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1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Astrophysics 

Summary of PhD Program:

The School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics at Newcastle University hosts several active research groups in the areas of cosmology, observational astrophysics and astrophysical fluid dynamics. We are offering one funded PhD studentship. Available PhD projects include:

• Understanding the dark Universe with cosmological analysis of large-scale structure (Studentship code MSP090; Programme code 8821F)
  
• Instabilities in the Solar Interior (Studentship code MSP091; Programme code 8080F)
  
• Dynamics of the subsurface oceans of icy moons (Studentship code MSP092; Programme code 8080F)
  

Application Deadline: 31st January 2025

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Process Industries: Net Zero: Development of Sustainable Manufacturing Processes for Confectionery Products 

Summary of PhD Program:

The PINZ CDT will train the next generation of process and chemical engineers, and chemists, to develop the new processes, process technologies and green chemistries required for the process industries’ transition to Net Zero. Climate change is one of society’s greatest challenges. As the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé has pledged its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving net zero emissions from their global manufacturing processes by 2050. 

Application Deadline: 2nd February 2025

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Process Industries: Net Zero – Decarbonisation of thermal separation processes for removing water and organic solvents from high-performance ingredients 

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project is part of the CDT in Process Industries: Net Zero. The successful PhD student will be co-supervised by academics from the Process Intensification Group at Newcastle University. Established in 1925, Croda is the name behind sustainable, high-performance ingredients and technologies in some of the world’s most successful brands: creating, making and selling speciality chemicals that are relied on by industries and consumers everywhere. This project will help to support Croda’s “Net Zero by 2050” strategy, enabling them to invest in low-carbon, intensified processes that meet their future manufacturing needs. 

Application Deadline: 26th January 2025

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Net Zero – Data Driven Optimisation for Process Scale-up 

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project is part of the CDT in Process Industries: Net Zero. The successful PhD student will be co-supervised by academics from the Process Intensification Group at Newcastle University. Nestling has designed a containerised cultivation and processing plant for a broad range of microorganisms with a focus on mycelium. The system is fully automated; the SCADA system is connected to the cloud and provides performance data, enabling the monitoring of critical process parameters (CPPs) and critical quality attributes (CQAs). Nestling wishes to collect the data and apply machine learning techniques to identify process efficiency improvements and enable prediction across scales for a given biological process. 

Application Deadline: 26th January 2025

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Using Data-Driven Methods to Model Planetary Atmospheres and Oceans

Summary of PhD Program:

Juno observations of the upper atmosphere Jupiter reveal complicated small-scale features consisting of eddies, jets, and filaments. Similar features are expected to be present in the atmospheres and oceans of other celestial bodies. Modeling these dynamical processes is difficult given the wide range of scales that must be resolved to fully capture the motion. As such, these small-scale features are typically unresolved in numerical simulations due to resolution constraints. Instead, a physical understanding of these unrepresented processes must be incorporated directly into the model via a technique known as ‘parametrisation’.

Application Deadline: 31st January 2025

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding the retention and treatment of highway runoff pollutants within roadside bioretention systems – and implications for design and long-term maintenance

Summary of PhD Program:

Significant risks posed by highway runoff to the UK water environment have been exposed by industry associations, government and environmental organisations, scientists, and media streams in recent months. The composition of road runoff, which includes road salts, heavy metals, hydrocarbons and PAHs, PFAS, PFOS, PFOA, and a suite of microplastics and tyre wear constituents, means harmful pollutants may be present in significant concentrations.

Application Deadline: 28 February 2025

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Structural and functional characterisation of mycobacterial outer membrane proteins

Summary of PhD Program:

Every year mycobacterial pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, are responsible for millions of deaths worldwide. Mycobacteria are surrounded by a complex cell envelope comprising an outer-membrane rich specialised lipids. This barrier acts to restrict the import and export of nutrients and proteins across the cell envelope. We still know very little about the proteins and transport systems residing in the mycobacterial outer membrane. This project aims to identify, isolate and characterise membrane transport systems from mycobacteria using a multi-disciplinary approach combing structural biology with molecular microbiology to elucidate transport mechanisms. 

Application Deadline: 28th February 2025

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Processes driving neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment in Lewy body dementia 

Summary of PhD Program:

Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder which has no cure, in part because the disease mechanisms that underlie neurodegeneration are not known. This PhD studentship has the potential to identify some of these mechanisms, and may help us develop more effective treatments. To better understand LBD, this studentship will employ neuropathological examination of post-mortem brain tissue combined with high-field neuroimaging in living patients to interrogate associations between neurodegeneration and potential causative mechanisms, including iron accumulation, mitochondrial dysfunction and formation of protein aggregates. 

Application Deadline: 31st January 2025

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Innovative ways of supporting physical activity promotion and the systems that drive it

Summary of PhD Program:

Despite decades of collective efforts, there has been little reduction in global and UK physical inactivity. We are interested in researching new approaches to how systems (e.g. politicians, national and local policymakers, charities, and communities) bring about changes in physical activity. We are looking for a student who can think creatively with theory from different areas (e.g., sport and exercise sciences, psychology, sociology, political and systems sciences), regardless of their disciplinary background. 

Application Deadline: 31st January 2025

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in GREEN: Growing Rare Earth Elements in the Northeast

Summary of PhD Program:

We are looking for an enthusiastic and curious PhD researcher to work on an interdisciplinary project to build U.K. green technology infrastructure by transforming legacy mine waste into a secondary source of critical minerals, required for the technologies that will decarbonised the global economy. One challenge for the UK is the absence of primary rare earth elements (REE) deposits. Additionally, the current process of extracting REE from ores is energy and chemically intense with serious environmental implications; many countries’ environmental regulations prevent the processing of REE ores.

Application Deadline: 3rd February 2025

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in The potential of heat exchange in Sustainable Drainage Systems for decarbonising heating and cooling

Summary of PhD Program:

There is no more important challenge in engineering than that presented by climate change. This project is at the cutting-edge of this challenge as it seeks to explore opportunities to both decarbonise our single greatest energy use (space heating and cooling) in combination with sustainable, nature-based solutions to adapt our urban areas to cope with ever-increasing extremes in weather e.g., high intensity rainfall induced flooding, prolonged drought and heat waves. Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) are a form of increasingly widespread Green Infrastructure, offering multiple benefits besides the management of urban runoff. Ground Source Heat is a well-established technology for providing low-carbon heating/cooling that exploits low-grade heat recovery using buried heat exchangers in a variety of forms.

Application Deadline: 28 February 2025

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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing Self-Healing Coatings for Hydrogen Storage Systems

Summary of PhD Program:

Hydrogen has emerged as a promising, clean, and versatile energy carrier, playing a key role in achieving global sustainability goals. One of the biggest challenges lies in its the safe and efficient storage, particularly due to hydrogen embrittlement – a phenomenon where hydrogen permeates storage materials, compromising their structural integrity. The research will focus on this critical issue by developing a Self-Healing, Hybrid Coating to enhance the safety and durability of steel-based hydrogen storage systems. The coating will ensure safer, more efficient hydrogen storage by preventing material degradation and failure.

Application Deadline: 3rd February 2025

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Building a Digital Twin of the Tees estuary to evaluate the resilience of nature based solutions for nutrient (N & P) capture 

Summary of PhD Program:

Northumbrian Water have proposed substantial investments in nature-based solutions (NBS) to deliver nutrient neutrality for the Tees estuary and surrounding coastal waters at scales not seen in the UK. The reduction of nitrogen loading is the primary driver; however, the NBS also have capacity to deliver parallel removal of phosphorus. The NBS include the restoration of native oyster, seagrass, and saltmarsh habitats, together with seaweed and shellfish farming. Success is predicated on ensuring the organisms remain healthy and functional for many years.

Application Deadline: 28 February 2025

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Accelerating emerging PV deployment through standardized device to system level operational testing

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will support faster commercialisation of emerging photovoltaic (PV) technologies by establishing a platform for system level operational testing, in real world settings. It would be of interest to candidates with a science or engineering background, with an interest in emerging photovoltaics and how they behave under real-life conditions. The collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) will enable the specific features of emerging PV technologies such as perovskite PV at device and system level to be evaluated. Metrics for such features will be determined and through system level data analysis, modelling and lab measurements

Application Deadline: 3rd February 2025

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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Staphylococcus aureus interactions in cystic fibrosis polymicrobial infections 

Summary of PhD Program:

You will engineer GFP promoter fusions to assess T7SS ‘switching on’ in response to the CF environment, clinically relevant antibiotics and presence of other bacteria. You will assess ability of Sa wild type, T7SS mutants and secreted toxin mutants to form biofilms with other CF pathogens, in particular Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa), looking at spatial localisation and survival in the biofilm. You will determine how Sa interacts with airway commensals and whether/how they modulate Sa/Pa interactions. 

Application Deadline: 17th January 2025

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16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Indoor Photovoltaic Devices and Materials Integration for IoT Applications

Summary of PhD Program:

We are seeking an exceptional PhD candidate to join Prof. Marina Freitag’s research group, funded by the Royal Society University Research Fellowship. This cutting-edge project aims to revolutionize sustainable energy solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) by developing smart indoor photovoltaic technologies integrated with artificial intelligence.

Application Deadline: 23rd January 2025

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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Astrophysics – Magnetic Fields and Superconductivity in Neutron Star Cores

Summary of PhD Program:

Curious to learn more about the strongest magnets of the Universe? This PhD project will explore connection between magnetic fields of neutron stars and properties of the matter in their cores. Soon after the discovery of first neutron stars, it was suggested that the inner part of the star (its core) is a gigantic superconductor. Over the last twenty years researchers made extraordinary progress in understanding of different types of neutron stars and their X-ray emission by modelling crust-confined magnetic field evolution, but completely ignoring the core. It is time now to start disentangling the core mystery and to probe different scenarios for magnetic field evolution in the core while considering superconductivity.

Application Deadline: 31st January 2025

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18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cardiovascular Development: “Cell interactions in fourth pharyngeal arch artery morphogenesis”, funded by the British Heart Foundation

Summary of PhD Program:

To uncover the gene regulatory networks and signalling events between the different cell types required for arch artery formation we have been using state-of-the-art single cell sequencing technologies. In this PhD project you will interrogate this data using bioinformatic techniques to identify candidate genes for further analysis. These genes will be investigated in model organisms using a range of laboratory techniques including RNA and protein visualisation by in situ hybridization (using the RNAscope technique) and immunohistochemistry, fluorescent activated cell sorting (FACS), quantitative real-time RT-PCR, molecular cloning and cell culture assays. 

