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

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SOAR: Social Occasions of Access and Resilience: How Heritage Visits Support Wellbeing Across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

  Research Group: Collaboratory Research Hub
Updated: 2 October 2026 
About the project. Visiting museums, historic houses and heritage sites is known to support people's health and wellbeing, and this has helped shape policy and practice in local authority heritage, culture, health and social services. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Albert , Dr NM Morse, Ms J Hunt
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Safe Machine Learning for Nonlinear Control: From Theory to Experiment (S3.5-ELE-Selivanov)

Updated: 2 October 2026 
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 Selivanov, Dr M J Jones
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Reframing Urban Nature: How Can Stakeholder Collaboration Enable Public Acceptance of Biodiversity Transitions in Local Places

  Research Group: Collaboratory Research Hub
Updated: 2 October 2026 
Urban nature-based solutions, such as reduced mowing, wildflower verges and edible plots like foraging walls, are increasingly seen as essential for creating climate-adaptive, nature-positive places. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Fona, Dr C Walpole
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Local News in Leicester and Leicestershire: A Civic Identity Balance Sheet to Guide Future Action

  Research Group: Collaboratory Research Hub
Updated: 2 October 2026 
Leicester and Leicestershire have a proud tradition of cultural, ethnic and religious diversity, sustained in part by careful local journalism. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Chadwick, Dr T Neff , Ms E Guy , Mx R Everquill
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Simplifying non-linear model predictive control (S3.5-ELE-Rossiter)

Updated: 2 October 2026 
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 JA Rossiter
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How Unpaid Caring Shapes Working Lives: Employment Trajectories, Personal Costs and Support Needs In Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

  Research Group: Collaboratory Research Hub
Updated: 2 October 2026 
About the project. Across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR), the 2021 Census identified over 91,000 unpaid carers, including more than 57,000 providing at least 10 hours of care each week. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Buckley, Dr E Thompson, Dr N Black, Ms K Turnbull
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Cultivating Trusted Adults: Co-Designing a Sustainable Mentoring Framework to Mitigate Youth Climate Distress Across Leicester’s Urban Commons

  Research Group: Collaboratory Research Hub
Updated: 2 October 2026 
About the project. Young people growing up in low-income urban neighbourhoods are facing a growing mental health challenge. Around one in five young people in the UK now experience a probable mental health disorder, and many also feel anxious about climate change, often called "climate stress". Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Lu, Dr F Jiang, Dr R Mckie, Mr b Beriiman
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Mapping Spatal Plastcity Dynamics in Colorectal Cancer

Updated: 2 October 2026 
The Cell Communication Lab at the UCL Cancer Institute, led by Prof. Chris Tape, is dedicated to understanding how cancer cells communicate, adapt, and evolve within complex tumour environments. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Tape
 24 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Smart Ferrofluid-Enhanced Linear Machines for Human Motion Energy Harvesting (in collaboration with Liquids Research Ltd) (C3.5-ELE-Li)

Updated: 2 October 2026 
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 G J L Li, Dr J Davidson
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Next Generation Particle Accelerator Design – Tungsten Powder Based Target Erosion Analysis (in collaboration with the Science and Technology Facilities Council) (C3.5-MAC-Pinna)

Updated: 2 October 2026 
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 C Pinna, Prof R Lewis
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Digital Twins for Climate-Resilient Railways: Integrating Infrastructure Risk and Operational Consequence (in collaboration with Network Rail) (C3.5-MAC-Nichols)

Updated: 2 October 2026 
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 Nichols, Dr G Punzo
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Tribo-Informatics and physics informed machine learning for manufacturing efficiency in the steel sector (in collaboration with British Steel) (C4-MAC-Fletcher)

Updated: 2 October 2026 
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 D Fletcher, Dr M Jones
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Centrifuge modelling of internal erosion defect progression and heterogeneity effects in ageing dams and canals (in collaboration with Canal and River Trust) (C3.5-MAC-Bowman)

Updated: 2 October 2026 
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 Bowman, Dr A Leonardi
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Decoding Dynamic Plant Meristems

Updated: 2 October 2026 
All aerial parts of a plant originate from a small population of pluripotent cells within the shoot apical meristem (SAM). Far from being a static structure, the SAM is continuously changing in size, shape and cellular organisation as the plant develops. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr V Wahl, Prof H Jönsson
 20 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Decoding Dynamic Plant Meristems

Updated: 2 October 2026 
All aerial parts of a plant originate from a small population of pluripotent cells within the shoot apical meristem (SAM). Far from being a static structure, the SAM is continuously changing in size, shape and cellular organisation as the plant develops. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr V Wahl, Prof H Jönsson
 20 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)