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PhD Studentship:Building Synthetic Self-Propelled Cells for Bioinspired Motion
Physics
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully and directly funded for this project only. UKRI standard stipend - £20,780 per year for 2025/26 academic year. Funded for 3.5 years.
Date Placed: 20 Mar
Closes 24 Apr
MINDnet’ Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Candidates (DC1 & DC2) (792608)
Institute of Photonics
University of Strathclyde
Location: Glasgow
Salary: £51,045
Date Placed: 20 Mar
Closes 27 Mar
PhD Studentship: Exploring the enzymatic treatment of oiled shorelines
School of Chemistry - Faculty of Engineering
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 20 Mar
Closes 07 Apr
PhD Studentship: Data-Driven Digital Twins for Measured Energy Systems
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: Stipend: £21,805 for 2026/27 and tuition fees will be paid.
Date Placed: 20 Mar
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: Investigating White-Etching Layers in High-Performance Aerospace Steels
Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: Stipend: £21,805 for 2026/27 and tuition fees will be paid.
Date Placed: 20 Mar
Closes 30 Jun
PhD Studentship: Molecular Dynamic Simulation for modelling the corrosion inhibition mechanisms of film forming amine
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: Stipend: £21,805 for 2026/27 and tuition fees will be paid.
Date Placed: 20 Mar
Expires 20 May
Early Notice of Forthcoming Call for Applications for the Doctoral Programs (2026/27)
Scuola Superiore Meridionale
Location: Naples
Salary: £16,526.12 p.a.
Date Placed: 19 Mar
Expires 17 Jun
PhD Studentship: Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in AI Models for Efficient Non-destructive Testing
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £21,805 per annum
Date Placed: 19 Mar
Closes 27 Apr
PhD Studentship: The Self-Driving Microscope: Predicting Stochastic Failure in Solid-State Batteries using Physics-Informed AI
Computing and Mathematical Sciences
University of Greenwich
Location: London
Salary: £22,780 to £24,780
Date Placed: 19 Mar
Closes 17 Apr
PhD Studentship in Computational Materials Chemistry and Machine Learning
School of Chemistry
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 19 Mar
Closes 13 Apr
PhD Studentship: Engineering Synthetic Microbial Ecosystems for Deployable Microbiome Modulation
Department of Biomedical Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 19 Mar
Closes 01 May
PhD Studentship: Navigating Polycrisis: Climate Change and Small-scale Fishing Communities in Scotland
University of Strathclyde
Location: Glasgow
Salary: Please refer to advert
Date Placed: 19 Mar
Closes 30 Apr
PhD Studentship: Discovering quantum materials with superconducting circuits
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: £21,805 for 2026/27 academic year. (Also, see advert)
Date Placed: 19 Mar
Closes 13 Apr
PhD Studentship: Rooted in Resilience: Optimising the Plant-Soil System for Flood-Resilient Rain Gardens
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £26,546
Date Placed: 19 Mar
Closes 08 May
PhD in Electrical Arc Furnace (EAF) Steelmaking Slag and its Utilisation
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: £24,780 per annum for 4 years
Date Placed: 19 Mar
Closes 09 Apr
DPhil Studentship in Organic Chemistry: Redox Activation Methods for Catalysis in Organic Synthesis
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £21,805 p.a.
Date Placed: 18 Mar
Closes 16 Jun
PhD Position in Environmental DNA (eDNA) and Biodiversity Monitoring in Agricultural Landscapes
Graduate School of Technical Sciences
Aarhus University
Location: Aarhus
Salary: Competitive
Date Placed: 18 Mar
Closes 01 Jun
PhD Studentship: Marie Curie MetaExplore PhD position (Fixed Term)
Department of Biochemistry
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Marie Curie Rates
Date Placed: 18 Mar
Closes 25 Mar
PhD Studentship: Marie Curie ON-Tract PhD position (Fixed Term)
Department of Biochemistry
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Marie Curie Rates
Date Placed: 18 Mar
Closes 25 Mar
MSCA PhD Fellow in Cross-Disciplinary Glycoscience Research (DC3 - Targeting tissues using multivalent lectin-glycan interactions)
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: £53,780 per annum (plus family allowance, dependent on eligibility), in line with MSCA Doctoral Network requirements
Date Placed: 18 Mar
Closes 18 Jun
PhD Studentship - Machine Learning-Guided Synthesis of Graphene Aerogels for Supercapacitors
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 18 Mar
Closes 18 Jun
MSCA PhD Fellow in Cross-Disciplinary Glycoscience Research (DC1 - Biocolloid Binding and Transport in Glycocalyces)
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: £53,780 per annum (plus family allowance, dependent on eligibility), in line with MSCA Doctoral Network requirements
Date Placed: 18 Mar
Closes 30 Mar
PhD Studentship: Gravitational Waves and Cosmology: PhD Studentship in Gravitational Wave Cosmology: From Theory to Experiments
Biosciences Geography and Physics School
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 18 Mar
Closes 06 Apr
MSCA PhD Fellow in Cross-Disciplinary Glycoscience Research (DC1 – Biocolloid Binding and Transport in Glycocalyces)
School of Physics & Astronomy
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: £53,780 per annum (plus family allowance, dependent on eligibility), in line with MSCA Doctoral Network requirements
Date Placed: 18 Mar
Closes 30 Mar
PhD Studentship: PhD in Nuclear Physics
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: £21,403 annual stipend + £1250 annual top-up. Funding is for 4 years.
Date Placed: 17 Mar
Closes 30 Mar

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