Application Deadline: 28th February 2025

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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Astrophysics: Quasar Feedback in the Radio Band: Obscuration & Cosmic Ray Acceleration

Summary of PhD Program:

Every massive galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole in its centre. Accretion onto supermassive black holes releases tremendous energy, powering quasars that influence galaxy evolution. Energy input through radiation, winds, and jets interacts with interstellar gas, producing shocks and galactic outflows. These shocks also accelerate relativistic particles—“cosmic rays”—that spiral along magnetic fields, impacting galaxy properties and generating synchrotron radio emission. Recent radio observations of quasars reveal an intriguing correlation: quasars more deeply buried in gas – more obscured – produce stronger radio emission. Is enhanced radio emission a direct signature of quasar impact on these galaxies?

Application Deadline: 31st January 2025

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20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ageing – Why do men and women age differently? 

Summary of PhD Program:

Our hypothesis suggests that evolutionarily conserved, sex-specific stress responses drive differences in cellular senescence. Variations in senescent cell accumulation or traits may underlie sex-based disparities in age-related pathologies. In this project, you will examine stress response mechanisms—such as mitochondrial function, DNA damage response, and autophagy—to understand how they contribute to distinct ageing patterns, through cell senescence. You will also test drugs for sex-optimised targeting. Over your PhD, you’ll gain expertise in biochemical and molecular biology techniques, microscopy, image analysis, and mitochondrial assays using both in vitro and in vivo mouse models. 

Application Deadline: 31st January 2025

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21. Fully Funded PhD Position in ‘Staying in business? The aftermath of acquired disability for the entrepreneur’

Summary of PhD Program:

There is a long history of investigating entrepreneurs as groups based on certain shared demographic characteristics (e.g., age, gender, ethnicity). However, there is a much shorter history of research that examines disability as a characteristic, despite a steadily increasing number of outputs in recent years (Darcy et al., 2023; Hidegh et al., 2023). Knowledge to date has tended to coalesce around certain key themes: self-employment as a path into the labour market for the disabled (Norstedt and Germundsson, 2023); the specific support needs of the disabled if they do achieve business ownership status (Csillag et al., 2019); and, the type of businesses that disabled entrepreneurs tend to run (Kašperová, 2021). 

Application Deadline: 17 February 2025

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22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Systematic investigation of pyrolysis process and products for sustainable biochar production 

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project aims to systematically investigate and enhance the pyrolysis process of crop waste, focusing on improving efficiency and product quality. The research will cover various aspects of the process, including exploring the entire operational range across different production scales to minimize environmental impact and production costs. Additionally, the study will assess potential revenue streams for Circular Carbon by analysing advanced application scenarios for the solid, liquid, and gaseous by-products of pyrolysis. These analyses will be based on process and product characterisation, comprehensive life cycle and techno-economic assessments to align with evolving market trends and client needs, as well as to support biochar-based carbon dioxide removal initiatives. 

Application Deadline: 16th February 2025

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23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Whole system optimisation of bioresources 

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project is part of the CDT in Process Industries: Net Zero. The successful PhD student will be co-supervised by academics from the Process Intensification Group at Newcastle University. NWL operates two Advanced Anaerobic Digestion Plants (AAD), one on Teesside and one on Tyneside. These plants process more than 70,000 tonnes of biosolids, generating 160GWh of biofuels. Most of the biosolids are collected by road from across the North East of England – from the Scottish Border to the North York Moors. The biosolids have a high water content – meaning NWL transfers around 750,000 tonnes of material each year into the two sites and following treatment, the residual product is deposited to land as fertiliser – a further 100,000 tonnes of material moved. This haulage activity uses approximately 1.6million litres of diesel each year.

Application Deadline: 26th January 2025

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1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Improved methodology for the detection and pathogenesis of acute oak decline

Summary of PhD Program:

The project presents a unique opportunity for the successful candidate to work closely with leading experts in acute oak decline research at both UWE Bristol and Forest Research, joining in on field trips to affected woodlands to gain field experience of acute oak decline first-hand. At UWE Bristol, the candidate will join a thriving postgraduate community and be based in the new Lab Zone where they will learn versatile microbial molecular and plant pathology techniques, as well as bioinformatics and statistics providing them with transferable skills.

Application Deadline: 24 January 2025

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position

Summary of PhD Program:

We are delighted to announce the availability of fully-funded Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded PhD studentships as part of the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWW2). The application systems will open on Monday 25 November 2024 and will close at 23:59 on Monday 20 January 2025.

Application Deadline: 20 January 2025

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position

Summary of PhD Program:

The standard funding offer for PhD studentships (excluding any Masters year) is typically three years and three months plus three months ‘Research in Practice’. Where a student comes to the SWDTP with a prior Masters or equivalent professional experience but where that does not fully meet the ESRC’s training requirements set out in the ESRC Postgraduate Training and Development Guidelines Third Edition (2022) (PDF), then the student is required to undertake ‘top up’ training during their PhD, which may extend the length of the funding.

Application Deadline: 14 January 2025

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Arts and Humanities

Summary of PhD Program:

We are delighted to announce the availability of fully-funded Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded PhD studentships as part of the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWW2). UWE Bristol invites applications to undertake doctoral research that focuses on a subject area within AHRC primary research supported by SWW2. To find a suitable supervisor at UWE Bristol, please see UWE Bristol’s research centre and group pages. In addition, potential applicants may want to look at the individual UWE Bristol staff profiles. 

Application Deadline: 20 January 2025

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1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bespoke hydrogels for modelling cancer metastasis to the liver

Summary of PhD Program:

This project is part of the international “Mac4Me” Doctoral Network, which aims to improve our limited understanding of how to treat metastatic cancer. Adopting an innovative, multidisciplinary and cross-sectional approach, Mac4Me aims to understand tumour cell-immune host interactions at the metastatic site, including immune and matrix changes induced by tumour cells. It will use innovative animal-free organ-on-chip systems, reproducing early metastasis in brain, bone and liver.

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Next-generation cancer diagnosis and treatment using integrated snake-like robot with optical imaging

Summary of PhD Program:

The cancer of the bile ducts affects around 3000 people in the UK each year and its incidence and mortality are increasing. We are seeking a Ph.D. student to join our multidisciplinary team developing a radical solution for better detection and treatment that uses ultra-thin snake-like robots and advanced optical imaging techniques. We aim to combine Raman spectroscopy, a powerful label-free analytical technique that measures the molecular composition of tissue by using light to excite molecular vibrations, with imaging techniques in optical fibres, hair-thin pieces of glass, for 3D mapping of cancer tissue.

Application Deadline: 07 February 2025

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Identifying repurposed treatments for rare lung diseases

Summary of PhD Program:

This studentship, based at the University of Nottingham is aligned to the LifeArc. Translational Centre for Rare Respiratory Diseases. The Centre funded at £9.5M over five years is a national collaborative grouping that will change the research landscape for people affected by rare lung diseases. The studentship will focus upon modelling and drug discovery in one of the Centre’s exemplar diseases, lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM). LAM is a rare disease which almost exclusively affects women and is caused by somatic or germline mutations in the tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) genes.

Application Deadline: 03 February 2025

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Health economic evaluation of community acquired pneumonia in the UK

Summary of PhD Program:

The first stage of the project will be a study of the economic burden of community acquired pneumonia within the UK. The student will analyse large datasets such as the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and Hospital Episode Statistics to identify activity related to the treatment of community acquired pneumonia. This will require identifying relevant treatments and their associated Health Resource Group (HRG) codes to link hospital care provided with NHS Reference Costs, as well as linking any primary care activity with Unit Costs of Health and Social Care, and British National Formulae (BNF).

Application Deadline: 03 February 2025

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Humanities

Summary of PhD Program:

With generous funding from The Wolfson Foundation, we are now inviting applications for Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships starting in the 2025/26 academic year for doctoral (PhD) study in the broad subject areas of history, literature and languages. The Wolfson Foundation awards funding to outstanding students who demonstrate potential to make an impact on their chosen field. Wolfson Scholarships will be awarded solely on academic merit. Ideally, the successful applicants should aspire to becoming significant contributors to society, whether in the academic sphere or in other areas of intellectual and cultural leadership.

Application Deadline: 13 January 2025

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D printing of integrated quantum sensors

Summary of PhD Program:

In this project, 3D printing will be used to create novel multimaterial functional structures capable of new ways of sensing underlying material properties. Low dimensional materials, including graphene, perovskites and nanodiamonds will be incorporated into polymer and glass matrices, with the ultimate aim to develop and integrate sensing capabilities for quantum technology devices. 

Application Deadline: 16 January 2025

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Metal Additive Manufacturing of Multi-Functional and Multi-Material Structures

Summary of PhD Program:

We seek a student who could lead the maturation of this multi-metal MetalJet technique, which offers substantial prospects in the direct manufacturing of multi-functional metallic structures. The successful candidate will develop a comprehensive understanding of the Drop-on-demand Metal Jetting process and the compatibility of dissimilar materials within the printed structure. There is a particular interest in exploring novel designs and manufacturing techniques for cartridges used in producing molten droplets. 

Application Deadline: 23 January 2025

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Functional Devices and Structures through 3D Multi-material Printing Scale-Up

Summary of PhD Program:

Inkjet printing allows multiple materials to be 3D-printed simultaneously, useful for printing functional devices. Discovering the interactions of these materials and how to leverage this advanced manufacturing process will open new opportunities: devices with variable mechanical and chemical properties; fully 3D-printed electronics; and devices with mechanical or electrical responses encoded into their structure. However, we don’t yet know how to design these complex printed parts and we are still developing new leading-edge materials to grant them new capabilities.

Application Deadline: 23 January 2025

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Simultaneous production of hydrogen and structured carbon

Summary of PhD Program:

The transition to a low-carbon economy demands innovative processes that provide clean energy while also minimising waste/emissions. This project aims to achieve a dual-purpose approach: generating H₂ and valuable structured carbon (such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, or carbon fibres) from hydrocarbons, enabling a circular economy approach in energy production and material synthesis.

Application Deadline: 28 January 2025

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigating building physics for the Design of Resilient, Healthy and Energy-Efficient homes

Summary of PhD Program:

We aim to minimise the building energy consumption that is required for the heating and ventilation purposes by achieving refined building operations, which enables us to provide the building with heating and ventilation only where it is required and when it is required. To help achieve this target, it is essential to gain an in-depth understanding of the building physics under various building operational conditions. Therefore, we need to understand how the building physics affects the heat and air transfer not only between indoor and outdoor environment, but also between different zones in the building.

Application Deadline: 30 January 2025

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing a Miniaturised End-effector for Repair in Confined Spaces (UK Atomic Energy Authority sponsored)

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will be part-funded by the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging Environments, https://www.race.ukaea.uk) robotics and remote handling centre. RACE was founded in 2014 as part of the UKAEA’s Fusion Research and Development Programme to design and test robots for operating in some of the most challenging environments imaginable. UKAEA’s wider mission is to lead the commercial development of fusion power and related technology and position the UK as a leader in sustainable nuclear energy. 

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in high performance electrical machines with advanced cooling techniques

Summary of PhD Program:

This research will investigate the most advanced cooling techniques to improve the performance of electrical machines, including jet and spray cooling, based on CFD and lumped parameter thermal networks. Cryogenic fluids will also be considered, and analytical models will be used to evaluate the coolant system approaches for electric propulsion systems in future aircraft.

