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PhD Studentship: Multiscale Optimisation of Aperiodic Lattice Metamaterials for Spatially-Programmable Printed Structures
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 annual tax free stipend set at the UKRI amount + Tuition fees for the 2025/2026 academic year
Date Placed: 23 Jun
Closes 19 Jul
PhD Studentship: Mechanical Engineering, Fusion, Digital: Digital twin validation - Physics-based model, AI and Data
Aerospace Civil Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 06 Jul
PhD Studentship - Process Industries: Net Zero - Decarbonising Industrial Cellophane Production
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 01 Jul
PhD Studentship: Wind-wave-ocean Eddy Interactions: Unravelling Coupled Processes at the Air-sea Interface
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £21,805 in 2026/27
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 22 Jul
PhD Studentship: Windstorms and Atmosphere-ocean Coupling Around Greenland in a Changing Climate
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £21,805 in 2026/27
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 22 Jul
PhD Studentship: Climate change impacts on the Antarctic coastal ocean carbon sink
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £21,805 per annum
Date Placed: 19 Jun
Closes 22 Jul
PhD Studentship: Robust Beam-shaping and Fibre-coupling System for High Power Diode Laser Stacks
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 annual tax-free stipend and tuition fees will be paid
Date Placed: 19 Jun
Closes 31 Jul
PhD Studentship: Nonlinear Dynamics Vibration Attenuation: Shock and Vibration Mitigation in Rotary Steerable Tools
Aerospace Civil Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 18 Jun
Closes 06 Jul
PhD Studentship: Recycling high-impact Polypropylenes for the Automotive Sector
Department of Materials
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: 18 Jun
Closes 31 Aug
PhD Studentship - Understanding the Performance of Aerospace Aluminium Alloys in Humid Air
Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 please see advert
Date Placed: 18 Jun
Closes 30 Jun
PhD Studentship: Hydro-geomorphic Impacts of the Return of the Beaver, Fully-funded MSc by Research.
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 17 Jun
Closes 01 Aug
PhD Studentship - EPSRC - Predicting the Performance of Recycled HDPE for Sustainable Bottle Packaging
Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 17 Jun
Closes 20 Aug
PhD Role 2026: Electrocatalysis of Sulfur Redox in the Solid State
School of Chemistry
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 17 Jun
Closes 17 Jul
PhD Studentship: Normothermic Liver and Kidney Perfusion for Organ Preservation, Drug Testing or In Situ Therapies
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £21,805 per annum
Date Placed: 17 Jun
Closes 03 Jul
Research Studentship in Lithium-ion and Sodium-ion battery electrolytes: Modelling and Characterisation
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 17 Jun
Closes 03 Jul
PhD Studentship: Magnetic Field Enhancement to Battery Performance
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £21,805 per annum
Date Placed: 17 Jun
Closes 03 Jul
PhD Studentship: Development of High Energy Density Li-Sulfur Batteries
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £21,805 per annum
Date Placed: 17 Jun
Closes 03 Jul
PhD Studentship: Characterisation of Battery Safety Under Extreme Conditions
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £21,805 per annum
Date Placed: 17 Jun
Closes 03 Jul
PhD Studentship: Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors for Probing the Biophysics of Biomolecular Condensate Dynamics
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully funded studentship including stipend aligned with UKRI (£21,805 per annum for 2026/27, with annual uplifts applied), home-student fees and project costs. Funding available for 3.5 years.
Date Placed: 17 Jun
Closes 03 Jul
PhD Studentship: Trends and Mitigations in Behaviour-Based Domestic Stove Emissions
Department of Civil Engineering and Management
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 annual tax-free stipend plus full tuition fees paid.
Date Placed: 17 Jun
Closes 30 Jun
PhD Studentship: Modelling Battery Behaviour During Periods of Disuse
School of Metallurgy and Materials
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 16 Jun
Closes 28 Jul
PhD Studentship: Study of reactivity in supramolecular materials
School of Chemistry
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 16 Jun
Closes 16 Sep
PhD Studentship: Reliability Centred Maintenance for HVDC Systems
EnerHy CDT
University of Strathclyde
Location: Glasgow
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 15 Jun
Closes 09 Sep
PhD Studentship in Medicinal Chemistry - Hydrophobic Warheads to Expand Covalent Drug Discovery
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 tax-free annual living allowance and 100% fees covered (Home)
Date Placed: 12 Jun
Closes 08 Jul
PhD Studentship - Process Industries: Net Zero - Net Zero Marine Fuels by Hydrothermal Processing of Waste
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 tax-free annual living allowance,100% fees (UK Home and International) and a research training support grant of £20,000
Date Placed: 11 Jun
Closes 01 Jul

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