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We have 5,885 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Investigating the Role of Host Microbiome Dynamics as Drivers of Wildlife Disease Using a One Health Framework

Host-associated microbes play a vital role in protecting animals from pathogenic infection, but the factors shaping the stability of these microbial communities remain poorly resolved. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr X Harrison
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Investigating the molecular and environmental mechanisms regulating larval metamorphosis in the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis.

Supervisory team Main supervisor. Dr Elizabeth Williams (University of Exeter). Second supervisor. Dr Vengamanaidu Modepalli (University of Bristol). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Williams
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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SWBio DTP PhD Project: Evolving new regulatory functions through gene duplication in bacteria

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: Prof T Taylor
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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An investigation of how growth and maturation affects injury risk in adolescent athletes and how AI might be used to predict sports injury risk during adolescence

  Research Group: Nursing and Health
OPEN TO UK AND REPUBLIC OF IRELAND STUDENTS ONLY. This is an exciting project involving collaboration between the School of Health Sciences and the School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems at UU. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr DA Anderson, Prof C Bleakley, Dr D Rankin
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Evolvability of interactions between bacterial outer surface molecules and bacteriophages: from atoms to biofilms

Bacteriophages are viruses of bacteria. they infect and often kill the bacterial cell. They play a key role in microbial communities and are an alternative to chemical antibiotics for managing microbial populations, for example in infections. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr W Moebius
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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What makes an antibiotic resistance plasmid a super-spreader?

Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to human health, yet we still do not understand why some resistance genes spread rapidly between bacterial species while others remain restricted to a few hosts. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Sanders
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD in organic/supramolecular chemistry – Can chemistry make decisions? Engineering stochastic symmetry breaking

Project. Can chemistry be designed to make decisions? In living systems, small random (stochastic) fluctuations can be amplified to produce distinct outcomes, allowing genetically identical cells to behave differently and populations to diversify. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Borsley
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship in Particle Theory 'Explorations with Effective Field Theory'

Precision measurements at the LHC and future colliders offer exciting opportunities to discover new physics, even if new particles are too heavy to be produced directly. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Pecjak
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Particle Theory 'Quantum Computing for Many-Body Systems'

The purpose of this project is to advance quantum computing and tensor network methods in quantum many-body systems, quantum field theory, and possible even holography. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Abel
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Scholarships funded by IAPETUS at the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews

The School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews welcomes applications to the NERC IAPETUS2 Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) PhD competition. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Research Programme
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PhD Studentship in Particle Theory 'Searching for New Physics Phenomena beyond and within the Standard Model'

In the last decades, the Standard Model of particle physics evolved to the most precise theory of fundamental interactions and the elementary constituents of matter. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof V Khoze
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD in organic/supramolecular chemistry – How can we harness active transport to control chemistry?

Project. Active transport across membranes allows living systems to generate chemical gradients, store energy and drive processes away from equilibrium. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Borsley
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship in Particle Theory 'Heavy Quark Decays supervised'

Predictions for the decays of heavy quarks, in particular bottom and charm quarks, can be used to test the Standard Model and constrain effects of physics beyond it. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Van Dyke
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Formal Methods for Safe Artificial Intelligence

The School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham offers one PhD position in formal methods for safe artificial intelligence. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Giacobbe
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Particle Theory 'Dark Matter and Early Universe Physics'

The nature of dark matter and the physics of the early Universe remain among the most profound mysteries in fundamental physics. This PhD project will explore how upcoming observations can provide new insights into both, using the Universe itself as a laboratory for physics beyond the Standard Model. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Croon
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)