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Discovery and engineering of capsule degrading enzymes for antibacterial therapeutics

The aim of this project is to discover and engineer enzymes that degrade bacterial capsules (depolymerases) as a new approach to combating antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Harmer
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Selective De-Memorisation for Long-Tailed Learning

In long-tailed datasets, a few frequent (Head) classes receive far stronger supervision than many rare (Tail) classes. Current approaches, such as re-weighting, re-sampling and logit adjustment, change how much influence each class has. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr GLO Leivas Oliveira
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mapping Myelination and Information Transfer in Human Brain Organoids and Assembloids Through Multimodal Quantitative Imaging

  Research Group: Neuroscience
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 Supervisors: Dr Y Syed, Prof W Langbein, Prof P Borri, Prof A Harwood
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How Microbes Work Together: Using Multi-Omics to Decode Polymicrobial Interactions and Advance AI-Assisted Rapid Diagnostics

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in human pathogens is one of the greatest threats to global public health, welfare, and society. The challenge is further compounded when infections involve multiple microbial agents, due to the complexity of drug regimens and the need for timely diagnosis and surveillance. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Slater
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI for Surgical Outcome Prediction and Clinical Decision Support

Surgical teams must balance the benefits of an operation against the risks of death, complications and prolonged recovery. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Pope
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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It’s getting hot in here – how heatwaves impact health and ageing

Project Description. With heatwaves increasing, we are starting to see the devastating impacts of climate change. Recent evidence shows older people are more vulnerable to heatwaves, and experiencing heatwaves speeds up ageing. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Bretman, Assoc Prof E.J. Duncan, Dr T Smulders-Srinivasan, Dr M J P Simons
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Algorithms for Collective Decision Making: Voting and Coalition Formation

How can we design voting rules that represent diverse preferences fairly? When can individuals form stable and mutually beneficial coalitions? How can algorithms support cooperation in societies shaped by competing interests? This PhD project explores these questions through computational social choice and algorithmic game theory, at the interface of theoretical computer science and economics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MB Bullinger
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Designing Proteins to Understand and Control Molecular Motors

Intracellular transport is essential for the organisation and function of human cells. Molecular motors called kinesins and dyneins move along microtubules to transport proteins, organelles and other cargoes. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr JC Cross
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Closing the Sensorimotor Loop: Integrating Tactile Sensors with the Human Body

Would you like to contribute to cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, robotics, and neuroscience? The Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) is offering an exciting PhD opportunity under the supervision of Dr. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr B Ward-Cherrier
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Engineering phages for therapeutic application

Antimicrobial resistance is creating an urgent need for new ways to treat bacterial infections. Bacteriophages (viruses that infect and kill bacteria) are promising alternatives to antibiotics, but their activity can vary substantially between bacterial strains. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof E Westra
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI for early detection and personalised monitoring of disease using multimodal digital health data

Many chronic and progressive conditions, including dementia, Parkinson’s disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and mental health disorders, develop silently for years before they are diagnosed. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Q Liu
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Integrative mechanisms of fatigue dynamics and exercise intolerance

Project Description. The inability to tolerate physical activity (exercise intolerance) is a strong and independent predictor of mortality, and a major determinant of health and wellbeing across the life course. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A.P. Benson, Dr G N Askew, Dr RG Goulding, Prof SM Marwood
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Funded PhD – From cohort to clinic: co-designing cognitive interventions for anxiety with young people in the UK and Brazil - HLSUOB26

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental-health conditions worldwide, usually emerge in adolescence, and respond incompletely to current treatments. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof I Penton-Voak, Dr A Shakeshaft, Dr HJ Jones
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Robust and Interpretable Medical Image and Video Understanding

The project aims to develop robust and efficient machine learning models for medical image and video understanding by integrating supervising signals, such as gaze guidance, anatomical landmark detection, and pose estimation. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr QM Men
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Decoding the Rules for Successful Phage Infection Using High-Throughput Microfluidic Screening

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is driving renewed interest in bacteriophages (phages) as therapeutics, biocontrol agents, and diagnostic tools. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr F Gielen
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Accelerating Large Language Models and Physical AI