Application Deadline: 01 February 2025

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Space Systems and Astrodynamics

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD will focus on formation flying, rendezvous, and in-orbit operations, incorporating astrodynamics and systems design. The research will explore trajectory optimization, robust guidance, navigation and control systems, and simulation of in-orbit docking and coordinated maneuvers. These critical areas aim to advance the capabilities of collaborative satellite operations and in-orbit servicing missions.

Application Deadline: 14 February 2025

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Analysis and Optimization of Wound Field Synchronous Machine e-NVH for Vehicle Traction Applications

Summary of PhD Program:

We are seeking a highly motivated and ambitious individual with a strong background in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field. The ideal candidate will possess a master’s degree and have expertise in electromagnetics, machine design, and numerical simulations. Proficiency in software tools for electromagnetic analysis and optimization is desirable. The successful candidate should demonstrate excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, along with exceptional communication and teamwork abilities.

Application Deadline: 16 February 2025

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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing Next-Generation Laser Technologies for Advanced Materials

Summary of PhD Program:

This project is an exciting opportunity to undertake industrially linked research in partnership with Laser Processing Group at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC). It is based within the Advanced Materials Research Group (AMRG) at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, which amongst its wide research portfolio, conducts cutting edge research into the development of next-generation manufacturing technologies for advanced materials.

Application Deadline: 28 February 2025

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16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Winding Development for Electric Motors Enabling Net Zero

Summary of PhD Program:

We are seeking for a highly motivated PhD student to conduct cutting edge research with support from state-of-the-art electric motor manufacturing platforms both at the MTC and at PEMC Institute, University of Nottingham. Based on rapidly advancing Carbon Nanotube (CNT) material technology, the PhD project will be focused on development of next generation electric motors with CNT windings for electric vehicle traction and aerospace propulsion, featuring opportunity for significant improvements on performance, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness.

Application Deadline: 28 February 2025

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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced Litz Wire Modelling and Manufacturing for Ultra-High Speed Propulsion Motors

Summary of PhD Program:

We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to conduct cutting-edge research with support from state-of-the-art electric motor manufacturing platforms both at the MTC and at the PEMC Institute, University of Nottingham. Based on the emerging Litz wire winding technology, this PhD project will focus on multi-physics modelling and characterisation of “programmable” Litz wires. By leveraging the MTC’s exclusive high-spec braiding machine, this research has the vision of significantly enhancing the design and manufacturing process of Litz wire winding for next-generation high-spec electric propulsion systems.

Application Deadline: 28 February 2025

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18. Fully Funded PhD Position in A continual learning approach for the development of robust robotic control systems

Summary of PhD Program:

This project is an exciting opportunity to undertake industrially linked research in partnership with the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC). It is based within the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Research Group (AMTG) at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, which amongst its wide research portfolio, conducts cutting edge research into the development of future Intelligent Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems.

Application Deadline: 28 February 2025

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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Enhancing Maintenance Strategies Through Reliability-Centred Condition Monitoring

Summary of PhD Program:

This research, inspired by the philosophy of Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM), aims to design innovative frameworks for condition monitoring that optimise data sampling and facilitate the digitalisation of current and future systems. Rooted in the principles of reliability and efficiency, the project will prioritise the criticality of components and their probability of failure to establish appropriate condition monitoring strategies and adaptive sampling techniques that achieve a harmonious balance between efficiency and reliability.

Application Deadline: 28 March 2025

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20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced 3D/4D-Printing of Responsive Biomaterial Devices

Summary of PhD Program:

Responsive 3D-printed functional devices interact with their environment, responding to stimuli (temperature, light, etc.), and “4D-printed” devices respond over time (e.g. changing shape), controlled by the arrangement of differential materials within them. The goal of this project will be to develop responsive 4D-printed biomaterial devices for drug delivery or regenerative medicine. The student will formulate new 3D-printable materials and develop new design methods, for functional 4D-printed devices with either fast self-resetting responses or complex multi-scale shape changes, applicable to biomedical, micromechanical, or optoelectronic applications. 

Application Deadline: 28 March 2025

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21. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D-printing next-generation electro-actuators for soft robots and devices

Summary of PhD Program:

3D-printing of soft robotics is a growing field, with many applications in biomedical devices, electronics, and autonomous machines. Actuators to drive these robots utilise electronic, chemical, pressure, magnetic, or thermal mechanisms, with the current generation having significant drawbacks, including low energy efficiency, high operating voltage or temperature. This project will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of electro-responsive soft-actuators. The overall aim is to develop and exploit new designs or new materials to attain large, fast, high-efficiency actuation responses comparable to living muscles.

Application Deadline: 28 March 2025

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22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Adaptive Mesh Refinement for More Efficient Predictions of Wall Boiling Bubble Dynamics

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this PhD is to robustly validate and demonstrate the utility of an adaptive mesh refinement approach in interface resolving Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of flow boiling at conditions relevant to nuclear thermal hydraulics. Boiling is a technology central to both fusion and fission nuclear reactors, also including thermal management of several reactor components. The aim of these simulations is to generate data that can be leveraged to account for the detailed characteristics of a heat transfer surface on bubble dynamics during flow boiling, to provide an approach for generating more representative inputs for the wall boiling models used in component scale CFD assessments.

Application Deadline: 28 March 2025

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23. Fully Funded PhD Position in New approaches for studying the structure of high-temperature molten materials

Summary of PhD Program:

Understanding the structure and properties of high-temperature molten materials is of key importance in a diverse range of applications including optical glass manufacture, nuclear waste storage, green platforms for growth of functional materials, fuel cell hermetic seals, electrolytes, carbon capture solvents and thermal energy storage media. It is also vital for understanding natural magmatic processes on earth & other planetary bodies.

Application Deadline: 28 March 2025

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24. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D-Printing Devices with Responsive Structural Colour

Summary of PhD Program:

Small and repetitive structures with spacings on the nanometre scale can refract and reflect light to create vibrant “structural” colours, which are being explored to produce anti-counterfeit markings, dye-free colour images, humidity and chemical sensors, anti-glare coatings and optical filters. This project will develop additive manufacturing of devices with actively-controlled structural colours that respond to stimuli. You will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of structural colour devices, integrating optically- and electronically-active materials, including 0D and 2D nanomaterials. 

Application Deadline: 28 March 2025

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25. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D-Printed Drug Delivery “Microbots” for Personalised Healthcare

Summary of PhD Program:

The field of medical therapeutics has valuable applications for mobile devices for efficient drug delivery, called micro-robots. Recently, 3D printing has been used to manufacture such devices with functional features that enabled them to respond to environmental cues, including temperature, pH, light, magnetic fields, and ultrasound. This project will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of medical micro-robots targeting drug delivery, exploiting combinations of functions to achieve complex and customisable micro-robots to provide personalised healthcare solutions.

Application Deadline: 28 March 2025

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1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Black Hole Microstates, Integrable Systems, and Quantum String Theory

Summary of PhD Program:

Understanding black holes at the quantum level is one of the most profound challenges in theoretical physics. This project seeks to explore the microscopic origins of black hole entropy, the dynamics of black hole microstates, and their effective descriptions using cutting-edge techniques in string theory and integrable systems. Recent breakthroughs, including connections between integrable deformations and six-dimensional holomorphic Chern-Simons theory, offer a new lens to analyze the quantum structure of spacetime. The aim is to develop a quantum framework to describe black hole microstates, linking tools from integrability, holography, and quantum string theory.

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Complexity in Conformal and Confining field theories and Holography

Summary of PhD Program:

The idea of Complexity, borrowed from Mathematics and Computer science, has recently emerged as generic Quantum Field Theories. While complexity is well-defined for simple systems like quantum circuits, calculating it for a Quantum Field Theory, which exhibits Conformal or Confining dynamics, is less straightforward. This project aims to properly define and compute complexity for general Quantum Field Theories. The key technical tool is Holography, namely AdS/CFT and Gauge-Strings dualities. The project has many possible derivations in other areas.

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics

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This project will use a first-principles approach in which large-scale simulations of QCD are performed on a discretised “lattice” version of space and time, similar to the finite difference approach in computational fluid dynamics. Using this Lattice QCD method, Centre Vortex fields will be analysed to understand particles called glueballs and the temperature effects of confinement. The project will be based on performing computational simulations and theoretical calculations of QCD. It will involve applying quantum field theory and computational methods to understand the nature of the confinement mechanism of QCD.

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum spacetime geometry beyond the horizon

Summary of PhD Program:

Quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity (GR) are the two major mathematical pillars on which our understanding of the physical world rests. We know the world is quantum, and GR tells us that gravity is curvature of spacetime geometry whose quantum description is largely unknown. This project will leverage recent insights on: (i) black holes and the quantum information puzzle; and (ii) holographic emergence of classical spacetime and gravity in D dimensions from quantum information measures applied to a dual quantum mechanical model in D-1 dimensions; to reveal quantum signatures of spacetime geometry behind the horizon of a black hole, and further aim to explore the physics of spacetime singularities.

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chern Simons Theory and Integrability

Summary of PhD Program:

This exciting project in mathematical and theoretical physics will investigate novel approaches to quantum systems with integrability. Normally the equations that determine physical systems, be it quantum field theory describing particle physics or string theory describing quantum gravity, are too hard to solve exactly. However, there are very special systems that have deep hidden symmetries that allow one to exactly solve these equations instead of using e.g. perturbation theory. The study of these integrable systems is a critical area in the intersection of mathematical and theoretical physics and string theory. 

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modelling of Complex Load Cycles at Elevated Temperature

Summary of PhD Program:

Engineering components such as those found in high temperature plant applications are often subjected to cycles during which both stress and temperature change. These cycles can occur during normal service or during start-up/shut-down cycles and can significantly limit service lives of the components. Due to thermal gradients associated with heating and cooling, these load/thermal cycles are complex in nature and the cycle frequency is typically lower than that of a normal thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) cycle resulting in deformation dominated by creep mechanisms.

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Toric Geometry and Multivariate Splines 

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this PhD project is to explore the properties of splines through the lens of applied algebraic geometry, with a particular focus on their relationship to toric geometry. Splines are mathematical representations built upon simpler pieces (usually defined by low-degree polynomials) glued together to form smooth curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects. They are fundamental tools for approximation and computational design, crucial in finite element methods, computer vision, and geometric deep learning.

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigating the Impact of Nonlocal Interactions

Summary of PhD Program:

This fully funded PhD Scholarship will focus on bifurcation structures in nonlocal advection-diffusion models, with the aim of advancing our understanding of these systems. The project will use a combination of analytical techniques and numerical methods to explore how such models can provide new insights into collective phenomena. The research is expected to have broad implications, offering advances in mathematical theory as well as applications in fields such as spatial ecology, developmental biology and cancer research.

