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Developing solution for robot in an uncertain environment

Edinburgh Napier University

School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment (SCEBE), at Edinburgh Napier University is proud to be contributing to the robotic and automation research and knowledge transfer over the years. With the new investment on several robotic systems, the research team here is ready and looking forward to the next chapter of research adventure. . Read more

Supervisors: Dr K Goh, Dr S Smith, Prof E Hart

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Design and Analysis of Neural Network-based controllers for unknown systems

Edinburgh Napier University

School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Mathematical systems and control theory “represents an attempt to codify, in mathematical terms, the principles and techniques used in the analysis and design of control systems” [1]. Read more

Supervisors: Dr CG Guiver, Dr S Smith

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Imagery Ability and Its Role in Optimizing Imagery-Based Interventions for Performance and Stress Regulation

University of Birmingham

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Mental imagery is a widely used psychological technique in sport, exercise, and health contexts to enhance performance, regulate stress, and improve wellbeing. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Williams

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Engineering Better Social Outcomes through Requirements Management and Integrated Asset Data Processing

University of Salford

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

The built environment profoundly influences human wellbeing shaping not only our physical comfort and behaviour, but also our cognitive and emotional states. Read more

Supervisors: Prof J Underwood, Prof M Bew, Dr MY Munir, Dr KS Szczepura

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Edinburgh Law School

University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh Law School was established in 1707. Renowned for our international and interdisciplinary outlook, we have been at the heart of legal education and research for more than 300 years. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Law Research Programme

Engineering plant cell walls and cell-to-cell communication

University of Leeds

Faculty of Biological Sciences

We are facing global concerns on food security, climate change and sustainability that require innovations to improve crop environmental resilience. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Benitez-Alfonso

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Urban Relationalities: Transductive Infrastructures of Survivability

University of Salford

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Project Summary . This doctoral project investigates how infrastructures of survivability—systems of mobility, protection, sensing, and logistics whose logics intertwine with militarism—reshape contemporary urban environments. Read more

Supervisor: Dr FS Shayya

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Retrofitting Against Progressive Collapse of Structures

University of Salford

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Progressive collapse occurs when the failure of a primary structural element causes a significant portion or the entire structure to collapse. Read more

Supervisors: Dr L Augustus-Nelson, Dr LW Weekes

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Mechanically Checking the Semantics of Hybrid Event-B

The University of Manchester

Department of Computer Science

These days, the world is increasingly being populated with systems that interact directly with the physical world. Of course such systems have existed for a long time in niche safety-critical areas, eg. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Banach

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

New molecules and mechanisms in angiogenesis

University of Leeds

Faculty of Biological Sciences

The School of Molecular & Cellular Biology invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2025/26. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Ponnambalam, Dr M A Harrison

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Quantum Algorithms for Computational Fluid Dynamics

The University of Manchester

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Understanding and predicting fluid flow is essential to the design of aircraft, wind turbines and medical devices, as well as for modelling natural phenomena such as weather and ocean currents. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Brearley, Dr A De Rosis, Prof A Revell

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

The Nanyang Business School (NBS) PhD Programme

Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Business School

The PhD Programme is offered by Nanyang Business School (NBS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Singapore PhD Programme

AI-powered beam instrumentation for plasma wakefield acceleration

University of Liverpool

Cockcroft Institute

Project Background. AWAKE is the world’s first proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment. It utilizes 400 GeV proton bunches from the CERN SPS to drive plasma wakefields with an amplitude of ~ GV/m (which are orders of magnitude higher than conventional accelerators). Read more

Supervisor: Prof C Welsch

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Neural circuit changes underpinning olfactory learning

University of Leeds

Faculty of Biological Sciences

The School of Biomedical Sciences invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in neuroscience in the academic year 2025/26. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Johnston, Prof N Gamper

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Exploiting Laser Pulse Shaping and Phase Space Tomography to Optimise Longitudinal Beam Dynamics at the Interaction Point of CLARA

University of Liverpool

Cockcroft Institute

Introduction and Motivation. The Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) at Daresbury Laboratory places significant emphasis on providing tailored beam properties for a range of user experiments that push the frontiers of accelerator science. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Wolski, Dr A E P Pollard

