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We have 5,885 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Dynamic electromagnetic metasurfaces for advanced wave engineering

Supervisor. Dr Sajjd Taravati. Imagine surfaces that reprogram how electromagnetic waves behave in real time, steering, amplifying and even shifting their frequency on demand. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr #s Taravati
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: The role of colour in food recognition, attention and behavioural choice

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Hesse, Prof A Sahraie
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Cybersecurity for brain–computer interfaces: protecting neural data inside the implant

Supervisor. Dr Majid Zamani. A brain implant cannot be given a new password. Neural data reveals intention and identity, and once stolen it cannot be reset. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Zamani
 31 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Hunting for black holes in the galaxy

Supervisor. Professor Poshak Gandhi. How are black holes born in supernova explosions? In this project, you will take a leading role in analysing data from a world-leading study of the Milky Way's black hole population, investigating their space densities, kinematics and growth rates. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Gandhi
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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EastBio: A synbio approach to generate artificial molecular muscles

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. “Molecular muscles” is a term referring to molecules that can contract and stretch under a chemical signal. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr W Houssen, Prof M Jaspars
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Market failure or market adaptation? rethinking cybercrime and cybersecurity markets

Supervisors. Professor Jeff Yan and Dr Monica Beeder. This interdisciplinary project investigates when cybersecurity and cybercrime markets fail, adapt or transform in response to disruption. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof JY Yan
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Early Detection of Distributed File-less Malware Using Vision Transformers (VC2644)

University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is seeking to attract a PhD candidate of outstanding ability and commitment to join its vibrant and growing programme of internationally excellent research at its London Campus. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Lee, Dr D Javaheri, Dr M Thankappan, Dr M Hassanu
 28 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Wearable sensing for early detection of mobility decline in older people with comorbidities

Supervisors. Professor Liudi Jiang and Professor Michael Hornberger. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof L. Jiang
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Stacked Intelligent Metasurface (SIM) for Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS)

Supervisor. Dr Chao Xu. This project will explore the combination of Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIM) and Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) in the context of Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) applications. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CX Xu
 1 September 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Visible Light Integrated Sensing and Communication (VL-ISAC)

Supervisor. Dr Chao Xu. Imagine a world where there is Internet access and radar-assisted living and quantum security, wherever there is light. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CX Xu
 1 September 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD in Wireless communications and signal processing for next generation wireless systems

Supervisor. Professor Mohammed El-Hajjar. Future wireless networks will do more than connect people. they will sense, compute, and adapt intelligently. Read more
 Supervisor: Assoc Prof M El-Hajjar
 28 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(EPSRC CASE) Expanding the toolkit for post-processing AI-generated molecular designs

Generative AI has become a routine approach to exploration of chemical space and as an idea generator for medicinal chemists. What is missing at the moment is a much stricter requirement for results to be assessed for their physical reasonableness. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Leach, Dr L Sotorrios, Dr C Trujillo
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Learning from past designs: AI that transfers engineering experience to chip design problems where no data exists (S3.5-MPS-Xing)

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 W Xing, Prof J Oakley
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Next generation silicon photonic modulators

Supervisors. Professor David Thomson and Dr Bharat Pant. This project develops next-generation silicon photonic modulators for ultra-high-speed, energy-efficient optical communications underpinning AI and high-performance computing. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Thomson
 30 September 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Long-term effects of GLP-1 medicines on immunometabolic fitness

GLP-1 medicines are transforming the treatment of obesity and related complications, with benefits that extend beyond weight loss and glucose control. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr CK Wong, Dr W Scott
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(EPSRC DTP) A Plug-and-Play Foundation Model for Multiscale Reconstruction and Analysis of Animal Behaviour

This project will develop computational methods for three-dimensional reconstruction and quantitative analysis of animal behaviour from video recordings. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Storchi, Prof R Petersen
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Low-Dimensional Enriched Category Theory (S3.5-MPS-Willerton)

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 Willerton, Dr H Beohar
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Spatial and three-dimensional genome regulation during zygotic genome activation

Zygotic genome activation (ZGA) marks the transition from maternal to embryonic control of development and provides a tractable system in which to examine how regulatory genome function is established (1). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Vaquerizas, Dr A Russell
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Designing peptides to uncover cancer vulnerabilities at telomeres

How do cells copy chromosome ends whose protection depends on restricting access to DNA? Telomeres are protected by shelterin, a protein complex that prevents chromosome ends from being mistaken for broken DNA. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Speck, Dr A Barnard, Dr A Barr
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How to find and design bioactive peptides at scale?

Plants evolved thousands of cyclic peptides to protect themselves against pests and pathogens. Many of these molecules evolved to be orally active. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Sarkisyan, Prof D Craik, Dr A Brown
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(EPSRC DTP) Predicting pathological myopia through retinal imaging

This PhD project explores the intersection of advanced retinal imaging and artificial intelligence to improve prediction of ocular disease progression. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Radakrishnan, Dr KH Hampson, Dr A Harish
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(EPSRC DTP) 3D Printing of Resorbable Polymeric Scaffolds for Cardiac Valve Leaflet Engineering

Heart valve disease affects millions worldwide and is a major cause of heart failure and valve replacement surgery. Current replacement valves have significant limitations. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Pinali, Dr J Bella, Dr S Richardson, Dr M Domingos
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Reading tissue history and exposures using spatial single-cell genomics

Every cell carries a record of its past. Somatic mutations and DNA methylation changes accumulate as cells divide and as tissues encounter chemicals in the environment, leaving marks that reveal how tissues are built, maintained, and damaged [1,2,3]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Russell, Dr T Coorens
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Scholarship Project: Molecular modelling for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical formulations

Many promising medicines fail because of poor solubility, limited bioavailability, or uncontrolled interactions with biological interfaces. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Galindo
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Pluripotency-specific regulation of transposable elements in mammalian development

In early development, a single fertilized zygote proceeds through a series of cleavage steps to develop into a multicellular blastocyst. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Percharde, Dr V Azuara
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mutate, model, predict: uncovering how regulatory elements encode gene expression dynamics

How does our genome ensure that the right genes are expressed in the right cells and at the right time during development? Although much of this control is encoded in non-coding, cis-regulatory elements, we still lack the ability to predict how regulatory DNA contributes to precise gene expression outputs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr V Metzis, Dr R Perez-Carrasco, Dr J Ware
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Developing next-generation gene therapies to prevent retinal degeneration

Genetic eye diseases are leading causes of blindness in children and young adults, yet treatment options remain extremely limited. Read more
 Supervisors: Assoc Prof K Xue, Dr D Gupta, Prof S Hyde
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Transition Metal Complexes for Solar Energy Conversion: Lasers meet Sustainability (in collaboration with Diamond Light Source) (C3.5-MPS-Weinstein)

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 J Weinstein, Dr AJ Nedoma
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The Double-edged Sword of Sex-specific Immune Responsiveness

Female individuals are better able to cope with certain infections. On the other hand, females suffer from autoimmune diseases significantly more often than males1. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Merkenschlager, Dr L Allou
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(EPSRC DTP) Causal Modelling of Cardiac Dose, Tissue Recovery and Survival in Thoracic Reirradiation

Radiotherapy is used to treat many cancers and plays a key role in cancer care. As patients live longer, increasing numbers require a second course of radiotherapy because their cancer recurs or a new cancer develops in a previously treated area. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E Vasquez Osorio, Dr H Guo, Dr A McWilliam, Dr KB Banfill, Dr PHdCA da Costa Avelar
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)