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(MCRC MB-PhD) Investigation of tumour microenvironment in influencing growth in lobular breast cancers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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)