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Mechanically Interlocked Chiroptic Photoswitches Towards Next Generation Optical Technologies

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisors. Dr George Williams g.t.williams@soton.ac.uk. Prof Eugen Stulz est@soton.ac.uk. Project title. Mechanically Interlocked Chiroptic Photoswitches Towards Next Generation Optical Technologies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Williams
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Funded PhD – Beyond weight loss: the therapeutic potential of GLP1-1R agonists in the treatment of prostate cancer

University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
About the project. Novel strategies to prevent and treat prostate cancer are urgently required as it is the most common solid tumour and second leading cause of cancer death in men. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Perks, Dr M Greenwood
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Photoswitchable rotaxane receptors for chemical warfare agent detection and remediation

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisors. Dr George Williams g.t.williams@soton.ac.uk. Dr Mark Light M.E.Light@soton.ac.uk. Dr Daniel Rainer D.N.Rainer@soton.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Williams
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Realising upconversion luminescence in supramolecular [d-f] complexes

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisory Team. Dr Richard Knighton and Darren Bradshaw. Do you want to help develop the next generation of medical imaging diagnostics? This PhD project will explore new light-emitting compounds for advanced bioimaging applications. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr RK Knighton
 30 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Funded PhD – Accommodating the competing risk of all-cause mortality when estimating disease incidence and treatment effects in localized prostate cancer

University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
About the project. This project will identify the appropriate statistical approaches to estimating disease incidence and intervention effects for prostate cancer outcomes such as diagnosis and cause-specific mortality. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Metcalfe, Dr RM Maishman, Dr DG Gaunt, Dr M Lawton
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Secure and Trustworthy AI for Autonomous Vehicle Ecosystems

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisory Team. Dr Erisa Karafili. This project develops AI-enhanced threat-modelling techniques to improve the cybersecurity and resilience of autonomous vehicles. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Karafili
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Funded PhD – Understanding the role of obesity and BMI in men with prostate cancer from different ethnicities to improve outcomes

University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
About the project. Prostate Cancer (PCa) is a leading cause of male mortality, with 336,000 deaths worldwide annually. Although most PCa cases are indolent (slow-growing) and tend not to progress, a subset are aggressive and progress to metastases, treatment resistance and death. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Coulman, Prof A Lane, Ms GY Young, Prof JA Aning, Prof R Martin
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Funded PhD – Preventing childhood hepatitis B and C in low- and middle-income countries: modelling the impact and cost-effectiveness of antenatal interventions

University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
About the project. Globally, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are a major causes of liver disease, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Trickey, Dr TA Alamneh, Dr J Stone
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Renewable Hydrogen Production from Agricultural Waste Streams: Organic-Assisted Water Electrolysis for Circular Resource Recovery

Ulster University - Belfast Campus
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment
  Research Group: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
he transition to a low-carbon economy requires innovative technologies that produce renewable hydrogen while addressing challenges in agricultural waste management. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Brandoni, Dr Y Huang, Dr S Tretsiakova-McNally
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Resilient defence sensing: adaptive modelling for trust, compromise, and coalition detection

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisory Team. Dr Erisa Karafili and Enrico Gerding. The project investigates how distributed sensing systems can remain trustworthy and operational when facing intelligent, coordinated adversaries. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Karafili
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Sex-Specific Phage Therapy for Conflict Wound Healing

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisors. Prof Claire Clarkin C.E.Clarkin@soton.ac.uk. Franklin Nobrega F.Nobrega@soton.ac.uk. Dr Janos Kanczler J.Kanczler@soton.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof CE Clarkin
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Quantum sensing for biomedicine

University of Queensland
Quantum Biotechnology (QUBIC)
Quantum sensing is creating unprecedented new capabilities to observe biological systems. These capabilities are changing our understanding of biology across the wide range of length and timescales over which it operates, and ultimately will lead us to better understand, diagnose and treat disease. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof WB Bowen
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Positive Energy Rural Community Centres (PERCCs)

Ulster University - Belfast Campus
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment
  Research Group: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
Rural community centres play a vital role in Northern Ireland, providing spaces for community events, education, childcare, sports and services for older people. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Pugsley, Dr N Shah, Prof J D Mondol
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Machine Learning for plasmid risk assessment from genomic surveillance

University of Birmingham
School of Biosciences
Plasmids are principal vehicles of antimicrobial resistance dissemination, moving resistance determinants across bacterial lineages, host species, and environmental reservoirs. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof W Van Schaik, Dr B Constantinides, Assoc Prof C Rodrigues
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Inclusive High-Performance Social Housing: From New-Build Performance to Low-Carbon Retrofit in Northern Ireland

Ulster University - Belfast Campus
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment
  Research Group: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
How can we design social housing that is not only energy efficient, but also comfortable, affordable and genuinely responsive to the diverse needs of the people who live in it?. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Salaris, Dr T Hyde, Dr K Davison
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Funded PhD – Breaking the cycle: understanding and reducing recurrent antibiotic exposure in children in primary care

