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PhD Studentship - Quantum Nanophotonics with Molecules
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 13 Mar
Closes 15 Mar
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PhD Studentship - Material Recovery from End-of-life Photovoltaics
Mechanical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 13 Mar
Closes 16 Jun
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PhD Studentship in Bayesian Optimisation Considering Late-Stage Process Design
Department of Chemical Engineering
UCL
Location: London
Salary: circa £23,805 per annum + UK fees
Date Placed: 13 Mar
Closes 31 May
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PhD Studentship - Computational Discovery of Oxide Scintillators for High-Performance X-ray Detectors
School of Chemistry
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 13 Mar
Closes 31 May
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PhD Studentship: Exploring the Molecular Mechanisms of Nutrient Utilisation in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
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: 13 Mar
Closes 31 Mar
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PhD Position in Women Building Cities
Department of Anthropology and Development Studies (ADS)
Radboud University
Location: Nijmegen
Salary: £2,660.71 to £3,375.68 Gross monthly salary
Date Placed: 13 Mar
Closes 12 Apr
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PhD Studentship - Liquid Crystal Materials for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Technologies
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences - Physics & Astronomy
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 12 Mar
Closes 30 Apr
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PhD Studentship: Acoustic Patterning of Polymer (Nano) Composites at Polymer Melt Temperatures
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 13 Apr
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PhD studentship: Family and environmental influences on children’s home learning, and inequalities in education and mental health outcomes
City St George’s, University of London
Location: London
Salary: This studentship is open to home applicants only and provides funding for 3 years full-time and includes home tuition fees plus a tax-free stipend in line with UKRI rates.
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 12 Apr
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PhD Studentship: Spatial Light Modulation for Advanced Terahertz (THz) Imaging
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick, Warwick
Salary: Please refer to advert
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 13 Apr
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PhD Studentship: Cancer Data Driven Detection: Understanding and handling missing data due to differential tendencies of clinicians to record symptoms for the development of cancer risk prediction models CRUK funded PhD
Department of Health and Community Sciences
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £22,113 UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of £22,113 per year
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 03 Apr
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PhD Studentship: Electromagnetic Sensing for Intelligent Manufacturing and Advanced Materials
EEME
University of Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Stipend amount per year: Basic UKRI; Industrial sponsorship opportunities available
Date Placed: 10 Mar
Closes 01 Apr
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PhD Studentship: Biomarker integration and clinical decision support for early diagnosis of pre-eclampsia
School of Engineering
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick, Warwick
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 10 Mar
Closes 13 Apr
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PhD Studentship: Safeguarding Power Grid Stability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Centres
School of Engineering
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick, Warwick
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 10 Mar
Closes 13 Apr
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PhD Studentship: Robust Low-Dimensional Representations for Noisy Real-World Data 
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing CVSSP / Institute for People-Centred AI
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: UKRI standard stipend: £25, 805 for academic year 2026/27. UK-level fees covered. Generous research training support grant. Funding is available for 4 years.
Date Placed: 10 Mar
Closes 12 Jul
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Fully Funded Doctoral Landscape Award: NetZero Futures
School of Design
Royal College of Art
Location: London
Salary: £23,805 per annum, full time
Date Placed: 10 Mar
Closes 03 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Implementation of Innovative Telemetric Technology Towards Carbon-neutral and Safe Grain Storage in the UK
Cranfield University
Location: Cranfield
Salary: £23,000 plus fees* (reviewed annually) for three years.
Date Placed: 10 Mar
Closes 10 Jun
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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: 10 Mar
Closes 10 Sep
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EPSRC DTP - Mechanical Failure Mechanisms at High Pressure
Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 09 Mar
Closes 09 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Sustainable Road Binders Derived from a Biogenic Supply Chain
Engineering
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 09 Mar
Closes 30 Apr
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PhD Studentship: Biocatalytic Diversification of Complex Natural Products for Enhanced Therapeutic Performance
School of Chemistry, Pharmacy & Pharmacology
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 06 Mar
Closes 08 Apr
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PhD Studentship - Design and Testing of Sustainable Processes to Produce Bio-Toluene
Chemistry
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 06 Mar
Closes 30 Jun
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PhD Studentship: Decarbonisation of Industrial Cooking of Food While Maintaining Quality Characteristics
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - Centre for Sustainable Energy Use in Food Chains
Brunel University London
Location: London
Salary: £23,805 (inclusive of London Weighting) plus tuition fees per annum.(subject to UKRI increase)
Date Placed: 06 Mar
Closes 12 Apr
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PhD studentship: Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 annual stipend (living expenses) plus home tuition fees paid
Date Placed: 06 Mar
Closes 20 Mar
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PhD (via MPhil) Studentship in School of Engineering & Computing
University of Lancashire
Location: Lancashire
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 05 Mar
Closes 30 Mar
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