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PhD Studentship: Ultra-High Voltage Power Semiconductor Devices
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry
Salary: £21,805, paid at the prevailing UKRI rate for 3.5 years
Date Placed: 20 Feb
Closes 30 Apr
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PhD Studentship: Multiscale modelling of polymer network constitutive behaviour
Mathematics
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 20 Feb
Closes 19 May
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PhD Studentship: Designing polymer drug delivery implants with tuneable release pathways
Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 20 Feb
Closes 11 Mar
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PhD Studentship in Aeronautics: Development of Multifunctional Measurement Methods for Coupling in Structural Power Composites (AE0083)
Aeronautics
Imperial College London
Location: London
Salary: Full coverage of tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of £22,780 for Home students
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 26 Mar
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PhD Studentship - Development of New Generation Corrosion-resistant Aluminium Alloys
Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 15 Mar
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PhD Studentship(s) in Aeronautics: The role of turbulence intermittency in cloud physics
Aeronautics
Imperial College London
Location: London
Salary: Full coverage of tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of £22,780 for Home, EU and International students
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 30 Apr
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PhD Studentship in Aeronautics: Prediction of Extreme Events in Turbulent Reacting Flows with Scientific Machine Learning
Aeronautics
Imperial College London
Location: London
Salary: Full coverage of tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of £22,780 for Home, EU and International students
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 01 Apr
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PhD Studentship: The business case for battery traceability: exploring product passports and circular value creation
King’s Business School (King’s College London), Centre for Sustainable Business with Circularise
King's College London
Location: London
Salary: Stipend - £23,805 (for 2025-26) Tuition fees - Full Home and International fees for 2025-26) Research training & support grant - £1,000 per year; length of award: 4 years (PhD) (3 years full time + 1 year writing up)
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 31 Mar
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PhD Studentship - EPSRC - Metal-Organic Frameworks for Mitigating NH3 and NO2 Emissions
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 19 May
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PhD Studentship in Aeronautics: Thermo-structural Design of Hypersonic Vehicles under Extreme Material Nonlinearity (AE0085)
Imperial College London
Location: London
Salary: £21,237 - please see advert
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 26 Mar
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PhD Studentship: (BioProcess) Harnessing Biocatalysis Toward Next Generation Nucleoside Triphopshates
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 18 May
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PhD Studentship: Resolving carbon pathways to microbiomes in extreme geothermal environments
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 18 May
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PhD Studentship - Understanding the Rules of Life in Microbiomes Using Stable Isotope Labelling
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 18 Feb
Closes 18 May
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PhD Studentship - Microbial Engineering of Novel Catalysts for Hydrogen Production
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 18 Feb
Closes 18 May
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PhD Studentship: Understanding RNAi application for the control of cabbage stem flea beetle
John Innes Centre
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 18 Feb
Closes 04 May
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PhD Studentship: Exploring Saturn’s polar hexagon using numerical models, Mathematics PhD (STFC funded)
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: UK and International tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 per year
Date Placed: 18 Feb
Closes 11 Mar
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PhD Studentship: Modelling the Partially Ionised Solar Chromosphere - PhD (STFC funded)
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: UK and International tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 per year
Date Placed: 18 Feb
Closes 11 Mar
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PhD Studentship: Optimising peatland recovery across fragmented landscapes
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 18 Feb
Closes 19 Mar
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PhD Studentship: The impact of peatland rewetting on invertebrate and microbial assemblages
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 18 Feb
Closes 19 Mar
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PhD Studentship: Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogel (FRESH) additive manufacturing of sustainable porous calcium phosphate scaffolds for hard tissue engineering
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home and international university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£20,780 for 2025/26 academic year). Funding is for 3.5 years. Funded EPSRC.
Date Placed: 18 Feb
Closes 20 Mar
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PhD Studentship - Multi-Spacecraft Investigations of Solar and Heliospheric Plasmas (STFC Funded)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: UK and International tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 per year
Date Placed: 17 Feb
Closes 11 Mar
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PhD Studentship: Research Studentship in Multiphysics Modelling of Solid-State Batteries
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £21,805 pa
Date Placed: 17 Feb
Closes 03 Mar
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PhD Studentship: Research Studentship in Aerodynamics
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £20,780 per annum
Date Placed: 17 Feb
Closes 03 Mar
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PhD Studentship: Research Studentship in the development of a temperature- and rate-dependent single-crystal model for metals
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 17 Feb
Closes 03 Mar
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PhD Studentship: Synthesis, characterisation, and/or modelling of hydrogen storage materials
Engineering
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: £20,622
Date Placed: 17 Feb
Closes 19 Mar
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