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Multimodal AI-Generated Content Detection and Watermarking (S3.5-COM-Zhang)

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 DCZ Ce Zhang, Dr Z Chen
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Magnitude and Controls of Tropical Wetland Methane Emissions Using Novel Satellite Data

We are offering a fully funded scholarship to study the project ‘Magnitude and Controls of Tropical Wetland Methane Emissions Using Novel Satellite Data’, at the School of Earth Environment and Sustainability, University of Leeds for one UK status candidate. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Dowd
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Evaluating Frontier AI at Scale: Reliability, Bias and New Evaluation Paradigms (S3.5-COM-Moosavi)

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 N Sadat Moosavi, Dr X Jiang
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Robotic Monitoring for Place Recognition and Change Detection in Dynamic Underwater Environments

Supervisors. Professor Blair Thornton and Dr Xiaohao Cai. This project develops novel robotic mapping and AI techniques to detect and document subtle changes in dynamic seafloor environments over large spatial scales. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Thornton
 13 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bacterial Death at the Nanointerface: Probing the pattern-bacteria Interface towards tailoring antimicrobial nanostructured surfaces for Medical Devices (S3.5-BIS-Pasquina-Lemonche)

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 L Pasquina-Lemonche, Dr A Parnell
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Management PhD

Are you interested in producing original research that can shape scholarship, policy and practice in business and society? A Management PhD at the University of Bath gives you the opportunity to work with expert researchers and join an ambitious, internationally connected academic community. Read more
 Self-Funded PhD Students Only  Business Research Programme
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2D Spintronics Memory And Logic Devices

A funded DPhil position is open for this project. The DPhil studentship is funded (tuition fee and stipend) through the Royal Society University Research Fellowship awarded to Dr. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Chenattukuzhiyil
 31 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Dissecting neuro-immune responses to TDP-43 proteinopathy in human cortical microtissues

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Ageing is accompanied by profound changes in the ability of our cells to maintain protein homeostasis. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Vahsen, Dr W Houssen
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Coworking spaces as place-based organisational actors

We invite applications from highly motivated candidates to undertake a 3–4-year Full-time PhD beginning in September 2027 who are interested in exploring the role of coworking spaces as organisational actors and their wider regional impact. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof F Fai, Prof P Tomlinson
 31 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Seeing Trust: How Visibility, Space and Time Shape First Impressions of Faces

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Trust is fundamental to human social life, shaping decisions in domains such as financial lending, romantic relationships and criminal justice. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Manassi, Dr C Sutherland, Dr R Chakravarthi
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Investigating mammalian cell adaptation using engineered reporter cells, microfluidics and quantitative approaches

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Living cells continuously sense and respond to changes in their environment through signalling pathways. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Giuraniuc, Prof V Speirs, Prof C Grebogi
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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EastBio: Optimising Vermicomposting for Sustainable Soil Fertility Management in Ethiopia

year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Ethiopian farmers face increasing challenges from declining soil fertility, rising fertiliser costs and limited access to sustainable nutrient sources. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J Smith, Prof P Hallett, Prof C Watson, Dr G Yakob
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Artificial Medical Intelligence for personalised and preventive healthcare

Supervisor. Dr Rahman Attar. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Attar
 31 July 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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High coherent broadband light sources based on soft-glass optical fibers

Supervisors. Dr Tonglei Cheng and Dr Lin Xu. This project aims to develop high power, broadband and highly coherent all-fibre light sources based on soft-glass optical fibres. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Cheng
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Analysing toxin action using cell-based assays

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Organisms are exposed to numerous harmful environmental insults of physical, chemical or biological origin. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Kolb, Dr T Abdelghany
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Low-loss soft-glass microstructured optical fibres and their nonlinear optical applications

Supervisors. Dr Tonglei Cheng and Dr Lin Xu. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Cheng
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Developing effective interfaces for Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) data collection to support prediction and treatment of health conditions in the community

Supervisor. Professor Mark Weal. Health technologies play important roles in earlier prediction of illness and enabling behavioural interventions to help manage conditions in the community. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Weal
 31 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Tiny but mighty? Co-evolution of galaxies and black-holes in the dwarf regime

Supervisor. Professor Manda Banerji. While supermassive black holes are widely known to reside in almost all massive galaxies, studies of supermassive black holes in low-mass "dwarf" galaxies are in their infancy. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Banerji
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Reading emotions: testing predictive processing accounts with EEG and computational modelling

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Understanding what another person is feeling is one of the most fundamental abilities in human social life. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Bach, Dr M Jackson, Dr J Rommers
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Hidden monsters: A new era for understanding obscured black hole growth

Supervisor. Professor Manda Banerji. Our census of supermassive black hole growth is incomplete. Powerful black holes enshrouded in dust have been difficult to detect until now but appear to be numerous in the early Universe. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Banerji
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Interaction of light and sound in emerging hollow core optical fibres

Supervisors. Professor Radan Slavik and Professor Gilberto Brambilla. At the Optoelectronics Research Centre, we are leading the world in developing a new generation of optical fibres that guide light through an empty core rather than glass. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Slavik
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantum signals via hollow core optical fibres

Supervisors. Professor Radan Slavik and Professor Francesco Poletti. Optical fibres can transport telecom signals over long distances. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Slavik
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Inflammatory Fat: Understanding how the immune system drives adipose tissue dysfunction using spatial lipidomics

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. In obesity, adipose tissue can become inflamed with the infiltration of immune cells, particularly macrophages, which surround adipocytes to create crown-like structures. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J.L Griffin, Dr J Rochford, Prof H Wilson
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Ultra-stable hollow core fibre photonics

Supervisor. Professor Radan Slavik. This project will investigate how emerging new class of optical fibres, hollow-core fibres, can revolutionize highly-stable lasers and their applications including accurate time keeping, positioning, or study of Earth seismic activities. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Slavik
 31 July 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: From microbial cargo to host immunity: decoding bacterial extracellular vesicle-mediated signalling in the human gut

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr I Mukhopadhya, Dr W Houssen, Dr T Vogwill
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Metasurface technologies for physical AI: machine learning-enabled nanophotonics for consumer electronics

Supervisors. Dr Xu Fang and Dr Eric Plum. This project will develop next-generation metasurface technologies for Physical AI, using nanostructured optical hardware to integrate sensing and information processing closer to the physical world. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr X Fang
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Reliable detection of cognitive and affective states from biomedical signals

Supervisors. Dr Christoph Tremmel, Dr Nathan Huneke and Professor Stefan Bleeck. Biomedical signals such as electroencephalography (EEG) are widely used to human cognition, physiology, and brain-computer interfaces. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Tremmel
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Deciphering hidden meanings from nonverbal behaviours: a multi-method and multi-level approach to investigating multimodal integration during indirect communication

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Effective communication is not just about understanding what is said. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Chu, Dr B Mathias
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Applying AI to vaccine development in tackling a climate change-driven parasitic disease of salmonid fish.

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Myxozoan parasites are unusual animal parasites causing severe disease in wild and farmed fish species. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Holland, Dr A Jaglarz, Dr H McSorley
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Development of high-performance miniaturised ultrasonic devices for precision minimally invasive surgery

Supervisors. Dr Xuan Li, Dr Andrew Hamilton and Dr Felix Langfeldt. This project, in the field of ultrasonic surgery, focuses on the development of cutting-edge miniature ultrasonic devices targeted for bone surgery. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr X Li
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)