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PhD A Network-Edge Symbiosis for Accelerated and Distributed AI
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 June 2026
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PhD AI and Deep Learning for Tree and Plant Health Monitoring: Advancing Biosecurity and Biodiversity
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 7 January 2026
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PhD AI-Assisted Requirements Engineering for Complex Systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 December 2025
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PhD AI-Driven Computer Vision for Automated Monitoring of Marine Biodiversity and Climate Impacts
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: 1 October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 7 January 2026
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PhD AI-Driven Policy Enforcement for vehicular networks
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 December 2025
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PhD AI-Driven Trait Analysis of Fruit Evolution and Climate Vulnerability
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 1 October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 7 January 2026
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PhD AI-Enabled Acoustic Emission System for Industrial Condition Monitoring
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 September 2026
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PhD An integrated approach for damage identification in composite materials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2026
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PhD Analytical and computational studies of complex liquid-film flows
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Automated and Secure Configuration Management for Heterogeneous Edge Computing Environments
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 June 2026
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PhD Bespoke Organometallic Compounds for Anticancer Studies
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Carbon Accounting and Optimisation Strategies for the Pipe Industries: A Life Cycle Approach
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD CARE: Climate Risk Evaluation Using Participatory Mapping for Flood-Prone and Data-Scarce Environments
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 8 January 2026
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PhD Computability and Constrained Equations in Free Semigroups
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Cryptographic primitives for symmetric cryptography
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Decentralized Federated Learning Methods for Generative AI in Edge Computing, Internet of Things (IoT) and 6G Systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Designing classroom tasks to improve students’ learning of mathematics
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematics Education
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 January 2026
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PhD Developing Continual Adaptive Learning Techniques for Large Language Models in Neural Information Retrieval
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD Development of novel bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes (BCP) bioisosteres from bench stable [1.1.1]propellane precursors
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Digital Engineering of Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Alloys: Material Development and Performance
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 May 2026
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PhD Eco-Mimetic IoT: Nature-Inspired Microclimate Monitoring in Forests
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 1 October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 7 January 2026
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PhD Efficient ML Model Design and Optimisation for Resource-Constrained Edge Devices
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025, January 2026, April 2026. October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 June 2026
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PhD Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction for Sustainable Fuels
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD Embedded AI-Powered Marine Biodiversity Monitoring
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 7 January 2026
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PhD Enhancing the long-term performance of advanced engine materials by controlling microstructure
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2026
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PhD Environmental Change in High Arctic Lakes: from the Holocene to the Anthropocene
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 7th January 2026
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PhD Equitable Nature-based Solutions Deployment to Mitigate Urban Heat Islands
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 7 January 2026
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PhD Explainable cognitive systems as plastic dynamical systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences, Physics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD Finance Under Water? Assessing Flood Risk in Banking and Insurance Systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 8 January 2026
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PhD Fire and Flooding: Coupled Sediment Cascades in a Changing Climate
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 8 January 2026
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PhD Flood Asset Performance and Sediment Dynamics under Climate Change
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 8 January 2026
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PhD Flood Risk and Housing Inequality: Towards Equitable Adaptation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 8 January 2026
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PhD Governing the Energy Footprint of Digital Growth: A Data-Centric Framework for Sustainable Services
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 15 September 2025
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PhD Heat Therapy to Improve Health and Wellbeing in a Clinical Population
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 7 December 2025
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PhD Hidden aquatic biodiversity of natural flood management techniques
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 8th January 2026
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PhD High pressure flow boiling in water based nuclear reactors
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 28 November 2025
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PhD Improving the Communication of Education Research to Teachers
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematics Education
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD Integrable differential-difference equations: the symmetry approach
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Intelligent Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET)
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 1 April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 19 December 2025
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PhD Interoperability, Decentralized Governance and Incentive Mechanisms for Blockchains in Decentralized Finance and Web3
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Long nonlinear oceanic surface and internal waves in 3D
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 June 2026
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PhD Luminescent Anion Receptors for High-Throughput Bioassays in Drug Discovery
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 March 2026
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PhD Luminescent Molecular Probes to Detect Phosphate in UK Waterways
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry, Materials
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 March 2026
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PhD Machine Unlearning for Privacy-Preserving Cross-Modal Retrieval Systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD Mathematical aspects of internal waves in density stratified fluids
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Mirror symmetry for fibrations and degenerations of Calabi-Yau manifolds
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Modelling slip bands and short crack growth in Ni-based superalloys using discrete crystal plasticity
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2026
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PhD Models of quantum reservoir computing
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences, Physics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Nanofabrication of novel materials for spintronics and energy harvesting
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD Nature-Inspired Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimisation Algorithms
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: 1 October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 December 2025
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PhD Neural Machine Unlearning for Privacy-Preserving Information Retrieval: Novel Methods and Corrective Mechanisms
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD Novel routes for Carbon Dioxide Utilisation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 April 2026
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PhD Oceanic island insights into river-driven volcanic landscape evolution
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 7 January 2026
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PhD Optimising aerial image analysis for beach litter characterisation and quantification
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment, Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 7 January 2026
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PhD Personal Cooling Systems for enhanced thermal comfort and sleep quality
Campus:
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: Octtober 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Personalised and Adaptive Model Predictive Control for Safer Insulin Guidance in Type 2 Diabetes
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode:
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 December 2025
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PhD Phase-field crystal models for two-dimensional quantum materials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Psychology of Human Performance and Health
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Quantifying Sand Mining Impacts on River Channel Morphology and Flood Hazard
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 8 January 2026
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PhD Quantum Systems Engineering
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 December 2025
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PhD Secure and Efficient Blockchain Methods for Decentralized Finance and Web3 Applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Secure and Governed V2X Data Exchange in Connected Vehicle Environments
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 April 2026
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PhD Semantic-Aware Data Deduplication for Efficient and Reliable Machine Learning Training
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Simplifying marine polycyclic ether synthesis through symmetry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) for Space-Air-Ground-Sea 6G Networks
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Spectral Analysis and Integrable PDEs
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric MRI Contrast Agents for Advanced Imaging Applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 March 2026
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PhD Storm Triplets and Beyond: Jet Stream Forcing of Cyclone Sequences
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 1 October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 7 January 2026
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PhD Storyline approaches to regional flood risk: making climate change relatable.
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 8 January 2026
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PhD Synthesis and biological potential of benzofuran natural products
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2025, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Titanium chemistry to post-process additive manufactured lattices
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: 1 January 2026, 1 April 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 December 2025
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PhD Tyre Particulate Emissions Measurement and Prediction
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2026
A-Z of current PhD opportunities
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