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PhD Studentship - Crosslinking Heterogeneity and its Relationship to Microplastics Release
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £19,237 - please see advert
Date Placed: 21 May
Closes 31 Jul
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PhD Studentship: Understanding and Targeting Cell Cycle Control in Cancer
University of Sussex
Location: Sussex, Falmer
Salary: Home (UK) tuition fees and stipend at standard UKRI rates
Date Placed: 20 May
Closes 06 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Use of machine learning for high-fidelity mass spectrometry data stitching
Department of Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 for 2025/26
Date Placed: 20 May
Closes 15 Jun
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PhD Studentship - Molecular Applications for Malagasy Fish (MAppFish): Developing a Rapid, Cost-effective Method for Mapping Distributions of Freshwater Fish in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 19 May
Closes 17 Jun
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PhD Studentship - Development of a Cell-based Model to Understand Placental Damage in Pre-eclampsia and Test Novel Therapeutic Approaches
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 19 May
Closes 17 Jun
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PhD Studentship - The Impacts of Introduced Large Woody Structures on Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Sediment Dynamics in UK River Systems
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 19 May
Closes 16 Jun
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PhD Studentship - Building a Digital Twin of the Tees Estuary to Evaluate the Resilience of Nature-based Solutions for Nutrient (N & P) Capture
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £25,726 - please see advert
Date Placed: 15 May
Closes 30 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Leveraging Genomic Technologies to Investigate the Molecular Basis of Sea Lice Resistance PhD (Funded)
Biosciences Department
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £20,780 per year
Date Placed: 15 May
Closes 20 Jun
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Cancer And Genomics: Fully Funded Sures PhD Scholarship, Multi-Omics Approach to Characterise an in Vitro Lung Model as a Predictive Tool for Human Health
Biosciences; Cancer and Genomics
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £20,780 for 2025/26
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 02 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Fully-funded BBSRC iCASE Award (sponsored by Unilever R&D): Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of the Enzyme-Catalysed Degradation of Water-Soluble Polymers
Centre for Enzyme Innovation, Faculty of Science and Health
University of Portsmouth
Location: Portsmouth
Salary: Tuition fees for four years and a stipend in line with the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26) plus an additional £4,400 as part of Unilever’s contribution to the project. The grant has generous provision for project costs/consumables.
Date Placed: 13 May
Closes 28 May
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PhD Studentship: Label-free Method for Real-Time Dynamics of Membrane Proteins
Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence
Aston University
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £20,780 tax-free annual stipend
Date Placed: 13 May
Closes 01 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Generative AI: Effective Training and Inference of Generative Models Ref
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: For eligible students the studentship will cover Home or International tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend of at least £19,237 for 3.5 years full-time, or pro rata for part-time study.
Date Placed: 13 May
Closes 09 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Using Microencapsulation to Study Biofilm Formation
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: UKRI funding will provide annual stipend for living costs and tuition fees at the UK rate
Date Placed: 13 May
Closes 31 May
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PhD Studentship: Effects of wetland management on aquatic biodiversity and water quality of Sites of Special Scientific Interest on the Somerset Levels and Moors
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Plymouth
Location: Devon, Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3.5 years and includes Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £20,780 per annum 2025-26 rate
Date Placed: 09 May
Closes 30 Jun
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PhD Studentship: at the University of Exeter and NIHR Healthtech Research Centre (HRCs) for Brain Health: Using APOE-associated AD resilience to identify potential biomarkers
HLS
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: £19,237 annual stipend
Date Placed: 07 May
Closes 27 May
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PhD Studentship: Multilevel Modelling of Intersectional Inequalities in Childhood Malnutrition in South Asia
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Loughborough University, Loughborough
Salary: Please refer to the advert text
Date Placed: 01 May
Closes 16 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Removal of Emerging Micropollutants From Wastewater in Biofilm Reactors
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
University of Southampton
Location: Southampton
Salary: We offer a range of funding opportunities for both UK and international students, including Bursaries and Scholarships
Date Placed: 01 May
Closes 31 Aug
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Cancer Research Wales Fully Funded 3-year PhD Studentship: Exploiting Synthetic Lethality for Cancer Treatment: Improving the Activity and Specificity of Novel MRE11 Inhibitors
Bangor University
Location: Cardiff
Salary: £19,237 per annum for 3 years
Date Placed: 01 May
Closes 01 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Submesoscales, stirring, and mixing in the southwest Atlantic. Ocean Science PhD (University of Exeter Funded)
Earth and Environmental Science
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £20,780 per year plus £3.5k RTSG
Date Placed: 30 Apr
Closes 23 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Dissecting the dual role of guanylate binding proteins in glioblastoma tumour cells and microenvironment
Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health)
University of Plymouth
Location: Devon, Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3 years and includes full Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £18,655 per annum 2024-25 rate (2025-26 rate TBC)
Date Placed: 29 Apr
Closes 30 Jun
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PhD Position in Language Evolution
Language Evolution and Adaptation in Diverse Situations’ (LEADS)
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Location: Nijmegen
Salary: From £2,616.35 per month
Date Placed: 24 Apr
Closes 02 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Para Athlete Physiological Responses to Heat Stress
School of Design and Creative Arts
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough University, Loughborough
Salary: £20,780 per annum
Date Placed: 23 Apr
Closes 29 May
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PhD Studentship: New Biomanufacturing Technology for mRNA
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Funded iCASE project
Date Placed: 23 Apr
Closes 26 May
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PhD Studentship: Role of Phage in Faecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) for Clostridioides Difficile Infection
Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences.
University of Hertfordshire
Location: Hatfield
Salary: £19,237 per year
Date Placed: 23 Apr
Closes 27 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Unlocking the Mysteries of Metallic Phase Transitions
Centre for Doctoral Training in the Modelling of Heterogeneous Materials (HetSys) - Department of Engineering
University of Warwick
Location: Warwick
Salary: Standard UKRI rate
Date Placed: 23 Apr
Closes 01 Jun
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