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PhD Studentship: Electromagnetic Sensing for High-Temperature Microstructural Evolution
WMG
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 09 Aug
Closes 25 Sep
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PhD Studentship: EPSRC: Spin-Lattice Dynamics in Advanced Magnetic Materials
Computer Science
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 tax-free stipend and tuition fees will be paid.
Date Placed: 07 Aug
Closes 15 Oct
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PhD Studentship: Sub-THz Sensing for Dynamic Particulate Characterization
Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 06 Aug
Closes 01 Oct
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PhD Studentship: Regularized dynamical parametric approximations for gradient flows
School of Mathematics
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 06 Aug
Closes 06 Nov
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PhD Studentship: Irradiation Damage Resistant Refractory High Entropy Alloys for Advanced Modular Reactors with UKNNL
School of Metallurgy and Materials
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £26,805
Date Placed: 06 Aug
Closes 06 Nov
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PhD Studentship: Embodying intelligence in robotic materials
School of Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 06 Aug
Closes 06 Nov
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PhD Studentship: AI-Driven fault diagnosis for wind turbine generators
EMP
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 05 Aug
Closes 30 Nov
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PhD Studentship: Machine-learning for High-speed Aerial Vehicle Control
University of Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Funding: fully funded. Standard EPSRC stipend
Date Placed: 04 Aug
Closes 04 Nov
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PhD Studentship Programme (10403)
Rosalind Franklin Institute
Location: Didcot, Harwell
Salary: Fully funded
Date Placed: 04 Aug
Closes 14 Aug
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PhD Positions in Statistical Physics and Active Matter
Department of Living Matter Physics
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Location: Göttingen
Salary: 2/3 of E13 TVöD Bund
Date Placed: 03 Aug
Closes 01 Dec
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Fully Funded PhD Studentship for UK Home Fee Status Candidates in the Department of Materials
Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 31 Jul
Closes 30 Mar
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PhD Role 2026: Electrocatalysis of Sulfur Redox in the Solid State
School of Chemistry
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 30 Jul
Closes 25 Aug
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PhD Studentship: Development of a Clinical HFNC Decision Support System: Using Machine Learning to Help Clinicians Predict the Outcome of HFNC Therapy
School of Engineering
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick, Warwick
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 28 Jul
Closes 17 Aug
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PhD Studentship: Waste Management - Towards Sustainability
Essex Law School / Life Sciences
University of Essex
Location: Colchester
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 28 Jul
Closes 14 Sep
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PhD Studentship: Quantum Transport Through Molecular Structures for Energy Conversion Applications
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, Warwick
Salary: £21,805 Stipend + Full Tuition Fees
Date Placed: 27 Jul
Closes 17 Aug
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PhD Studentship: ML-Accelerated Excited-State Simulations of Perovskite Optoelectronics
School of Metallurgy and Materials
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 24 Jul
Closes 31 Aug
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PhD Studentship: Microlocal analysis and its applications in quantum resonances, partial differential equations with analytic or Gevrey regularity, and several complex variables
School of Mathematics
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 23 Jul
Closes 22 Oct
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PhD Studentship: Physics/Engineering (Metamaterials) - Metasurfaces for mm-wave Communications
Physics or Engineering
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: The stipend will be paid at the UKRI rate (£20,780 from 1/10/25); there is an enhanced budget for project costs (including travel) of £20,000
Date Placed: 23 Jul
Closes 29 Jul
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PhD Studentship: Nutrient Dynamics in Cover Crops and Their Implications for Sugar Beet Nutrition, Soil Health, and Climate Resilience
Agricultural & Environmental Sciences
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: Payment of tuition fees and a tax-free stipend based on current BBSRC rates.
Date Placed: 22 Jul
Closes 07 Sep
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PhD in Engineering Polymers and Composites
WMG
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: Standard UKRI Stipend
Date Placed: 22 Jul
Closes 07 Sep
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PhD Studentship: AI-Driven Ultrasound for Materials Evaluation (2026)
University of Sussex
Location: Falmer
Salary: For 3.5 years, you will receive a tax-free stipend at a standard rate of £21,805 per year and your fees will be waived (at the UK or International rate). In addition, to a one-off Research and Training Support Grant of £2,000.
Date Placed: 20 Jul
Closes 11 Sep
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PhD Studentship: Kinetic Pathways to Control Nanocrystal Shapes
Engineering
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £21,805 annual stipend
Date Placed: 20 Jul
Closes 14 Aug
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PhD Studentship: Design and Structural Dynamics of Offshore Aquaculture Systems, PhD (Funded)
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 per year
Date Placed: 17 Jul
Closes 31 Aug
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PhD Studentship: Radiological, chemical and microstructural characterisation of legacy and candidate AMR graphites for recycling, reuse and lifecycle decision-making
University of Plymouth
Location: Devon, Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3.5 years and includes full Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £26,000
Date Placed: 17 Jul
Closes 18 Aug
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PhD Studentship: Enhancing Next Generation Li-ion Prototypes
WMG
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 17 Jul
Closes 15 Sep
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