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We have 5,819 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: 13+ funded 3.5 year PhD Studentships

Iapetus is a Doctoral Training Partnership that joins the leading research universities of Durham, Glasgow, Newcastle, St Andrews, Stirling and Heriot-Watt together with the British Geological Survey, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the British Antarctic Survey. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  NERC Doctoral Training Partnership
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Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: 13+ funded 3.5 year PhD Studentships

Iapetus is a Doctoral Training Partnership that joins the leading research universities of Durham, Glasgow, Newcastle, St Andrews, Stirling and Heriot-Watt together with the British Geological Survey, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the British Antarctic Survey. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  NERC Doctoral Training Partnership
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Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: 13+ funded 3.5 year PhD Studentships

Iapetus is a Doctoral Training Partnership that joins the leading research universities of Durham, Glasgow, Newcastle, St Andrews, Stirling and Heriot-Watt together with the British Geological Survey, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the British Antarctic Survey. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  NERC Doctoral Training Partnership
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Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: 13+ funded 3.5 year PhD Studentships

Iapetus is a Doctoral Training Partnership that joins the leading research universities of Durham, Glasgow, Newcastle, St Andrews, Stirling and Heriot-Watt together with the British Geological Survey, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the British Antarctic Survey. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  NERC Doctoral Training Partnership
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Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme

The Iapetus Diversifying Talent Scholarships will be given to talented individuals with the potential to make a positive impact in environmental research. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Opportunities
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Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme

The Iapetus Diversifying Talent Scholarships will be given to talented individuals with the potential to make a positive impact in environmental research. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Opportunities
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Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme

The Iapetus Diversifying Talent Scholarships will be given to talented individuals with the potential to make a positive impact in environmental research. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Opportunities
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Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme

The Iapetus Diversifying Talent Scholarships will be given to talented individuals with the potential to make a positive impact in environmental research. Read more
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Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme

The Iapetus Diversifying Talent Scholarships will be given to talented individuals with the potential to make a positive impact in environmental research. Read more
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Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme

The Iapetus Diversifying Talent Scholarships will be given to talented individuals with the potential to make a positive impact in environmental research. Read more
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Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme

The Iapetus Diversifying Talent Scholarships will be given to talented individuals with the potential to make a positive impact in environmental research. Read more
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Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme

The Iapetus Diversifying Talent Scholarships will be given to talented individuals with the potential to make a positive impact in environmental research. Read more
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Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme

The Iapetus Diversifying Talent Scholarships will be given to talented individuals with the potential to make a positive impact in environmental research. Read more
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Development of an attract-and-suppress control system for sustainable wireworm management

The expected start date of this studentship is September 2027. Agriotes spp. wireworms (Coleoptera. Elateridae) are major pests of cereal crops and root vegetables in Europe and North America. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CB Brady
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Romans, Forts and Insects on Hadrian's Wall

Using fossil insects from the Roman forts of Magna and Vindolanda, this project seeks to investigate changes in climate and environment during the Roman period in the British Isles and details of the lives of soldiers and their dependants in the forts. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E Panagiotakopulu, Dr R McCulloch, Dr A Birley
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Developing Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Investigate EpiGenomic Regulatory Logic in Healthy and Disease States

We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join The Computational Biology and Biomedical AI group led by Dr Shamith Samarajiwa (Associate Professor in Genomics), Imperial College London. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Samarajiwa
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Can medicinal mushrooms change neuronal behaviour?

The expected start date of this studentship is September 2027. An exciting opportunity to study the neuronal effects of edible mushroom extracts. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Craig
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Non-equilibrium quantum many-body dynamics

Macroscopic matter is composed of a huge number of quantum particles whose dynamics are typically dominated by interactions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr B Bertini
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Context-Aware Urban Climate Downscaling with Multi-Scale Geospatial Foundation Models

Background. Our planet is warming, but the most severe impacts of climate change are felt locally within cities, where most of the global population lives and works. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr W.H Huang, Dr LB Blunn, Dr BB Booth, Prof J Marsham
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Passive Evaluation of the Atmosphere with Signals of Opportunity

Interested in learning about, becoming an expert in, and pushing the boundaries of signal processing and atmospheric sensing?. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Jeunnette, Dr TPFD Dowling, Ms JT Tucker
 21 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Are European Trees at a Tipping Point? Assessing the impact of recent European heatwaves and droughts on tree growth and mortality

Forests provide vital ecosystem services by regulating the hydrological cycle (Spracklen et al. 2012), cooling the land surface (Bonan 2008), and storing large amounts of carbon (Pan et al. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Brienen
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Greening the North, Changing the Climate: Quantifying BVOC-Mediated Feedbacks from High-Latitude Vegetation Change

Project Description. In addition to storing carbon, controlling the reflectivity of the land surface and mediating the transfer of moisture to the atmosphere, the presence of forests can influence the atmospheric concentrations of short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs) including ozone, methane and aerosols. Read more
 Supervisors: Assoc Prof CE Scott, Prof S Arnold, Dr S Turnock, Dr JW Weber
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: AI-assisted rapid on-site evaluation in lung cancer diagnosis: model development and two-centre external validation

Lung cancer is often diagnosed by endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) or robotic-assisted bronchoscopy (RAB), procedure that takes needle samples from tissue in the chest. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof Y Zheng, Prof M Evison, Dr T Fitzmaurice, Dr A Haragan
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Is a Global Magnetic Field Required for Planetary Habitability?

Life on Earth has persisted for billions of years and it is the only planet where we know life exists. Planets such as Mars and Venus may have had conditions amenable to life in the past but cannot currently maintain an abundant biosphere. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Davies, Prof B J W Mills, Prof J Mound
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: MitoFIT: Understanding and restoring mitochondrial health in the ageing brain

Investigate how neurons maintain mitochondrial fitness across a lifetime and translate these insights into strategies to support neuronal survival in ageing and Parkinson’s disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Urbe, Prof M Clague, Dr K McMillan
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: MR Fingerprinting response to anti-seizure medication treatment outcome

Around one in three people with epilepsy do not respond to anti-seizure medication, yet we still cannot predict, at the point of diagnosis, who these patients will be. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Keller, Dr R Mohanraj, Prof T Marson
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Predictive modelling and control of low-cost droplets for micro-engineering

Advances in manufacturing science have resulted in unprecedented research and development in the design of ‘micro-swimmers’. microscopic entities that navigate fluid environments by converting some form of energy–e.g. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N D Desai
 10 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Cell-free assembly and engineering of programmable protein nanocages for mRNA vaccine delivery

Vaccine mRNA can only work if it reaches the part of the cell where proteins are made. Can engineered protein shells protect vaccine mRNA and release it inside cells to produce an antigen, while avoiding excessive inflammation?. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof LN Liu, Prof N Liptrott
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Harnessing cross reactive T-cell responses to prevent future pandemics

Pandemics always arrive without sufficient warning. When a new virus emerges, there is no vaccine ready and no time to build one from scratch. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof L Turtle, Dr K Subramaniam, Prof J Stewart
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: A quantitative micro-MRI platform for validating vascularised cardiac organoids as non-animal models of heart disease

Cardiac organoids are three-dimensional constructs composed of cardiomyocytes, endothelial and fibroblasts. They provide a more physiologically relevant model of the beating heart than conventional cell culture systems and can be used to study cardiac development, function and disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof H Poptani, Dr RB Burton, Dr P Sharma
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)