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Changing climates: Unlocking the past to improve predictions of the future

University of Leeds
School of Earth & Environment
Background. Equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is the long-term global mean temperature increase expected from a doubling of atmospheric CO₂ concentration compared to pre-industrial levels. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Ivanovic
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Reducing uncertainty in the effect of shipping on climate change.

University of Leeds
School of Earth & Environment
Background. The influence of aerosol particles (e.g., emitted by transport and energy generation) on Earth’s energy balance is a major uncertainty in climate science. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Grosvenor, Prof K Carslaw, Dr L A Regayre
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Will Greenland Reach a Tipping Point? Using Ice Age Evidence to Predict Its Future

University of Leeds
School of Earth & Environment
Background. The Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest contributor to sea-level rise and may undergo irreversible retreat if critical warming thresholds are exceeded. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Gregoire, Dr R Ivanovic
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Communicating model uncertainty in climate information to decision makers

University of Leeds
Leeds University Business School
Background. Climate information contains uncertainty arising from many sources. For climate information to support decision making it is important that those using it are aware of uncertainty in order to avoid maladaptation and loss of trust in institutions providing climate information and services. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr AL Taylor
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Magnetically Engineered Austenitic Steels for Low Thermal Expansion and High-Temperature Strength

University of Leicester
College of Science & Engineering
  Research Group: Alloy Design & Phase Transformations Research Group
A steel can be strong at high temperature and still be difficult to use if it expands too much. In large components and joints between different alloys, repeated heating and cooling can create stresses that shorten service life. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr GEF El Fallah
 15 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Unraveling Infrastructure Risk: Climate Extremes and the Future of Urban Resilience

University of Leeds
School of Earth & Environment
Background. The UK’s Fourth Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA4), published May 2026, calls for a stronger evidence base for action on climate risks, particularly heat & rainfall hazards in the built environment and supporting infrastructure systems. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Dawson, Prof JL Lowe
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Reducing Uncertainty in Aerosol-Driven Monsoon Variability and Climate Risk

University of Leeds
School of Earth & Environment
Background. Asian monsoons provide water resources for billions of people across South and East Asia, yet their response to human activities remains one of the largest uncertainties in regional climate science. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L A Regayre, Prof K Carslaw
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Computing Rare Climate Event Probabilities Using Stochastic Modelling and Advanced Sampling Methods

University of Leeds
School of Mathematics (part of EPS)
Background. Extreme events such as prolonged heatwaves can have devastating societal and economic impacts. The July 2022 UK heatwave led to record-breaking temperatures and about 850 excess deaths in two days. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Ben Rached, Dr S Fitzgerald
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Turning fragmented climate data into decision tools: who is most at risk, and how sure are we?

University of Leeds
Leeds University Business School
Background. Climate change does not put everyone in the same danger. Whether a heatwave, flood or drought becomes a disaster depends on where the hazard lands and on who and what is exposed. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Siraj, Dr AL Taylor
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Social acceptability of biodiversity friendly grassland management

Anglia Ruskin University ARU
School of Life Sciences
The various management options for grassland in urban green spaces, around road infrastructure and in gardens stimulates a diversity of opinions within local communities with potential for strong disagreements over approaches taken. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Helden, Dr EC Cini, Mr G Belcher
 15 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Next Generation Optical Instrumentation for Combustion Characterisation and Sustainable Energy Transition (S3.5-ELE-Hobbs)

University of Sheffield
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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 MH Hobbs, Prof Y Zhang
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Zoo Spaces and Equitable Nature Connection

Anglia Ruskin University ARU
School of Life Sciences
This PhD will evaluate how UK zoo education programmes and zoo spaces foster public connection to nature and drive behaviour change. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Nekaris, Dr M Rohse, Dr E Lee, Dr C Tatchley
 15 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The role of culture in human biological evolution

Anglia Ruskin University ARU
School of Life Sciences
Humans are unique in the extent to which behavioural variation due to culture has the potential to impact our biological evolution. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Hodgson, Prof A Manica
 15 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Spatiotemporal Attribution and Causal Interpretability in Event-Driven Spiking Neural Networks for Neuromorphic Vision Systems (Neuro-XAI) (S3.5-ELE-Abhayaratne)

University of Sheffield
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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 C A Abhayaratne, Prof A Maiden
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Surgical Capsule-size Devices for Non-invasive Gastrointestinal Therapies (in collaboration with IntroMedic and Sheffield Teaching Hospital) (C3.5-ELE-Damian)

University of Sheffield
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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 D Damian, Dr C Chen
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Swallowable Self-Assembling Robots for 3D Printing Inside the Body (S3.5-ELE-Miyashita)

