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Latest PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 785 Latest PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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4 Year GTA - Bio-Derived Carbonate Materials for Circular Chemical Manufacturing: Titanium Complexes for CO2 Valorisation

Open to UK applicants only. The School of Chemistry has fully-funded Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) studentships available for UK applicants, starting in September 2026. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Kilpatrick, Prof S Bull
 22 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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QG-CANE (Quantum Gravity for detection of CAvities from Nuclear Explosions)

Nuclear explosions are forbidden by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), with on-site inspection (OSI) forming the final verification regime for determining breaches. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Boddice
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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JAMT: Breaching the Barrier: Uncovering the role of YKL-40 in immune cell exclusion in lung cancer

PhD opportunity. 3D imaging, human lung cancer and the immune-matrix environment. This project will combine advanced 3D microscopy, human lung cancer tissue and quantitative image analysis to reveal how the tumour extracellular matrix shapes immune cell exclusion. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Sutherland , Prof H Wilson
 14 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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AI-assisted metadata harmonisation for mouse models of human disease

Background. Modern life sciences research increasingly depends on the ability to integrate complex, multimodal datasets across institutions, disease areas, platforms and experimental systems. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Miller, Dr R Gray
 5 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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4 Year GTA - A Biophysical Approach to Uncovering Mechanisms of Circadian Rhythm Regulation

Open to UK applicants only. The School of Chemistry has fully-funded Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) studentships available for UK applicants, starting in September 2026. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Hudson, Dr H Kwon
 22 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Mapping and Modelling the Dynamics of Tumours

Background. Complex and dynamic interactions between cancer cells and elements of the tumour microenvironment shape tumour progression and contribute to therapy resistance. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr X Fu
 5 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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JAMT: Novel Pharmacological Interventions to treat Endometrial Cancer

Women’s health has been recognised as a massively underfunded and under researched area and female specific cancers are no exception. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Thompson, Dr J Hislop
 14 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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4 Year GTA - Development of a novel cancer treatment strategy targeting reactive protein N-termini

Open to UK applicants only. The School of Chemistry has fully-funded Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) studentships available for UK applicants, starting in September 2026. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Hopkinson
 22 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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JAMT: Understanding substrate-selective TORC1 signalling for tackling cancer

Uncontrolled cell growth is a hallmark of cancer. Efforts have been made to restrict tumour growth by pharmacologically inhibiting a master driver of cell growth, the Target of Rapamycin Complex 1 (TORC1/mTORC1) kinase complex. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Hatakeyama, Dr J Hislop
 14 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Bio‑Inspired Multi‑Modal Perception for Dynamic Adaptation in Robotic Formation Flight

Supervisory Team. Dr Sergio Araujo-Estrada, Dr Alex Wittig and Dr Jorn Cheney. Flying robots must work together reliably even when vision, GPS, or communications fail. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Araujo-Estrada
 2 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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4 Year GTA - Pin-ing it down: Novel Inhibitors for the Enigmatic Pin1 Enzyme to treat Cancer

Open to UK applicants only. The School of Chemistry has fully-funded Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) studentships available for UK applicants, starting in September 2026. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Doveston, Dr G Hall, Prof S Macip
 22 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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A synbio approach to generate artificial molecular muscles

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr W Houssen, Prof M Jaspars
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Investigating chronic inflammation caused by asbestos-like fibres as a driver of mesothelioma

Mesothelioma is a devastating cancer causatively linked to asbestos exposure. Asbestos fibres can persist in the body for many years, causing chronic inflammation which contributes to malignant transformation of mesothelial cells in the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Jackson-Jones, Dr L Unterholzner
 7 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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4 Year GTA - Chemical energy conversion in biology studied using advanced spectroscopic and structural tools

Open to UK applicants only. The School of Chemistry has fully-funded Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) studentships available for UK applicants, starting in September 2026. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr PA Ash, Dr PR Macia
 22 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Project: Synthesis and application of meta-stable chemicals in novel tandem reactions

This project will investigate the atom-efficient functionalisation of key renewable feedstocks, which have been identified by the industrial partner BASF to be of potential commercial significance. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Tighe, Prof K Hellgardt
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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