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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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Why aren't there more predators? Testing the rules that set marine food-web structure

How biomass is distributed among trophic levels governs carbon cycling, ecosystem resilience and productivity, including fisheries yields. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr DP Perkins, Dr P Kratina, Dr M Thompson, Dr B Gillie
 14 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Metals at the Limits of Life: Metalloproteins and their Role in Tardigrade Survival in Extreme Environments

Tardigrades are among the most resilient animals on Earth, capable of surviving extreme dehydration, freezing, ionising radiation, oxygen deprivation and prolonged periods of suspended animation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr PA Ash, Dr H Kwon
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Deciphering plant-insect interactions in a diverse urban botanical garden and the implications for developing urban planting schemes

Planting schemes in urban settings are important for increasing biodiversity and maintaining connectivity for ensuring proper ecosystem functioning. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Dodsworth, Dr A Julier, Ms E Hazell
 14 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Ensuring user confidence in high-stakes intelligent robotics applications (CF4-AMR-Law)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award and the Fusion Engineering Centre For Doctoral Training at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Law , Dr D Cameron
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Multi-Sensor Digitalisation and Closed-Loop Control for Surface Integrity Management in High-Value Grinding Processes (S3.5-AMR-Curtis)

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
 Supervisor: Prof D Curtis
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Rail Grinding Performance Mapping using Novel Rail Surface Quality Characterisation (in collaboration with Network Rail) (C3.5-AMR-Taylor)

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 E Taylor, Prof R Lewis
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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King’s International PhD Studentship under the Supervision of Professor Yansha Deng

This is a 3.5-year funded PhD project at King’s College London, the project focuses on goal-oriented multi-agent communications and networking. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr YD Deng
 25 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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From Data to Decisions: Graph World Models for Reinforcement Learning (S3.5-ELE-Darvariu)

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 A Darvariu, Prof G Panoutsos
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Arctic wintertime storms in a changing climate RENFREW_UEA_ARIES27

Scientific background. Polar mesoscale cyclones are smaller scale (<1000 km) rapidly developing Arctic storm systems that occur over sub-polar and polar waters. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof I Renfrew
 16 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition 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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Advancing Human Motion Understanding through 3D Modelling and Foundation Models (S3.5-COM-Chen)

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
 Supervisor: Dr Z Chen
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Catalytic recycling of polyester plastics to monomers

Plastics are ubiquitous in modern society, finding widespread applications due to possessing optimal physical and chemical properties. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Parlett
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Multimodal Machine Learning for Protein and Metabolic Engineering towards Sustainable Biomanufacturing (S3.5-COM-Zhou)

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 S Zhou, Prof TS Wong
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Catalytic cascade reactions for sustainable chemicals

A catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed, offering greater energy efficiency relative to non-catalytic pathways. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Parlett
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only