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Miniaturised Mid-Infrared Photonic Systems for Gas Detection and Mapping

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Professor Goran Mashanovich and Dr. Milos Nedeljkovic. This project explores compact mid-infrared (mid-IR) LiDAR systems for gas sensing. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Mashanovich

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

Sub-Polar North Atlantic ocean dynamics in a 3ºC warmer world

University of Birmingham

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Northwest Eurasia owes its anomalously temperate climate to the oceanic circulation cell known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Read more

Supervisors: Dr T Dunkley Jones, Dr K Edgar, Dr J Bendle

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

The Chemistry of Energetic Coordination Compounds

University of Birmingham

School of Chemistry

This PhD project aims at fundamental research into the discovery of novel energetic materials. Results will inform solutions to challenges posed by current requirements to remove heavy metals and perchlorate from energetic materials such as propellants, explosives and pyrotechnics. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P P Portius

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

Development of Specialty Optical Fibres for High-power Eye-safe Fibre Lasers

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Professor Jayanta Sahu and Professor Johan Nilsson. Read more

Supervisor: Prof J Sahu

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

Community Noise Prediction for eVTOL aircraft during flight phase transition

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Sergi Palleja Cabre and Dr Chaitanya Paruchuri. This PhD project investigates noise from eVTOL aircraft during transitional flight phases, aiming to improve prediction methods and assess perceived noise using virtual reality. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Palleja Cabre

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

Quantum-Enabled Memristors for Neural Interface Engineering

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisors. Prof. Liudi Jiang ldjiang@soton.ac.uk. Dr. Ruomeng Huang R.Huang@soton.ac.uk. 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: Prof L. Jiang

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

2D Materials as Quantum Sensors

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisors. Dr Makars Šiškins m.siskins@soton.ac.uk. 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 MS Šiškins

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

Driving simulation for assessment and rehabilitation

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Rich McIlroy, Professor Michael Hornberger and Dr Ruth Turk. This PhD explores how driving simulators can be used to assess and train driving skills, and support rehabilitation following injury, illness, or disability. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R McIlroy

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

Waste Utilisation for Sustainable Resource Recovery and Carbon Capture

The University of Manchester

Department of Civil Engineering and Management

This project will involve the development of a novel approach that combines waste utilization and carbon capture technologies to address pressing environmental concerns and promote sustainable resource management. Read more

Supervisor: Prof C Unluer

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

Bio-inspired control of non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layers for efficient low-noise aerofoils

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Professor Jae-Wook Kim. This project aims to study and identify the beneficial effects of using bio-inspired geometry on aerofoils, enhancing aerodynamic efficiency and reducing the noise generated from non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layers. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J.W. Kim

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

Design and synthesis of photoresponsive organic spin-state switches

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisors. Dr George Williams G.t.williams@soton.ac.uk; Dr Karl Michael Ziems K.M.Ziems@soton.ac.uk. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Williams

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

Energy-efficient multicore fibre amplifiers for future submarine networks

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Yongmin Jung and Dr Sijing Liang. This PhD project develops next-generation multicore fibre amplifiers for sustainable submarine networks. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Jung

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

Advancing Sustainable Concrete Production through Industrial Solid Waste Utilisation and Carbon Sequestration

The University of Manchester

Department of Civil Engineering and Management

This project will focus on the utilisation of industrial solid wastes in concrete formulations by implementing advanced carbonation techniques and further developing methods to enhance reaction mechanisms. Read more

Supervisor: Prof C Unluer

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

Sparse Variational Quantum Machine Learning

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisors. Thomas Blumensath thomas.blumensath@soton.ac.uk. Xaohao Cai X.Cai@soton.ac.uk. 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 T Blumensath

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

Optoelectronic device integration for next-Generation photonic memories and neuromorphic computing

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Professor Dimitra Georgiadou and Professor Frederic Gardes. This project focuses on developing nanostructured optoelectronic devices for next-generation photonic memory and neuromorphic computing. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D Georgiadou

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

Nanostructured neural architectures for sustainable neuromorphic computing

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Professor Dimitra Georgiadou. Artificial intelligence is transforming society but comes with a growing energy and carbon cost. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D Georgiadou

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

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)

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