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advancing Sustainable Solar Solutions to Transform Global Energy Access

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project will accelerate the development of printable perovskite photovoltaics (PV) for deployment in Africa by focusing on the sustainable materials that form the foundation of these technologies. Guided by advanced photochemical characterisation techniques, you will use tools to deepen understanding of the uniformity, morphology, performance, and stability of perovskite devices. You will work to develop and optimise materials that are cost-effective, efficient, and adaptable to diverse environmental conditions. 

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Zero-knowledge Succinct Non-interactive Argument of Knowledge for Public Good

Summary of PhD Program:

Recently, many councils in Wales started using single transferable vote (STV) method for counting ballots. While counting plaintext ballots using STV method is straight forward, but a rank-based ballot may leak the voter’s preferences if published publicly in plaintext, as the ranking order can reveal detailed information about the voter’s identity. Therefore encryption is necessary to hide the ranking. However, STV method becomes considerably more complex with encrypted ballots. Our goal is to develop an algorithm/protocol to count encrypted ballot using the STV method.

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Vertical Multi-Purpose Farming Robotic System

Summary of PhD Program:

At its heart, the project is about developing Vertical Multi-Purpose Farming Systems. From providing cost-effective, year-round agriculture to creating disease-resistant crops and yield prediction using computer vision, the technologies you develop have the potential to shape the future of farming. It may become the path to devising new vertical agricultural techniques, paving the way for sustainable methodologies in the agriculture sector. Join us and participate in this exciting project. At Swansea University you will do more than just research; you will be positively impacting people’s lives and the environment. 

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multi-physics modelling of laser shock peening: bridging microscopic to macroscopic scales

Summary of PhD Program:

The objective of this project is the computational modelling of laser shock peening. Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Finite Element (FE) simulations will be combined to account for the complex physical phenomena and their different scales. The interdependence of physical conditions (pressure, pulse time, temperature) will be investigated, allowing for the design of efficient shockwaves. Essential multi-physics software tools will be developed. The project is a collaboration between Swansea University and the STFC (Scientific Computing Department + Central Laser Facility). 

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in The effect of rotational polarisation on gas-surface reactivity

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will involve using and further developing both the experimental and data analysis methods that are currently used within the research team. The student will learn how to use the MMI apparatus, gaining knowledge of, for example, molecular and atomic beams, ultra-high vacuum systems, cryogenic technologies and a range of measurement and surface science techniques. They will also analyse the experimental data, developing techniques to extract information about the rotational orientation dependence of the gas-surface reaction, as well as performing numerical simulations to determine how best to perform the measurements to maximise the information that can be obtained.

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems 

Summary of PhD Program:

Animal groups exhibit remarkable coordination and problem-solving capabilities, such as schools of fish working together to deter attacks by predators or fire ants creating rafts using their bodies to float over floodwaters. Recent work in behavioural biology emphasises how differences among individuals within groups (e.g., biomechanics, physiology, behaviour, cognition) determine group structure and functioning [1]. Building on these insights, you will compile and standardise datasets of collective movement and collect new data from multiple species of freshwater fish.

Application Deadline: 24th February 2025

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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Climate system and biodiversity science

Summary of PhD Program:

Climate extremes and biodiversity loss have impelled governments and businesses worldwide to adopt ambitious Net Zero, adaptation, and restoration plans. The environment sector is developing rapidly to design, realise, and evaluate these plans, using cutting-edge science, innovation, and big data. 

Application Deadline: 20 January 2025

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16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nonlinear structural dynamics, numerical

Summary of PhD Program:

The primary application of the research is in biomedical engineering, specifically in the development of MEMS-based sensors for robotic surgery. Robotic surgery imposes stringent requirements on sensor design, demanding high precision, robustness, and resilience to challenging conditions, such as mechanical vibrations and dynamic forces. The project aims to design, simulate, and fabricate MEMS sensors that meet these exacting standards, advancing the capabilities of existing sensor technologies.

Application Deadline: 13 January 2025

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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multi-Functional Materials for Soft Robotics by Additive Manufacturing

Summary of PhD Program:

Soft robotics stands at the forefront of robotics research, offering adaptability, safety, and multifunctionality that surpass traditional rigid robotic systems. However, current advancements are constrained by the use of singular smart materials, which limit multifunctional capabilities such as high gripping strength, dynamic responsiveness to multiple stimuli, and greater degrees of freedom, while maintaining structural integrity and rapid actuation.

Application Deadline: 13 January 2025

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18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Scaling Up Perovskite Solar Module Manufacturing for Africa

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project will place you at the forefront of developing scalable approaches to perovskite solar module (PSM) manufacturing, with a focus on refining and optimising processes for large-scale adoption. Your research will involve refining screen-printing processes to enable high-throughput production, ensuring deposition consistency and defect-free coatings, such as pinhole-free layers. You will establish protocols to standardise the fabrication process, enabling reproducible and efficient production suitable for both local and international markets.

Application Deadline: 13 January 2025

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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable Smart Packaging

Summary of PhD Program:

The global consumption and disposal of non-biodegradable packaging materials, especially conventional plastics, significantly cause environmental degradation and health hazards. In an era marked by escalating environmental and human health concerns and the quest for sustainable solutions, the realm of biodegradable packaging materials stands at the forefront of innovation. This NIBAC project emerges as a pivotal initiative at the nexus of sustainability, technology, and material science. Aimed at revolutionising the landscape of packaging, this proposed project is a concerted effort to develop advanced, safer, and eco-friendly packaging solutions derived from plant- based sources (e.g., cellulose).

Application Deadline: 13 January 2025

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20. Fully Funded PhD Position in VARIANCE – VARiability In Antarctic Calving Extent

Summary of PhD Program:

The main contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) to sea level rise comes from the flow of inland ice out to sea, a process that is controlled by the presence of floating ice shelves around the AIS. Ice loss from ice shelf calving has been shown to account for roughly half of AIS mass loss (Greene et al., 2022). Ice shelves typically follow a period of slow advance for several decades before undergoing more rapid ice shelf calving events that reduce their extent. In addition to this natural variance, the ice-shelf extent is becoming increasingly impacted by a heating climate driving melting.

Application Deadline: 13 January 2025

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21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Aerospace, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

The School of Aerospace, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering is a flagship School developing a vibrant, diverse, inclusive, digital, sustainable and internationally-recognised learning community driven by three underpinning principles:

1) To be a world-leading research centre supported by publicly funded bodies and world-class industrial partners.
2) To deliver an innovative pedagogy-based teaching curriculum fit for a new generation of engineers equipped to make a transformative impact in the world.
3) To be a beacon of knowledge and innovation in Wales by bridging the gap between the School and the community through the continuous advancement of its civic mission.

Application Deadline: 13 January 2025

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22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Technological Interventions for Social mobility through Computing Education

Summary of PhD Program:

The study aims to investigate how technological interventions can challenge and support young people’s perceptions and experiences regarding the digital skills needed to be 21st-century citizens. By examining the relationship between digital skills and aspirations, the research seeks to uncover ways to enhance opportunities for disadvantaged young people.

Application Deadline: 13 January 2025

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23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring Strong Human-Centred Perspectives to Diversify and Disrupt AI

Summary of PhD Program:

In this PhD you will help explore a new trajectory for AI research, Everyone Virtuoso Everyday (EVE) – to succinctly summarise the drive of the work. That is, we are interested in defining and evaluating a class of AI technology that enables expressive, individual and masterful interactions, like a virtuoso musician who channels all of their being – physical, mental, emotional and even spiritual – through their instrument to help themselves and others make sense of the world. However, the work is not about turning everyone into an AI-fuelled artist, dancer or musician. Quite the contrary, we will look to provide tools that can be deployed in the mundanity of their daily lives. 

Application Deadline: 13 January 2025

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1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantifying the impacts of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from infrastructure decommissioning on benthic micro and macrofaunal communities

Summary of PhD Program:

This project takes advantage of existing archived benthic sediment samples collected along a distance gradient from 50 m to 3200 m away from two North Sea platforms (i.e. North West Hutton and Miller, that were decommissioned in 2009 and 2018 respectively). The University of Essex has obtained a suite of hydrocarbon data (petroleum alkanes, PAHs), archived DNA and metagenome data from these sediments that will be made available to the student. All supervisors have well-established track records of supervising Masters and PhD students to completion and are fully committed to supporting the student. Therefore this project is very low risk.

Application Deadline: 1 February 2025

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Unilateralism v Multilateralism: Harnessing International Economic Policy for Sustainable Transitions

Summary of PhD Program:

This project focuses on the costs and benefits of unilateralism in pursuing sustainable transitions. In recent years, the EU has ramped up its use of unilateral economic instruments as a way of exerting leverage on third states in the areas of sustainability and climate policy. From the new Deforestation Regulation, to the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, to the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, the EU is using the power of its economic market to influence the behaviour of actors around the world.

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Transitions to sustainable wildlife harvest: evidence based management and the social licence to hunt

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project will develop approaches in ecological and social sciences to help overcome barriers to sustainable recreational hunting – leading to methods that can help the UK government meet social and conservation objectives. Areas of research could include estimating species specific harvest of waterbirds, developing methods to make harvest estimation easier, understanding the social licence of wild bird hunting in the UK, and exploring social and practical barriers to positive ecological outcomes for hunted waterbirds.

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Towards a praxis of a just transition in developing economies: Beyond counter accounts and regulatory frameworks to action

Summary of PhD Program:

This is an opportunity to conduct fully funded interdisciplinary research under the Sustainable Transitions Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme at the University of Essex. Climate change risk is unevenly borne globally by the more vulnerable, principally from developing economies. This inequality gives prominence to the notion of a ‘just transition’. However, the emergence of the concept of a ‘just transition’ in relation to developing economies has continued to attract discourses that challenge the dominant discourses of the Global North which are arguably based on existing dominant structures (e.g., capitalism, economic growth, technology, politics).

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in The role of directors’ duties and their relationship with non-financial reporting in achieving environmental sustainability

Summary of PhD Program:

Directors’ duties are an extremely important component of company law in all jurisdictions of the world. They influence the way that businesses make decisions, formulate strategies and consider ‘externalities’ such as the environment. Directors’ duties generally require decision-makers within companies to act in the best interests of the companies themselves and do not require companies to achieve specific outcomes for the environment, such as net zero carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, waste and pollution.

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nature protection versus nature restoration: Who benefits and who loses out?

Summary of PhD Program:

This is an opportunity to conduct fully funded interdisciplinary research under the Sustainable Transitions Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme at the University of Essex. Decisions around whether to use limited conservation funding to protect “good” ecosystems or improve degraded ones are typically based upon economic and ecological considerations alone. Yet there are numerous potential ways in which this decision not only determines the costs and ecological benefits of conservation activities, but also the social outcomes.

