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We have 3,657 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Genetic and Acoustic Diversity in an Invasive Parrot

University of Salford

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

The ring-necked parakeet Psittacula krameri is one of the world’s most successfully introduced species. Native to the Indian sub-continent and sub-Saharan Africa, this species is the UK’s only naturalised parrot, and populations are continuing to increase rapidly across Europe. Read more

Supervisor: Dr AEL Leedale

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

Gallium Oxide-based RF power devices with thermal management

University of Bristol

School of Physics

Gallium Oxide-based RF power devices with thermal management. Research Project . High power radio frequency (RF) semiconductor technologies are of critical importance to a wide range of applications including defence, aerospace, science, medicine, and industrial heating. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Kuball

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

Characterising the virome diversity of malaria vectors and its potential role in blocking transmission

University of Salford

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Malaria is the most devastating vector borne disease worldwide. The World Health Organisation estimates around ~500,000 people are killed each year, with ~250 million infected. Read more

Supervisors: Dr LB Brettell, Dr HM Matthews

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

Space-Time Quantum Metasurfaces for Fault-Tolerant, Scalable Quantum Computing

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Taravati

31 July 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Assessing How Propolis Composition Affects Honey Bee Health

University of Salford

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Honey bees are the most important pollinators globally in terms of the diversity and abundance of plants they pollinate. They also pollinate wild plants and produce honey, wax and other bee products. Read more

Supervisors: Dr GE Ebiloma, Dr LB Brettell

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

Causal inference and trial emulation for ecological and/or environmental observational data

University of St Andrews

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Conducting formal causal inference for ecological and/or environmental data is challenging due to the complex observational processes that are usually involved. Read more

Supervisors: Dr BS Swallow, Dr H Worthington

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

Movement through space and time; realistic movement for species abundance methods

University of St Andrews

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Evidence-based conservation and ecology are reliant on wildlife surveys. As a result, there exists a range of methods that have been developed specifically with the aim of estimating animal abundance and animal distribution. Read more

Supervisors: Dr H Worthington, Dr M Papathomas

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

Improving estimates of uncertainty in wildlife population assessments

University of St Andrews

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling

Reliable estimates of wildlife population size are fundamental to effective management and conservation. One important component of reliability is the precision (or, conversely, variance) of the estimate. Read more

Supervisor: Prof L Thomas

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

EASTBIO: Tracing the fitness effects of new mutations across evolutionary timescales

University of St Andrews

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Statistical Medicine and Molecular Biology

Mutations are the raw material of evolution. they generate the variation on which natural selection acts. Understanding their fate is therefore key to a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Borges, Dr C Kosiol

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

Understanding the uncertainty in the decomposition of cancer gene or protein expression data

University of St Andrews

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Many tools exist that will take the expression profile of a tumour sample and decompose that signal into components arising from different tissue types (e.g. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Papathomas, Prof A Lynch

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

Stochastic modelling and inference for live-cell gene expression time-series data to unravel the mechanisms of stem cell differentiation

University of St Andrews

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Mathematical Biology Group

This project will develop statistical methodology for noisy time-series data and stochastic computational models to analyse live-cell imaging data provided by the lab of our collaborator Dr Cerys Manning at the University of Manchester. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Minas, Dr J Kursawe

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

Deep Vision - A Machine Vision Framework for the Detection and Classification of non explored Pig Behaviour

University of Salford

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Traditional methods for monitoring pig welfare on large farms are labour-intensive and often fail to detect early signs of distress. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Alameer, Dr T Mansouri

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

Stochastic simulation, analysis, and inference of non-linear dynamical systems

University of St Andrews

School of Mathematics and Statistics

This project aims to create a new framework for studying the dynamics of systems that exhibit periodic behaviour or multiple equilibria. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Minas

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

Obesity, Prostate Cancer and DNA methylation

University of St Andrews

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Statistical Medicine and Molecular Biology

Prostate Cancer is the most common cancer in men in the US and UK. Obesity is a known risk factor for many cancers and levels of obesity are increasing. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Lynch, Dr BB Baer

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

Inferring Events from Phylogenetic Analysis of Eyewitness Testimony in the Historical and Forensic Record

University of St Andrews

School of Mathematics and Statistics

This project will consider if we can use phylogenetic analysis to correct for imperfections in eyewitness testimony. Eyewitness testimony from events with multiple witnesses is often inconsistent and sometime contradictory. Read more

Supervisors: Dr BB Baer, Dr CP Paxton

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

Improved survival analyses in molecular cancer studies

University of St Andrews

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Statistical Medicine and Molecular Biology

