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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

Royal Veterinary College

Central

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

University College London

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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)

University College London

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

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

University of Glasgow

College of Social Sciences

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

University of Glasgow

College of Social Sciences

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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ERC MORTALMED PhD Scholarship - Lethal Prescriptions: Sodium Pentobarbital and Assisted Dying in Switzerland

University of Glasgow

College of Social Sciences

Project details. This subproject examines the role of sodium pentobarbital in assisted dying practices in Switzerland, focusing on how this pharmaceutical is embedded within medico-legal, ethical, and institutional regimes that govern voluntary death. Read more

Supervisor: Dr MF Freire

9 June 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Access-Controlled Oxidation: Understanding the role of structure in protein damage (Ref: CG-AC-2526)

Loughborough University

Department of Chemical Engineering

Protein oxidation is a major marker of protein damage in aging and disease processes, and can occur through a number of routes. One poorly understood contributing element is how protein structure, including local structure, controls the outcomes of oxidation events in the body. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Croft, Prof MJ Davies

3 August 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Beyond normal - Proteins in Alien Environments (Ref: CG-AC-2525)

Loughborough University

Department of Chemical Engineering

What would happen if the liquid enabling life were not water, but a class of molecules with a similar melting range known as 'ionic liquids'? Ionic liquids are, simply, liquids made of ions usually defined as having melting temperatures below 100C, for which there are millions of possible options. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Croft

3 August 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Antimicrobial gels for biomedical applications (Ref: CG-AC-2523)

Loughborough University

Department of Chemical Engineering

Infection is one of the most serious complications following tissue injury and there is a vital need for novel treatments to improve patient outcomes. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Croft, Dr A Elbourne

3 August 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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BioDyes - expanding the scope of renewed and renewable textiles (Ref: CG-AC-2522)

Loughborough University

Department of Chemical Engineering

Enzymatic modification of textiles enables novel dying processes, alongside new dyerecycling possibilities. This project is a collaboration between Chemical Engineering, Materials, and the School for Creative Arts and Design, the latter of whom have developed novel enzyme-based dye processes. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Croft, Dr C Prajapati

3 August 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Learning and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Public Health

University of Bristol

School of Computer Science

Decision-making under uncertainty is a fundamental challenge in AI and data science, particularly in dynamic settings where observations are collected sequentially and decisions influence future outcomes. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Zhang

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

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Active noise control of automotive tyres (Ref: AAE-DOB-2518)

Loughborough University

Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Automotive vehicles are becoming heavier with wider tyres to support this weight. Above a speed of around 30 miles per hour, the noise produced by the tyres is the dominant source. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D O'Boy, Dr M Martinez Garcia

10 January 2027 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Airborne Intelligent Monitoring and Quantification of Greenhouse Gases (Ref: AAE-CL-2521)

Loughborough University

Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Methane (CH₄) is the second most significant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide (CO₂), with over 30 times the global warming potential over a 100-year period. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Liu

30 September 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Distributed Algorithms

Durham University

Department of Computer Science

A funded PhD studentship is available under the supervision of Peter Davies-Peck, part of the Network Engineering Science and Theory in Durham (NESTiD) group in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University, UK. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Davies-Peck

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

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Efficient and Robust Deep Learning based Perception for Autonomous Driving and Robotics

Durham University

Department of Computer Science

Today, autonomous vehicle and robotics research is a continuously evolving field and spanning all areas of AI autonomy, including perception, behaviour prediction, motion planning, explainability and safety critical AI systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon

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

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Agentic AI for Autonomous Things: Vision-Language-Action Models, Embodied Intelligence and Real-World Decision-Making

Durham University

Department of Computer Science

Artificial intelligence is moving beyond passive prediction towards systems that can reason, plan, interact and act. This shift is driving rapid progress in agentic AI - i.e., AI systems that can interpret goals, make decisions, use tools, coordinate with humans and operate in changing real-world environments. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Atapour-Abarghouei

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

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Unconstrained Object Understanding using Deep Learning for Computer Vision in X-ray Security Screening

Durham University

Department of Computer Science

X-ray security screening is widely used to maintain aviation/transport security, and its significance poses a particular interest in future automated screening systems that can be deployed for transportation and border security screening alike. Read more

Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon

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

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What differs? - Deep Learning for Anomaly and Out of Distribution Detection in Computer Vision (Visual AI) Applications

Durham University

Department of Computer Science

Anomaly detection, and the synonymous topics of novelty and out-of-distribution detection, addresses the computer vision ("visual AI") challenge of automatically identifying outliers within the scene or image based on their appearance, motion or behaviour characteristics. Read more

Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon

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

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Addressing Racial Bias in Face Recognition Based on Deep Learning Enabled Computer Vision

Durham University

Department of Computer Science

Facial recognition is one of the most academically studied and industrially developed areas within computer vision where we readily find associated applications deployed globally. Read more

Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon

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

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Mapping Global Health Through Wastewater: A PhD in mass spectrometry at the Cutting Edge of Public Health

University of Bath

Centre of Excellence in Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection

Wastewater‑based epidemiology (WBE) is a rapidly emerging and highly interdisciplinary research field that uses chemical and biological markers in wastewater to provide near‑real‑time, population‑level insights into health, behaviour, and environmental exposures. Read more

Supervisors: Prof B Kasprzyk-Hordern, Prof JCB Barnett, Prof D Jones

9 June 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Quantum spin liquids in Ce pyrochlores

Queen Mary University of London

School of Physical and Chemical Sciences

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are a state of matter predicted to be found in magnetic materials with strong quantum fluctuations. The spins in most magnetic materials form regular repeating patterns at sufficiently low temperature, but QSLs are very different. Read more

