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PhD Studentship in Chemical Biology – Developing Novel Treatments for Fungal Pathogens
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £20,780 minimum tax-free annual living allowance and 100% home fees covered
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 15 May
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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: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 13 May
Closes 23 Jun
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PhD Studentship - Frontiers in Microbial Radiation Tolerance: Multi-omic Approach to Understanding how Microbes Thrive in Nuclear Facilities
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 13 May
Closes 31 May
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PhD studentship in Genomics - Systematic Resolution of Exome-negative Neuromuscular Patients through Genome and Transcriptome Analysis
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 11 May
Closes 18 May
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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 in Childhood Cancer Immunogenomic Predictors of Tumour Immune Microenvironment and Treatment-related Brain Injury in Medulloblastoma
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 annual stipend (living expenses) at the UKRI non‑clinical rate and 100% of home tuition fees paid
Date Placed: 06 May
Closes 23 May
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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: 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: 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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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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Microbiology and Immunology: SURES PhD, Genetic and Functional Factors driving Biofilm-Mediated Persistence in Staphylococcus epidermidis Prosthetic Joint Infections
Medical School
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: Covers full tuition, £21,805 stipend (2026/27), plus up to £1,000 yearly for research costs.
Date Placed: 01 May
Closes 18 May
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PhD Studentship:Building Synthetic Self-Propelled Cells for Bioinspired Motion
Physics
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully and directly funded for this project only. UKRI standard stipend - £20,780 per year for 2025/26 academic year. Funded for 3.5 years.
Date Placed: 01 May
Closes 30 Jan
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Leverhulme 'Space for Nature' Doctoral Scholars
Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology
University of Kent
Location: Canterbury
Salary: All PhD students will receive up to £10,000 to support their research and professional development (e.g. conference attendance, training).
Date Placed: 01 May
Closes 14 May
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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 in Exploring Barriers to PGR Access and Progression for Black and Minoritised Ethnic Students: An Intersectional, Mixed‑methods Study with Codesigned Interventions
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 (2026-27 UKRI rate)
Date Placed: 29 Apr
Closes 27 May
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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: AI Based Prediction of Splice Site Selection
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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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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PhD Studentship: Generative Modelling for Foundational Discovery in Biomedicine
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: £22,500 pa in 2026-27
Date Placed: 27 Apr
Closes 08 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogel (FRESH) additive manufacturing of sustainable porous calcium phosphate scaffolds for hard tissue engineering
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home university fees and UKRI standard rate stipend (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year).
Date Placed: 27 Apr
Closes 24 May
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