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PhD A Multiscale Investigation of Dislocation-Grain Boundary Interactions in next generation alloys
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD A Privacy-Preserving Architecture for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks Using Mobile and Decentralised Edge Computing
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: Jan 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Advancing AI-Driven Robotics for Injury Rehabilitation Transform the Future of Medical Robotics with Cutting-Edge Research
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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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 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: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD An investigation on human-AI interactions in complex food supply chains
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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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 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
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Automatic generation of RL simulation environment
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 June 2025
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PhD Automatically building better algorithms
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Averaging in systems with small Hamiltonian and much smaller non-Hamiltonian perturbations
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Bespoke Organometallic Compounds for Anticancer Studies
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 September 2025
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PhD Biomarkers of aging
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Building a large foundation model for EEG signals
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 June 2025
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PhD Cellular Automaton to Model Rapid Crystal Growth and Recrystallisation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Circular economy bonds – an initial examination of performance, riskiness and connectedness
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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PhD Co-Designing Privacy-First Digital Mental Health Services
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Coherent state methods in spectral asymptotics
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Comfort, Fit and Function: The Role of Sports Apparel and Equipment in Female Para-athlete Performance
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Design
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 29 May 2025
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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 Computational modelling and dosimetry for spatially fractionated radiotherapy
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Computational Modelling of Functional Molecular Materials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 October 2025
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PhD Creating a visual digital twin of an urban environment
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 June 2025
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PhD Cryptographic primitives for symmetric cryptography
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Cultural Currents in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: Continuities between 'Victorian' and 'Modernist' Literature
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): English
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2025
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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: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD Development and validation of a bespoke sweat sensor to monitor nuanced changes in sweat rate
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 01 October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 July 2025
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PhD Development of novel bicyclopentanes (BCP) bioisosteres from bench stable [1.1.1]-propellane precursors
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Dirty statistical models
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Doctoral Research in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): English
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2025
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PhD Doctoral Research in Editing and Textual Scholarship
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): English
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st July 2025
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PhD Doctoral Research in Health Humanities
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): English
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2025
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PhD Dynamic deformation, damage and fracture of composites
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Dynamics of three-component liquid mixtures on surfaces
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025 (applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis)
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PhD Efficient computational models for robust digital twins
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Eigenvalues of functional difference operators associated to mirror curves
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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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 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Emergent diffusion in inherently stochastic Hamiltonian systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Emergent phenomena and complexity in open quantum systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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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: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Evaluating the nutritional, cardiometabolic and environmental impact of replacing animal-derived dairy products with plant-based alternatives
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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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 Exploring the application of Large Language Models in medical image analysis: integrating statistics to ensure fairness and privacy protection
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Formal languages and models of computation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Growth of a bacterial biofilm
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Hybrid Machining of Metal Matrix Composites: A Multi-Material, Multi-Scale Approach
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Impact of chemical elements from end-of-life aluminium scrap, and minor element additions to corrosion performance of 6XXX series aluminium alloys
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 29 May 2025
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PhD Infinite dimensional systems of interacting chaotic units
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 June 2025
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PhD Innovating ParaSport: The Role of the Athlete-Equipment-Playing Environment Interface
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 29 May 2025
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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 Large Language (or Vision) Models in Online Search: Identifying Bias and Misinformation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Learning from corporate governance: improving megaproject performance through best practices in organisational architecture
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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PhD Logical Reasoning: Studying and Developing Mathematical Expertise
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematics Education
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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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: July 2025, 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 Mechanics of biomaterials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Mechanics of materials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Memristor driven by self-propelled particles (Active Matter)
Campus:
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Microstructural Analysis and Evolution of Waste-to-Energy Grate Bars
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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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: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 July 2025
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PhD Modelling carbon materials using new machine learning techniques
