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(PDS Award) Emotionally-Based School Non-Attendance (EBSNA) and its Socio-Economic Impacts for Children, Families and Society: Examining Primary-Secondary School Transition as a Point of Vulnerability

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Humanities Doctoral Academy, School of Environment, Education and Development
Emotionally-based school non-attendance (EBSNA) is a growing concern for children, families, and schools in the UK, with primary-secondary school transition widely recognised as a critical period of heightened vulnerability. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Bagnall, Dr AT Thompson, Prof PQ Qualter
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Neuropeptide evolution and function: finding the missing links

Queen Mary University of London
School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Primary Supervisor. Prof. Maurice Elphick. Studentship Funding. Awaiting CSC Funding Decision. Application Deadline. 27th January 2027. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof MR Elphick
 27 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(MCRC MB-PhD) Harnessing the nasal proteome for lung cancer early detection

The University of Manchester
Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine
Lung cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer because it is diagnosed late when there is no cure. Two landmark clinical trials have demonstrated CT screening scans saves lives by detecting lung cancer earlier when they can be cured. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof T Hussell, Dr S Knight, Dr M Menon, Prof P Crosbie
 15 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Distributed Machine Learning over Mobile Networks PhD

Cranfield University
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
This is a project focused on how AI will provide a seamless service to mobile users of tomorrow. It is expected the student will have a background in AI with a curiosity on wireless networking. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof W Guo
 3 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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(MCRC MB-PhD) Investigation of tumour microenvironment in influencing growth in lobular breast cancers

The University of Manchester
Division of Molecular and Cellular Function
Lobular breast cancers represent one of the understudied cancers but of unmet need, due to their poor response to targeted therapies. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Nagarajan, Dr SM Mohan, Prof R Clarke, Dr A Gilmore, Dr CO O’ Brien
 15 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(PDS Award) Dangerous interventions: Understanding the patterns and impacts of attacks on aid and health

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Humanities Doctoral Academy, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
This project will make a critical interdisciplinary and methodological contribution to the study of violence against aid and health in conflict settings, and the impacts of this violence. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof L Fast, Prof I Hall
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(PDS Award) Immersive Reality Experimentation at Scale for Urban Planning Decision-Making

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Humanities Doctoral Academy, School of Environment, Education and Development
How can cities involve larger, more representative populations in planning decisions? Although public participation is central to democratic planning, consultation processes often rely on drawings, maps and technical documents that many citizens find difficult to interpret. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Pinto, Dr M Vigo
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(MCRC MB-PhD) STRIPE: STandardised Reporting of Imaging to assess the Postmenopausal Endometrium

The University of Manchester
Division of Cancer Sciences
Postmenopausal bleeding (PMB) is the red-flag symptom for endometrial cancer. It affects over 200,000 women in the UK every year, but fewer than 5% of these women have cancer, meaning the majority undergo unnecessary invasive investigations. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof E Davidson, Dr E Jones, Dr J Sergeant, Dr C Sanders
 15 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Horizontal gene transfer as a driver of novel immune phenotypes

Queen Mary University of London
School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Primary Supervisor. Dr Lee Henry. Co-supervisor. Dr Alex de Mendoza. Studentship Funding. Awaiting CSC Funding Decision. Application Deadline. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Henry
 27 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Molecular Simulations of Nanofluids for Cooling Applications

University of Edinburgh
School of Chemistry
A PhD studentship is available in the molecular-simulation group of Professor Philip J. Camp, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Castrol Limited. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Camp
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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(MCRC MB-PhD) What makes a STIC dangerous? Defining the determinants of progression to high-grade serous ovarian cancer

The University of Manchester
Division of Cancer Sciences
Ovarian cancer, particularly high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC), is the most lethal gynaecological cancer, with a 5-year survival rate of only ~40% that has remained largely unchanged for decades. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R Edmondson, Dr C.K Schmidt, Dr S Meyer, Dr BB Barnes
 15 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(PDS Award) From Sensing to Decision: Human–AI Interaction, Collaboration and Coevolution in Decision-Making

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Humanities Doctoral Academy, Alliance Manchester Business School
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI and agentic AI, is transforming AI from a tool into an active participant in human decision-making (Costello et al., 2024; Pearson et al., 2026). Read more
 Supervisors: Prof YC Chen, Dr AG Guenier, Prof X Zeng
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(PDS Award) Sensing menopause in the workplace: embodied experiences across everyday life-worlds

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Humanities Doctoral Academy, School of Environment, Education and Development
This interdisciplinary PhD project investigates how menopause is experienced as an embodied and sensory phenomenon, and how changing experiences of the body shape the ways people sense, feel and make sense of themselves and their everyday lives. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Hall, Dr AB Barron, Dr AC Clayson
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Investigating The Combined Impact Of Behavioural And Neurodevelopmental Conditions On Education

Queen Mary University of London
School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Primary Supervisor. Dr. Margherita Malanchini. Co-supervisor(s). Dr. Jessica Agnew Blais, Dr. Giorgia Michelini. Studentship Funding. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Malanchini
 27 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Families at the Margins of Justice: New Directions in Research on Imprisonment, Criminalisation and Family Life

