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Working with farming families to build resilience when living with dementia

University of Worcester
School of Health and Wellbeing
Although there is no cure for dementia, the experience can be shaped by the individual’s’ coping style, life history, health, neurological impairments and social environment. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CHJ Jones
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What role can leisure play in enabling people to sustain their chosen lifestyle post diagnosis with dementia?

University of Worcester
School of Health and Wellbeing
Discourse about dementia and best practice in addressing its malign outcomes has progressed over the last generation from a purely medicalised lens, through person centred and personhood approaches, to those where the social citizenship of individuals is promoted. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CR Russell
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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The potential of AI in the detection and diagnosis of dementia in rural areas/underserved groups

University of Worcester
School of Health and Wellbeing
There are currently around 982,000 people with dementia in the UK with the number expected to rise to 1.4 million by 2040 (Alzheimer’s Society, 2025). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Evans
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Pain management for people living with dementia in Extra Care Housing

University of Worcester
School of Health and Wellbeing
Background. There is plenty of research and a large body of evidence that shows that, for older people living with dementia, pain assessment and management is suboptimal as compared to other older people with similar health conditions in hospitals, residential care, nursing care and in their own homes. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Barrett, Dr MO O’Malley
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Measuring the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Meeting Centres

University of Worcester
School of Health and Wellbeing
A Meeting Centre (MC) is a local resource, operating out of ordinary community buildings, that offers on-going warm and friendly expert support to people with mild to moderate dementia and their families. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Evans, Dr MO O’Malley
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Engineering Additive Manufacturing Processes for the Design and Fabrication of Resilient Fusion Reactor Components

University of Bristol
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Delivering reliable and economically viable fusion power depends on the ability to design and build reactor systems that operate safely under extreme thermal and mechanical conditions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Zhang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Novel Formulation Strategies for Multi-Drug Delivery Systems to Address Polypharmacy

University of Liverpool
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
This PhD project aims to develop next-generation multi-therapy drug delivery systems that address polypharmacy by engineering programmable formulations in a single dose that simplify complex drug regimens and transform care for patients with multiple chronic conditions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr w Lau
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Intergenerational programmes in community-based support initiatives for people living with dementia – understanding the impacts and outcomes

University of Worcester
School of Health and Wellbeing
The project will seek to understand the impacts, challenges, successes, barriers, sustainability issues and best practices in community-based support initiatives for people living with dementia in Worcestershire and Herefordshire. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Barrett, Prof A Kington
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Dementia and mental health: the use of artificial intelligence to support people living with dementia and/or care partners in rural areas

University of Worcester
School of Health and Wellbeing
There are currently around 982,000 people with dementia in the UK with the number expected to rise to 1.4 million by 2040. With the number of people over 65 years old set to grow by around 50% in rural areas by 2039 (All Party Action Group on Dementia, 2023) a significant proportion will be affected by dementia. . Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Evans, Dr C Bowers
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Exploring the Challenges to Dementia Diagnosis in Rural Areas

University of Worcester
School of Health and Wellbeing
Rural areas face distinct healthcare challenges, including an aging population, vast distances to cover, and inadequate transport and telecommunications infrastructure. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr RS Swift, Dr P Unwin
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Adoption of proprietary home and community automation technologies in support of ageing-in-place

University of Worcester
School of Health and Wellbeing
This PhD study will investigate the adoption of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) automation technologies used in the home or in the community by people affected by dementia. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Bowers, Dr MO O’Malley
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Bioinspired Total Synthesis of Complex Natural Products

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisory Team. Jonathan George and Dr Sam Thompson. This project aims to uncover how nature constructs complex molecules by mimicking biosynthetic pathways through synthetic chemistry. Read more
 Supervisor: Assoc Prof J George
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Water Management-Desalination and Wastewater Treatment

University of Bradford
Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies
  Research Group: Water Engineering and Natural Environment
Water management is very important in many countries in the world. Out of many aspects of water management, freshwater production by desalination technologies (thermal and membrane) and wastewater treatment by various technologies are the most important ones. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof I Mujtaba
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Simulation and optimisation of reverse osmosis desalination process with renewable energy

University of Bradford
Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies
Desalination of seawater has been gaining increasing momentum to overcome the freshwater scarcity around the world. Among the various technologies, RO (reverse osmosis) is one of the most promising seawater desalination technologies for freshwater production but is energy intensive. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof I Mujtaba
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Waste to Energy and Renewable Energies – Design of Hybrid Energy Systems

University of Bradford
Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies
The advancement and economic development of any nation depends mostly on its energy structure. As the world population keeps increasing, the demand for electricity also rises. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof I Mujtaba
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Optimisation of Batch Reactive Distillation Process