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Towards compact Gamma-ray Free Electron Lasers

University of Strathclyde

Cockcroft Institute

Project Background. Over the past few decades, X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have become the pre-eminent tool for studying the structure and dynamics of materials at the molecular scale. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Robb

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Ageing to Arrhythmias

University of Leeds

Faculty of Biological Sciences

Cardiac arrhythmias are a leading cause of sudden death and morbidity. This project aims to identify why they occur in the elderly and novel routes to therapies. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M K Lancaster, Dr M.A. Colman

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Uncovering the viral and cellular components that dictate the neurological outcome of tick-borne encephalitis virus infection

University of Leeds

Faculty of Biological Sciences

The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2025/26. Read more

Supervisor: Dr NG Goonawardane

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Development of a Low-Level RF (LLRF) System for Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) Control of a Superconducting RF Cavity

Lancaster University

Cockcroft Institute

Project Background. The superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities made of bulk niobium (Nb) are used in charged particle accelerators for more than 50 years. Read more

Supervisor: Dr H Marks

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Externally coupled structures for THz-driven electron beam deflection

Lancaster University

Cockcroft Institute

About the Project. This project is a unique opportunity to join a vibrant research team from Lancaster University, University of Manchester and The Cockcroft Institute at Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK, developing world leading concepts for novel acceleration using laser-generated THz pulse. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Letizia

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Non-linear optics for application to laser-driven acceleration of relativistic beams in vacuum

Lancaster University

Cockcroft Institute

There is immense interest in femtosecond-duration high-energy electron beams in both the condensed matter and high-energy particle physics scientific communities, for their application in exploring femtosecond processes in materials, and for future particle colliders. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Jamison

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Superconducting thin film coated radio-frequency cavities

Lancaster University

Cockcroft Institute

Project Background. The superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities made of bulk niobium (Nb) are used in charged particle accelerators for more than 50 years. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Burt

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Design of a cargo scanning linac for security applications

Lancaster University

Cockcroft Institute

Project Background. Industrial applications is one of the three key areas of the Cockcroft Core grant, whereby security linacs has been identified as one of the priority areas supported by the BDG. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Burt

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Accelerating Electrons with Light – laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration

Lancaster University

Cockcroft Institute

Project Background. Laser wakefield acceleration has demonstrated the production of GeV-scale electron beams in centimeter-scale accelerators using plasma waves as a driver. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Arran

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Accelerator design for leather tanning and related applications

Lancaster University

Cockcroft Institute

This project focuses on the use of electron beams to tan leather in a novel process described by industry as potentially the biggest disruption to the process in 150 years. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Apsimon

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

How do we control the shape and time structure of our very short bunches using THz-driven structures?

The University of Manchester

Cockcroft Institute

Particle accelerators are powerful tools that have driven major discoveries in physics, from finding the Higgs boson to developing new materials. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Appleby

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Identifying climate-proof mechanisms of plant acclimation to freezing temperatures

Durham University

Department of Biosciences

Climate change brings many challenges for the planet’s plants and one of these is the vulnerability caused by erratic temperatures. Read more

Supervisor: Dr PH Knight

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Life-Writing Today (Ref: SSH26-SF-JC-EN)

Loughborough University

School of Arts, English and Drama

There has been an explosive interest in writing and publishing autobiography, autofiction, memoir, autotheory, lyrical essays, and other forms of first-person literature since the start of the millennium. Read more

Supervisor: Prof J Cooke

1 July 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Governance in British Basketball: Funding Precarity, Structural Deficiencies, and Organisational Instability (Ref: SSEHS/SF-MD26)

Loughborough University

School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

British basketball sits at a critical and a paradoxical juncture within the UK sporting landscape. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Dowling

1 August 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Reconstruction of atomic resolution images from sparse datasets of radiation sensitive materials in scanning transmission electron microscopy

University of Sheffield

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Scanning transmission electron microscopy is an imaging method that raster scans a focused high-energy electron beam across a thin sample and measures the electron intensity behind the specimen with either a small detector placed on axis (bright field) or a larger, ring-like detector placed off-axis (annular dark field). Read more

Supervisor: Prof T W Walther

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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