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Mitigating LLM-Generated Disinformation via Machine Unlearning: Toward Safer Generative AI

Edinburgh Napier University

School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

False and harmful narratives propagated by large language models threaten the integrity of information in elections, public health, and crisis response. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Z Tan, Dr YY Yu

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

From ideal to real: Simulation study of laser-plasma imaging performance for future industrial imaging

The University of Manchester

Cockcroft Institute

Department. Physics and Astronomy. Research Group. Accelerator Physics Group. Institution. University of Manchester. Application deadline. Read more

Supervisor: Dr O Apsimon

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

High power laser plasma acceleration – making accelerators smaller, cheaper, better

University of Liverpool

Cockcroft Institute

About the Project. Applications are invited for a fully funded studentship from Oct 2026 in laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (LWFA). Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Corner

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

Understanding emerging behaviours in networks of pulse-coupled oscillators

University of Aberdeen

School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Rubido, Dr E Ullner

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

Terahertz-Integrated Structures for Novel Accelerators

The University of Manchester

Cockcroft Institute

Develop next-generation particle accelerators powered by laser-driven terahertz (THz) radiation. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D Graham

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

Modelling the Self-Regulatory Feedback of the Androgen Receptor under Testosterone Influence

University of Aberdeen

School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E Ullner

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

Nonlinear Time-Series Analysis for Sparsely Sampled, Noisy Stellar Light Curves

University of Aberdeen

School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Sandip, Dr M S Baptista

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

Muon Tomographic Reconstruction of Intense Magnetic Fields

University of Sheffield

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Research Group: Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics

Fusion energy, a promising clean energy source, faces significant challenges, one of which is the containment of extremely high-temperature plasma. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Stowell, Dr R S Jones

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

Modelling Neutrino Interactions for Next Generation Neutrino Experiments

University of Sheffield

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Research Group: Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics

Neutrinos play a crucial role in our understanding of the universe. Their ability to oscillate between different flavours (electron, muon, and tau) provides a window into the fundamental properties of matter and the nature of the weak force. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Stowell, Dr R S Jones

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

Silicon Sensor Particle Detectors for the Upgrade of the ATLAS Experiment and other Detectors at the CERN LHC

University of Sheffield

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Research Group: Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics

A position is open for an enthusiastic particle physics PhD student to conduct research in developing silicon sensor technologies in use at the energy frontier at the ATLAS experiment. Read more

Supervisors: Dr T Vickey, Dr K Lohwasser

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

Mixed Field Neutron and Gamma Ray Sensors for Precision Farming

University of Sheffield

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Research Group: Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics

Precision agriculture, a data-driven approach to farming, relies on accurate and timely information about soil properties. Neutron and gamma ray sensing offers a non-destructive and in-situ method to measure soil moisture, density, and elemental composition. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Stowell, Dr R S Jones

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

Cosmic-Ray Muons in Different Applications

University of Sheffield

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Research Group: Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics

Cosmic-ray muons are known to be useful in applications beyond particle astrophysics. They have helped with mapping structure of volcanoes and with finding voids in various geological structures. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R S Jones, Dr P Stowell

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

Searching for Triple Higgs Boson Production with the ATLAS Experiment at the CERN LHC

University of Sheffield

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Research Group: Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics

It's widely believed that the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is an incomplete theory. The 125 GeV Higgs boson, discovered by the CERN ATLAS and CMS Experiments, is a crucial probe for physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) of particle physics. Read more

Supervisors: Dr T Vickey, Dr C Anastopoulos

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

Searching for Sterile Neutrinos and other Beyond the Standard Model phenomena with SBND

University of Sheffield

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Research Group: Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics

The SBND (Short-Baseline Near Detector) experiment is part of the multi-detector Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) programme located along the Booster Neutrino Beamline at Fermilab, USA. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R S Jones, Prof E Daw

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

Rheological studies of self-assembled peptide-based hydrogels towards injectable biocompatible hydrogels for cells and drugs in-vivo delivery

The University of Manchester

Department of Chemical Engineering

Self-funded PhD Opportunity. Rheological studies of self-assembled peptide-based hydrogels towards injectable biocompatible hydrogels for cells and drugs in-vivo delivery. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Flores, Dr A Saiani, Prof A Miller

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

Beyond Pairwise Interactions: Exploring Higher-Order Dynamics in Complex Systems

University of Aberdeen

School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr F Perez-Reche, Dr J.B. Gramain

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

The Algorithmic Mirror: Identity, Perception and Trust in the Age of AI (Ref: CO/OB-SF2/2026)

Loughborough University

Department of Computer Science

Algorithms are no longer just tools, they are lenses that shape how we see the world and ourselves. Every recommendation, ranking or personalised feed reflects back fragments of our behaviour, creating what can be thought of as an algorithmic mirror. Read more

Supervisor: Prof O Buckley

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

Unitary quantum gravity and the fate of black holes

University of Sheffield

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Research Group: Applied Mathematics

Black holes have now been observed in detail via astrophysical observations, detections of gravitational waves and pictures of the event horizon. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Gielen

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

Chaos-based cryptography

University of Aberdeen

School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M S Baptista

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

Phase Transitions and Emergent Behaviour in Large Language Models

University of Aberdeen

School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M Thiel, Prof M. C. Romano

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

Giant planet atmospheric modelling

University of Aberdeen

School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Young, Dr N Rubido

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

Exploring Venus’ atmosphere using data assimilation

University of Aberdeen

School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Young, Dr G Sandip

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

Spacetime emergence and cosmological dynamics in group field theory

University of Sheffield

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Research Group: Applied Mathematics

Many theories of quantum gravity agree that the spacetime geometry of Einstein’s general relativity needs to be replaced by a different underlying structure. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Gielen

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

Mathematical Modelling of Clonal Dynamics and Mutation-Driven Transformation in Human Haematopoiesis

University of Aberdeen

School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Moura, Prof M. C. Romano, Prof M A Vickers

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

Machine-learning Analysis and Modelling of Histone Chaperone Function

University of Aberdeen

School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Angel, Dr E Ullner

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

Coarse geometry of groups with bi-invariant metrics

University of Aberdeen

School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Prof Jarek Kedra, Dr A Libman

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

Graph-based techniques for image processing

University of Aberdeen

School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Prof B Martin, Prof M. C. Romano

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

Multi-modal machine learning for cybersecurity in the Internet-of-Things (IoT)

Edinburgh Napier University

School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

With the time, the intruders are becoming more intelligent with higher ability of attacking networks without being identified. Multi-modal machine learning-based intelligent intrusion detection systems must be designed to identify stealthy and adversarial cyber attacks. Read more

Supervisor: Dr SUJ Ullah Jan

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

Combinatorial Representation Theory: Partitions and Basic Sets

University of Aberdeen

School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J.B. Gramain, Dr W Turner

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

Deep machine learning for zero-day adversarial intrusion detection in Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems

Edinburgh Napier University

School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The increasing demand of secure and reliable communication has never been higher due to elevated number of applications in the present-day world such as the Internet of Things (IoT). Read more

Supervisor: Dr SUJ Ullah Jan

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

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