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Developing effective interfaces for Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) data collection to support prediction and treatment of health conditions in the community

Supervisor. Professor Mark Weal. Health technologies play important roles in earlier prediction of illness and enabling behavioural interventions to help manage conditions in the community. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Weal
 31 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Tiny but mighty? Co-evolution of galaxies and black-holes in the dwarf regime

Supervisor. Professor Manda Banerji. While supermassive black holes are widely known to reside in almost all massive galaxies, studies of supermassive black holes in low-mass "dwarf" galaxies are in their infancy. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Banerji
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Reading emotions: testing predictive processing accounts with EEG and computational modelling

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Understanding what another person is feeling is one of the most fundamental abilities in human social life. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Bach, Dr M Jackson, Dr J Rommers
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Hidden monsters: A new era for understanding obscured black hole growth

Supervisor. Professor Manda Banerji. Our census of supermassive black hole growth is incomplete. Powerful black holes enshrouded in dust have been difficult to detect until now but appear to be numerous in the early Universe. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Banerji
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Interaction of light and sound in emerging hollow core optical fibres

Supervisors. Professor Radan Slavik and Professor Gilberto Brambilla. At the Optoelectronics Research Centre, we are leading the world in developing a new generation of optical fibres that guide light through an empty core rather than glass. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Slavik
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantum signals via hollow core optical fibres

Supervisors. Professor Radan Slavik and Professor Francesco Poletti. Optical fibres can transport telecom signals over long distances. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Slavik
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Inflammatory Fat: Understanding how the immune system drives adipose tissue dysfunction using spatial lipidomics

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. In obesity, adipose tissue can become inflamed with the infiltration of immune cells, particularly macrophages, which surround adipocytes to create crown-like structures. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J.L Griffin, Dr J Rochford, Prof H Wilson
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Ultra-stable hollow core fibre photonics

Supervisor. Professor Radan Slavik. This project will investigate how emerging new class of optical fibres, hollow-core fibres, can revolutionize highly-stable lasers and their applications including accurate time keeping, positioning, or study of Earth seismic activities. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Slavik
 31 July 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: From microbial cargo to host immunity: decoding bacterial extracellular vesicle-mediated signalling in the human gut

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr I Mukhopadhya, Dr W Houssen, Dr T Vogwill
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Metasurface technologies for physical AI: machine learning-enabled nanophotonics for consumer electronics

Supervisors. Dr Xu Fang and Dr Eric Plum. This project will develop next-generation metasurface technologies for Physical AI, using nanostructured optical hardware to integrate sensing and information processing closer to the physical world. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr X Fang
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Reliable detection of cognitive and affective states from biomedical signals

Supervisors. Dr Christoph Tremmel, Dr Nathan Huneke and Professor Stefan Bleeck. Biomedical signals such as electroencephalography (EEG) are widely used to human cognition, physiology, and brain-computer interfaces. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Tremmel
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Deciphering hidden meanings from nonverbal behaviours: a multi-method and multi-level approach to investigating multimodal integration during indirect communication

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Effective communication is not just about understanding what is said. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Chu, Dr B Mathias
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Applying AI to vaccine development in tackling a climate change-driven parasitic disease of salmonid fish.

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Myxozoan parasites are unusual animal parasites causing severe disease in wild and farmed fish species. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Holland, Dr A Jaglarz, Dr H McSorley
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Development of high-performance miniaturised ultrasonic devices for precision minimally invasive surgery

Supervisors. Dr Xuan Li, Dr Andrew Hamilton and Dr Felix Langfeldt. This project, in the field of ultrasonic surgery, focuses on the development of cutting-edge miniature ultrasonic devices targeted for bone surgery. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr X Li
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Dynamic electromagnetic metasurfaces for advanced wave engineering

Supervisor. Dr Sajjd Taravati. Imagine surfaces that reprogram how electromagnetic waves behave in real time, steering, amplifying and even shifting their frequency on demand. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr #s Taravati
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)