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PhD Out of School Youth Provision: An Analysis of Funding and Operational Resilience within the Sector
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31st January 2025
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PhD 3-Directional Frictional Mechanical Metamaterials (3DFMMs)
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 March 2025
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PhD A Multiscale Investigation of Dislocation-Grain Boundary Interactions in next generation alloys
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Accelerated Screening and Synthesis of New Chemotherapeutic Agents for Pancreatic Cancer
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2025
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PhD Accessing new chemistries: Tuning reactivity of chemical processes using ionic liquids
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Active noise control of automotive tyres using ultrasonic parametric arrays
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Adaptive and Predictive Computational Modelling of Biomaterials: A Digital Twin Framework for Next-Generation Personalised Healthcare
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 March 2025
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PhD Adaptive Reconfigurable Intelligent Metasurfaces for 5G/6G Networks
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Advanced Additive Manufacturing For Radiofrequency System Design
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 28 February 2025
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PhD Advanced antenna arrays and metasurfaces for 5G and space
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 February 2025
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PhD Advanced Crystallisation Techniques for Sustainable Battery Recycling and Wastewater Treatment
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Advanced Modelling of Carbon Black Morphology in Methane Pyrolysis for CO2-Free Hydrogen Production
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Advancing AI-Driven Robotics for Injury Rehabilitation Transform the Future of Medical Robotics with Cutting-Edge Research
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Agricultural Robot navigation in complex farm and rugged terrain environments using Deep Reinforcement Learning AI.
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 18 February 2025
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PhD An evaluation of Erasmus+ Sport projects and their impact on EU sport policy development
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 March 2025
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PhD An integrated approach for damage identification in composite materials
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD An investigation on human-AI interactions in complex food supply chains
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Antimicrobial gels for biomedical applications
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Application of Machine Learning for Job Scheduling in Computing Clouds
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 January 2025
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PhD Artificial intelligence-assisted modular metabolic engineering for NetZero commodity manufacture
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Bespoke Organometallic Compounds for Anticancer Studies
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 September 2025
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PhD Beyond normal - Proteins in Alien Environments
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Big Splash Campaign School of Design and Creative Arts
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Design, Creative Arts
Study mode:
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 6th March 2025
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PhD Bio-based Sustainable Materials for Autonomous Thermal Management in Wearables
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 13 February 2025
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PhD BioDyes - expanding the scope of renewed and renewable textiles
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemical Engineering, Creative Arts
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Biomarkers of aging
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Biomimmetic Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of the Bisorbicillinoids and Related Products
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2025
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PhD Building community climate resilience with large language models and remote sensing
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 17 February 2025
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PhD Catalytic and adsorption properties of polymeric silver and zinc oxide stabilized nanocomposites decorated on reduced graphene oxide
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Cell Mechanics and Tumour Growth
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Cellular Automaton to Model Rapid Crystal Growth and Recrystallisation
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Circular economy bonds 鈥� an initial examination of performance, riskiness and connectedness
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Climate and Ecological Transitions Hub Studentship
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Creative Futures, Institute for Digital Technologies, Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs, Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship, Institute for Sport Business
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 24 February 2025
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PhD Climate change, work design and worker wellbeing
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 13 March 2025
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PhD Cognitive Monitoring of Human Operators using Multi-modal Artificial Intelligence
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Coherent state methods in spectral asymptotics
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: July 2025
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PhD Collaborative intelligence in collectives of lifelong reinforcement learning agents
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 15 April 2025
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PhD Communication and Social Change (CSC) Hub Studentship
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Creative Futures, Institute for Digital Technologies, Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs, Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship, Institute for Sport Business
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 25 February 2025
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PhD Computational modelling of sustainable alloys
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 14 February 2025
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PhD Continuous manufacturing of nano-assemblies for mRNA based therapies and vaccines: from batch to industry scale
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Countering Cyberattacks in Autonomous Vehicles
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Cryptographic primitives for symmetric cryptography
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Crystallisation with 3D printing template and hydrogel templates
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD CSC PhD Studentship in Exploring Advanced Materials for Wearable Sensors
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 January 2025
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PhD Cultural Currents in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: Continuities between 'Victorian' and 'Modernist' Literature
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): English
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2025
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PhD Data and AI Powered Turbulence Modelling for Fusion Energy Cooling Flows
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Demographic changes and economic development
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Design and fabrication custom foot orthotics
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 22 January 2025
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PhD Design of Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2024
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PhD Designing classroom tasks to improve students鈥� learning of mathematics
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mathematics Education
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2025
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PhD Developing Diffusion Models for Electric Vehicle: Spatial-temporal analysis and policy evaluation
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2024, January 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 May 2025
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PhD Developing Natural Surfactants from Biomass for Industrial Applications
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Developing Novel Antibiofilm Coatings for Sustainable Biofilm-Free Surfaces
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Developing prescription guidelines for passive heat therapy
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 March 2025
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PhD Development of Hybrid Microcomb Sources with Topologically Protected Dark Resonances for Simultaneous Classical and Quantum
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 5 January 2025
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PhD Development of new digital technologies and Generative Artificial Intelligence tools for the next generation Green-by-Design and sustainable pharmaceuticals.
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Development of novel bicyclopentanes (BCP) bioisosteres from bench stable [1.1.1]-propellane precursors
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Development of robust wall modelling for practical aerodynamic high fidelity prediction
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 19 February 2025
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PhD Digital sustainability through AI
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Digital twins for biofilm management
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Dispersionless integrable systems in 2+1 dimensions
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2025
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PhD Doctoral Research in Health Humanities
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): English
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2025
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PhD Does socialised real-life body exposure promote body image positivity?
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 14 March 2025
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PhD Dynamic deformation, damage and fracture of composites
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Dynamic external shading for enhanced visual and thermal comfort in schools
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 2 February 2025
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PhD Energy dissipation in human soft tissue during impacts
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 13 March 2025
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PhD Energy efficiency optimisation of electric vehicles in dynamic driving scenarios
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Engineering New Materials for Solid-State Cooling
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 17 February 2025
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PhD Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Emotional Intelligence in Robotics
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 18 February 2025
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PhD Enhancing Motivation in Sport and Exercise Contexts
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 11 March 2024
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PhD Enhancing the long-term performance of advanced engine materials by controlling microstructure
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Environmental Evaluation of Microcomb Stability
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 1 April 2025, 1 July 2025, 1 October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 2 February 2025
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PhD Evaluating Gasification for Sustainable Waste-to-Energy: A CFD and Life Cycle Analysis Against Traditional Incineration
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Exploring AI implications on employee experience and wellbeing: A longitudinal study
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Female-specific physiological responses to exercise in the heat
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 14 March 2025
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PhD Fiber-based Foams for Sustainable Material Development
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Chemical Engineering, Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 17 February 2025
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PhD Fibre-optic Instrumentation for Aerospace Manufacturing
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 28 February 2025
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PhD Formal languages and models of computation
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 17 February 2025
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PhD Formulation optimisation by data-enabled decision making
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Materials, Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 14 February 2025
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PhD Future of Glass 鈥� Viability and Innovation opportunities of glass building envelopes for Net Zero Future
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Generative AI and information ecosystems
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Geomorphic mitigation of contaminated mining sediment mobilization during floods
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 8th January 2025
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PhD Geotechnics: Acoustic Emission Monitoring in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Campus: 黑料网
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Geotechnics: Climate Change Impacts on Slope Stability
Campus: 黑料网
A-Z of current PhD opportunities
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