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to mitigate the effects of sea-level rise

Summary of PhD Program:

Research must inform such ambitious goals on the utility of and transition to NbS: (i) Marine science provides the knowledge base on the ecology and settlement biology of reef-building organisms. (ii) Circular economies that benefit businesses, society, and the environment can be created to provide materials (e.g. bivalve shell, rubble) that encourage natural settlement and reef-formation. (iii) The socioeconomic landscape together with conservation concerns and existing regulatory frameworks on coastal use must inform future defence strategies.

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in From Global Promise to Local Impact: Evaluating Climate Funding at the Local Level

Summary of PhD Program:

The efforts to establish ‘loss and damage’ climate funding to aid countries impacted by climate disasters underscore the need for collective approaches to transform financial institutions and governmental practices to ensure that support meets local needs. Structural challenges such as resource distribution, access to finance, corruption, multilevel governance systems and participation in decision-making can all complicate ‘loss and damage’ implementation for disadvantaged or vulnerable communities at the local level.

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring the legal and social emergence of rights of nature as a form of environmental protection

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will examine Rights of Nature (RoN), drawing from both legal and sociological perspectives. The RoN movement has gained traction in recent years as a novel approach to environmental protection and the rethinking of nature-human relationships. Originating in the rights movements of communities in Amercia and Indigenous Peoples in South America, rights of nature laws were then adopted around the globe. The initiative behind granting rights or personhood to nature is, clearly, an attempt to safeguard ecological systems. More fundamentally, it represents a deeper philosophical shift that redefines nature as a legal subject, rather than merely an object or resource for human exploitation.

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital Technologies of farming: analysing and communicating its impact on farmers and the environment

Summary of PhD Program:

Technology is changing the way we work across many spheres, including the agricultural industry. For example, sensor technologies employed in farming (like virtual fencing and GPS animal tracking) claim to accelerate the transition to more sustainable agricultural practices. Technological solutions are key to sustainable transitions but their success relies on how people understand and interact with these technologies. The acceptance of digital technologies and their impact on the working practices of farmers, agricultural workers, and conservationists are underexplored (especially in the UK context).

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Co-Production, Climate Resilience, and Accountability: A Pathway to Localising Sustainable Agendas

Summary of PhD Program:

This project explores the intersection of co-production, climate resilience, and accountability as a strategy to localise the global sustainable development agenda. As climate change disproportionately affects vulnerable communities, it is crucial to develop localised, inclusive approaches that integrate local knowledge and address unique environmental and social challenges. Co-production, where multiple stakeholders collaborate – governments, citizens, NGOs, and businesses – offers a suitable framework for this purpose.

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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biodiversity Conservation. An empirical analysis of the ways that developers in England are working to achieve Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)

Summary of PhD Program:

The project provides the opportunity to analyse the contributions that businesses and governmental organizations are providing in relation to biodiversity conservation, by studying the ways that developers are applying the Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) regulation applicable in England. This regulation, which has become mandatory since February 2024, affects some types of developers in England who, unless exempt, are required to provide a 10% increase in the biodiversity value of habitats within their development. This can be delivered by improving on-site habitats, off-site habitats, or by purchasing statutory biodiversity credits.

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Addressing the place of microorganisms in the Nagoya Protocol: microbial biogeography, genomics and taxonomy

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will investigate the ambiguities and scientific challenges concerning the place of microorganisms in the Nagoya Protocol with a view to proposing pathways towards clarification. In 2014 the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization was established. It focuses on resources deriving from vascular plants and animals. While microbes are included, issues around their global distribution and the definition of a microbial species have created crucial legal and taxonomic ambiguities, which have significant implications for industry and human communities where industrially desirable microbes are located.

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1. Fully Funded PhD Position

Summary of PhD Program:

Applicants are invited for a 4-year PhD studentship in the Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience (PDN) from October 2025. Jointly funded by PDN and Wolfson College, the student will participate in training and cohort-building events of the Cambridge Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme and undertake a Professional Internship for PhD Students (PIPS) of 3 months.

Application Deadline: 7 January 2025

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2. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Archaeology of Later Pastoralism in Kenya

Summary of PhD Program:

The LHEAAPS project aims to investigate the origins and evolution of Pastoral Iron Age societies in north-central Kenya through integrated analysis of patterns of human and livestock mobility, dietary practices, exchange networks, and responses to periods of known drought and increased rainfall over the last c. 1800 years. Through the innovative use of diverse bioarchaeological, archaeological and materials sciences approaches, these two PhD projects are intended to contribute to the reconstruction of exchange networks through archaeometric analyses of lithic and ceramic artefacts; and reconstructions of diet and herd management strategies (including seasonal and longer-term mobility of livestock) via combined zooarchaeology and isotopic analyses.

Application Deadline: 7 January 2025

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Genetics

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Applications are invited for a fully funded 4-year PhD Studentship to start in October 2025 in the Department of Genetics. The successful applicant will work in one of three research groups contributing to projects led by Group Leaders Dr Charlotte Houldcroft, Dr Alex Cagan or Dr Antoine Hocher. In the Pathogen Dynamics Unit within the Department of Genetics, the Houldcroft group undertakes two major strands of adenovirus research: genomics of AdVs in clinical settings, and adaptive immunity to AdVs. Prospective PhD students could therefore tailor a project in two directions.

Application Deadline: 7 January 2025

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position

Summary of PhD Program:

Applicants are invited for a 4-year PhD studentship in the Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience (PDN) from October 2025. The student will participate in training and cohort-building events of the Cambridge Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme and undertake a Professional Internship for PhD Students (PIPS) of 3 months.

Application Deadline: 7 January 2025

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Social Anthropology of Inner Asia

Summary of PhD Program:

Applications are invited for the Sigrid Rausing MIASU PhD Studentship in the Social Anthropology of Inner Asia. The studentship, funded by a generous donation from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, will cover the University Composition Fee (tuition fees) and maintenance at the home fee rate. Applications from international students are welcome. Whilst we endeavour, where possible, to award full studentships, international students may be required to cover the fee gap between the home and overseas fee rates. The studentship is available for full-time students only and normally tenable for three years.

Application Deadline: 30 April 2025

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Classics

Summary of PhD Program:

The Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge seeks applications for a funded PhD, to begin on 01 September 2025, or as near to that date as possible, to work in the context of the Swiss National Foundation project ‘Citation, Indirect Transmission, Exegesis (CITE). Modes of Reading in Antiquity’, which will run jointly in Basel and Cambridge. The successful applicant will work, under the supervision of Prof Gábor Betegh and Prof Richard Hunter, on the traditions, citations and reading of the Presocratics from the classical period onwards. Full-funding is guaranteed for 42 months for UK students; international students are encouraged also to apply and will be considered for further funding to bridge the gap between ‘home’ and ‘overseas’ fees.

Application Deadline: 7 January 2025

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Drugging kinase-driven brain cancer with multi-topic compounds

Summary of PhD Program:

This is a unique opportunity for PhD study in the world-leading Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI), to start a research career in an environment committed to training outstanding cancer research scientists of the future. The Institute’s particular strengths are in genomics, computational biology and imaging; and significant research effort is currently devoted to cancers arising in the breast, pancreas, brain, and colon. Patients with brain cancer desperately need more effective tailored treatments. Virtually all brain cancer patients today are being treated with drugs that were not initially designed to target the brain but instead developed for, and tested in, patients with tumours elsewhere.

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Uncovering the origin and evolution of primitive compartments

Summary of PhD Program:

The projects will identify prebiotic chemistries that could have given rise to compositionally diverse membranes and show how these support characteristic behaviours necessary for nucleic acid replication and membrane division, the hallmarks of a cell cycle. To achieve this goal, we will harness diversity-oriented prebiotic synthesis to non-enzymatically transform primitive pluripotent lipids into libraries of diverse lipids (Project 1). These lipids will be used to build compositionally diverse membranes capable of interacting with membrane-editing protoenzymes and ribozymes (Project 2).

Application Deadline: 7 January 2025

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position

Summary of PhD Program:

We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join the project. The selected student will be supervised by the PI of the project (Dr Abigail Moffett, University of Cambridge) and by Professor Paul Lane (University of Cambridge). The PhD project will focus on the analysis of excavated materials from the coastal regions of southern Mozambique, with an opportunity to develop expertise in a range of materials based analytical techniques. The successful applicant will possess an ability for rigorous, creative and independent thought, have ability to work as part of a team and be willing to spend part of their PhD undertaking fieldwork in Mozambique.

Application Deadline: 7 January 2025

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position

Summary of PhD Program:

Applications are invited for an Ernest Oppenheimer Studentship to be held at Cambridge University in Colloid Science, as broadly interpreted within the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering. The Studentship is to support research projects directly leading to a PhD. The application should be made by the designated research supervisor, on behalf of the named candidate. Normally, only one application per supervisor will be considered.

Application Deadline: 7 January 2025

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Fusion of Multi-Modal Data in Nonlinear System Modelling by using Machine Learning techniques

Summary of PhD Program:

This exciting project will focus on addressing two fundamental challenges in physics-enhanced machine learning strategies for Digital Twins development: (i) develop Machine Learning models that can be trained with multi-modal data, i.e. simulation and measurement data that embody different fidelities and uncertainties. (ii) account for non-linearities that are common in many engineering systems.

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero

Summary of PhD Program:

We have funding for a number of 1+3 MRes/PHD studentships, in collaboration with industry, as part of our EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero (FIBE3 CDT), under the four following themes:

-Current and disruptive technologies
-Circularity and whole life approach
-Al-driven digitalisation and data
-Risk-based systems thinking and connectivity

Application Deadline: 16 May 2025

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Matta Labs Ltd- Foundational AI Models for Manufacturing

Summary of PhD Program:

The project seeks to revolutionise design and manufacturing end-to-end, by enabling the conception, optimisation and production of better products. As a starting point, this will focus on “neural” digital twins, powered by data sources including process monitoring, supply chains, literature and human expert input. By creating a dynamic, real-time replica of parts being manufactured, these digital twins could drive unprecedented gains in manufacturing capability and sustainability by enabling real-time simulation, optimization, and predictive maintenance. This is a rapidly evolving field and so we expect that the research direction and methods will adapt to ongoing discoveries.

Application Deadline: 1 February 2025

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Shaping and Enhancing Magnetic Fields with Bulk Superconductors

Summary of PhD Program:

Superconducting solenoids are vital to key applications in science, technology and medicine. They are currently used in NMR and MRI as well as for scientific research. There is considerable interest in future applications such as fusion reactors and superconducting motors. In many applications we need to take the field produced by a solenoid and optimise it for a particular application. This is currently done using techniques such as shim coils and permanent magnets.

Application Deadline: 15 March 2025

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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Particle-driven convection in a stratification: The mystery of ocean plastics

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will use laboratory experiments to investigate particle-driven convection, which occurs when particles settle through a stably stratified interface. Even though the initial stratification is stable, particle settling leads to an unstable interface in the density field, driving an instability. Using experimental techniques, such as PIV and PTV, shadowgraph imaging and dye attenuation, experiments will be used to characterise the flow and develop an understanding of the important physics.

