We have 40 pipeline PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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 P Jadhawar, Dr S Sriramula, Dr Amir Siddiq

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

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Applying novel imaging methods and machine learning techniques to advance in-vivo knee biomechanics analysis

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Engineering

3 years full time start date July/October 2024. Project Summary. This is an opportunity to work on an exciting project focussed on machine learning applied to in-vivo knee biomechanics working with Cardiff University, Imperial College, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and University of Florida. Read more

Supervisors: Prof C A Holt, Dr DW Williams

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Fixing the leaky pipeline: student transition into Higher Education (HE). Is it time for a rethink?

Anglia Ruskin University ARU Department of Sport & Exercise Science

The initial weeks of a student’s HE life is their most important (Gale and Parker, 2014). This view is used to support targeted sessions, (‘induction activities’), during the student’s first day/week. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Timmis, Dr F Cavallerio, Dr JS Salim

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

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Design and synthesis of next-generation antibody drug conjugates to target homologous recombination deficient cancers

University of Strathclyde Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry

Background. Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) offer a powerful strategy for the cell-selective delivery of therapeutics, while minimizing off-target interactions associated with the drug payload. Read more

Supervisors: Prof G Burley, Dr Z Rattray

3 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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SELF-FUNDED 3.5-YEAR PHD – Automatic segmentation of femur using deep learning combined with phantomless calibration for rapid personalised fracture risk predictions in clinical applications

University of Sheffield Department of Mechanical Engineering

We are excited to announce a new PhD opportunity in the areas of modelling, biomechanics & deep learning. The project is in collaboration with multiple NHS Trusts including the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Read more

Supervisor: Dr X Li

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

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Molecular networks rethought

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology International Max Planck Research School

Background. Mass spectrometry (MS) is the analytical platforms of choice for high-throughput screening of small molecules. Molecular networks have found widespread application in untargeted metabolomics, natural products research and related areas. Read more

Supervisors: Prof S Böcker, Prof G. Pohnert

18 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Self-funded PhD- The genomic basis of major evolutionary transitions

University of Bristol School of Biological Sciences

Life on Earth has undergone several major evolutionary transitions that dramatically changed its biology. These include exciting innovations such as the emergence of multicellular organisms (animals, plants, fungi), the evolution of terrestrial organisms, or parasitism. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Paps

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

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Bottom-Up Construction of a Synthetic Gap Junction

King’s College London School of Natural & Mathematical Sciences

Gap junctions play a crucial role in cellular communication, facilitating direct intercellular exchange of ions and small molecules. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M Wallace, Prof C Lorenz, Dr J Burrone

10 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Full scholarship at EPSRC CDT in Advanced Engineering for Personalised Surgery & Intervention

King’s College London Department of Surgical & Interventional Engineering

Surgery is recognised as an “indivisible, indispensable part of health care” but the NHS struggles to meet its rising demand. Read more

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

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Characterisation of novel therapeutic approaches against invasive breast cancer

University of Dundee School of Medicine

Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the leading cause of death from cancer in women worldwide. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L de la Vega

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Validation of novel combination treatments in lung cancer

University of Dundee School of Medicine

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths and the most common cancer in men and the 2nd most common cancer in women worldwide. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L de la Vega

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Exploiting AI to assist research policy in Agritech/Medtech.

Atlantic Technological University Research

The Postgraduate Research Programme MedAgriTech AI eXcellence (MATX) offers 12 PhD research scholarships to commence in 2024. Each project will include an enterprise placement of minimum 12 weeks duration. Read more

Supervisors: Dr E Ó Colgáin, Dr L Creedon, Dr D Hurley, Dr D Martin

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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NIHR Leeds BRC: Unravelling the pre-clinical immunology of the IL-23/1L-17 axis in axial inflammation in psoriatic arthritis towards optimal disease prevention

University of Leeds Faculty of Medicine and Health

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are key disorders within the seronegative spondylarthropathy (SpA) that was first described in… Read more

Supervisors: Prof D McGonagle, Dr H Marzo-Ortego, Dr T Macleod

Open Day(s) 26 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Dunhill Medical Trust Doctoral Training Programme for Ageing Research: Blood pressure and rehabilitation in ageing. PhD Studentship Ref: 5094

University of Exeter Medical School

Location. The University of Exeter’s Medical School is inviting applications for a 3-year PhD studentship fully-funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust to commence in September 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Masoli, Prof H Dawes, Dr S. T. J McDonagh

18 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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A mixed methods process evaluation of the rehabilitation of older people living with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and frailty Ref: 5093

University of Exeter Medical School

Supervisors. Professor Vicki Goodwin, University of Exeter. Professor Julia Frost, University of Exeter. Dr Sam Van Buerden, University of Exeter. Read more

