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Engineering plant cell walls beyond the digestive range of a pest’s bacterial symbiont

Most herbivorous insects cannot digest a leaf unaided. Pectin, the polysaccharide that cements plant cell walls together, is a particular obstacle, and many beetles overcome it by carrying bacteria that supply the enzymes they lack. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H S Salem, Dr AB Berasategui
 20 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Dynamic Magnetic Field Control of Three-Dimensional Reconfigurable Smart Optical Materials

To cultivate research talents with global leadership, interdisciplinary innovation capabilities, and international research collaboration capabilities… Read more
 Supervisor: Dr XW Wang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Geometric diodes for RF energy harvesting and integrated circuits

Supervisor. Professor Kees De Groot. Geometric diodes are electronic components with a non-linear current-voltage characteristics which is caused by an asymmetric geometric restriction. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof K De Groot
 1 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Closing the gap: neuromorphic silicon for non-invasive communication BCIs

Supervisor. Dr Majid Zamani. Electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain–computer interfaces are held back less by the sensors than by the computing behind them. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Zamani
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Responsibility gaps and AI safety in multiagent systems

Supervisor. Dr Vahid Yazdanpanah. This project will develop computational methods to detect responsibility gaps, attribute collective failures, and support safer oversight of multiagent systems under uncertainty and partial observability. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V Yazdanpanah
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI4Ed: Multi-Agent Systems for Collaborative Human–AI Writing and Feedback (S3.5-COM-Yuan)

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 Z Yuan, Dr B Peng
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Computational design and characterisation of lattice metamaterials

Supervisor. Dr Elena Sitnikova. This PhD project will develop advanced computational methods to characterise and design lattice metamaterials with tailored mechanical properties. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Sitnikova
 6 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Reinforcement Learning from Human and AI Feedback (S3.5-COM-Peng1)

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 B Peng, Dr Z Yuan
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Multimodal AI-Generated Content Detection and Watermarking (S3.5-COM-Zhang)

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 DCZ Ce Zhang, Dr Z Chen
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Magnitude and Controls of Tropical Wetland Methane Emissions Using Novel Satellite Data

We are offering a fully funded scholarship to study the project ‘Magnitude and Controls of Tropical Wetland Methane Emissions Using Novel Satellite Data’, at the School of Earth Environment and Sustainability, University of Leeds for one UK status candidate. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Dowd
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Evaluating Frontier AI at Scale: Reliability, Bias and New Evaluation Paradigms (S3.5-COM-Moosavi)

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 N Sadat Moosavi, Dr X Jiang
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Robotic Monitoring for Place Recognition and Change Detection in Dynamic Underwater Environments

Supervisors. Professor Blair Thornton and Dr Xiaohao Cai. This project develops novel robotic mapping and AI techniques to detect and document subtle changes in dynamic seafloor environments over large spatial scales. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Thornton
 13 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bacterial Death at the Nanointerface: Probing the pattern-bacteria Interface towards tailoring antimicrobial nanostructured surfaces for Medical Devices (S3.5-BIS-Pasquina-Lemonche)

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 L Pasquina-Lemonche, Dr A Parnell
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Management PhD

Are you interested in producing original research that can shape scholarship, policy and practice in business and society? A Management PhD at the University of Bath gives you the opportunity to work with expert researchers and join an ambitious, internationally connected academic community. Read more
 Self-Funded PhD Students Only  Business Research Programme
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2D Spintronics Memory And Logic Devices

A funded DPhil position is open for this project. The DPhil studentship is funded (tuition fee and stipend) through the Royal Society University Research Fellowship awarded to Dr. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Chenattukuzhiyil
 31 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)