Application Deadline: 31 March 2025

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16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Optical deep learning and computing for future communication systems

Summary of PhD Program:

The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and optical technologies presents a groundbreaking opportunity to address challenges in modern communication systems. Optical technologies, driven by the increasing demands for high-speed communication, sensing, and displays, have demonstrated remarkable potential for energy-efficient and scalable solutions. Simultaneously, the evolution of AI has opened new frontiers for intelligent system design. This project aims to explore the development of all-optical neural networks and all-optical computing paradigms to enable next-generation communication systems.

Application Deadline: 28 February 2025

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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Matching algorithms with real neuronal structures and modelling their performance

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of the project is to explore the known anatomy and physiology of the brain to find matches to the functional structures required to implement various algorithms, such as reinforcement learning. It should also be possible to predict the anatomy required for certain types of functionality in a way that can be tested experimentally by others. There will be a particular focus on the cerebellum. The work will involve computational simulation of neural networks either at the level of analogue values or in terms of spiking patterns and spiking rates.

Application Deadline: 14 February 2025

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18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Inter-Scale Causality in Wall-Bounded Turbulence

Summary of PhD Program:

The project aims to develop a new, spectral framework to analyse and understand wall turbulence, by quantifying how turbulent eddies of different lengthscales interact with each other through the non-linear, advective term in the momentum equations. The idea is then to use this framework to map inter-scale causality, characterising the turbulent cascade, and to identify the essential paths in these maps, with applications to reduced-order modelling and flow control. The project will also aim to use these maps to understand how the dynamics of the turbulent cascade and turbulent dissipation are altered in flows over complex and textured surfaces, compared to those over smooth walls.

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Configuring Digital Experiences to enable Sustainable Futures

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this PhD research is to advance the integration of digital tools into management approaches to support sustainable decision-making in industry, focusing particularly on immersive technologies like mixed reality (AR/VR). Specifically, the candidate will explore how digital augmentations in mixed reality can enhance strategic management tools to make sustainability-driven decisions less hard to take.

Application Deadline: 3 February 2025

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20. Fully Funded PhD Position

Summary of PhD Program:

We invite applications from UK students for the following 3.5 year fully funded non-clinical studentships based in the Early Cancer Institute, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, UK. We have funding for two students to commence study in 2025:

Modelling progression risks in Barrett’s oesophagus – with Profs Rebecca Fitzgerald and Nora Pashayan.
Understanding the optical signature of cancerous tissues – with Dr Danielle Harper.
Understanding the role of microRNAs (miRNAs) in the progression of clonal haematopoiesis to blood cancer (MDS+/-AML) – with Dr Caroline Watson.

Application Deadline: 16 February 2025

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21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Protecting Glaciers – Physical barriers Sea Bed Curtains

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will involve collaboration with the University of Lapland, Aker Solutions (an engineering consulting company based in Norway with a UK office), and a number of other universities looking at the possibility of creating physical barriers to impede the flow of deep saline, warm water encroaching upon the grounding line of glaciers. The concept involves the installation of buoyant flexible curtains tethered to the ocean floor in front of glaciers.

Application Deadline: 16 May 2025

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22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Methane Mitigation: Catalysts

Summary of PhD Program:

With the advancements in renewable technologies, it has become attractive to utilize these ‘free’ electrons to tackle problems related to sustainability such as that mentioned above. In this studentship, you will engineer nanostructures and investigate catalytic properties under charge modulation for methane removal. You will determine the effects of charge application, methane concentration, different modes of perturbation, etc. with the objective of developing an active material. 

Application Deadline: 16 May 2025

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23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Direct Air Capture – Process modelling and scaling up material production

Summary of PhD Program:

We face a climate change crisis, and it is now accepted that we not only need to dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, but that we also need to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The Forse Group in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry are working on “direct air capture” (DAC), an approach where sponge-like materials are used to capture carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. The traditional sponge materials for this process have issues including poor long-term stability and/or the need for very high temperatures (up to 900 ºC) to regenerate the sponges for reuse.

Application Deadline: 16 May 2025

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24. Fully Funded PhD Position

Summary of PhD Program:

This project integrates cognitive research with digital technology to develop an individualized approach to second language learning. Tailoring instruction to students’ abilities improves outcomes, while using multiple languages brings cognitive, cultural and economic benefits to individuals and society. Language learning is thus an obvious candidate for tailored instruction. Yet it is still dominated by one-size-fits-all approach. This has become a pressing issue as language education now faces a widening participation crisis. Many students, particularly from underrepresented backgrounds, are increasingly unable to access language programmes.

Application Deadline: 7 January 2025

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25. Fully Funded PhD Position in cardiovascular sciences

Summary of PhD Program:

The BHF Cambridge Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) is a world-leading Interdisciplinary Research Centre. Our overarching scientific objective is to advance understanding of pathobiology, diagnosis, prevention, and therapy of cardiovascular disease, including implementation of new diagnostics/treatment, by applying our combined expertise in hypothesis-driven and assumption-free approaches. We achieve this through interdisciplinary capabilities in clinical, experimental, population and data sciences. 

Application Deadline: 16 January 2025

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26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Common ground: exploring methods of communication at a system and landscape level for floods and other risks in the UK

Summary of PhD Program:

This Collaborative Doctoral Award would give you the opportunity to shape the UK’s climate adaptation programme. Partnering with Arup and the EA in their recently launched FENS2100+ project, you will gain privileged insights from practitioners and the local communities at risk and pilot their research-led designs during their PhD. The aim of this project is to explore and propose methods of communication at a system and landscape level for floods and other risks in the UK.

Application Deadline: 7 January 2025

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27. Fully Funded PhD Position in The Portraiture of Rowland Lockey (c.1566-1616): A Historical and Technical Examination

Summary of PhD Program:

The studentship will provide an opportunity to undertake technical art-historical research on paintings attributed to Lockey in the collection of the National Trust, understanding the use of techniques such as MA-XRF, cross-section sampling, and X-radiography. Assisted by Trust curators the award holder will research documentary evidence in the Hardwick archives of Lockey’s work for patrons such as Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, and her son, William Cavendish. This will be complemented by research in The National Archives and other repositories, to build as full a picture as possible of Lockey’s career which will be the backbone of outreach and community engagement activity by the Trust.

Application Deadline: 7 January 2025

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1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding how tyrosine phosphatases regulate the cytoskeleton

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will focus on the spatiotemporal regulation of the phosphatases PTPRA and PRL-2, both of which can bind membranes. Using CRISPR and RNAi-based approaches, we will replace these proteins in mammalian cell lines with truncated, mutant and fluorescently tagged variants and assay for localisation to the virus, cell membrane and the impact on actin dynamics. To identify interactors and substrates of PTPRA and PRL-2, we will use proximity-labelling and mass-spectrometry to identify host and viral, protein and lipidic interactors. Candidate interactions will be verified in cells by immunoprecipitation and co-labelling, and functionally tested in infected and uninfected cells.

Application Deadline: 10 February 2025

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Theoretical Physics

Summary of PhD Program:

The Theoretical Physics Group in the Department of Mathematics invites applications for PhD students to undertake research under the supervision of a member of the Group. The Group’s interests cover a wide range of topics in modern Theoretical Physics including Gravity, Quantum Field Theory, Conformal Field Theory, Integrability, String Theory and Supersymmetry. 

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Restoring brain health in steatotic liver disease

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will advance understanding of the abnormal physiological processes occurring in the brain during MASLD. By combining analysis of animal samples and human bio banked data, we will investigate whether brain blood vessel changes can be reversed by treating MASLD, or if the changes are irreversible.

Application Deadline: 09 February 2025

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in The hydrodynamic principles for many-body systems out of equilibrium: understanding fluctuations and entanglement

Summary of PhD Program:

The general principles of hydrodynamics give a powerful framework to understand large-scale behaviours, much beyond hydrodynamics from textbooks. For instance, in integrable systems, which admit many more conservation laws than the usual energy and momentum, the hydrodynamic equations are very different – the theory is called Generalised Hydrodynamics. Most interestingly, in general, there are powerful “hydrodynamic field theories” to describe fluctuations, which show unusual non-equilibrium effects. The project will explore correlations and fluctuations at large scales using and extending these powerful new theories.

Application Deadline: 10 January 2025

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Search for Neutrinoless double beta decay with SNO+

Summary of PhD Program:

The SNO+ experiment is a low background multi-purpose liquid scintillator experiment, operating in Canada. The experiment is currently taking data with pure scintillator allowing oscillation measurements with solar and reactor neutrinos and various other low energy analyses. Tellurium isotope addition is planned to start towards the end of 2025 to enable a search for neutrino-less double beta decay. This student will take a leading role in the SNO+ double beta analysis. They will analyse the first isotope data, with a goal of characterising the detector response using known internal sources including 2-neutrino double beta decay of 130Te, and evaluating and rejecting background contributions based on side-band samples.

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Large-Scale Continuous Nonlinear Optimisation

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will focus on the development and analysis of efficient and robust optimisation algorithms for the solution of general or application-directed nonlinear (possibly stochastic, non-smooth, or nonconvex) continuous optimisation problems of large-scale (i.e., problems with millions to billions to variables). This research will involve deriving novel first- and/or second-order optimisation methods, conducting convergence analyses and developing associated efficient implementations.

Application Deadline: 25 August 2025

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nonlocal correlation effects in magnets and high-temperature superconductors

Summary of PhD Program:

Strongly correlated electron systems feature a wide range of fascinating phenomena such as correlation-driven Mott metal-to-insulator transitions, different types of magnetic orders ranging from ferro- to antiferro-magnetism, high-temperature superconductivity, nematic order and many more. On the other hand, it is very challenging to describe such systems theoretically as standard mean field approaches and density-functional-theory-based methods do not provide reliable results. In this respect, the dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) has presented a huge step forward as it can capture an importation portion of the correlation effects, namely the purely local ones. 

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nominal Specification and Verification Environments

Summary of PhD Program:

Software verification techniques have been successfully used to prove correctness of low-level programs, but verification of high-level programming languages is challenging: it requires reasoning about name binding (e.g., visible/hidden channel names, scoping rules defining local and global variable names, parameter passing and substitution of values for variables). A standard approach to deal with name binding in verification tasks is to replace names with numerical codes (de Bruijn indices). While this avoids some of the difficulties of reasoning about names in programs, conducting a formalisation in de Bruijn style is labour-intensive and imposes a significant overhead to comprehending and reusing proofs.

Application Deadline: 31 May 2025

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanics of Creases in Thin Sheets

Summary of PhD Program:

In this project, you will develop fundamental understanding of how the material and geometric properties of a crease affect its out-of-plane bending behaviour and associated buckling instabilities. This will be achieved through a combination of mathematical modelling using thin shell theory and asymptotic methods; numerical simulations, either using a coarse lattice model or commercial finite element software; and laboratory experiments on thin polymeric sheets. The knowledge developed throughout this project will inform engineering applications of creased sheets across a wide variety of contexts, including origami-based materials, shape-morphing ‘groovy metasheets’ and deployable space structures.