University of Bradford
Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies
  Research Group: Water Engineering and Natural Environment
Although the batch reactive distillation process outperforms traditional reactor-distillation processes, due to simultaneous reaction and separation of products for many reaction systems, synthesis of many esters obtained via esterification with alcohols (such as methanol, ethanol) are still challenging. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof I Mujtaba
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Multiscale modelling of polymer network constitutive behaviour

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
Fibre networks are ubiquitous in both natural and engineered materials. They are manufactured for many reasons. from the nonwoven fabrics used for insulation, clothing and filtration to the rubberlike polymer-based materials used in applications ranging from plumbing to transport. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Shearer, Dr G Jones, Prof O Jensen
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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CVD Growth, Transfer, and Functionalisation of 2D Metal-Chalcogenides: Enabling Net Zero and the AI Revolution with Ultra-Low Energy 2D Materials and Devices

University of Glasgow
College of Science and Engineering
At the Glasgow Energy Conversion On Solids (GECOS) group, our research is unified by a focus on the global energy challenge and the need for efficient, scalable and sustainable technologies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Ganin
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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How does sleep affect your chance of brain disease?

University of Bristol
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
Why we sleep and what happens to the brain during sleep remain very open questions. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof SP Payne
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Modelling stroke progression and treatment in the brain

University of Bristol
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
Ischaemic stroke, the disease that occurs when a clot blocks a large blood vessel in the brain, causing brain tissue to die, remains a common cause of death and a leading cause of disability. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof SP Payne
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Development and Testing of Ex-Vivo Human Myeloma Model for Personalised Medicine Applications

University of Sheffield
School of Clinical Dentistry
Development and Testing of Ex-Vivo Human Myeloma Model for Personalised Medicine Applications. Multiple Myeloma (MM) is the second most common blood cancer, defined by its dependence on the supportive Bone Marrow Microenvironment (BMME). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Z Al-Ahmady, Dr Michelle Lawson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Piezoelectric Immune Reprogramming: A Novel Approach for Accelerated Healing of Diabetic Foot Ulcers

University of Bradford
Faculty of Life Sciences
  Research Group: Centre for Skin Sciences
Are you passionate about cutting-edge biomedical research that can change lives? This PhD project offers an exciting opportunity to develop a next-generation self-powered wound dressing that uses electrical stimulation to heal diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs),one of the most challenging complications of diabetes. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Rajan Unnithan
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PhD Studentship in Vehicle-based Intelligent Technologies for Ambient monitoring of healthy Living (VITAL)

Imperial College London
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Applications are invited for a fully funded research studentship in the field of Mechatronics, Digital Health, and AI/Sensor Fusion within the Biomechatronics Laboratory at Imperial College London, leading to the award of a PhD degree. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Vaidyanathan, Dr A Serban
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Application of Electrodialysis for Acid and Alkali Recycling in Indirect Mineral Carbonation

University of Bradford
Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies
The steel and cement industry contributes approximately 8% and 7% of CO. 2. emissions worldwide. The project will be built on the concluded EPSRC/UKCCSRC that addresses CO. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Rahmanian
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PhD Opportunities in Pharmacoepidemiology & Ageing Research

University of Bath
Department of Life Sciences
About the Project. We are inviting applications from highly motivated candidates for self-funded PhD positions examining the impact of anticholinergic medications on mobility, functional decline, and multimorbidity in ageing populations. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Nishtala
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Material recovery from end-of-life photovoltaics

University of Birmingham
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Solar energy is playing a key role in meeting growing global energy demands without compromising net zero targets. The UK currently has >20 GW of photovoltaic (PV) panels installed, the vast majority of which are based on crystalline silicon technologies. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Pain, Dr R Sommerville, Dr E H D Driscoll
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Advanced 3D cell models for assessing vascular function in vitro

University of Bradford
Faculty of Life Sciences
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality across the globe. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Riches-Suman, Dr ED Perkins
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Mechanisms of radiotherapy-induced vascular damage

University of Bradford
Faculty of Life Sciences
Radiotherapy is a common treatment for cancer, and is used in over 70% of breast cancer patients. However, radiotherapy is associated with longer term vascular damage including atherosclerosis development and fibrosis. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Riches-Suman, Dr J Muller
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Continuous Wet Granulation Process for Cocrystal Drug Product Manufacturing

University of Bradford
Faculty of Life Sciences
The main research activities of my research group is to design, develop, novel formulation strategies and next-generation drug delivery technologies to enhance therapeutic efficacy and patient compliance. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Shaikh, Dr A L Kelly, Prof A Paradkar
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Unravelling Age-Related Multimorbidity through Biomarker Insights

University of Bath
Department of Life Sciences
Our study aims to advance ageing research using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse UK Biobank (UKB) health data. We will explore how clusters of inflammatory biomarkers are linked to multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs), such as heart disease, respiratory issues, and diabetes. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Nishtala
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