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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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EngD Accelerated Systems Assurance with Model-Based Systems Engineering
Campus:
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 1 October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 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 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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EngD An Open Architecture Framework for Fusion
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: 1 October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 30 June 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 Automated microscale dissolution testing based on deep integration of scanning electrochemical/optical microscopies and machine vision
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 22 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 Biofidelic traction testing of artificial turf
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: 01 October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 29 July 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Evaluation of pre-ignition risks induced by lubricating oils in hydrogen internal combustion engines
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 01 October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 15 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Nutritional supplements and sports performance, assessment of current evidence and practices
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 17 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 Physiological and nutritional interventions for effective acclimation strategies in a climate-changed world
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 16 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 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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EngD Quantum Local Area Network
Campus:
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: 01 October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 July 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 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 Sustainable Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Using Digital Twins, Computer-Assisted Retrosynthesis, and Life Cycle Assessment
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 25 July 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: 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 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: 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 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 Structural durability in the Net Zero age: Effect of degradation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 01 October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 15 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 Technology qualification of electrolysers
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: 01 October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 15 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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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 Funded
Application deadline: 31 July 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
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