Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Leicester, Leicester, England invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. 14 Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital Transformation of Metals Industry (DigitalMetal CDT)
Summary of PhD Program:
DigitalMetal CDT, led by the University of Leicester, in partnership with Universities of Birmingham, Loughborough, Nottingham, and Warwick, invites applications for about 14 fully funded PhD positions for 2025 entry. This programme is designed to train future leaders equipped with combined expertise in metals and alloy engineering and digital technology and AI, supported by a broad foundation in manufacturing management, product development, leadership, and personal development skills.
Application Deadline: 30 January 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The School of Physics and Astronomy offer PhD projects funded by The Sciences and Technology Facilities Research Council (STFC) for September 2025 entry.
- Visit our research group pages, and be sure to state your broad area of interest (Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Space Physics, Instrumentation, etc.) in the Proposal Section.
- Select your project from those listed below. The School of Physics and Astronomy will consider up to 3 projects per applicant. Select your preferred projects and list in ranked order on your application.
Application Deadline: 17 January 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The Midlands Graduate School is an accredited Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership and forms part of the ESRC’s new Doctoral Training Network which significantly widens access for postgraduates to ESRC funding across the UK. This Doctoral Training Partnership offers 17 different training pathways that span various social science disciplines; several postgraduate studentships will be awarded annually across the pathways and institutions. These studentships are linked to a specific training pathways and some studentships have a built-in element of collaboration.
Application Deadline: 21st January 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is the main funding body for engineering and physical sciences research in the UK. EPSRC covers a vast range of fields from healthcare technologies to structural engineering, manufacturing to mathematics, advanced materials to chemistry. It is part of UK Research and Innovation, which works in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities, and government to create the best possible environment for research and innovation to flourish.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital Transformation of Metals Industry
Summary of PhD Program:
DigitalMetal CDT, led by the University of Leicester, in partnership with Universities of Birmingham, Loughborough, Nottingham, and Warwick, invites applications for about 14 fully funded PhD positions for 2025 entry. This programme is designed to train future leaders equipped with combined expertise in metals and alloy engineering and digital technology and AI, supported by a broad foundation in manufacturing management, product development, leadership, and personal development skills.
Application Deadline: 30 January 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
This is a Graduate Training Assistantship (GTA), which means that you will be required to do some teaching, particularly lab demonstrating, as part of your training. GTAs allow research students to fund their PhD through part-time teaching work with the University. Approximately 80% of your time will be spent on doctoral research leading to a PhD and 20% on GTA responsibilities. Training is provided to help Graduate Teaching Assistants develop their teaching related skills and enhance their professional competencies.
Application Deadline: 5 February 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The research projects that PhD students within AIM undertake use cutting-edge, inter-disciplinary research methods to create and interrogate innovative models of disease. As part of the partnership, AIM PhD students work with complex data, cell-based models, model organisms and patients to better understand areas of clinical need such as metabolic and infectious diseases, cancer, chronic inflammatory conditions and respiratory disease, and psychological disorders.
Application Deadline: 10 January 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Lunar South Pole Landing Sites: Analogue Mineralogy and ISRU
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD studentship, we will prepare mineralogical analogues for likely south pole landing sites. The synthesised analogues will be measured for thermal conductivity in ice-bearing samples, over a range of appropriate temperatures and ice sublimation loss rates to mimic the lunar environment. The results from these experiments, will improve thermal models to predict likely depths of water ice preservation. In tandem with this, the student will identify and study the mineralogy of lunar meteorites and Apollo samples analogous to the South Pole Aitken Basin.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
TARGET is the Training and Research Group for Energy Transition Mineral Resources, and UKRI-NERC sponsored Centre for Doctoral Training. TARGET is led by the University of Leicester, with a large number of University and industry partners. TARGET will support the training and development of researchers engaged in the challenge of meeting the changing patterns of resource demand. As we move away from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, and as the technology we use at home and at work evolves, we need greater amounts, and an increasingly diverse list of metals and minerals. Many of the materials we need are critical, with significant risk of disruption to their supply.
Application Deadline: 22 January 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA) is a partnership involving the universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Loughborough, Warwick, Cranfield, and the Open University, together with the British Geological Survey, the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and the National Centre for Earth Observation. CENTA has received fresh funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under the Doctoral Landscape Award scheme (previously Doctoral Training Partnerships). With additional support from partners, this award will offer 130 PhD studentships over five years and support work with 17 external partner research organisations spanning industry, government and the charitable sector, training the next generation of Environmental and Earth Scientists.
Application Deadline: 8 January 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced Characterisation and Modelling of Materials for Hydrogen Energy Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
Addressing climate change, protecting nature, and conserving resources are essential for improving our planet’s health. Hydrogen, as a low-carbon energy solution, plays a crucial role in supporting decarbonisation efforts by providing a green, versatile alternative across power, heat, and transport sectors. However, in metallic systems, hydrogen embrittlement and accelerated fatigue failure pose significant challenges, as hydrogen exposure can reduce ductility, strength, toughness, and fatigue life, leading to premature failures in critical infrastructure. Understanding and mitigating these effects on metallic materials are vital for developing reliable hydrogen-based systems.
Application Deadline: 15 January 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular and Cell Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
One PhD scholarship is available to a student recruited to the University of Leicester MSc Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology or MSc Molecular Genetics in January 2025. The PhD scholarship will be available from January 2026 on completion of the MSc course and consist of a full stipend (currently £19,237 per year) for 3.5 yrs, research costs and a travel and training fund. It will attract a home fee waiver, with a full international fee waiver available competitively.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Lifestyle and Health Research
Summary of PhD Program:
The Leicester Lifestyle and Health Research Group (LLHRG) has been awarded £14M from Research England through the Expanding Excellence in England (E3) funding stream, to expand the breadth and depth of its research over a 5-year period. This, along with matched funding provided by the University of Leicester, College of Life Sciences, will support a number of studentships over the duration of this award.
Application Deadline: 21 February 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The Fellows will also benefit from well-established partnerships across the regional and national healthcare system, local government, industry and community groups in addition to the expertise at Leicester with the aim of developing a generation of innovative world-leading researchers in under-represented groups of health care professionals addressing important areas of health inequalities.
Application Deadline: 7 February 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA) is a partnership involving the universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Loughborough, Warwick, Cranfield, and the Open University, together with the British Geological Survey, the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and the National Centre for Earth Observation. CENTA has received fresh funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under the Doctoral Landscape Award scheme (previously Doctoral Training Partnerships).
Application Deadline: 8 January 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Leveraging single-nucleus RNA sequencing data to dissect mechanisms of polyglutamine toxicity in Huntington’s disease
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will focus on the characteristics shared by triplet repeat disease transcriptional dysregulation in the MSNs and attempt to deeply understand the apparent loss of cell identity genes. For example, is the loss of cell identity unique to polyQ toxicity or a transcriptional program commonly seen in neurons facing cell demise? The fraction of transcriptional responses in MSNs not shared between SCA1 and HD brains would also give insights into understanding what separates the two diseases that gives rise to distinct clinical features.
