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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
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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
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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: 17 Jun
Closes 17 Jul
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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PhD Studentship: Thermo-Mechanical Constitutive Modelling of Concrete under Multiaxial Loading
Department of Civil Engineering and Management
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate and tuition fees will be paid
Date Placed: 11 Jun
Closes 10 Sep
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Ph Studentship - Quantum Supersolids: Solitons, Vortices, and Nonlinear Dynamics (PROMENTD_U27EMPSFM)
School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 10 Jun
Closes 31 Jul
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PhD Studentship - Stability of Soap Films and Foams (WHITTAKERR_U27EMPSFP)
School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 10 Jun
Closes 31 Jul
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PhD Studentship - Mathematical Modelling of Microwave Cooking of Thin Potato Disks (WHITTAKERR_U27EMPSFM)
School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 10 Jun
Closes 31 Jul
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PhD Studentship - Wave Dynamics on Complex Networks: From Graph Theory to Machine Learning (PROMENTD_U27EMPSFP)
School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 10 Jun
Closes 31 Jul
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PhD Studentship - AI-Driven Fault Diagnosis for Wind Turbine Generators (ABDIJALEBIS _U27EMPSFP1)
School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 10 Jun
Closes 31 Jul
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PhD Studentship - Nonlinear Waves on Liquid Cylinders (BLYTHM_U27EMPSFP)
School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 10 Jun
Closes 31 Jul
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PhD Studentship - Design Optimisation of Brushless Doubly Fed Machines (ABDIJALEBIS_U27EMPSFP2)
School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 10 Jun
Closes 31 Jul
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PhD Studentship - Process Industries: Net Zero - Predictive Modelling of Powder Blending in Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 tax-free annual living allowance (please see advert for more details)
Date Placed: 10 Jun
Closes 01 Jul
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ERC PhD Studentship in Seeking precursors of Stress Corrosion Cracking
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 10 Jun
Closes 05 Jul
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