Application Deadline: 11 August 2025

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Interacting Particle Systems and Out-of-equilibrium dynamics

Summary of PhD Program:

The project is in Probability Theory and will consist of the study and mathematical analysis of problems involving interacting particle systems, percolation or mixing time of Markov chains. All candidates with interest in the above areas and a solid background in Probability Theory are encouraged to apply.

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Applied Mathematics Research

Summary of PhD Program:

A particularly important feature of neurons in neural networks is their activation function: how the input that a neuron receive– from the outside world or from other neurons – to an output. This mapping can be modelled in a number of ways, but how different forms of activation functions affect learning dynamics and computational properties in neural networks is largely unknown. In this project, you will use methods from disordered systems and statistical physics to address this problem. In particular, you will study how the ability of neural networks may be optimized by adapting neuronal activation functions to different learning rules and input statistics.

Application Deadline: 01 March 2025

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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ergodic Theory for Complex Systems

Summary of PhD Program:

Complex systems are made of a large number of components intricately interacting with each other. Even when the components are well understood in isolation, it is a great challenge to determine the emergent behaviour that results from their interactions. Models of complex systems are often prescribed by a network where each node represents a component/unit and where the links prescribe the structure of the interactions among them. Changes in the interaction structure have far reaching effects.

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Causality Representation Learning based Language Models

Summary of PhD Program:

Start Up Studentship – In storytelling, characters are the heartbeat of the narrative. Every action, choice, and conflict stems from who the characters are, what they want, and what they fear. A character-centric story places the individual at the centre, focusing not just on the plot, but on the emotional arcs, personal growth, and relationships that drive the narrative forward. However, in current research on large language models, the generated content is typically written in the third person and lacks interactivity.

Application Deadline: 31 May 2025

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced robotic micro-manipulation of gametes

Summary of PhD Program:

Infertility is a global concern, affecting approximatively 1 in 6 couples who are trying to conceive. In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is an effective fertility treatment; however, worldwide only a privileged 2% of the clinically infertile can access IVF. In the UK, approximatively 60% of the couple who could benefit from IVF still do not have access to treatment and most UK patients end up paying out of pocket due to limited public funds. The high cost of treatment, together with the low success rate of around 33%, prohibit the widespread use of IVF.

Application Deadline: 12 January 2025

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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine learning the dynamics of force-sensing proteins

Summary of PhD Program:

Mechanosensing proteins detect mechanical forces within cells and convert them into biochemical signals. Understanding the dynamic behaviour of these proteins under force is key for advancing our understanding of this process called mechanotransduction. Recent advances in single-molecule magnetic tweezers instrumentation have opened up exciting possibilities for studying these proteins under physiologically relevant forces, providing unprecedented insights into their functional states as done in a recent study by Rafael Tapia-Rojo [1]. The typical readout of such measurements is a stochastic trajectory that randomly oscillates around certain equilibrium points and quickly switches between them. In these trajectories, the signal is embedded in noise. 

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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16. Fully Funded PhD Position

Summary of PhD Program:

LISS DTP delivers much of its training through 13 Pathways, covering five broad strategic research areas: (1) health, well-being and social inclusion; (2) economics and business; (3) language, culture and education; (4) the environment and urban life; and (5) security and governance.

Application Deadline: 24 January 2025

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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Knowledge Orders before Modernity

Summary of PhD Program:

The Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme `Knowledge Orders before Modernity’ (KOM) is an innovative collaboration between King’s College London and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent. The programme explores the capacity of the handwritten word comparatively, after as well as before the advent of the printing press, outside as well as within western cultures. It seeks to challenge a conventional periodization which associates complex knowledge, complex archival mechanisms, and mundane recording with the development of western print culture.

Application Deadline: 27 February 2025

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18. Fully Funded PhD Position

Summary of PhD Program:

Joint PhD Scholarships are offered by the King’s Doctoral College for joint PhD programmes between King’s College London and four of its international partner universities (listed below) for the 2025/26 academic year.
Partner Universities:
The University of Hong Kong
Humboldt University, Berlin
The National University of Singapore
The University of Sao Paulo

Application Deadline: 02 March 2025

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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigating the role of CD74 as a therapeutic target in discoid lupus erythematosus

Summary of PhD Program:

This will involve analysis of an IMC dataset of 8 DLE skin biopsies and 8 health control donor (HCD) biopsies. Images will be normalised, and cell segmentation will be performed using established pipelines developed by the Bodenmiller laboratory. Cell classification will then be performed. Our laboratory has experience of using Random Forest Classification but there is scope to use other classification methods to for this dataset. The frequency and phenotype of immune cell subsets will then be compared between DLE and HCD and a neighbourhood analysis will then be performed to look at cell-cell interaction.

Application Deadline: 03 February 2025

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20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Impact of clonal haematopoiesis on ventricular remodelling after myocardial infarction: establishing high throughput screening for translatable therapeutic targets

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project aims to address the critical challenge of heart failure (HF) following myocardial infarction (MI), a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, especially among individuals under 60. The project seeks to investigate the role of clonal haematopoiesis (CH), a novel risk factor for HF characterised by the acquisition of mutations in haematopoietic cells, which drive dysfunctional inflammatory responses contributing to adverse cardiac remodelling post-MI.

Application Deadline: 03 March 2025

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21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Brain health

Summary of PhD Program:

PhD opportunities are offered across a wide range of subject areas, focusing on understanding the fetal origins of childhood brain health. The PhD projects will include human developmental neuroscience, maternal immune activation and immunology, MRI imaging and analysis and computational modelling of fetal and neonatal brain development. Clinicians are encouraged to apply.

Application Deadline: 12 February 2025

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22. Fully Funded PhD Position in performance and medicine

Summary of PhD Program:

Your proposed research should aim to evidence how performance might be used to address urgent challenges and opportunities faced by future doctors and those who teach them. ‘Performance’ is defined broadly, to encompass staged or scripted performances (for example theatre, live art, popular forms), applied performance practices, or as a lens for analysing human behaviour and interaction. These pragmatic and conceptual perspectives promise fresh approaches at a time when the welcome diversification of the medical student population challenges models of medical authority and objectivity tainted by medicine’s colonial and patriarchal history; and when expectations and values set by professional frameworks (for example patient-centredness and empathy) are strained by the reality of working in a healthcare service rocked by challenging working conditions.

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical origins of biological catalysis on early Earth

Summary of PhD Program:

Building on recent work that prebiotic reaction pathways efficiently produce a range RNA, peptide, and coenzyme precursors under simulated early Earth conditions, we want to investigate the conventional and prebiotic chemical synthesis of biological molecules with potential catalytic functions. Our goals are to develop robust and scalable chemical syntheses that are amenable to rapidly generating catalyst libraries. These will be used to investigate their organocatalytic properties in challenging prebiotic chemical reactions. This is an exciting opportunity to tackle the origin of life question using synthetic organic chemistry and analytical chemistry. 

Application Deadline: 16 January 2025

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1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring the role of integrated working between Memory Assessment Services (MAS) and Primary Care to improve diagnostic and post diagnostic outcomes

Summary of PhD Program:

Diagnosis for dementia typically occurs in specialist Memory Assessment Services (MAS). However, primary care plays a significant role in screening, identification, and referrals to MAS, as well as providing post-diagnostic support for people with a diagnosis of dementia. The role of primary care practice has long been recognised as an important part of the diagnostic and post diagnostic pathway. Despite this, collaboration between MAS and primary care can be limited and lack integration. Historically, MAS have reported issues such as inappropriate referrals contributing to delays in diagnosis.

Application Deadline: 22 January 2025

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring the feasibility of using annual dementia reviews to support cancer detection and management

Summary of PhD Program:

At least 1 in 13 people aged 75+ who have dementia also have cancer. People with dementia experience suboptimal routes to cancer diagnosis. They are diagnosed with later stage cancers, are more likely to present with cancer as an emergency and to be diagnosed by chance. Suboptimal diagnostic routes lead to worse outcomes including poorer symptom management and quality of life. In England, all routine cancer screening programmes cease at age 74, meaning there is a reliance on independent symptom identification followed by active help-seeking for cancer assessment.

Application Deadline: 22 January 2025

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring pathways for brain health for people from marginalised communities in Memory Assessment Services

Summary of PhD Program:

The PhD will aim to understand the experience of people from marginalised communities who attend MAS with subjective cognitive complaints, but do not meet the threshold for a diagnosis of dementia. The project will explore and document their experience of the MAS, whether they have unmet needs that underlie their subjective cognitive complaints (Brain Health profile), and whether these needs have or could have been met by the service itself or onward referrals. The findings will be used to make recommendations for diagnostic and therapeutic pathways that will meet the needs of this population with consideration of service development implications and constraints.

Application Deadline: 22 January 2025

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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

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Lifestyle and Health Research

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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

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position

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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

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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

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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.

Application Deadline: 17 January 2025

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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. Fully Funded PhD Position in Discovery of novel mitochondrial and organelle biology underlying Parkinson’s disease

Summary of PhD Program:

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a movement disorder that is now the fastest growing neurological disorder in the world. Despite much research the disease is incurable and there are no treatments that can slow the disease down. The discovery of genetic mutations in rare familial forms has transformed our understanding of the origins of PD but the function of these genes is poorly understood. Mutations in PTEN-induced kinase 1 (PINK1) cause autosomal recessive PD. PINK1 is unique amongst all protein kinases due to the presence of a mitochondrial targeting domain that localises it to mitochondria. 

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Feel the tension – how does S-acylation of OSCA ion channels regulate responses to environmental change in plants?

Summary of PhD Program:

This project aims to elucidate how S-acylation affects OSCA channel outputs in plants, how OSCA S-acylation is regulated and the mechanisms by which S-acylation affects OSCA channel function to provide greater insight into how plants mitigate against environmental stress. This will be done using an interdisciplinary approach, combining laboratory-based plant physiology, molecular biology, S-acylation assays, chemical biology, and biochemistry with in silico structural biology and molecular dynamics simulations.

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Deciphering molecular pathways underlying Parkinson’s disease

Summary of PhD Program:

The goal of this studentship is to dissect the molecular mechanism by which LRRK2 pathway regulates TMEM55B and the role that this has on controlling Parkinson’s relevant lysosome dysfunction. This could lead to new knowledge to help us better treat and diagnose Parkinson’s disease that is driven by the LRRK2 pathway. This project will provide training expertise in the state-of-the-art biochemistry, molecular biology, cell signalling, mass spectrometry, data analysis, scientific collaboration as well as statistics, communication, written and oral presentation. 

