A-Z of current PhD opportunities
Our current PhD opportunities are projects which already have a topic and supervisor allocated. Some of these have funding already attached as studentships but some may require you to provide your own funding.
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PhD 3D Vision for Robots with Photonic Chip Interferometers
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Studentship
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PhD A biomimetic approach to peroxide-derived polyketide synthesis
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Chemistry
Funding status Self funded
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PhD Additive manufacturing (3D printing) of tools for plastic injection moulding
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Advanced electron beam sources
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Advanced radiofrequency materials and dielectric property measurements for satellite antenna applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Analytics to interpret acoustic emission generated by geotechnical infrastructure assets
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Artificial intelligence in additive manufacturing: use of deep-learning in dimensional accuracy of stereolithography 3D printing
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Autonomous navigation, guidance and control of an agricultural vehicle in challenging environments
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Birational geometry of Calabi--Yau varieties
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mathematical Sciences
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 31 March 2021
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PhD Cellular Automaton to Model Rapid Crystal Growth and Recrystallisation
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Communication, disability rights, and social change
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Media and Creative Industries
Funding status Studentship
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PhD Comparison of machine learning techniques using measurement uncertainty for analysis of cell and gene therapy manufacturing data
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Computational modelling of lung ventilation in patients with COVID-19
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Studentship
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PhD Data analysis for monitoring of microplastics
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mathematical Sciences
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 27 November 2020
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PhD Design as Political Activity in Activist Struggles
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Design Innovation
Funding status Studentship
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PhD Designing and Analysing Algorithms and Data Structures for Distributed Systems and Networks
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Computer Science
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 28 February 2021
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PhD Developing Automated Cell and Exosome Counters for Parkinson’s Disease
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Chemistry
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2021
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PhD Developing feasible ways of promoting children’s healthy eating at holiday clubs
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 1 August 2021
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PhD Developing New Chemical Sensors for the Detection of Microplastics within the Environment
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Chemistry
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 3 January 2021
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PhD Development of Housing and the Creation of Flood Risk
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 7 February 2021
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PhD Discourses of Service Design for Educational Transformation
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Design Innovation
Funding status Studentship
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PhD Energy Resilience and the Built Environment
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Funding status Studentship
Application deadline: 6 December 2020
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PhD EPSRC DTP Studentship: A multi-omic approach to identifying biomarkers of tissue development
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Funding status Studentship
Application deadline: Wednesday 2 December 2020
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PhD Evaluation of Metal Leaching from Implantable Medical Devices
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Chemistry
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 19 June 2021
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PhD Exploring the role of child temperament in children’s eating behaviours
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2021
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PhD Finite Element Modelling of Tissue-Implant Interaction in Mitraclip Therapy
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Football, concussion and heading: Evaluating policy changes in youth football
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 6 January 2021
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PhD High Trust Low Infrastructure Architectures for Future Ad hoc Vehicular Networks
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Lifetime simulation of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Lightweight damage tolerant composite enclosure structure for electromagnetic interference shielding
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Machine hearing for industrial fault diagnosis
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Machine Learning Solutions for Computer Network Operations
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Man vs Machine: Defining needs for automated cell counting in Cell and Gene Therapy manufacture
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Studentship
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PhD Mathematical modelling of internal waves in rotating stratified shear flows
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mathematical Sciences
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 30 September 2021
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PhD Memories of communication, social movements and change
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Media and Creative Industries
Funding status Studentship
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PhD Modelling of Plasticity-Microstructure Interaction at a Short Crack Tip
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Modelling the Economic, Demographic, Regulatory, and Environmental Determinants of the Cost of Water Service Provision
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Business and Economics
Funding status Studentship
Application deadline: 4 December 2020
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PhD Multi-modal Data fusion using Deep Learning
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Computer Science
Funding status Self funded
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PhD New routes towards asymmetric carbon dioxide incorporation for organic synthesis
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Chemistry
Funding status Self funded
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PhD Nonlinear dynamics and control of UAVs operating in urban environments
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Novel synthetic approaches to antimicrobial natural products and investigations of their bioactivity
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Chemistry
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 30 September 2021
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PhD Organometallic Complexes Displaying Red TADF
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Chemistry
Funding status Self funded
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PhD Performance psychology and management
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 16 July 2021
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PhD Plasma Agriculture
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Plasma Mediated Carbon Dioxide Disassociation: Applications to organic Synthesis
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Chemistry
Funding status Self funded
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PhD Reliability analysis of platoons
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Safe- and Eco-Driving Control for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Selective Electrosynthesis for Late Stage Peptide Functionalization: A Green Chemistry Approach
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Chemistry
Funding status Self funded
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PhD Smart Robotic Grasping
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Funding status Studentship
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PhD Spacing vs. Interleaving effects: Same or Different - Evidence from Maths Classroom
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Mathematics Education Centre
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2021
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PhD Sport-related concussion and return to learn in higher education
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 1 December 2020
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PhD Start up strategies for battery electric vehicles and aircraft in cold climates
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: Ongoing
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PhD Strategic Design in Citizen-led Mobilization and Action
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Design Innovation
Funding status Studentship
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PhD Synthesis of Lamellarin alkaloids using a photoredox initiated cyclisation cascade
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Chemistry
Funding status Self funded
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PhD technē studentships in the Institute for Design Innovation
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Design Innovation
Funding status Studentship
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PhD technē studentship in the Institute for Media and Creative Industries
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Media and Creative Industries
Funding status Studentship
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PhD The Effects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Based Interventions on Performance Under Pressure
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 31 January 2021
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PhD The social value of museums
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Media and Creative Industries
Funding status Studentship
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PhD Transport Protocol for Edge Computing
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Computer Science
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 30th June 2021
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PhD Ultra-low temperature sintering of functional ceramics for energy applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Materials
Funding status Self funded
Application deadline: 31 May 2021
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PhD Understanding aroma matrix interactions and their effect on aroma release from model beverages
Campus: Loughborough
Department: Chemistry
Funding status Studentship
Application deadline: 7 December 2020
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