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Understanding Benthic Marine Cyanobacterial Blooms and Toxin Production

  Research Group: Waterways Centre
Benthic marine cyanobacterial blooms are an emerging and increasingly prominent issue in coastal environments worldwide, including Aotearoa New Zealand. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Wood, Dr L Biessy, Dr T Smith
 15 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding how redox regulation processes facilitate platelet function

Platelets are tiny circulating blood cells which prevent bleeding from damaged blood vessels (haemostasis) by becoming active at the site of injury. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr LH Holbrook, Dr I Smyrnias
 2 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Functional precision medicine approaches to guide targeted treatments in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

A fully funded 4-year PhD position is available in the Targeted Therapeutics lab under the supervision of Tríona Ní Chonghaile at the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Ni Chonghaile, Prof S Glavey
 17 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Cell and Vector Engineering for Production of Next-generation Biopharmaceuticals

Biopharmaceuticals offer the most promising pathway to treatments for diseases including cancer, Alzheimer’s and autoimmune disorders. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Brown
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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EPSRC Doctoral Studentship - Plans vs Reality: AI-Enhanced Modelling of Disrupted Urban Mobility

Project details. Urban mobility models typically assume fixed daily activity schedules and stable transport networks. In reality, individuals continuously adapt their plans in response to disruptions such as delays, missed connections, time pressures, caring responsibilities, safety concerns, and changing priorities. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof AH Heppenstall
 14 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Using Linked Data to Explore Risk Factors for Low Uptake of Cancer Screening in Women in Southeast England

Cancer screening programmes for bowel, breast, cervical and lung cancer collectively prevent thousands of deaths annually in England, yet uptake remains persistently and inequitably distributed across the population, with sex-specific risk factors for low uptake, especially in women, and ethnicity and deprivation being strong intersecting variables. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E Ford, Dr I Rogers, Prof C Llewellyn, Dr M Nikšić
 4 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Understanding the molecular control of microglia in Alzheimer’s disease

This PhD project will address the molecular control of microglial in Alzheimer’s disease. We have generated novel in vivo models for the study of microglial activation and its association with the pathological features of Alzheimer’s disease. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Taylor
 21 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Growing old gracefully? Power and age in early modern Europe

Whilst the gerontocratic Republic of Venice formalised the concentration of power among senior elites, early modern European history is full of less formal examples – not least King Lear - of the older generation enjoying wealth, privilege and power, whilst their adult children struggled to advance their place in economic and social hierarchies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr PW Woodcock
 11 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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An Environmental History of the Jacobite Risings in Scotland

The project will offer a fresh interpretation of the Jacobite risings of the eighteenth century, examining how Scotland’s environment shaped, and was shaped by, the military campaigns. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr nm Martin
 11 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PhD Studentship in Applied[R(1.1] Mathematics for Formulated Products

A fully-funded 3.5-year PhD studentship (covering UK home student fees and an annual stipend of £21,805) is available in Applied Mathematics for Formulated Products. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R J Dyson
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Development of a Human Cholinergic Co-culture Model to Investigate α-Synuclein-Induced Neurodegeneration in Parkinson's Disease Dementia and Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Neurodegenerative diseases represent one of the greatest biomedical challenges of the 21st century. Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) and Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) affect millions worldwide and remain without disease-modifying therapies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr I Pienaar
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Metamaterial Component Design for Terahertz Instruments (Suitable for Physics or RF/microwave Engineering)

A self-funded PhD position in Microwave to Submillimeter-wave (Terahertz) Component Design is available in the Birmingham Emerging Device Technology (EDT) Research Lab, one of the leading interdisciplinary research groups within the School of Engineering’s Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Bartlett
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Decoding the Dynamics of the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms through Simulation-Based Inference

The spiral arms of the Milky Way are among its most prominent and defining features, shaping the Galaxy’s structure and influencing the formation and distribution of stars. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Kawata
 16 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD in aero-engine aerodynamics

This is a fully funded PhD (fees and bursary) in propulsion system aerodynamics in collaboration with EPSRC, Rolls-Royce and Cranfield University. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D MacManus, Dr P Zachos
 12 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Analysis of partial differential equations

This PhD project will investigate partial differential equations arising from kinetic models, with a particular focus on variational methods. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr H Duong
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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