University of Southampton PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 95 University of Southampton PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

University of Southampton Business School

Shape the future of business and take your place among the next generation of leaders driving change in academia, industry and policy. At the University of Southampton Business School, you'll collaborate with world-renowned specialists tackling today’s most pressing challenges, from AI’s transformational potential to innovation and sustainability. Join exceptional scholars at a Russell Group university ranked top 100 worldwide (QS World Rankings 2026), with six of our academics among the top 2% of scientists globally. Our flexible doctoral programmes adapt to your research vision while providing comprehensive support and professional development opportunities, in an inclusive culture where diverse perspectives fuel discovery. Our graduates become the researchers, consultants, professors, and policy makers working on tomorrow’s business and societal challenges. Ready to join the next wave of business leaders?

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Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences

Make new discoveries in a research community that’s tackling today’s biggest issues, from the health of the planet to human wellbeing and societal change. At the University of Southampton’s Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences – ranked among the world’s best in Earth and Marine Sciences (QS World Rankings 2024) – you’ll contribute to research at the leading edge of your specialism. Join an inclusive community that champions your ambitions and celebrates your successes, with access to world-class facilities ranging from research vessels to one-of-a-kind analytic instruments. Here your research can shape the future through our cross-disciplinary collaborations, global networks, industrial partnerships, and enterprise and policy initiatives.

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Faculty of Social Sciences

Immerse yourself in your specialty in a faculty that shares your passion for researching the social world. At the University of Southampton’s Faculty of Social Sciences, whether you’re driven by a desire to shape policy or advance theoretical understanding, we’ll empower you to become the expert in your field. An internationally recognised faculty, we bring together brilliant minds to address global social challenges through innovation and partnership across the social science disciplines and beyond. Join our exciting research community and you’ll benefit from our flexible programmes, inclusive, collaborative ethos and track record of influencing real-world change.

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Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Make your mark at the leading edge of science and engineering research. At the University of Southampton’s Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, we’re studying stars as they explode, inscribing the human genome into crystals, shaping the future of human interaction with AI, helping build brighter liveable cities, and using chemistry for sustainable manufacturing. We’re looking for innovators, critical thinkers and curious minds to join us in driving new discoveries, with real opportunities for impact through our links with industry and governments and our enterprise initiatives. In return you’ll benefit from multi-million-pound research facilities, the expertise of leading specialists and a supportive, inclusive research community.

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University of Southampton

Join one of the world’s leading universities. With over 150 years of history, we are a founding member of the Russell Group, and consistently placed in the top 100 universities in the world by the QS World University Rankings. 92 per cent of our research output was assessed in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) as being world-leading and internationally excellent, confirming our status as one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities. This international outlook and reputation attract staff from across the world, with over 25 per cent coming from outside the UK. Innovative thinking and pioneering research are at the heart of our culture; our people are finding solutions for some of the biggest challenges that our planet is facing, pursuing environmental sustainability, and making a difference to the world. We stand for exploration and curiosity, interdisciplinary thinking, inventive education and cutting-edge facilities to catalyse change.

We have 95 University of Southampton PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

University of Southampton PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 95 University of Southampton PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

University of Southampton Business School

Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences

Faculty of Social Sciences

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Faculty of Medicine

University of Southampton

Evaluating defect detectability for iteratively reconstructed industrial X-ray computed tomography data

Deep equilibrium machine learning models for the efficient reconstruction of X-ray tomographic images

AI for low-carbon concrete materials and structural design

AI for low-carbon concrete materials and structural design

Multiscale Graph Neural Networks with Micromechanics for Concrete Prediction

Watching aggregation in liquids with terahertz spectroscopy

Integrated polysilicon photonics

Automated verification and synthesis using coalgebras

Unlocking the potential of optimized vertical-axis wind turbine arrays via surrogate-modelling and topology optimization

Multi-level topology optimization of architected metamaterial structures

Modelling gust-wing interactions in curvilinear flows

Integrated polysilicon photonics

Investigating surface textures to optimize flow dynamics using multi-fidelity surrogate modeling

Event-based computing for real-time computer vision systems

Artificial intelligence techniques for illness detection by using MRI

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