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EastBio: Inflammatory Fat: Understanding how the immune system drives adipose tissue dysfunction using spatial lipidomics

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. In obesity, adipose tissue can become inflamed with the infiltration of immune cells, particularly macrophages, which surround adipocytes to create crown-like structures. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J.L Griffin, Dr J Rochford, Prof H Wilson
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Ultra-stable hollow core fibre photonics

Supervisor. Professor Radan Slavik. This project will investigate how emerging new class of optical fibres, hollow-core fibres, can revolutionize highly-stable lasers and their applications including accurate time keeping, positioning, or study of Earth seismic activities. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Slavik
 31 July 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: From microbial cargo to host immunity: decoding bacterial extracellular vesicle-mediated signalling in the human gut

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr I Mukhopadhya, Dr W Houssen, Dr T Vogwill
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Metasurface technologies for physical AI: machine learning-enabled nanophotonics for consumer electronics

Supervisors. Dr Xu Fang and Dr Eric Plum. This project will develop next-generation metasurface technologies for Physical AI, using nanostructured optical hardware to integrate sensing and information processing closer to the physical world. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr X Fang
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Reliable detection of cognitive and affective states from biomedical signals

Supervisors. Dr Christoph Tremmel, Dr Nathan Huneke and Professor Stefan Bleeck. Biomedical signals such as electroencephalography (EEG) are widely used to human cognition, physiology, and brain-computer interfaces. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Tremmel
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Deciphering hidden meanings from nonverbal behaviours: a multi-method and multi-level approach to investigating multimodal integration during indirect communication

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Effective communication is not just about understanding what is said. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Chu, Dr B Mathias
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Applying AI to vaccine development in tackling a climate change-driven parasitic disease of salmonid fish.

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Myxozoan parasites are unusual animal parasites causing severe disease in wild and farmed fish species. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Holland, Dr A Jaglarz, Dr H McSorley
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Development of high-performance miniaturised ultrasonic devices for precision minimally invasive surgery

Supervisors. Dr Xuan Li, Dr Andrew Hamilton and Dr Felix Langfeldt. This project, in the field of ultrasonic surgery, focuses on the development of cutting-edge miniature ultrasonic devices targeted for bone surgery. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr X Li
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Dynamic electromagnetic metasurfaces for advanced wave engineering

Supervisor. Dr Sajjd Taravati. Imagine surfaces that reprogram how electromagnetic waves behave in real time, steering, amplifying and even shifting their frequency on demand. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr #s Taravati
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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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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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)