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Latest PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 802 Latest PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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PhD in Engineering - Ontology Enhanced Digital Twins for Future Smart Grids

The scope of this PhD has been co-created between SP Energy Networks and the University of Glasgow, as part of the strategic alliance centred on the future of secure cyber physical energy networks. . Read more
 Supervisors: Dr PH Harvey, Prof DF Flynn, Prof D Pezaros
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship in Chemical Biology – Developing Novel Treatments for Fungal Pathogens

Award summary. 100% home fees covered, a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £20,780 (2025/26 UKRI rate) and a per annum budget of £6,000 for consumables and conference attendance etc. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T McAllister, Prof P Race, Dr J Stach
 15 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Scholarship Opportunity in Sustainable & Digital Engineering and Project Management at Durham University Department of Engineering

The twin transition of sustainability and digitalisation is transforming how engineering and project-based organisations design, deliver, and govern projects. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof H Sun
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Cognitive Differences and Cognitive Enhancement in Neurotypical and Neurodiverse Populations

Supervisors. Dr. Eda Mizrak (primary supervisor),. Dr Giorgia Michelini. Dr Jessical Agnew-Blais. Studentship Funding. Name. RSF. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Mizrak
 15 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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EPSRC supported EngD: Thermodynamics of Aerosols: Understanding VLE & Phase Transitions for Aerosolised Systems

Consumer products in the form of aerosols comprise product bases, with a range of physical and chemical properties blended with propellant(s) in a range of base. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G Leeke
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Unravelling the Role of Aspergillus in Chronic Airway Disease Exacerbations and Disease Progression

  Research Group: Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomic
Background. Exacerbations are a major health burden of chronic airway disease such as COPD or bronchiectasis. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr CK Kosmidis, Dr A.M Mathioudakis, Dr M Bertuzzi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PhD Studentship in Control and Machine Learning Algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles

Applications are invited for a research studentship in the field of control, leading to the award of a PhD degree. The studentship is fully funded by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, covering tuition fees and providing a stipend at the UKRI rate. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Kohler
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Decoding Blood Brain Barrier Endothelial Responses to parasitic infection: Omics Driven Mapping of Receptor and Transporter Dynamics

The blood–brain barrier (BBB) has been described as the final and last frontier for medicine. Delivering drugs to the brain is a major challenge, particularly for large molecules and biologics. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof CW Roberts
 12 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Non-coding snoRNA Host Genes as novel therapeutic targets in atopic dermatitis and psoriasis

  Research Group: Division of Cell Matrix Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Atopic dermatitis (AD, also known as eczema) and psoriasis are very common chronic inflammatory skin diseases marked by abnormalities in the functioning of the outer layer of the skin, the epidermis. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Vietri Rudan, Dr S Kurinna, Dr AAJ Al-Janabi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Assessing human carotid body, cardiovascular and respiratory function in diabetic patients with and without obstructive sleep apnoea

Patients with diabetes have impaired cardiovascular and respiratory responses to multiple stimuli including a fall in blood oxygen (hypoxia), a rise in blood carbon dioxide (hypercapnia) and a decrease in blood glucose (hypoglycaemia). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A H Holmes, Dr J Welch, Dr A Coney
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Identifying the importance of age, sex, ethnicity and obesity in establishing cardiovascular-respiratory reflex responses to heat exposure

One of the major threats to human health is climate change and its association with increased exposure to extreme heat. An important effect is an increase in the frequency, duration and intensity of heatwave exposure. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A H Holmes, Dr J Welch, Dr A Coney
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Environmentally sustainable creel fisheries (based at Heriot Watt Orkney campus)

  Research Group: Institute of Life and Earth Sciences
Marine regions around the world encounter similar ecological challenges linked to fishing activities, including those arising from fisheries that use passive or static gear such as traps. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Cerbule
 5 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Physics ‘Optical lattice plus tweezers for quantum science’

Optical arrays of molecules offer exciting opportunities in fundamental and quantum science. Typically experiments use either optical tweezers or optical lattices, which both have advantages and limitations. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Cornish, Dr H W Williams
 12 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Framework for SMART therapeutic encapsulation

Drug encapsulation is a crucial technology in pharmaceuticals and medicine. It involves enclosing active pharmaceutical ingredients within a carrier material. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof CW Roberts
 12 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship Digital Twin Development for Mechanical Fragmentation in Sustainable Plastics Recycling