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Modelling of phases and interfacial behaviour to enhance sustainability in manufactured products
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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PhD Modelling of Radiation Effects of Non-Equiatomic High Entropy Alloys
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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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: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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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 Multimodal Large Language Models for disease diagnosis
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Multinationals, transfer pricing, and tax competition: competition for capital versus competition for profits
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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PhD Multiprojective birational geometry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Net zero, sustainability and international trade from a developing country perspective
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 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: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD Nijenhuis Geometry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Novel antireflective metasurfaces for energy applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Novel Fluorinated Heterocycle Synthesis for Medicinal Chemistry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 October 2025
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PhD Novel routes for Carbon Dioxide Utilisation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 April 2026
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PhD Oxide film devices for AI processing of temporal signals
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Para Athlete Physiological Responses to Heat Stress
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Design
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 29 May 2025
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PhD ParaFit 2032 - Optimising Performance and Health in Para athletes: Travel, sleep and fatigue optimal management for long-haul performance
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 30 May 2025
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PhD Parikh Matrices and their investigation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 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 Precision Microcombs for Quantum Technologies Applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 May 2025
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PhD Predicting failure in crystalline materials using machine learning techniques
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Predicting Hydrogen Embrittlement in Metallic Alloys using Multiscale Numerical Modelling
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Privacy Protected Federated Learning Algorithms for Credit Card Fraud Detection
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Process Development for New Formulation Products with Nanoparticles
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering, Materials
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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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: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Quantum dynamics of electrons in emerging 2D devices
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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EngD Quantum Local Area Network
Campus:
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: 01 October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 16 June 2025
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PhD Quantum numbers and applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Quantum Systems Engineering
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 September 2025
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PhD Random-field modelling of amorphous solid structures
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Reconceptualising abusive leadership behaviours, and their impact on employee wellbeing: a novel measurement approach
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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PhD Reconfigurable atomically thin memristors via nano-engineered defects
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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PhD Resilience Evaluation of Transport Infrastructure in an Uncertain Climate Future
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April, July or October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Robust and efficient financial risk management
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Safe and Robust AI for Autonomous Robotic Systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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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: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2027
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PhD Simplifying marine polycyclic ether synthesis through symmetry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: January 2026
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PhD Skeletal Muscle Biomechanics via Disclination-based Continuum Modelling
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Spectral Analysis and Integrable PDEs
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 July 2026
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PhD Spectroscopic signatures of topological quantum matter
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 September 2025
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PhD Spiking Neural Networks for Satellite Communications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 June 2025
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PhD SSEHS UK Minoritised Ethnic Group PhD Studentships
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 2 June 2025
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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 Stochastic dynamics of complex systems over finite times
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025 (applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis)
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PhD Superconductivity of kagome' metals
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Sustainable Colloidal Coatings: Biobased Formulations and Nanoscale Dynamics
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 30 May 2025
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PhD Symbolic Dynamics and Word Combinatorics with Applications in Formal Verification
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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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: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 January 2026
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PhD Synthetic and Mechanistic Investigations with Perfluoroarenes
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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PhD Technologies to understand, monitor, and enhance elite Para athlete performance
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 May 2025
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PhD Text-to-image face personalisation using a text-guided diffusion model
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD The barriers to AI adoption faced by SMEs owned by women, minorities, or underrepresented groups
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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PhD Understanding human perceptions of randomness
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics Education
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025 (Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis)
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PhD Understanding polymer-protein interactions for nanoparticle drug delivery
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Using the metabolome to study aging and geroprotectors in 3D cell models
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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EngD What is a good MBSE Model? And how do we rapidly develop highly effective models?
Campus:
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: 01 October 2025
Funding status Part-funded
Application deadline: 16 June 2025
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PhD Women in Historical Fiction of the English Civil War Era Creative/Critical
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): English
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2025
A-Z of current PhD opportunities
Our current PhD opportunities are projects which already have a topic and a supervisor allocated. Some have funding already attached but some may require you to provide your own funding.
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