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Unlocking Cornwall's Geothermal-Lithium Resources: Fault Reactivation, Fluid Flow and Permeability Evolution Through Time

In this industry supported PhD project, you will explore the tectonic controls on lithium-bearing geothermal fluid migration. The transition to a low-carbon future requires both renewable energy sources and secure supplies of critical minerals used in battery technologies. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Mottram, Dr W McKenzie, Dr R Shail, Dr A Hudson
 14 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantifying Landslide Impacts across Europe using AI

Landslides occur throughout Europe, disrupting infrastructure, ecosystems and communities, yet their impacts remain poorly quantified at continental scale. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Taylor, Dr L Nava, Dr A Novellino, Dr E Hussain
 14 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Development of a deep learning tool to monitor abundance and diversity of fish from video survey data

Accurate assessment of marine fish diversity and abundance is fundamental to understanding ecosystem condition and informing effective conservation, fisheries management and ecosystem-based management. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Ward, Dr C Yesson, Dr G Balchin
 14 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Signals in the Stream: Data-Driven Diagnosis of River Water Quality

UK river water quality is a pressing political, public and environmental concern. only 15% of English rivers meet 'good' status under the Water Framework Directive, and water companies and the government face mounting pressure to improve waterways. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A L Lipp, Dr M Fox, Prof A Johnson
 14 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Non-destructive in situ and satellite-based leaf water content estimation for improved agricultural and wildfire management

Based at King’s College London and in collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL; https://www.npl.co.uk/research/earth-observation), this CASE project will develop new non-destructive methods for estimating leaf water content using low-cost ground-based sensors and satellite Earth observation, demonstrating their potential for crop stress detection and assessment of wildfire risk. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Mulligan, Dr L Brown, Dr J Nightingale, Dr H Morris
 14 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Why aren't there more predators? Testing the rules that set marine food-web structure

How biomass is distributed among trophic levels governs carbon cycling, ecosystem resilience and productivity, including fisheries yields. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr DP Perkins, Dr P Kratina, Dr M Thompson, Dr B Gillie
 14 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Metals at the Limits of Life: Metalloproteins and their Role in Tardigrade Survival in Extreme Environments

Tardigrades are among the most resilient animals on Earth, capable of surviving extreme dehydration, freezing, ionising radiation, oxygen deprivation and prolonged periods of suspended animation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr PA Ash, Dr H Kwon
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Deciphering plant-insect interactions in a diverse urban botanical garden and the implications for developing urban planting schemes

Planting schemes in urban settings are important for increasing biodiversity and maintaining connectivity for ensuring proper ecosystem functioning. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Dodsworth, Dr A Julier, Ms E Hazell
 14 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Ensuring user confidence in high-stakes intelligent robotics applications (CF4-AMR-Law)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award and the Fusion Engineering Centre For Doctoral Training at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Law , Dr D Cameron
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Multi-Sensor Digitalisation and Closed-Loop Control for Surface Integrity Management in High-Value Grinding Processes (S3.5-AMR-Curtis)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Curtis
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Rail Grinding Performance Mapping using Novel Rail Surface Quality Characterisation (in collaboration with Network Rail) (C3.5-AMR-Taylor)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E Taylor, Prof R Lewis
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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King’s International PhD Studentship under the Supervision of Professor Yansha Deng

This is a 3.5-year funded PhD project at King’s College London, the project focuses on goal-oriented multi-agent communications and networking. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr YD Deng
 25 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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From Data to Decisions: Graph World Models for Reinforcement Learning (S3.5-ELE-Darvariu)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Darvariu, Prof G Panoutsos
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Arctic wintertime storms in a changing climate RENFREW_UEA_ARIES27

Scientific background. Polar mesoscale cyclones are smaller scale (<1000 km) rapidly developing Arctic storm systems that occur over sub-polar and polar waters. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof I Renfrew
 16 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Human-Robot Interaction at King’s College London

This 3.5-year fully funded PhD studentship is funded through CO-STAR (CO-designing Socially inTelligent Assistive Robots for Future Healthcare), a Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust/Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship project led by Dr Oya Celiktutan. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr O Celiktutan
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Advancing Human Motion Understanding through 3D Modelling and Foundation Models (S3.5-COM-Chen)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Z Chen
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Catalytic recycling of polyester plastics to monomers

Plastics are ubiquitous in modern society, finding widespread applications due to possessing optimal physical and chemical properties. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Parlett
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Multimodal Machine Learning for Protein and Metabolic Engineering towards Sustainable Biomanufacturing (S3.5-COM-Zhou)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Zhou, Prof TS Wong
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Catalytic cascade reactions for sustainable chemicals

A catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed, offering greater energy efficiency relative to non-catalytic pathways. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Parlett
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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User Simulation-Grounded Automatic Conversational Depression Screening (S3.5-COM-Wang)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr X Wang, Dr NM Ma
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Benchmarking Robotic Tactile Sensors

The Manipulation and Touch Lab at Imperial College London has funding to support a home PhD student on the topic of Benchmarking Contemporary Tactile Sensors. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Spiers
 31 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Nuffield Department of Medicine - Fully Funded Studentships Available

The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research is an international community of distinguished scientists dedicated to preventing and controlling cancer. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Opportunities
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Building across Boundaries: A 3D cell atlas of graft formation between C₃ and C₄ grasses

Overarching Question. How do cells from two evolutionarily distant plants recognise one another, reprogramme their identities and ultimately build a functional connection?. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr PS Singh, Prof J Hibberd
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Building across Boundaries: A 3D cell atlas of graft formation between C₃ and C₄ grasses

Overarching Question. How do cells from two evolutionarily distant plants recognise one another, reprogramme their identities and ultimately build a functional connection?. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr PS Singh, Prof J Hibberd
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Spin Effects for Catalysis

About the Project. Spin effects offer a new way to understand and control catalytic reactions. This PhD project will investigate how electron spin, catalyst magnetism and spin-polarised charge transfer influence catalytic activity, selectivity and reaction pathways in energy-relevant chemical transformations. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof Xu Zhichuan Jason Xu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Hydrogen Carrier Cracking/Reforming

About the Project. Hydrogen is a promising sustainable energy carrier, but its storage, transportation and low volumetric energy density hinder large-scale deployment. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof Xu Zhichuan Jason Xu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI-Enabled Atomistic Modelling of Dynamic Interfaces in Alcohol Electro-Oxidation

About the Project. Electrochemical oxidation of alcohols and biomass-derived molecules, such as glycerol and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), is an attractive alternative to the oxygen evolution reaction. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof Xu Zhichuan Jason Xu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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INVESTIGATING PATHOGENIC MECHANISMS AND THERAPEUTIC TARGETS FOR MTDNA MUTATIONS

Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are the most common cause of inherited mitochondrial disease and are increasingly implicated in common age-related conditions including neurodegeneration. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S A Ahola
 29 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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How bad can it get with LLM agents? Developing automated testing techniques to establish worst-case behaviours (in collaboration with BT) (C3.5-COM-McMinn)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P McMinn, Dr J Rojas Siles
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI-Guided Automatic Generation of Bugs for Exposing Weaknesses in Industrial Test Suites (in collaboration with BT) (C3.5-COM-Rojas)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Rojas Siles, Prof P McMinn
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)