Supervisor: Dr O` Benton

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

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Efficient Neuromorphic Vision and Perception for Long-Term Robotic Autonomy

Durham University

Department of Computer Science

Autonomous robots are increasingly deployed in industries such as precision agriculture, environmental monitoring, and logistics. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Atapour-Abarghouei

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

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(SATURN CDT) Impact of the redox behaviour of uranium and magnesium during the vitrification of pumpable wastes

University of Sheffield

School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering

Saturn_Nuclear_CDT . UoM_Nuclear. This project is focussed on supporting the Sellafield clean-up through investigating the potential vitrification of pumpable intermediate level wastes (ILWs). Read more

Supervisors: Prof R Hand, Dr C Thorpe

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

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Developing a Crystal Design Framework to Accelerate the Discovery of Advanced Materials

Heriot-Watt University

Institute of Chemical Sciences

Context. Accelerating the development of crystalline materials requires more accurate evaluation of the structural landscapes of the ingredients during early-stage development. Read more

Supervisors: Prof S J Dalgarno, Dr M Little, Prof M Paterson

31 August 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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A Supramolecular Approach to Advanced Materials Through Computational Design

Heriot-Watt University

Institute of Chemical Sciences

Context. There is an important global need to design new materials with improved safety and advanced functionality for defence and civilian applications. Read more

Supervisors: Prof S J Dalgarno, Prof M Paterson, Dr M Little

31 August 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Engineering Surfactant Powders: Drying Dynamics, Structure and Performance

University of Leeds

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Research Group: School of Chemical and Process Engineering

Surfactant powders are everywhere, from household detergents to industrial formulations, but their performance is ultimately determined by how they dry. Read more

Supervisors: Assoc Prof D Harbottle, Prof M Rappolt, Dr S Khodaparast, Prof A Bayly

26 June 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Funded PhD Studentship with The Football Association (The FA) and Leeds Beckett University looking at Strategies to Support Injured Adolescents

Leeds Beckett University

The School of Sport

The Carnegie School of Sport in collaboration with the Football Association are looking to recruit a talented and highly motivated individual to undertake a full-time funded PhD studentship. Read more

Supervisors: Prof K Till, Dr L Patterson

8 June 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Domestication and environmental adaptation in livestock

Cardiff University

Cardiff School of Biosciences

Research Group: Organisms and Environment

Project Description. Livestock species have an incredible history, having been recently domesticated from wildlife species such as the aurochs, mouflon, wild buffalo etc, and since then having been changed by early and modern farmers to fulfil an economic role supporting human societies. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Orozco Ter Wengel, Dr F Hailer, Dr BWZ Zhang

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

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We have 790 Latest PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Latest PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 790 Latest PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Accessing New Chemistries: Tuning Reactivity Of Chemical Processes Using Ionic Liquids And Deep Eutectic Solvents (Ref: CG-AC-2524)

PhD Studentship: Targeting individualised dietary management for cats with azotaemic CKD: Advanced renal care

Microwave quantum memories

High sensitivity electron spin resonance (ESR)

Mitigation of radiation and hydrogen damage with laser peening through multiscale modelling PhD

ERC MORTALMED PhD Scholarship - PharmaFlows: Mapping sodium pentobarbital across time and space

CoSS-UWI Collaborative PhD Scholarship - Strengthening Caribbean Health Systems: A Cost Effectiveness Approach to Maternal, Mental, and Adolescent Health

ERC MORTALMED PhD Scholarship - Lethal Prescriptions: Sodium Pentobarbital and Assisted Dying in Switzerland

Access-Controlled Oxidation: Understanding the role of structure in protein damage (Ref: CG-AC-2526)

Beyond normal - Proteins in Alien Environments (Ref: CG-AC-2525)

Antimicrobial gels for biomedical applications (Ref: CG-AC-2523)

BioDyes - expanding the scope of renewed and renewable textiles (Ref: CG-AC-2522)

Learning and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Public Health

Active noise control of automotive tyres (Ref: AAE-DOB-2518)

Airborne Intelligent Monitoring and Quantification of Greenhouse Gases (Ref: AAE-CL-2521)

Distributed Algorithms

Efficient and Robust Deep Learning based Perception for Autonomous Driving and Robotics

Agentic AI for Autonomous Things: Vision-Language-Action Models, Embodied Intelligence and Real-World Decision-Making

Unconstrained Object Understanding using Deep Learning for Computer Vision in X-ray Security Screening

What differs? - Deep Learning for Anomaly and Out of Distribution Detection in Computer Vision (Visual AI) Applications

Addressing Racial Bias in Face Recognition Based on Deep Learning Enabled Computer Vision

Mapping Global Health Through Wastewater: A PhD in mass spectrometry at the Cutting Edge of Public Health

Quantum spin liquids in Ce pyrochlores

Efficient Neuromorphic Vision and Perception for Long-Term Robotic Autonomy

(SATURN CDT) Impact of the redox behaviour of uranium and magnesium during the vitrification of pumpable wastes

Developing a Crystal Design Framework to Accelerate the Discovery of Advanced Materials

A Supramolecular Approach to Advanced Materials Through Computational Design

Engineering Surfactant Powders: Drying Dynamics, Structure and Performance

Funded PhD Studentship with The Football Association (The FA) and Leeds Beckett University looking at Strategies to Support Injured Adolescents

Domestication and environmental adaptation in livestock

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