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PhD Studentship: Ammonia Solid Oxide Fuel Cell for Carbon-Free Energy Production
Cranfield University
Location: Cranfield
Salary: £24,500 (tax free) per annum plus fees and research costs for three years.
Date Placed: 01 Sep
Closes 14 Oct
PhD Studentship: Machine Learning and Computational Modelling to Define the Abnormal Heart Tissue Responsible for Fatal Heart Rhythms
Warwick Medical School
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: £21,805 (2026/2027)
Date Placed: 01 Sep
Closes 30 Sep
Fully Funded PhD Positions in Life Sciences
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Location: Barcelona, Grenoble, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Hinxton, Rome
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 01 Sep
Closes 12 Oct
PhD Studentship: From Nanointerfaces to Dynamic Performance: Next Generation Elastomer Technologies
WMG
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: Industry funding
Date Placed: 26 Aug
Closes 30 Sep
PhD Studentship: Folate supplementation for neuroprotection in glaucoma
Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, School of Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
King's College London
Location: London
Salary: Only home students are eligible. The selected candidate will be funded by a Glaucoma UK studentship which is fully funded for three years full time. This includes home tuition fees.
Date Placed: 25 Aug
Closes 20 Sep
PhD Geological Sciences: Mineralogical Controls on Redox Chemistry within the Subsurface
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
University of Plymouth
Location: Devon, Plymouth
Salary: £21,805 Stipend per annum 2026/27 rate, with annual increments applied thereafter. This stipend is tax free.
Date Placed: 19 Aug
Closes 02 Oct
Phd Studentship: AI-Enhanced Flexible Antenna Systems for Resilient Next-Generation Wireless Networks
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 19 Aug
Closes 19 Oct
PhD Medical Studies: ‘SHIELD: Systematic Assessment of Hepatic Micro - and Nanoplastic Accumulation and Clearance in Liver Disease’
Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health)
University of Plymouth
Location: Devon, Plymouth
Salary: £19,830 Stipend per annum 2026-27 rate
Date Placed: 19 Aug
Closes 16 Oct
PhD Studentship in Computer Science: Policy-Compliant Secure AI
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 tax-free annual living allowance plus 100% home fees covered
Date Placed: 13 Aug
Closes 10 Oct
PhD Studentship: Understanding the Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Black Holes with PRIMA
University of Sussex
Location: Falmer
Salary: fully funded by STFC
Date Placed: 12 Aug
Closes 09 Sep
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
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
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
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
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
PhD studentship: Physical intelligence in robotic materials
School of Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 06 Aug
Closes 06 Nov
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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