University of Strathclyde
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
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 Supervisors: Dr CJ Jardine, Prof B Weaver
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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SWBio DTP PhD Project: Predicting microbiome ecological resilience and resistome persistence following antimicrobial perturbation

University of Bath
Department of Life Sciences
This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding from the South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWBio DTP). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr GM Méric
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(PDS Award) Sensory integration in speech production - insights from speakers with hearing loss

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Humanities Doctoral Academy, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
How are the senses integrated in speech production? This PhD project uses hearing loss as a natural test case to investigate how speech production changes with age and hearing loss. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Strycharczuk, Dr A Heinrich
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(PDS Award) Caring for the dead: developing an integrated care-based approach for the curation and conservation of human remains in archaeology

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Humanities Doctoral Academy, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
How should 21st century Britain make sense of and care for the dead stored and displayed in its museums? This is the question being asked by the current DCMS review of Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums (2005), mindful of rapid changes in consultative, collaboration-led ethics and repatriation practice with descent communities for ancestral remains. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof MG Giles, Dr HA Aleem, Prof MN Nirmalan
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Neural-dynamical models for infectious diseases monitoring and prediction

Medical Research Council (Cambridge)
MRC Biostatistics Unit
AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Infectious diseases place huge pressure on health services and society. Governments and public health agencies increasingly rely on dynamical models to produce evidence for public health decision-making through. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr KF Flouris, Dr D DeAngelis, Dr MA Alvarez
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Mathematical modelling of environmental information processing in hybrid aspen

University of Glasgow
College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences
Understanding how plants will be affected by climate change will be crucial in forthcoming years. The complexity of this problem renders it beyond intuitive understanding, necessitating quantitative predictions using mathematical and computational modelling. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr RA Antoniou-Kourounioti , Dr PS Stewart, Prof R Bhalerao
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Aviation

Cranfield University
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
The EPSRC CDT in Net Zero Aviation is the world's 1st Doctoral Centre of Excellence for Net Zero Aviation Training, Education and Research. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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High-Fidelity 4D Facial Reconstruction from Video for Social Signal Understanding

University of Glasgow
College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences
Human faces convey a wealth of rich social and emotional information—for example, facial expressions often convey our internal emotion states, while the shape, colour, and texture of faces can betray our age, sex, and ethnicity. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof H Yu, Dr T Guha, Dr R Jack
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Informing schistosomiasis elimination approaches through epidemiological modelling and game-theory approaches

University of Glasgow
College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic, neglected tropical disease that infects over 240 million people worldwide, 93% of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Lamberton, Dr J Enright
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI-Driven Adaptive Multiscale Imaging for Next-Generation Smart Diagnostic Microscopes

University of Glasgow
College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences
Digital pathology is revolutionising cancer diagnosis, but it faces a massive data crisis. Current microscopes ‘blindly’ scan entire tissue slides at maximum resolution, creating gigantic files that cost hospitals millions to store and transmit. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K yuan, Prof J LeQuesne, Dr R Bowman
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Upcycling plastic waste for advanced functional materials

King’s College London
Department of Physics
  Research Group: Theory and Simulation of Condensed Matter
A fully funded PhD studentship, including tuition fees, a monthly stipend, and a research & training bursary. The student will be based at the Department of Physics, King’s College London and will undertake a yearly 3-month placement at the French National Research Centre (CNRS) located in Orléans, France. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C de Tomas
 12 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Predicting Fluid-Borne Noise from Pipe Systems

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisors. Prof Phillip Joseph pfj@isvr.soton.ac.uk. Prof Alec Wilson A.G.Wilson@soton.ac.uk. Project title. Predicting Fluid-Borne Noise from Pipe Systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Joseph
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Co-producing Sexually Transmitted Shigella Health Promotion Interventions for Gay, Bisexual and other Men who have Sex with Men (GBMSM) and General Practice Clinicians

University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
Supervisors. Dr Jo Kesten, Dr Tom May, Dr Gemma Lyness, Dr Katy Sinka, Dr Kathrin Loosli. Background. Sexually transmitted enteric infections (STEIs) are an increasing public health concern. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr JK Kesten, Dr TM May, Dr GL Lyness
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Next-Generation Mapping of Pharmaceutical Solid-Form Landscapes by Serial Crystallography

Cardiff University
Cardiff School of Chemistry
Understanding how molecules are arranged within a crystal is fundamental to pharmaceutical science because crystal structure directly influences the stability, manufacturability and performance of medicines. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Hatcher
 5 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding and applying the quantum optoelectronic characteristics of fluorescent proteins

Cardiff University
Cardiff School of Chemistry
The aim of this studentship is to establish a fundamental understanding of the quantum-mechanical basis of fluorescent protein function and to exploit this knowledge to develop fluorescent proteins as a new class of sustainable, bio-derived optoelectronic materials. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J Platts, Prof D Jones
 5 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Reversing stem cell ageing for next generation gene therapy applications to prevent blood cancers

University of York
Department of Biology
The challenge and technological breakthrough. Thousands of UK patients suffer annually from age-related bone marrow failure (BMF), cytopenias (lack of appropriate blood cells), and inherited BMF syndromes – all of which are precursors to acute myeloid leukaemia. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof D G Kent, Dr A Conti, Dr D Boucher
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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