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Potato Disease Resistance: Harnessing Advanced Genomics and Genetics to Clone Functional Genes

Summary of PhD Program:

RenSeq has already been applied to over 1,200 potato varieties and breeding clones from across the UK, China, and Europe, yielding valuable insights into the historical and geographical distribution of resistance genes. By combining RenSeq data with phenotypic observations, AgRenSeq (association genetics with RenSeq) enables the identification of NLRs linked to disease resistance traits. Furthermore, advanced sequencing technologies, including PacBio and Oxford Nanopore, are employed to better represent and resolve the potato NLRome (the complete set of NLR genes) and their haplotypes. 

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in PROTACs in plants – effectiveness, biological mechanisms and implications for use

Summary of PhD Program:

Food production must increase by 50% by 2050 to feed the global population in the face of climate change, while using less water, pesticide and fertilizer (UN FAO). Yield delivery through traditional breeding methods is also plateauing. Means to expand phenotypic diversity, improve pathogen resistance, manipulate developmental processes and produce crops able to overcome these challenges are urgently needed. 

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Charting the atlas and mechanistic structural features of small-molecule degraders that glue intrinsic protein-E3 ligase interactions

Summary of PhD Program:

The project will develop and apply novel approaches, including chemical, biophysical and cellular methods, to identify and leverage weak-affinity protein-E3 interactions between recombinant proteins and/or endogenous proteins inside the cell. The project will have the support as second supervisor of Dr. Ron Hay, whose research group work on studying mechanisms of protein ubiquitination. 

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in BARIToNE: Assessing the potential of Circularity in Integrated Systems for mitigating Greenhouse gas emissions and Net Zero in Barley supply chains

Summary of PhD Program:

This four-year PhD studentship is fully funded by the BARIToNE Collaborative Training Partnership (from Sept. 2025) and offered in partnership between the James Hutton Institute, the University of Dundee and Scotgrain Agriculture. The pursuit of achieving Net Zero emissions in agriculture is a significant challenge, especially considering the sector’s substantial contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This Ph.D. research aims to evaluate the potential of circularity within integrated crop-livestock-forestry systems as a strategy for mitigating GHG emissions, with a specific focus on barley production.

Application Deadline: 19 January 2025

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Identification of key gene for better barley using AI protein structure modelling

Summary of PhD Program:

This four-year PhD studentship is fully funded by the BARIToNE Collaborative Training Partnership (from Sept. 2025) and offered in partnership between the James Hutton Institute, the University of Dundee and AHDB. Alphafold31, has enabled discovery of novel interactions between proteins or proteins and nucleic acids, small molecules and ions. The accuracy and power of these tools have sparked a wide range of applications, including identification of novel small, secreted proteins from plant pathogens that obstruct tomato secreted immune protease2 and discovery of varied ion transportation activities due to protein structure changes caused by alternative splicing (unpublished data).

Application Deadline: 19 January 2025

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Beyond Lysine: Exploring the Functional Consequences of Non-Canonical Ubiquitination in Health and Disease

Summary of PhD Program:

Ubiquitination is a fundamental post-translational modification (PTM) crucial for a wide range of cellular processes, including protein degradation, localization, quality control, DNA repair, cell signalling, and immune responses. Traditionally, ubiquitin attaches to lysine residues via isopeptide bonds. However, recent advances have uncovered a novel form of ubiquitination – non-canonical ubiquitination – where ubiquitin binds to serine, threonine, and other hydroxyl-containing biomolecules through ester bonds. 

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Deciphering novel ALS signalling pathways: Biomarker discovery and developing therapeutic strategies

Summary of PhD Program:

A PhD project is available to develop a knowledgebase of TDP-43 loss of function (LoF) mediated cryptic splicing, identification of cryptic peptides, development of ultra-sensitive assays for mechanistic understanding TDP-43 LoF biology. This studentship provides a great opportunity to learn and employ human iPSC derived motor neurons and glial cell models (2), protein biochemistry, transcriptomics, quantitative proteomic analysis using state-of-the-art Ultra-sensitive mass spectrometry (Orbitrap Astral and tims-TOF SCP mass spectrometers), Bioinformatics, Proteogenomics (3) and targeted PRM mass spectrometry assays (4). 

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cleave to Modify: A new biological mechanism for protein regulation

Summary of PhD Program:

Variations in protein structure at the level of amino acid sequence and modifications allow for the biological complexity observed in living organisms; a complexity that far exceeds that of the approximately 20,000 genes in the human genome that encode for proteins. Post-translational modifications (PTMs) add to the diversity of the proteome through the generation of new and different proteoforms. Amongst the known PTMs, proteolytic cleavage is an irreversible modification performed by proteases enzymes characterized by the highly precise cleavage of a protein into two or more smaller fragments1.

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Decoding the mechanism and function of UFMylation in ER Quality Control

Summary of PhD Program:

The goal of this project is to define how ribosomes get UFMylated upon stalling and to investigate the mechanisms and function of ribosome UFMylation. This project will build on our recent unpublished work, and we are looking for curious and creative students to work at the frontier of an exciting new field. What makes this project especially exciting is its potential to reveal a fundamental pathway responsible for quality control and homeostasis at the ER, the disruption of which causes disease. 

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Destroying cancer-causing proteins

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project aims to understand the molecular mechanisms by which FAM83F and FAM83G activate Wnt signalling and explore if targeted degradation of FAM83F and/or FAM83G inhibits Wnt-dependent proliferation of colorectal and other cancers. The project will employ a wide range of multi-disciplinary cutting-edge technologies, such as CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, mass-spectrometry, DEL screens to identify ligands for FAM83F/FAM83G, and development and application of small molecule degraders, including PROTACs and molecular glues, of FAM83F-CK1-alpha and FAM83G-CK1-alpha complexes. 

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Identifying therapeutically-targetable mechanisms of PIK3CA mutant-specific signal transfer

Summary of PhD Program:

The Madsen Lab is dedicated to a systems understanding of PI3K signalling plasticity, inspired by observations from human disorders such as cancer and PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) 1,2. Over the last five years, with support from Wellcome funding, we uncovered previously unappreciated allele dose-dependent effects of PIK3CA mutations in human pluripotent stem cells and cancer 3–5.

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular mechanisms underlying Parkinson’s disease

Summary of PhD Program:

We have explored how LRRK2 is regulated and discovered several signalling components such as VPS35 4, Rab29 5,6 and other Rabs including Rab12 7 and Rab 32 8 that strikingly controls LRRK2 pathway activity. We have identified a poorly studied protein phosphatase termed PPM1H that counteracts LRRK2 signalling by selectively dephosphorylating Rab proteins 9. Much evidence suggests that elevation of the LRRK2 pathway leads to lysosome dysfunction. We have recently identified a new downstream component of the LRRK2 pathway termed TMEM55B that may function as an E3 ligase that is located on the lysosome 10.

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Discovery of novel mitochondrial and organelle mechanisms underlying Parkinson’s disease

Summary of PhD Program:

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a movement disorder that is now the fastest growing neurological disorder in the world. Despite much research the disease is incurable and there are no treatments that can slow the disease down. The discovery of genetic mutations in rare familial forms has transformed our understanding of the origins of PD but the function of these genes is poorly understood. Mutations in PTEN-induced kinase 1 (PINK1) cause autosomal recessive PD. PINK1 is unique amongst all protein kinases due to the presence of a mitochondrial targeting domain that localises it to mitochondria. 

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in How do atypical E3 ligases facilitate their biology?

Summary of PhD Program:

Our multidisciplinary lab has developed pioneering technologies for E3 ligase discovery and activity measurement 1,2. The discovery and study of atypical E3 ligases have resulted in new ubiquitin system paradigms with therapeutic opportunities 3-5. We revealed that MYCBP2 conjugates ubiquitin to atypical sites such as threonine and uses an unprecedented ubiquitin transfer mechanism we term ubiquitin relay. MYCBP2 promotes programmed axon degeneration so drugs that block its ability to carry out non-lysine ubiquitination have great promise for treating neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis, neuropathies and ALS. 

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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18. Fully Funded PhD Position in How do Dysregulated Signalling Pathways cause Intellectual Disability?

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project aims to map signalling pathways that are disrupted in intellectual disability, with the overarching goal of uncovering much-needed therapeutic opportunities in this area. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to utilise exciting new tools and reagents in the lab and expand on our recent progress in dissecting intellectual disability signalling networks. Potential approaches include (phospho)proteomic profiling mass-spectrometry, modelling human neural development using pluripotent stem cells, animal models of intellectual disability, cutting edge biochemistry, and structural analysis using Cryogenic Electron Microscopy (CryoEM).

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigating the immune-epithelial interactions that drive intestinal inflammation

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this project is to investigate how specific signalling components in allows them to adapt to the intestinal microenvironment and mount appropriate responses to intestinal perturbations, including diet and microbial challenges. The discovery that PIM kinases uniquely regulate metabolic activation of IEL (2), and that T-cell receptor signalling in IEL is uniquely modified (3) , and that IEL have a unique metabolic signature (4), all suggest that changes in these molecular components are necessary for IEL to function. 

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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20. Fully Funded PhD Position in New technologies to monitor assembly of alternative forms of the proteasome

Summary of PhD Program:

The Rousseau lab is interested in decoding how protein degradation by the proteasome is regulated in cells so that accumulation of unfolded, misfolded, or damaged proteins can be cleared before they become deleterious. The proteasome recognises, unfolds, and degrades faulty proteins that have been tagged with ubiquitin to maintain the integrity of the proteome. Defects in the proteasome give rise to various human diseases, such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. 

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Finding the eat-me signals

Summary of PhD Program:

The Ganley lab is interested in unravelling the molecular mechanism of autophagy (which literally translates from the Greek meaning to eat oneself). Autophagy is a critical lysosomal degradation pathway that functions to clear the cell of potentially damaging agents, such as protein aggregates or faulty mitochondria. Importantly, autophagy appears to be dysregulated in many diseases and therefore its modulation could lead to novel therapies. However, to enable this, we first need to understand the machinery involved. 

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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22. Fully Funded PhD Position in DNA damage sensors which launch protective responses to DNA damage

Summary of PhD Program:

DNA damage happens at very high frequency in the cells in our bodies – meaning that the instructions for the proper functioning of cells could be altered unless the mistakes are spotted and corrected. We recently started a search for new surveillance factors in human cells that can detect damaged DNA and help to launch the DDR “DNA damage response” that stops secondary consequences of DNA damage such as mutations, disease or cell death (see for example EMBO Journal 40, e108271). 

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Translational Studies into Molecular mechanisms underlying Parkinson’s disease

Summary of PhD Program:

We are particularly interested in the role of the lysosome and other organelles and the role of the Leucine rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) (1). Our goal is to identify and validate markers for diagnosing PD / PD subtypes, measuring PD risk, progression and prognosis as well as stratifying patients for novel disease modifying treatments. We take translational multidisciplinary approaches, collaborate with leading national and international clinical experts and scientists, emphasise meaningful patient and public engagement and support the development of early career scientists. 

Application Deadline: 15 January 2025

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