Supervisors: Dr V Goodwin, Dr J Frost, Dr S van Beurden

18 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of goal-oriented reading

Aberdeen University School of Psychology

Reading in everyday life is a context-sensitive and goal-sensitive process. Reading a textbook for an exam is very different from reading your favourite novel. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Klimovich-Gray

19 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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PhD Bursary in Virtual Production

Arts University Bournemouth

The ‘Production Cultures’ of Virtual Production. Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) is pleased to offer one part-time fees only bursary for the above PhD opportunity to outstanding applicants seeking to begin a programme of research with AUB in September 2024. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only) Arts Research Programme

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Unravelling the role of corrosion products in the localised corrosion of large scale energy system infrastructure

University of Leeds Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Research Group: School of Mechanical Engineering

Carbon dioxide (CO2) corrosion of carbon steel is a degradation mechanism observed across mature and new energy systems, as well as carbon abatement technologies such as Carbon Capture and Storage. Read more

Supervisors: Prof Richard Barker, Dr J J Owen

Open Day(s) 31 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Image-based Recognition of Unidentified Featured Objects (UFOs)

Kingston University Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment

With the development of deep learning approaches and convolutional neural networks (CNN) in particular, the task of recognising objects from an image has become associated with the ability to train a network using a large number of labelled images for each class of interest [He2016]. Read more

Supervisor: Prof JC Nebel

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

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Identification and characterisation of liquids using ultrasound and machine learning

Kingston University Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment

This project involves further development of an analytical system for identifying and characterising liquids based on the formation of liquid drops and employing interferometric ultrasound methods to investigate them. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Augousti

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

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Advancing Deep Learning (DL) Techniques for Medical Image Analysis

Kingston University Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment

Introduction. . Lately, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated competitive performance in medical image analysis tasks, such as disease classification, tumor segmentation, and lesion detection [1]. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Rahim

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

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Differential Privacy (DP) mechanisms for Large Language Models (LLMs)

Kingston University Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionised various fields with remarkable performance across diverse tasks. However, their training often relies on massive datasets scraped from the internet, which may contain sensitive personal information. Read more

Supervisor: Dr H Yuan

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

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PhD in Cyber-Physical Systems for Medicine Development and Manufacturing

University of Strathclyde Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences

Join CMAC and our partners for an exciting PhD journey, pioneering the future of medicines development and manufacturing. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Florence, Dr D Markl

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

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Transport transitions and e-mobility adoption in sub-Saharan Africa

University of Strathclyde Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Transport-energy transitions pose complex challenges that have been extensively studied in high-income countries in response to national mandates for climate action. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J D Dixon, Dr N S Ferguson

31 July 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Funded 9 Doctoral Candidate positions HORIZON-MSCA-Doctoral Network PROSTAMET

KU Leuven

PROSTAMET is an immersive Doctoral Network (DN), that through the set-up of a unique comprehensive and modular translational pipeline aims to expose high achieving doctoral candidates to the complete research chain from cutting-edge molecular discovery all the way to innovative drug development, while focusing on the underexplored clinical potential of altered lipid metabolism in prostate cancer. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Belgium PhD Programme

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Exploring the value of using large third-party artificial intelligence models in epidemiology, with examples using Twitter/X data

University of Bristol Bristol Medical School

Large language models (LLMs) are an artificial intelligence approach that typically have a very large number of parameters (e.g. millions or billions) and have been trained on extremely large datasets. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Millard

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

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Metabolomic characterisation of adiposity across the life course

University of Bristol Bristol Medical School

There is evidence that adiposity, measured by body mass index (BMI), causally influences a range of health outcomes, but little understanding of the mechanisms driving BMI effects. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Corbin

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

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Probabilistic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence

Lancaster University Department of Mathematics and Statistics

We are currently seeking a number of PhD researchers in areas of Probability, Statistics and Machine Learning for the £8.5m EPSRC-funded hub on Probabilistic AI (Prob_AI Hub). Read more

Supervisors: Prof P Fearnhead, Prof Chris Nemeth

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

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(University of Manchester - University of Tokyo Dual Award) Diversifying Antitumor Drugs through the Integration of Synthetic Biology and Chemo-enzymatic Approaches

The University of Manchester Department of Chemistry

Ecteinascidin 743 (ET-743, Trabectedin) is a marine-derived natural organic compound approved for the treatment of soft tissue sarcomas. Read more

Supervisors: Prof E Takano, Prof H Oguri

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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UK Atomic Energy Authority sponsored PhD scholarship – Developing a Miniaturised End-effector for Repair in Confined Spaces (F0200915)

University of Nottingham Faculty of Engineering

Applicants are invited to undertake a 3-year PhD program in partnership with the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to address key challenges in on-platform repair automation. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Mohammad

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

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We have 40 pipeline PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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