Applications are invited for an exciting fully funded PhD studentship at Imperial College London in the interdisciplinary fields of Mechanics of Materials, Process Systems Engineering, and Sustainable Manufacturing. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Charalambides
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Accelerating and derisking amorphous form development for low bioavailability drug candidates

*Please note this project is only open to UK applicants*. Are you seeking the opportunity for an industry demand-led PhD project at the interface of science and engineering, working in a cutting-edge research facility?. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Robertson
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship - Centre for Doctoral Training in Process Industries: Net Zero - Chemical Engineering for Sustainable Wastewater-to-Resource Systems

This PhD project targets a key challenge in sustainable process engineering. translating microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) technology from lab-scale innovation to robust, industrial deployment. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr RL Law, Dr E Heidrich
 23 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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AI-Mediated Personalised Text Adaptation Strategies for Self-Regulated Learning

Project advert. Technological innovation fosters educational independence for those learners that embrace it. Recently, AI (artificial Intelligence) chatbots have had a disruptive effect on the education sector with two thirds of university students using AI in 2023. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof RW Ward, Dr MS Shardlow
 26 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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EPSRC DLA (Industrial Competition): Hydrogen Released from Nuclear Waste and its Consequence of Small Scale Explosion

  Research Group: School of Mechanical Engineering
This PhD project tackles a major safety issue in nuclear decommissioning. hydrogen explosions. When nuclear waste breaks down, it produces hydrogen gas. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Yang, Prof T Hunter
 15 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Literacy in the Digital Age: How Children Learn from Multimedia Written Language

How children learn from reading and writing is rapidly changing in the digital age. Children now encounter written language through books, school materials, websites, social media, online videos, gaming environments, and multimodal digital platforms. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Hsiao
 28 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Funded MSc by Research in Chemistry: Generation Research

What do we want and what will you do?. We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated graduate to join a cutting-edge research group in the Department of Chemistry at University of York. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M A Fascione
 16 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Advancing Functional MRS: Methodological Development for Dynamic Neurochemical Measurement

Project Overview. Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy (fMRS) is an emerging neuroimaging approach that measures rapid, task‑evoked changes in brain metabolites. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Bell
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Ionic Innovations: Next-Generation Drug Delivery (Ref: CG-AC-2521)

Ionic liquids (ILs) and Deep Eutectic solvents (DES) have recently been used as drug delivery vectors with formulations that can allow effective transdermal action, with high potency to enhance skin permeation and low tendency to induce skin irritation (doi. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Croft
 3 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Accessing New Chemistries: Tuning Reactivity Of Chemical Processes Using Ionic Liquids And Deep Eutectic Solvents (Ref: CG-AC-2524)

Ionic solvents are known to alter the outcomes of chemical processes by influencing their mechanism. Because of the wide variety of different ions that might make up an ionic solvent, there is enormous scope for tuning these processes. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Croft
 3 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PhD Studentship: Targeting individualised dietary management for cats with azotaemic CKD: Advanced renal care

RVC Supervisor(s). Professor Rosanne Jepson. This is a fully funded PhD Studentship located in Camden, London please apply through the How To Apply page. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Jepson
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Microwave quantum memories

Hybrid quantum systems offer the exciting potential to connect different types of quantum systems together to exploit their respective strengths, for example superconducting qubits are well-suited for quantum logic gates while electron spins have coherence times that can be several orders of magnitude longer, exceeding seconds. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof J Morton
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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High sensitivity electron spin resonance (ESR)

Electron spin resonance (ESR) provides a method to study spins that occur naturally, or are engineered within a broad range of systems, from proteins and enzymes to condensed matter systems and material interfaces. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof J Morton
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mitigation of radiation and hydrogen damage with laser peening through multiscale modelling PhD

Cranfield University is seeking highly motivated and accomplished prospective PhD students to conduct cutting-edge research in the degradation of materials at extreme environments. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Castelluccio
 29 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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ERC MORTALMED PhD Scholarship - PharmaFlows: Mapping sodium pentobarbital across time and space

Project details. This project traces the social life of sodium pentobarbital across time and space, following its transformation from a widely prescribed sedative in the mid-twentieth century to a highly regulated pharmaceutical primarily associated with assisted dying, state executions, and animal euthanasia. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MF Freire
 9 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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CoSS-UWI Collaborative PhD Scholarship - Strengthening Caribbean Health Systems: A Cost Effectiveness Approach to Maternal, Mental, and Adolescent Health

Project details. This funded PhD project explores how scarce health resources can be allocated more effectively to improve maternal, mental, and adolescent health in the Caribbean. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof AZ Zhang
 9 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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