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We have 1,937 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships added in the last month

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Advanced Fibre-Optic Sensors Coupled with IoT and Machine Learning for Precision Agriculture Applications

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Smart agriculture is transforming food production through technologies that improve productivity and sustainability. A key challenge is obtaining reliable, real-time information about soil conditions, particularly moisture and nutrient levels which directly influence crop health and yield. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Q Zhang
 22 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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EastBio: Dissecting neuro-immune responses to TDP-43 proteinopathy in human cortical microtissues

Updated: 7 October 2026 
This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Ageing is accompanied by profound changes in the ability of our cells to maintain protein homeostasis. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Vahsen, Dr W Houssen
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Coworking spaces as place-based organisational actors

Updated: 7 October 2026 
We invite applications from highly motivated candidates to undertake a 3–4-year Full-time PhD beginning in September 2027 who are interested in exploring the role of coworking spaces as organisational actors and their wider regional impact. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof F Fai, Prof P Tomlinson
 31 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Seeing Trust: How Visibility, Space and Time Shape First Impressions of Faces

Updated: 7 October 2026 
This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Trust is fundamental to human social life, shaping decisions in domains such as financial lending, romantic relationships and criminal justice. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Manassi, Dr C Sutherland, Dr R Chakravarthi
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Artificial Medical Intelligence for personalised and preventive healthcare

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Supervisor. Dr Rahman Attar. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Attar
 31 July 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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High coherent broadband light sources based on soft-glass optical fibers

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Supervisors. Dr Tonglei Cheng and Dr Lin Xu. This project aims to develop high power, broadband and highly coherent all-fibre light sources based on soft-glass optical fibres. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Cheng
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Low-loss soft-glass microstructured optical fibres and their nonlinear optical applications

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Supervisors. Dr Tonglei Cheng and Dr Lin Xu. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Cheng
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Developing effective interfaces for Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) data collection to support prediction and treatment of health conditions in the community

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Supervisor. Professor Mark Weal. Health technologies play important roles in earlier prediction of illness and enabling behavioural interventions to help manage conditions in the community. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Weal
 31 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Tiny but mighty? Co-evolution of galaxies and black-holes in the dwarf regime

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Supervisor. Professor Manda Banerji. While supermassive black holes are widely known to reside in almost all massive galaxies, studies of supermassive black holes in low-mass "dwarf" galaxies are in their infancy. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Banerji
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Reading emotions: testing predictive processing accounts with EEG and computational modelling

Updated: 7 October 2026 
year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Understanding what another person is feeling is one of the most fundamental abilities in human social life. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Bach, Dr M Jackson, Dr J Rommers
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Hidden monsters: A new era for understanding obscured black hole growth

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Supervisor. Professor Manda Banerji. Our census of supermassive black hole growth is incomplete. Powerful black holes enshrouded in dust have been difficult to detect until now but appear to be numerous in the early Universe. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Banerji
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Interaction of light and sound in emerging hollow core optical fibres

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Supervisors. Professor Radan Slavik and Professor Gilberto Brambilla. At the Optoelectronics Research Centre, we are leading the world in developing a new generation of optical fibres that guide light through an empty core rather than glass. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Slavik
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantum signals via hollow core optical fibres

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Supervisors. Professor Radan Slavik and Professor Francesco Poletti. Optical fibres can transport telecom signals over long distances. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Slavik
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Inflammatory Fat: Understanding how the immune system drives adipose tissue dysfunction using spatial lipidomics

Updated: 7 October 2026 
This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. In obesity, adipose tissue can become inflamed with the infiltration of immune cells, particularly macrophages, which surround adipocytes to create crown-like structures. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J.L Griffin, Dr J Rochford, Prof H Wilson
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Ultra-stable hollow core fibre photonics

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Supervisor. Professor Radan Slavik. This project will investigate how emerging new class of optical fibres, hollow-core fibres, can revolutionize highly-stable lasers and their applications including accurate time keeping, positioning, or study of Earth seismic activities. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Slavik
 31 July 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)