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We have 5,885 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Use of mine tailings in concrete

Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time PhD project. The PhD will be based in the School of Civil Engineering and will be supervised by Dr Elyas Zanjani. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Zanjani
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Bath Engineering & Design Studentships: Machine learning for early warning of debris screen blockage in urban rivers

This project is one of a number in competition for a studentship from the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Kjeldsen
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bath Engineering & Design Studentships: Mechanochemical Synthesis and Modification of Metal–Organic Frameworks for Hydrogen Storage

This project is one of a number in competition for a studentship from the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof MT Tian, Prof AB Burrows
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO: Discovering the rules of stem cell self-organisation with AI-guided experimental design

What if we could watch groups of cells organise themselves into a tissue and automatically learn the rules by which these cells coordinate with each other? And what if we can then use those rules to optimise future experiments? In this project you will build the computational methods to achieve that. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Schumacher, Dr G Blin
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO: Engineering Human CYP Reporter Hepatocytes as Non-Animal Platforms to Screen Environmental and Dietary Xenobiotic Metabolism Disruption

Cytochrome P450 enzymes (CYPs), predominantly expressed by hepatocytes, are critical for metabolizing endogenous hormones and xenobiotics, including pharmaceuticals, supplements, and environmental pollutants like pesticides. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof K Kaji, Prof N Carragher
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bath Engineering & Design Studentships: Smart Water-Resilient Housing: An Occupant-led, Lifecycle Toolkit for Climate-Resilient Homes and Neighbourhoods

This project is one of a number in competition for a studentship from the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Adeyeye
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Computational Discovery of High-Performance Energy Storage Materials using Quantum Machine Learning

Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6-year part-time PhD project. The PhD will be based in the School of Computing, Mathematics and Physics and will be supervised by Dr Fahad Ahmad. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr F Ahmad
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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EASTBIO: Host Receptor Evolution as a Barrier to Viral Spillover

The aim of this PhD project is to use evolutionary and functional genetic analysis to identify and characterise viral entry receptors that affect the likelihood of zoonotic transmission. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Sloan, Dr R Young, Dr F Grey
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO : Establish proximity labelling strategies in zebrafish to capture cellular interactions in vivo

Unravelling the outcomes of cell–cell interactions is fundamental to understanding biological processes. The ability to visualise and track these interactions in vivo greatly enhances our capacity to dissect contact-dependent communication. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Feng, Dr M Malaguti
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO: How does the human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans exploit its metabolic flexibility to evade host immunity.

Fungal pathogens kill almost 2 million people every year. The most common human fungal pathogen is Candida albicans, a WHO-priority target. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr V Makrantoni, Dr S Jenkins, Dr A Alpi, Prof C Munro
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bath Engineering & Design Studentships: From inert minerals to reactive materials: mechanochemistry for low-carbon cements

This project is one of a number in competition for a studentship from the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr IT Tole, Prof S Bernal Lopez
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bath Engineering & Design Studentships: Critical material recovery and regeneration across the Hydrogen Value chain through scaled electrochemical engineering

This project is one of a number in competition for a studentship from the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr JMC Courtney, Prof F Marken
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EASTBIO: Peptide-based precision anti-infectives for prophylaxis and prevention of foodborne listeriosis.

Listeriosis is a life-threatening foodborne infection caused by the facultative intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, which can contaminate ready-to-eat preserved by refrigeration. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J A Vazquez-Boland, Dr C Coxon
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Trustworthy and Human-Centred NLP: Bias, Interpretability, and Evaluation

Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6 year part-time PhD project. The PhD will be based in the School of Computing, Mathematics and Physics and will be supervised by Dr Alaa Mohasseb. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Mohasseb
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Bath Engineering & Design Studentships: Knowledge Representation in Bio-Inspired Neural Networks

This project is one of a number in competition for a studentship from the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr DF Florescu
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Optimising Text Datasets for High-Performance NLP

Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6 year part-time PhD project. The PhD will be based in the School of Computing, Mathematics and Physics and will be supervised by Dr Atefeh Khazaei. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Khazaei
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Beyond Detection Shadows: Spatially Explicit AI for Inferring Wildlife Recovery under Observation Uncertainty

Wildlife sightings are increasing across China, but it remains unclear whether these reports reflect genuine ecological recovery or growing observation effort. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Li
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bath Engineering & Design Studentships: Electric-Field Control of Colloid–Polymer Mixtures: From Energy Storage to Responsive Materials

This project is one of a number in competition for a studentship from the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CRZ Rees-Zimmerman
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bath Engineering & Design Studentships: Dexterous microrobotic end-effectors for minimally invasive endoscopic interventions

This project is one of a number in competition for a studentship from the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr BA Ahmad
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Development and Evaluation of a Human-Engineered Skeletal Muscle Contractility Assay for Age-related Disease Modelling, Safety Pharmacology, and Drug Discovery

Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Turner
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Towards Reliable AI under Domain Shift: Uncertainty-Aware Learning

Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6 year part-time PhD project. The PhD will be based in the School of Computing, Mathematics and Physics and will be supervised by Dr Dongxu Gao. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Gao
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Natural products and chemical control of fungal cell biology

Life-threatening fungal infections are associated with an estimated 3.8 million deaths annually worldwide. With few classes of antifungal drugs available, emerging resistance and treatment failure present major challenges. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr X Chen
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Building branches: meristem formation during dichotomous branching in plants

Plants create diverse and elaborate 3D branching architectures by modulating the number, position, and size of shoot branches. The growth of shoot branches requires the maintenance of stem cells within generative structures known as meristems. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V Spencer
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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An evolutionary toolkit for contemporary challenges

Evolution has conducted an enormous range of natural experiments on organisms facing environmental change. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T Barraclough
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bath Engineering & Design Studentships: Physics-Informed Grey-Box Modelling for Oscillation Diagnosis in Future GB Power Networks

This project is one of a number in competition for a studentship from the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr YC Chen, Prof F Li
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Genomics and AI to understand and combat antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global health challenge. Bacterial pathogens evolve rapidly, exchange resistance genes across populations and species, and move between people, animals and the environment. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Sheppard
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Engineering sulfiredoxin to enhance plant oxidative stress tolerance

Plants are exposed to environmental stresses that increase the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), including hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Akter
 7 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The Wytham Woods Digital Twin

Forests are experiencing increasingly frequent and interacting disturbances, from drought and heatwaves to emerging pests and pathogens such as ash dieback. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Salguero-Gómez
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Social relationships in group-hunting predators

Many predator species hunt in groups, and much research has focused on the range of benefits this can convey, particularly in relation to group size when predators are hunting large, defensible prey. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Heathcote
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Elucidating molecular mechanisms of chloroplast biogenesis and operation: protein translocation and regulation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system

Plastids are a diverse family of plant organelles with numerous functions that are vital for plant growth. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Jarvis
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)