University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
About the project. Antibiotics save lives, but their effectiveness is threatened by antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Children frequently receive antibiotics in primary care, particularly for respiratory infections. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AH Hammond, Dr EB Brown, Dr TZ Zhang, Prof A Hay
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Metagenomic insights into respiratory microbiome dynamics across the disease severity spectrum

University of Birmingham
School of Biosciences
Respiratory infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality, however, important gaps remain in our understanding of their aetiology, early risk stratification, and the role of microbial communities in disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof N Loman, Dr M Chand, Dr S Morfopoulou
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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How Loop-Extruding SMC Complexes Navigate Chromatin

University College London
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Project. Our group combines tool development, advanced microscopy, force spectroscopy and computer simulations to understand how individual molecular machines reorganize DNA in our cells. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MM Molodtsov
 16 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Funded PhD – Implications of Peripartum Antibiotic Use for Maternal and Infant Health and Antimicrobial Resistance

University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
About the project. WHO recommends prophylactic antibiotics for women undergoing operative vaginal birth or caesarean section [1], making antibiotic use around childbirth increasingly common. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr WC Cong, Prof A Dowsey, Dr JC Currie, Dr NAL Al Husein
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Understanding drug resistance in M. tuberculosis by applying machine learning to a national genomic census

University of Birmingham
School of Biosciences
Tuberculosis (TB) kills more people globally than any other infectious disease, and progress towards its elimination is stagnating amid concerns about prevalence of drug resistance. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof N Loman, Dr E Robinson, Dr B Constantinides
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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FIRE Safety Modular Timber in Modern Method Construction

Ulster University - Belfast Campus
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment
  Research Group: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
The construction industry is one of the largest global contributors to greenhouse gases, accounting for an estimated 39% of emissions. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Nadjai, Dr N Alam, Dr J Zhang
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Fire safety and risk assessment of electric vehicles (EVs) in enclosed space

Ulster University - Belfast Campus
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment
  Research Group: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
Global production of electric vehicles (EVs) has grown rapidly, reaching nearly 22 million units in 2025, to achieve low-carbon transportation and significantly reduce traffic-related atmospheric pollutant emissions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Zhang, Dr S Tretsiakova-McNally
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Funded PhD – Inequalities in cardiovascular disease for women from Pakistani & Bangladeshi communities in the UK: understand drivers and developing an intervention

University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
About the project. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a major cause of morbidity and premature mortality in the UK and is an important contributor to longstanding health inequalities. Read more
 Supervisors: Assoc Prof RJ Johnson, Dr C Cabral, Dr TZ Zhang, Dr R Denholm
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Funded PhD – The placenta and lifelong cardiovascular health of mothers and their offspring

University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
The great obstetrical syndromes such as pre-eclampsia, preterm birth and fetal growth restriction are associated with significant maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality as well as a two-fold increased risk of maternal cardiovascular disease later in life. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Fraser, Dr G Clayton
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Fire Response of Lime-Based Concrete for Low-Carbon and Resilient Construction

Ulster University - Belfast Campus
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment
  Research Group: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
Concrete is widely used in buildings and infrastructure because it is affordable, versatile, strong and durable. However, most conventional concrete contains Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Alam, Prof A Nadjai
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Development of an Integrated Digital Circular Economy Framework for Cost and Carbon Management in Northern Ireland’s Construction Industry

Ulster University - Belfast Campus
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment
  Research Group: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
Development of an Integrated Digital Circular Economy Framework for Cost and Carbon Management in Northern Ireland’s Construction Industry. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Okosun, Prof P Griffiths, Dr S Shashwat
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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The Women of Strawberry Hill: Art, Sociability and the Making of a Cultural Space, c1750- 1880.

St Mary’s University, Twickenham
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law, Education and Theology
How did women shape the artistic, literary and social life of one of Britain's most remarkable historic houses?. Strawberry Hill House, created by the writer, collector and cultural figure Horace Walpole (1717–1797), occupies a celebrated place in the history of Gothic architecture, literature and design. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S McCain
 20 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Funded PhD – Elucidating microbial quorum sensing mechanisms to discover biomimetic small molecules against invasive Candida infections

University of Bristol
Bristol Dental School
About the project. Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) present a formidable global health and economic burden, with Candida species standing as the fourth most common pathogen responsible. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Bandara, Dr RC Corey
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Key factors in team ball possession maintenance and losses in English professional soccer

St Mary’s University, Twickenham
Faculty of Sport, Health, and Applied Science
A central component of professional soccer team match tactics and strategies is how they perform when they have possession of the ball. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Ford
 20 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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2D materials-reinforced multifunctional coatings for built environments (PhD Engineering)

University of Exeter
Engineering
Porous construction materials, such as concrete, brick, or wood, are widely utilised in built environments due to their structural strength, durability, and thermal mass. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr I Kovalska
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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