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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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PhD Studentship: PhD in Nuclear Physics
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully and directly funded for this project only, including £24,805 per annum stipend. Funding is for 4 years.
Date Placed: 05 Mar
Closes 13 Apr
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PhD Studentship: Policy-Ready Evidence for Living Green Walls: Methods and Metrics for Urban Greenery Decision-Making
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 for the academic year 2025/26. Please refer to advert for further details.
Date Placed: 05 Mar
Closes 10 Mar
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PhD Studentship: Integrating High-Throughput Biophysics and Structural Biology for Accelerated Molecular Discovery
Biochemistry
University of Sussex
Location: Falmer
Salary: UKRI rate (London weighting), and a consumables budget
Date Placed: 05 Mar
Closes 03 Apr
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Exciting Fully Funded PhD Opportunity: Novel Sealing for High-Pressure H2 and Low-Carbon Storage Technologies - Help Shape the Future of Clean Energy Storage!
School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering (MAC)
University of Sheffield
Location: Manchester, Sheffield, Slough
Salary: Bursary/Stipend: £19,795, Fees: £4,925
Date Placed: 05 Mar
Closes 30 Aug
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Exciting Fully Funded PhD: Computational Modelling for High-Pressure, Low-Carbon Storage Technologies. Be a Key Player in Shaping the Future of Clean Energy Storage!
School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering (MAC)
University of Sheffield
Location: Manchester, Sheffield, Slough
Salary: Bursary/Stipend: £19,795, Fees: £4,925
Date Placed: 05 Mar
Closes 30 Aug
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PhD Studentship: Next-Generation Integrated Opto-Electronic Devices for Switching, Computing, and Sensing PhD (fully funded)
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: UK or International tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend
Date Placed: 04 Mar
Closes 15 Mar
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Exciting Fully Funded PhD Opportunity: Novel Sealing for High-Pressure H2 and Low-Carbon Storage Technologies - Help Shape the Future of Clean Energy Storage!
School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering (MAC)
University of Sheffield
Location: Manchester, Sheffield, Slough
Salary: Bursary/Stipend: £19,795, Fees: £4,925
Date Placed: 04 Mar
Closes 30 Aug
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Exciting Fully Funded PhD: Computational Modelling for High-Pressure, Low-Carbon Storage Technologies. Be a Key Player in Shaping the Future of Clean Energy Storage!
School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering (MAC)
University of Sheffield
Location: Manchester, Sheffield, Slough
Salary: Bursary/Stipend: £19,795, Fees: £4,925
Date Placed: 04 Mar
Closes 30 Aug
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PhD Studentship - AI-Driven Remote Sensing for Species-Level Savannah Monitoring
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 04 Mar
Closes 09 Mar
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PhD Studentship: BBSRC - Designer Photoenzymes for Selective C-H Functionalisations
Department of Chemistry
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: 03 Mar
Closes 16 Mar
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PhD Studentship in Light Scattering by Single Particles Relevant for Atmospheric Research
University of Hertfordshire
Location: Hatfield
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 03 Mar
Closes 06 Apr
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PhD Studentship: Stochastic vs Deterministic vs AI Accelerated Methods for HTGR Design
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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: 03 Mar
Closes 30 Mar
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EPSRC FIBE3 CDT PhD Studentship with CamDragon: Data-Intensive AI Thermodynamic Models for Next-Generation Building Decarbonisation
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Fully-funded studentships (fees and maintenance)
Date Placed: 03 Mar
Closes 02 Mar
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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: 03 Mar
Closes 27 May
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PhD Studentship - Theory-Led Compositional Optimisation of High-Entropy Metal Oxides for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Generation
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 02 Mar
Closes 25 Sep
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PhD studentship: 4-year studentship in laser-matter interactions
Physics and Astronomy Department
UCL
Location: London
Salary: Fully funded (stipend and tuition fees are covered)
Date Placed: 02 Mar
Closes 31 Mar
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PhD Position: Terahertz Magnetic Recording
Lancaster University
Location: Lancaster
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 02 Mar
Closes 02 Jun
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DPhil studentship in clinical mass spectrometry and machine learning applied to the characterisation of brain tumours
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £20,780 p.a
Date Placed: 27 Feb
Closes 30 Mar
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PhD Studentship: Shining a Light on Cancer: Using Photodynamic Therapy to Treat Sarcomas
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics - STEM
The Open University
Location: Milton Keynes
Salary: £21,805 per year (expected 2026/27 rate, indexed annually) for 3.25 years
Date Placed: 27 Feb
Closes 10 Apr
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PhD Studentship: Predicting Infiltrative Glioblastoma Progression using Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods
Medicine
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 26 Feb
Closes 01 Apr
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