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We have 5,885 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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How will changing fire reshape carbon storage in African savannas?

Terrestrial ecosystems absorb approximately a quarter of human CO₂ emissions, helping to slow climate change. Yet efforts to protect and enhance this carbon sink have focused heavily on forests, which are increasingly vulnerable to wildfire and other disturbances. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Simpson
 11 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Scalable Vaccine Manufacture: Fluid Flow Engineering for Global Pandemic Preparedness

Vaccines are the most effective public health tool against contagious infections, and the recent pandemic has spiralled innovations in technologies which can be developed in record time. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Micheletti
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Assessing In-Orbit Servicing Adoption in Low Earth Orbit: AI-Assisted Decision Support for Space Sustainability

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is now a commercially dominated and increasingly congested regime, and current assessments indicate that mitigation alone no longer stabilises its debris population. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Tan
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Deciphering Immune-Metabolic Signalling Networks Through Integrative Proteomics and Systems Biology

Biological systems depend on constant communication between cells, tissues, and organs to maintain health and respond to environmental challenges. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A English
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Mathematical Modelling of Cancer Metastasis: Towards Personalised Digital Twins

  Research Group: Mathematical Biology Group
Cancer metastasis is a very complex process involving the migration of cancer cells away from a primary tumour, their transport through the circulation, and the establishment of secondary tumours in distant organs. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr NS Sfakianakis
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding magnetospheric dynamics using spacecraft and ground-based data

Earth’s magnetosphere is the near-space environment dominated by Earth’s magnetic field and containing overlapping collisionless plasma populations ranging in energies from a few eV up to MeV. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Forsyth
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Can we predict when the Sun will erupt? The physics and forecasting of coronal mass ejections

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are enormous eruptions of magnetised plasma from the Sun and are the primary drivers of severe geomagnetic storms at Earth. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof L Green
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EPSRC DLA Scholarship in the School of Computer Science

  Research Group: School of Computer Science
The School of Computer Science is offering one fully-funded, 3.5 year PhD studentship for UK fee-rated applicants, to start on 1 October 2027, as part of the EPSRC DLA scheme. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Head
 29 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: ASTRO: AI-guided discovery of Sustainable antibiofilm Therapeutics for antimicrobial-Resistant Gram-negative Ocular infections

Can we use bacterial pathogen genomes to predict treatment for ocular infections?. Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest challenges facing modern healthcare. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr FU Ukachukwu
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Understanding Astrophysical Particle Acceleration Using the Sun

How are particles accelerated to near-light speeds in the Universe? This is one of the most fundamental unanswered questions in modern astrophysics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr H Reid
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Agentic AI for Autonomous Decision Making and Multi-Objective Optimisation in Wireless Networks

Future wireless networks must reconcile competing objectives. increasing throughput and reliability while reducing latency, energy consumption and operational costs, and maintaining fair access to resources. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr H Ahmadi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Investigating the Earth’s magnetosphere using multi-spacecraft measurements

The Earth’s magnetosphere is a vast dynamic structure whose behaviour remains only partially understood despite study over several decades. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Fazakerley
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: From small data to big biology: discovering shared molecular mechanisms from small datasets

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 Supervisor: Prof V Rand
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Understanding differences in the propensity to play: Developing a neurobiologically informed generative model of movement to study play-like behaviour in Drosophila

Have you ever wondered why some children play more than others, or how genetic and environmental factors shape this essential behaviour? Do you want to… Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Thornton
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhDs at the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Information Science and Technologies at the University of Sussex and the University of Bristol

The Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Information Science and Technologies (QIST) is a partnership between the University of Sussex and the University of Bristol funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training