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences

*Please note this project is only open to UK applicants*. Are you seeking the opportunity for an industry demand-led PhD project at the interface of science and engineering, working in a cutting-edge research facility?. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Robertson

31 July 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Last chance to apply

PhD Studentship - Centre for Doctoral Training in Process Industries: Net Zero - Chemical Engineering for Sustainable Wastewater-to-Resource Systems

Newcastle University

This PhD project targets a key challenge in sustainable process engineering. translating microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) technology from lab-scale innovation to robust, industrial deployment. Read more

Supervisors: Dr RL Law, Dr E Heidrich

23 June 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Last chance to apply

AI-Mediated Personalised Text Adaptation Strategies for Self-Regulated Learning

Manchester Metropolitan University

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Project advert. Technological innovation fosters educational independence for those learners that embrace it. Recently, AI (artificial Intelligence) chatbots have had a disruptive effect on the education sector with two thirds of university students using AI in 2023. Read more

Supervisors: Prof RW Ward, Dr MS Shardlow

26 June 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Literacy in the Digital Age: How Children Learn from Multimedia Written Language

University of Reading

School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences

How children learn from reading and writing is rapidly changing in the digital age. Children now encounter written language through books, school materials, websites, social media, online videos, gaming environments, and multimodal digital platforms. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Hsiao

28 June 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Advancing Functional MRS: Methodological Development for Dynamic Neurochemical Measurement

University of Reading

School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences

Project Overview. Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy (fMRS) is an emerging neuroimaging approach that measures rapid, task‑evoked changes in brain metabolites. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Bell

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Evaluating the effects of large language models on attitudes towards migrants in the UK

University of Reading

School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences

Project Overview. False narratives that fuel social and public opinion generated by large language models (Papageorgiou et al., 2024) move through social spaces faster than they can be mitigated (Kandel, 2020). Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Cacase

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Ionic Innovations: Next-Generation Drug Delivery (Ref: CG-AC-2521)

Loughborough University

Department of Chemical Engineering

Ionic liquids (ILs) and Deep Eutectic solvents (DES) have recently been used as drug delivery vectors with formulations that can allow effective transdermal action, with high potency to enhance skin permeation and low tendency to induce skin irritation (doi. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Croft

3 August 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Accessing New Chemistries: Tuning Reactivity Of Chemical Processes Using Ionic Liquids And Deep Eutectic Solvents (Ref: CG-AC-2524)

Loughborough University

Department of Chemical Engineering

Ionic solvents are known to alter the outcomes of chemical processes by influencing their mechanism. Because of the wide variety of different ions that might make up an ionic solvent, there is enormous scope for tuning these processes. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Croft

3 August 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

PhD Studentship: Targeting individualised dietary management for cats with azotaemic CKD: Advanced renal care

Royal Veterinary College

RVC Supervisor(s). Professor Rosanne Jepson. This is a fully funded PhD Studentship located in Camden, London please apply through the How To Apply page. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Jepson

31 July 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Mitigation of radiation and hydrogen damage with laser peening through multiscale modelling PhD

Cranfield University

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

Cranfield University is seeking highly motivated and accomplished prospective PhD students to conduct cutting-edge research in the degradation of materials at extreme environments. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Castelluccio

29 July 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Access-Controlled Oxidation: Understanding the role of structure in protein damage (Ref: CG-AC-2526)

Loughborough University

Department of Chemical Engineering

Protein oxidation is a major marker of protein damage in aging and disease processes, and can occur through a number of routes. One poorly understood contributing element is how protein structure, including local structure, controls the outcomes of oxidation events in the body. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Croft, Prof MJ Davies

3 August 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Beyond normal - Proteins in Alien Environments (Ref: CG-AC-2525)

Loughborough University

Department of Chemical Engineering

What would happen if the liquid enabling life were not water, but a class of molecules with a similar melting range known as 'ionic liquids'? Ionic liquids are, simply, liquids made of ions usually defined as having melting temperatures below 100C, for which there are millions of possible options. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Croft

3 August 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Antimicrobial gels for biomedical applications (Ref: CG-AC-2523)

Loughborough University

Department of Chemical Engineering

Infection is one of the most serious complications following tissue injury and there is a vital need for novel treatments to improve patient outcomes. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Croft, Dr A Elbourne

3 August 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

BioDyes - expanding the scope of renewed and renewable textiles (Ref: CG-AC-2522)

Loughborough University

Department of Chemical Engineering

Enzymatic modification of textiles enables novel dying processes, alongside new dyerecycling possibilities. This project is a collaboration between Chemical Engineering, Materials, and the School for Creative Arts and Design, the latter of whom have developed novel enzyme-based dye processes. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Croft, Dr C Prajapati

3 August 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Learning and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Public Health

University of Bristol

School of Computer Science

Decision-making under uncertainty is a fundamental challenge in AI and data science, particularly in dynamic settings where observations are collected sequentially and decisions influence future outcomes. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Zhang

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Active noise control of automotive tyres (Ref: AAE-DOB-2518)

Loughborough University

Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Automotive vehicles are becoming heavier with wider tyres to support this weight. Above a speed of around 30 miles per hour, the noise produced by the tyres is the dominant source. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D O'Boy, Dr M Martinez Garcia

10 January 2027 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Airborne Intelligent Monitoring and Quantification of Greenhouse Gases (Ref: AAE-CL-2521)

Loughborough University

Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Methane (CH₄) is the second most significant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide (CO₂), with over 30 times the global warming potential over a 100-year period. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Liu

30 September 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Distributed Algorithms

Durham University

Department of Computer Science

A funded PhD studentship is available under the supervision of Peter Davies-Peck, part of the Network Engineering Science and Theory in Durham (NESTiD) group in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University, UK. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Davies-Peck

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Efficient and Robust Deep Learning based Perception for Autonomous Driving and Robotics

Durham University

Department of Computer Science

Today, autonomous vehicle and robotics research is a continuously evolving field and spanning all areas of AI autonomy, including perception, behaviour prediction, motion planning, explainability and safety critical AI systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Agentic AI for Autonomous Things: Vision-Language-Action Models, Embodied Intelligence and Real-World Decision-Making

Durham University

Department of Computer Science

Artificial intelligence is moving beyond passive prediction towards systems that can reason, plan, interact and act. This shift is driving rapid progress in agentic AI - i.e., AI systems that can interpret goals, make decisions, use tools, coordinate with humans and operate in changing real-world environments. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Atapour-Abarghouei

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Unconstrained Object Understanding using Deep Learning for Computer Vision in X-ray Security Screening

Durham University

Department of Computer Science

X-ray security screening is widely used to maintain aviation/transport security, and its significance poses a particular interest in future automated screening systems that can be deployed for transportation and border security screening alike. Read more

Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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