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Physical AI systems such as world models are transforming how machines understand language and interact with the physical world, but training and deploying them requires enormous computation, driving up electricity costs and carbon emissions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr GH Hu
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Advancing AI for Finance: Model Development and Intelligent Decision-Making

This project explores the development of advanced AI and machine-learning models for intelligent financial decision-making, with applications in risk management, algorithmic trading, and financial forecasting. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr WW Wei
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Funded PhD – The role of social inequities in social eating among youth with mental illness: a participatory, arts-based mixed methods project - HLSUOB26

Youth with mental illness experience high levels of loneliness, discrimination and social exclusion (Henderson et al., 2026). These experiences can limit opportunities for recovery, participation in one’s community, and quality of life. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Jordan, Dr AD Dobrescu, Prof M Banissy
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Is Broader Better? Optimising the power of phage therapeutics

Antimicrobial-resistance is a major threat to human and animal health, including food security. One promising complement to antibiotics is the use of bacteriophage (phage) to treat bacterial infections. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Castledine
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO Computational and experimental approaches to investigate mobile genetic elements in microbial ecosystem stability, diversity and evolution

  Research Group: John Mitchell
Standard biodiversity theory often fails to match observed behaviour in microbial ecosystems; this is partly because theory is typically implicitly or explicitly based on macroorganisms, but microbes have unique features that mean their evolution and diversity may be fundamentally different. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Mitchell, Dr V A Smith, Dr T Dimitriu
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Physiological detection and tree growth impact of cloud lift in tropical mountain forests

Tropical cloud forests are biodiversity hotspots, yet their future under climate change remains uncertain. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr B Fadrique
 18 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Chikungunya Virus Defective Viral Genomes: Unravelling mechanisms of formation, immune modulation and effect on viral pathogenesis

Project Description. Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne RNA virus that causes acute fever, neurological complications, and chronic joint pain. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A.K Tuplin, Prof A Whitehouse, Dr CW Walter
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Funded PhD – Lay perceptions about the causes of inequality and inequity in health and their association with social and political behaviour - HLSUOB26

About the project. Health inequalities, that is, disparities in health outcomes experienced by different groups, have been widening over the last decade both within and between countries. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Holford, Dr G Jordan, Prof M Banissy
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Seaweeds as Living Sensors and Bioremediators in Natural and Engineered Coastal Environments

This interdisciplinary PhD will investigate the potential of seaweeds to capture and concentrate metals from coastal environments, with a particular focus on how metal accumulation changes through time and across natural and engineered marine systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Vos
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Impacts of inbreeding on life-long drought resistance in a Kalahari bird: a genomic approach

Negative effects of inbreeding on animal health and performance (inbreeding depression) are well documented in artificially selected livestock and natural animal populations. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Young
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Decoding SUMO-Dependent Control of Angiogenic Signalling

Project Description. How do cells precisely control the signals that drive new blood vessel growth? This question lies at the heart of vascular biology, regenerative medicine and cancer research. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Garvin, Dr S Ponnambalam, Dr C Bassi
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Funded PhD – How do GLP-1 receptor agonists protect the kidney? Investigating vasopressin signalling - HLSUOB26

About the project. The World Health Organisation estimates that over 2.5 billion adults worldwide were overweight in 2022. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Greenwood, Prof D Murphy, Dr G Leyden
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How does temperature alter the evolution and ecology of AMR?

Recent studies have found a positive association between environmental temperatures and levels of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in environmental and clinical bacteria. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Padfield
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Engineering Crop Climate Resilience: From Thermal Signalling Cascades to Magnetogenetic Switches

As temperatures threaten global agriculture, engineering climate-resilient crops is imperative. Plants integrate diverse environmental cues (light, drought, heat, pathogens) through central sensory hubs, such as cryptochromes (Crys) [1]. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Kattnig
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How do biological and chemical pesticides interact to shape the resilience and function of aquatic organisms? A holobiont approach.

Food security and safety are growing challenges in the UK and worldwide as threats associated with climate change, population growth and political insecurity increase. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Santos
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)