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PhD Studentship - Passive Acoustic Monitoring to Inform Evidence-based Policy for Coral Reefs. PhD (Royal Society Funded)
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £22,350 per year
Date Placed: 03 Jun
Closes 06 Jul
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PhD Studentship: Synthetic Microbial Communities for Anaerobic Digestion of Waste to Biogas
School of Biosciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: UKRI standard rate
Date Placed: 03 Jun
Closes 15 Jun
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PhD Position in Microbial Physiology and Biotechnology: Physiology and Ecology of Methanogens
Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne - EPFL
Location: Lausanne
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 28 May
Closes 28 Aug
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PhD Studentship: Epilepsy Research Institute UK PhD Fellowship: Extracting added value from home EEG epilepsy diagnostics for children and young adults
Digital Health and Applied Technology Assessment (DHATA), King’s College London
King's College London
Location: London
Salary: For eligible students, this award will cover Home tuition fees, an annual tax-free stipend of approximately £24,643 for 3 years full-time, and a contribution to UK conference costs.
Date Placed: 26 May
Closes 19 Jun
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PhD Studentship - Liquid-liquid Extraction of Plutonium: Third Phase, Molecular Modelling and Molecular Theory
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 21 May
Closes 30 Jun
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PhD Studentship: PhD Opportunity Title PhD in Complex Living Systems - Understanding Bacillus Spores Germination via microfluidics-based single-cell microscopy
HLS
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 per year
Date Placed: 20 May
Closes 30 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology: PhD Studentship in Chemistry- Development of metallodrugs for use in cancer combination therapy
Engineering and Applied Sciences School
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 19 May
Closes 15 Jun
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PhD Studentship in Rare Kidney Disease (Non-Clinical) Nephronophthisis - Novel Treatments to STOP Disease
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 Year 1
Date Placed: 19 May
Closes 09 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Exploring how Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Uses Nutrients
Department of Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 an annual tax-free stipend tuition fees will be paid
Date Placed: 19 May
Closes 19 Aug
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PhD studentship in Breast Cancer – Targeting Glycans to Develop New Treatments for Metastatic Breast Cancer
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £22,926 annual stipend, 100% of home tuition fees paid and additional funding to cover research costs (total value of award: £133,219)
Date Placed: 18 May
Closes 12 Jun
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PhD Studentship - Single-Cell Spatial Multi-Omics for Cancer Biology
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: £22,500 Stipend
Date Placed: 15 May
Closes 06 Jul
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PhD Studentships - Process Industries: Net Zero Centre for Doctoral Training - Chemical Engineering for Sustainable Wastewater-to-Resource Systems
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 13 May
Closes 23 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Bottom-up Decoding of Protein Conformational Landscapes: from Gas-phase to Solution
Centre for Doctoral Training in the Modelling of Heterogeneous Materials (HetSys), School of Engineering
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: Awards for UK applicants cover full University fees, give a research training budget and a tax-free stipend to cover living costs (standard UKRI rate £21,805 in 26/27 - equivalent to national living wage)
Date Placed: 09 May
Closes 28 Aug
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PhD Studentship: Feedback conversations that improve prescribing practices: a sociomaterial study in the UK and Australia – PhD (Funded)
HLS
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: UK tuition fees + annual tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 per year, matched to UKRI stipend
Date Placed: 08 May
Closes 01 Aug
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PhD Studentship: Developing Molecular and Genetic Therapies for Late-onset Retinal Degeneration
The University of Edinburgh
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 08 May
Closes 05 Jun
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MRC BSU PhD Studentship
MRC Biostatistics Unit
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Fully funded
Date Placed: 08 May
Closes 21 Sep
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PhD Studentship: Kinetic Operational Models for Receptor-Mediated Signalling in Mathematical Pharmacology
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home)
Date Placed: 06 May
Closes 12 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Machine Vision and AI for Automated Recognition of Animal Emotions
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home).
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 12 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Flexible Robotic Tools
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years.
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 12 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Multimodal Detection System for Neurodegenerative Decline
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years.
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 12 Jun
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PhD Studentship:
Public Health and Sports Sciences
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 per year
Date Placed: 01 May
Closes 19 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Jean Spier Clinical PhD Brain Tumour Diagnostics, Multi-Omics and Computational Biology
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 30 Apr
Closes 14 Jun
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PhD Studentship: From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions, PhD (Funded)
Centre for Ecology and Conservation
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: UK / Home tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £22,350 per year
Date Placed: 28 Apr
Closes 05 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Bayesian Modeling of High-dimensional Structural Data
Department of Mathematics
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate and tuition fees will be paid
Date Placed: 28 Apr
Closes 28 Oct
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PhD Studentship: Algorithms and Methodology for Understanding Bacterial Plasmid Evolution
School of Computing Sciences
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £20,408 This PhD project is in a competition for a funded studentship. Funding comprises ‘Home’ tuition fees, an annual tax-free maintenance stipend (2026/27 rate £20,408) for a maximum of 3 years, and £2,000 per annum to support research training activities.
Date Placed: 28 Apr
Closes 18 Jun
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