University of Sheffield
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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 Miyashita, Dr T Paterson
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Imaging the Invisible: Pushing the Boundaries of 3D X-Ray Microscopy (in collaboration with Diamond Light Source) (C3.5-ELE-Maiden)

University of Sheffield
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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 A Maiden, Dr C A Abhayaratne
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Source-Independent Protection for Inverter-Dominated Power Networks

The University of Manchester
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
This fully funded 3.5-year PhD studentship is open to home students only. It covers home tuition fees and a tax-free annual stipend at the standard UKRI rate. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Liu Liu
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Uncertainty in AI-Augmented Climate Risk Analytics for Global Food Supply Chains

University of Leeds
School of Earth & Environment
Background. The global food system faces escalating climate risks, where local production shocks (droughts, floods, or heatwaves) cascade through trade networks, threatening food security worldwide. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Cremades, Prof N S Malleson
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Project 19 - Quantifying In-Sewer Chemical Attenuation to Improve Environmental Exposure Models (John Wilkinson, University of York)

University of York
Department of Environment and Geography
Investigate how chemicals are transformed and removed as they travel through sewer networks, combining real-world monitoring, environmental chemistry and modelling to improve predictions of their eventual release into the environment. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Wilkinson, Prof JS Snape, Dr J Mosely, Dr K Endersby, Dr S Harrison, Dr Cansu Uluseker
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Project 18 - The ecology of toxicological non-target effects (Andrew Beckerman, University of Sheffield)

University of Sheffield
ECOSOLUTIONS
This PhD focuses on mathematical modelling of how species interactions mediate the impacts of chemical stress on biodiversity, particularly in terrestrial ecosystems where we know the least and where we need to make strong inroads to support biodiversity and humanity in the Anthropocene. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Beckerman, Prof D Spurgeon, Dr N Galic
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Scholarship Project: Membrane reactors

Imperial College London
Department of Chemical Engineering
Catalysis is central to modern chemical manufacturing, yet many industrial processes remain energy-intensive, wasteful, and carbon-intensive. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof K Li
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Close Encounters: Interaction of turbulent boundary layers with junctions

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Supervisory Team. Professor Bharath Ganapathisubramani. About the project. Close Encounters explores how wings, fuselages, trusses and other aerodynamic components interact to generate complex pressure gradients and how this affects the performance of turbulent boundary layers. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr B Ganapathisubramani
 14 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Ways to achieve maximum feasible reduction in aerosol radiative forcing uncertainty

University of Leeds
School of Earth & Environment
Background. Anthropogenic aerosols cause substantial cooling of climate that offsets some of the warming by greenhouse gases, but the uncertainty is very large. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof K Carslaw, Dr L A Regayre
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Project 17 - Reducing chemical pollution through future farming systems: Understanding consumers' responses to underutilized crops and implications for the environment. (Eleanor Jew, University of York)

University of York
Department of Environment and Geography
Are you passionate about solving complex environmental challenges? Interested in creating non-toxic environments that benefit society and nature alike?… Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E Jew, Prof T Webb, Dr Martha Villamizar Velez
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Design and synthesis of novel enzyme substrates for the detection of pathogenic microorganisms (Ref: RDFC26/SE/GNS/TURNBULL)

Northumbria University
School of Geography and Natural Sciences
Background. This project builds upon a 30-year collaboration between Northumbria University, the Freeman Hospital (Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Trust), and bioMérieux – a multinational biotechnology company. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Turnbull
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Business PhDs at a leading university

University of East Anglia
Faculty of Social Sciences
Norwich Business School is one of the top business schools in the UK, but what really makes us the ideal place to research and study for PhD?. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Business Research Programme
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Doctorates in Education and Lifelong Learning

University of East Anglia
School of Education and Lifelong Learning
Doctorates in Education and Lifelong Learning. UEA’s School of Education and Lifelong Learning is one of the UK's premier centres for teaching and research in professional education and training. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Social Sciences Research Programme
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Project 16 - Investigating the potential of regenerative agriculture to reduce environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions through reducing chemical fertiliser, herbicide and pesticide inputs (Ben Keane, University of York)

University of York
Department of Environment and Geography
Are you passionate about solving complex environmental challenges? Interested in creating non-toxic environments that benefit society and nature alike?… Read more
 Supervisors: Dr BK Keane, Prof J Edmondson, Dr R Wade, Prof P Chapman
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Economics PhD studentships

University of East Anglia
Faculty of Social Sciences
Economics PhD studentships at a leading university. The School of Economics at UEA is one of the top-ranked economics departments in the UK, proudly combining an internationally-leading reputation for research with the highest standards in teaching and academic support for our students. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Business Research Programme
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