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Algorithmic stability in machine learning

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Algorithmic stability has recently been emerging as an umbrella concept in theoretical statistics, machine learning, and computer science. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr PLL Loh
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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From satellite to street: Earth embeddings for local environmental decisions

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Nitrogen dioxide levels beside a busy road can be much higher than in a park a few hundred metres away. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr SJ Jaffer, Prof AM Madhavapeddy, Dr D Topping
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Early neurocognitive outcomes and impact of radiotherapy using voxel-based analysis in patients treated with cranial irradiation for oligodendroglioma

Radiotherapy is a critical treatment for improving outcomes in patients with brain tumours. Radiotherapy can result in side effects, including changes in neurocognitive function, e.g. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Lu, Dr L Murray
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD in Earth Sciences - Melting the ice: modelling ice-brine dynamics and cryovolcanism on Europa

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is one of the most compelling targets for planetary science and astrobiology. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AGG Grima, Dr T Keller
 5 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Funded PhD – Making statistics count: Improving statistical literacy among undergraduate students in UK Dental Schools - HLSUOB26

In the UK, the General Dental Council (GDC) sets the statutory standards for all undergraduate dental programmes (Standards for Education). Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Leary, Dr SM Moghadam, Dr CF Farrugia
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD in Economics, Accounting, Finance or Management at Berlin School of Economics

The Berlin School of Economics offers career development programs in economics, accounting, finance and management at the PhD and Postdoc levels in a single and unique structure. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Business Research Programme
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Multi-Agent Orchestration for Trustworthy and Productive Decision-Making

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Building powerful AI agents is not sufficient for deployment in high-stakes settings such as education, healthcare, and public safety [0]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr UB Bhatt , Dr M Jamnik
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Stress Testing the Future: Assessing the Impact of Heatwaves on Insect Biology

Insects play wide-ranging and crucial roles in ecosystems and pollinate most crops, while also representing major pests and disease vectors. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A McGregor
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Nature-Inspired Hydrogen Fuel Cell Architecture for Aerospace Propulsion

About the project. Applications are invited for a fully funded four-year PhD studentship within the UK EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Aviation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr RN Navaratne, Prof M Pera-Titus
 26 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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CENTA 2027-B20 Cooking with magma: constraining the carbon emissions from large igneous provinces

Past rapid climate change events like the end-Permian mass extinction, the end-Triassic mass extinction, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, and many of the Mesozoic Oceanic Anoxic Events constitute some of the best analogues we have for anthropogenic climate change. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Greene
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Novel antimicrobial activities and symbioses from environmental fungi

Different microbes are always interacting and competing with one another, and it is these interactions which often lead to the evolution of both virulence traits and secreted compounds that interfere with competitors, such as antibiotics. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J King, Prof S Johnston
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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CENTA 2027-B19 Resolving the affinities of the earliest actinopterygian ‘macrodont’ radiation

Ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) are the most diverse group of vertebrates, accounting for over half of the >60,000 living vertebrate species. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Giles
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Jobs for the Boys: Investigating the Social and Cultural Functions of Adult Males in Polygynous Mammals beyond reproduction

Classical behavioural ecology predicts that males in polygynous mammalian species invest primarily in mating effort rather than parental care, playing relatively little role in juvenile development once reproduction has occurred [1-3]. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S D Twiss
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Machine Learning Weather Prediction: Beyond Physics Models?

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Background. Weather forecasting is essential for transport, agriculture, industry and public safety. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof RT Turner, Mr CHE Henrik Ek
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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CENTA 2027-B15 Embedding Biodiversity Protection into Battery Supply Chains

The global transition to electrified transport is driving unprecedented demand for battery minerals such as lithium and cobalt, frequently extracted in ecologically sensitive biodiversity hotspots -notably, nickel-cobalt production in Indonesia and the Philippines and copper/lithium production in the high-Andes. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J E Edge
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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CENTA 2027-B14 Atmospheric Chemistry of Hydrofluoroolefins: Spectroscopic and Computational Studies of Fluorinated Criegee Intermediates

Hydrofluoroolefins (HFOs) are a new generation of refrigerants designed as environmentally friendly replacements for older halocarbons. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J B Beames
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Global bird community change and its drivers: building reliable evidence from uneven monitoring

How and why have bird communities changed over time? Repeated bird surveys at a sample of locations offer opportunities to answer these questions across continents. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Meyer
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Executable World Models for Robot Manipulation

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. An intelligent agent must infer how the physical world works from partial observations. A world model enables it to predict outcomes, compare actions and choose safely, particularly when mistakes are costly or irreversible. Read more
 Supervisors: Assoc Prof AT Tewari, Prof FF Forni
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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CENTA 2027-B18 Modelling function in the jaws of sharks throughout their evolutionary history

Sharks are a diverse, ecologically important, and vulnerable group of fishes with an ancient history. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Dearden
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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CENTA 2027-B17 Finding the most explosive volcanoes on earth

While advances in volcanology have revealed much about eruption processes, research has largely concentrated on a small set of well-monitored volcanoes, geographically skewed towards continental and northern hemisphere regions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Cassidy
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Evaluating AI for Human Agency: Towards Helpful, Agency-Preserving Decision Support

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. AI increasingly supports high-stakes decisions in areas such as healthcare, policing and social care. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MZ Zilka, Prof RT Turner
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Can microclimate refugia save an iconic floral assemblage under climate change?

Globally, land-use change is the major driver of species loss, but climate change is rapidly catching up (1). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Senior
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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CENTA 2027-B13 Health risks from individual and synergistic heat and air pollution under climate change

Main description. Extreme heat and air pollution are among the leading environmental threats to human health. They frequently occur together, yet their health impacts are still commonly assessed independently. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Z Shi
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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CENTA 2027-B12 AI-Enabled Prediction of UK Pollen Season Magnitude for Next-Generation Forecasting

Understanding and forecasting airborne pollen is essential for improving operational environmental prediction across the UK. While daily pollen forecasts have improved substantially in recent years, one of the greatest remaining challenges is predicting the overall magnitude of each pollen season. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof F Pope
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Uncertainty-aware decision-making for adaptive neural stimulation

AI CDT DecisionMaking. Details. Adaptive neurotechnology must make stimulation decisions from incomplete information about a changing nervous system. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof FM Mancini
 3 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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CENTA 2027-B11 Learning the changing extremes of European precipitation in a warming climate

One of the major challenges for the current and future climate diagnostics is the occurrence of very rare, but extreme intense precipitation events. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G C LECKEBUSCH
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Adapting to the Urban Night: Behavioural and Genomic Responses in Nocturnal Predators

Urbanised landscapes are among the fastest-growing ecosystems on Earth, with urban land cover projected to expand by 1.2 million km² from 2000 to 2030 (1). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Welch
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in understanding depth-dependent magnetization configurations induced by spin and orbital current torques

`Orbital currents' transport orbital angular momentum in nanoscale thin-film magnetic multilayers without associated flow of charge. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A.T. Hindmarch
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in mechano-chemical information processing in soft and living matter

  Research Group: Condensed Matter Physics
We invite applications for a PhD studentship in the group of Dr. Avishek Das in Durham University for a project in information processing in soft and living matter. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Das
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Learning to See CP Violation: AI for Unbiased Searches for New Physics at LHCb

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Precision measurements of CP violation in b-hadron decays are one of the most powerful indirect probes of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MK Kenzie, Prof CP Parkes
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)