Improved survival (whether this is literal survival, time to a change in symptoms, or time to disease progression) is a key outcome in cancer research. Read more

Supervisors: Dr BB Baer, Prof A Lynch

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

Discovering Therapeutic Targets for ALS Using CRISPR-dCas9 Single-Cell Perturb-Seq in Patient-Derived Motor Neurons

Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Genomics and Cellular Biology

Project Description. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease with no effective cure. Although several causal mutations (e.g. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Weatheritt

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

Functional redox-active bionanomaterials for electrochemical biosensing

University of Salford

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Functional bionanomaterials have significant potential in the development of advanced bioelectronic systems for sensing and diagnostics. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Lehr

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

Discovery and Engineering of Novel Hemicellulases from Under-Studied Environments for Sustainable Biomass Conversion

University of Salford

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

The escalating demand for renewable materials and sustainable energy is driving urgent interest in efficient biomass conversion technologies. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Ferry, Dr AMDDR Mayri Diaz De Rienzo

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

Quantifying Seagrass Natural Capital — Global Meta-Analysis of Biodiversity Gain and Ecosystem Service Functions for Marine Accounting

University of Salford

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Seagrass meadows are among the planet’s most valuable coastal ecosystems, yet their contribution to natural capital—the stock of nature supporting economic and social wellbeing—remains poorly quantified. Read more

Supervisor: Dr MDCL Do Amaral Camara Lima

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

AI-Driven Integration of Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicles in Multi-Microgrid Systems: Enhancing Resilience, Security, and Decarbonization

University of Salford

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

This interdisciplinary PhD project aims to explore the intelligent integration of renewable energy sources and Fuel Cells into multi-microgrid systems, with a focus on enhancing resilience, cyber-physical security, and decarbonization. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Sundaram, Dr A Nourian

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

Resilient resource allocation in dynamic settings under uncertainty (RRADSU)

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Bahar Rastegari, Professor Sebastian Stein and Dr Vahid Yazdanpanah. The main goal is to improve the state-of-the-art mechanisms for the allocation of scare resources from different, and not always compatible, perspectives of efficiency, fairness and resilience. Read more

Supervisor: Dr BR Rastegari

30 June 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Technology Enhanced Chemical Synthesis (TECS)

University of Bristol

School of Chemistry

Our PhD programme combines world-leading research in Chemical Synthesis with state-of-the-art training in technology and automation to prepare you for a career in modern synthetic chemistry, whether in industry or academic research. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training

Physics-Informed Data Assimilation in Wall-Bounded Turbulence

University of Sheffield

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Research Group: Applied Mathematics

Data assimilation combines physical models with experimental or numerical data to produce dynamically consistent flow reconstructions. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Y Li, Dr A P Willis

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

Beyond ΛCDM: Testing New Physics with the CMB and Large-Scale Structure

University of Sheffield

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Research Group: Applied Mathematics

Precision measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from Planck have established ΛCDM as the standard cosmological model. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E Divalentino

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

LSE PhD studentships for 2026/27 entry

London School of Economics and Political Science

LSE Research Studentship Scheme

Want to know more? Ask LSE. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is the world's leading dedicated social science institution. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Social Sciences Research Programme

Resilient design of submerged infrastructure under complex hydrodynamic conditions

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Gustavo de Almeida and Dr Sergio Maldonado. This project investigates hydrodynamic interactions between environmental flows, submerged infrastructure, and sediments to enhance the resilience of critical structures such as bridge piers and offshore energy foundations. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G A M de Almeida

31 July 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Intelligent Nanofabrication for Nanophotonics

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Prof Kevin MacDonald, Dr Ben Mills and Prof Nikolay Zheludev. Focused ion beam (FIB) milling is a key enabling technology in physical sciences research and industrial micro/nanotech manufacturing. Read more

Supervisor: Prof K MacDonald

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

Integrating advanced source models for improved airport noise assessment

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Sergi Palleja Cabre, Emeritus Professor Rod Self and Dr Daniel Constantinos Amargianitakis. This PhD project focuses on improving aircraft noise prediction for emerging technologies at early design stages. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Palleja Cabre

31 July 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

Detection of ionising radiation using optical hollow-core fibres

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr. Hans Christian Hansen Mulvad, Dr. Ian A. Davidson, Prof. Austin Taranta and Prof. Tony Bird. This project will explore the use of lasers and optical hollow-core fibres to detect ionising radiation, aiming to realise distributed radiation sensing along a single fibre. Read more

Supervisor: Dr H Mulvad

31 August 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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