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King’s College London PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 40 King’s College London PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Developing treatment guidance to support military personnel affected by deployment-related psychological distress

We are looking to recruit a PhD candidate who is interested to develop understanding of how mental health causalities can be assessed and triaged during potential future large-scale combat operations (LSCO). Read more
 Supervisors: Prof E Jones, Dr C Williamson
 8 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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King’s Prize Doctoral Programme in Safe, Trusted and Responsible Artificial Intelligence

Project description. Robot Autonomy will require the systems or robots to set up their own agenda (in line with the tasks they are meant to do), defining the next goals to achieve and discarding those who can’t be completed. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Canal
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Computational approaches for mapping political polarisation in the age of AI

Many claim that society is increasingly "polarised". But what does that actually mean, and what data is there to support such a claim?. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MF Falkenberg
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Economics Research Mphil/PhD

King's Business School invites applications for full-time and part-time students in Economic Research, to start in October 2027. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only)  Business Research Programme
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Management Research Mphil/PhD

King's Business School invites applications for full-time and part-time students in Management Studies, to start in October 2027. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Business Research Programme
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Quantifying Landslide Impacts across Europe using AI

Landslides occur throughout Europe, disrupting infrastructure, ecosystems and communities, yet their impacts remain poorly quantified at continental scale. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Taylor, Dr L Nava, Dr A Novellino, Dr E Hussain
 14 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Non-destructive in situ and satellite-based leaf water content estimation for improved agricultural and wildfire management

Based at King’s College London and in collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL; https://www.npl.co.uk/research/earth-observation), this CASE project will develop new non-destructive methods for estimating leaf water content using low-cost ground-based sensors and satellite Earth observation, demonstrating their potential for crop stress detection and assessment of wildfire risk. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Mulligan, Dr L Brown, Dr J Nightingale, Dr H Morris
 14 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Human-Robot Interaction at King’s College London

This 3.5-year fully funded PhD studentship is funded through CO-STAR (CO-designing Socially inTelligent Assistive Robots for Future Healthcare), a Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust/Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship project led by Dr Oya Celiktutan. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr O Celiktutan
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Molecular mechanisms of RNA–Protein interactions and their dysregulation in human disease

Project Summary. Cells employ RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) to control gene expression during development and stress. Many of these proteins contain intrinsically disordered regions and undergo dynamic regulation through post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr F Prischi
 25 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium (LIDo)

The London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium (LIDo) is an immensely successful and established collaborative partnership offering world-class interdisciplinary PhD studentships. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  4 Year PhD Programme  BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership
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Targeted fungal antibody–drug conjugates for candidalysin neutralisation in Candida albicans infection

Fungal infections are an increasing global health problem, and treatment options remain limited. This PhD project will develop a new therapeutic strategy for Candida albicans, a major human fungal pathogen. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Naglik, Prof M Rahman, Prof C Munro, Dr SP Palliyil
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Development of integrative computational tools for refinement and modelling in structural biology

For more information and to apply, please visit the institution website. Entry point. 1 February 2027. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Steiner
 16 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Lattice-based Cryptography

The threat of large-scale, general-purpose quantum computers to existing public-key cryptographic solutions has led to global efforts to standardise post-quantum cryptography as a replacement. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Albrecht
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War

Transforming Understanding | Shaping a Free Future. The vast majority of contemporary conflicts involve some form of modern slavery. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Research Programme
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Full PhD scholarship in tip vortex and turbine wakes control funded by ERC

This fully funded PhD studentship is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project MISSMAPS – MIcroScale Solutions for MAcroscale problems. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr YL Liu
 1 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)