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EastBio: The role of colour in food recognition, attention and behavioural choice

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Hesse, Prof A Sahraie
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Cybersecurity for brain–computer interfaces: protecting neural data inside the implant

Supervisor. Dr Majid Zamani. A brain implant cannot be given a new password. Neural data reveals intention and identity, and once stolen it cannot be reset. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Zamani
 31 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Hunting for black holes in the galaxy

Supervisor. Professor Poshak Gandhi. How are black holes born in supernova explosions? In this project, you will take a leading role in analysing data from a world-leading study of the Milky Way's black hole population, investigating their space densities, kinematics and growth rates. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Gandhi
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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EastBio: A synbio approach to generate artificial molecular muscles

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. “Molecular muscles” is a term referring to molecules that can contract and stretch under a chemical signal. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr W Houssen, Prof M Jaspars
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Market failure or market adaptation? rethinking cybercrime and cybersecurity markets

Supervisors. Professor Jeff Yan and Dr Monica Beeder. This interdisciplinary project investigates when cybersecurity and cybercrime markets fail, adapt or transform in response to disruption. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof JY Yan
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Transforming Lives PHD Scholarship Public Practice: Infrastructures and capacities for spatial practice within the changing local state

This collaborative doctoral project examines the changing relationship between places, local government and the public good in the UK at a moment of significant transformation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AWH Wakeford Holder, Dr GV Vodicka, Ms PA Agrawal, Dr J Udall
 2 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Early Detection of Distributed File-less Malware Using Vision Transformers (VC2644)

University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is seeking to attract a PhD candidate of outstanding ability and commitment to join its vibrant and growing programme of internationally excellent research at its London Campus. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Lee, Dr D Javaheri, Dr M Thankappan, Dr M Hassanu
 28 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Wearable sensing for early detection of mobility decline in older people with comorbidities

Supervisors. Professor Liudi Jiang and Professor Michael Hornberger. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof L. Jiang
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Stacked Intelligent Metasurface (SIM) for Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS)

Supervisor. Dr Chao Xu. This project will explore the combination of Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIM) and Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) in the context of Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) applications. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CX Xu
 1 September 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Visible Light Integrated Sensing and Communication (VL-ISAC)

Supervisor. Dr Chao Xu. Imagine a world where there is Internet access and radar-assisted living and quantum security, wherever there is light. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CX Xu
 1 September 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD in Wireless communications and signal processing for next generation wireless systems

Supervisor. Professor Mohammed El-Hajjar. Future wireless networks will do more than connect people. they will sense, compute, and adapt intelligently. Read more
 Supervisor: Assoc Prof M El-Hajjar
 28 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(EPSRC CASE) Expanding the toolkit for post-processing AI-generated molecular designs

Generative AI has become a routine approach to exploration of chemical space and as an idea generator for medicinal chemists. What is missing at the moment is a much stricter requirement for results to be assessed for their physical reasonableness. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Leach, Dr L Sotorrios, Dr C Trujillo
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Learning from past designs: AI that transfers engineering experience to chip design problems where no data exists (S3.5-MPS-Xing)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr W Xing, Prof J Oakley
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Next generation silicon photonic modulators

Supervisors. Professor David Thomson and Dr Bharat Pant. This project develops next-generation silicon photonic modulators for ultra-high-speed, energy-efficient optical communications underpinning AI and high-performance computing. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Thomson
 30 September 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Long-term effects of GLP-1 medicines on immunometabolic fitness

GLP-1 medicines are transforming the treatment of obesity and related complications, with benefits that extend beyond weight loss and glucose control. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr CK Wong, Dr W Scott
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)