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PhD 3-Directional Frictional Mechanical Metamaterials (3DFMMs)
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 16 February 2025
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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: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Accelerated Screening and Synthesis of New Chemotherapeutic Agents for Pancreatic Cancer
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: April 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: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 17 March 2025
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PhD Accessing new chemistries: Tuning reactivity of chemical processes using ionic liquids
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Accounting and controlling for the future: the case of digitalisation in manufacturing
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Active noise control of automotive tyres using ultrasonic parametric arrays
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Adaptive and Predictive Computational Modelling of Biomaterials: A Digital Twin Framework for Next-Generation Personalised Healthcare
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 March 2025
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PhD Adaptive Reconfigurable Intelligent Metasurfaces for 5G/6G Networks
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Advanced Additive Manufacturing For Radiofrequency System Design
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 28 February 2025
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PhD Advanced Crystallisation Techniques for Sustainable Battery Recycling and Wastewater Treatment
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Advanced Modelling of Carbon Black Morphology in Methane Pyrolysis for CO2-Free Hydrogen Production
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Advanced Wall Modelling for Magnetohydrodynamics Simulations Using Physics-Informed Machine Learning
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 March 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: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Agricultural Robot navigation in complex farm and rugged terrain environments using Deep Reinforcement Learning AI.
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 18 February 2025
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PhD An evaluation of Erasmus+ Sport projects and their impact on EU sport policy development
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: 10 March 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: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 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: 27 February 2025
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PhD Antimicrobial gels for biomedical applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Application of Machine Learning for Job Scheduling in Computing Clouds
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 January 2025
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PhD Artificial intelligence-assisted modular metabolic engineering for NetZero commodity manufacture
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 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: 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 Beyond normal - Proteins in Alien Environments
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Big Splash Campaign School of Design and Creative Arts
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Design, Creative Arts
Study mode:
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 6th March 2025
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PhD Bio-based Sustainable Materials for Autonomous Thermal Management in Wearables
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 13 February 2025
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PhD BioDyes - expanding the scope of renewed and renewable textiles
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering, Creative Arts
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Biological Logic and Memory Assays for Neuronal Degradation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 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: April 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Biomimetic Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of the Bisorbicillinoids and Related Products
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 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 Building community climate resilience with large language models and remote sensing
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 17 February 2025
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PhD Catalytic and adsorption properties of polymeric silver and zinc oxide stabilized nanocomposites decorated on reduced graphene oxide
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Cell Mechanics and Tumour Growth
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 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: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 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: 27 February 2025
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PhD Climate and Ecological Transitions Hub Studentship
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Creative Futures, Institute for Digital Technologies, Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs, Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship, Institute for Sport Business
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 24 February 2025
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PhD Climate change, work design and worker wellbeing
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 13 March 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 Cognitive Monitoring of Human Operators using Multi-modal Artificial Intelligence
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 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: July 2025
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PhD Collaborative intelligence in collectives of lifelong reinforcement learning agents
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 15 April 2025
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PhD Communication and Social Change (CSC) Hub Studentship
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Creative Futures, Institute for Digital Technologies, Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs, Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship, Institute for Sport Business
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 25 February 2025
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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 sustainable alloys
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 14 February 2025
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PhD Continuous manufacturing of nano-assemblies for mRNA based therapies and vaccines: from batch to industry scale
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Countering Cyberattacks in Autonomous Vehicles
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 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 Crystallisation with 3D printing template and hydrogel templates
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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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 Data and AI Powered Turbulence Modelling for Fusion Energy Cooling Flows
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Demographic changes and economic development
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Design of Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2024
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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: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2025
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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 Developing Diffusion Models for Electric Vehicle: Spatial-temporal analysis and policy evaluation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2024, January 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 May 2025
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PhD Developing Natural Surfactants from Biomass for Industrial Applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Developing Novel Antibiofilm Coatings for Sustainable Biofilm-Free Surfaces
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Developing prescription guidelines for passive heat therapy
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 March 2025
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PhD Development of Hybrid Microcomb Sources with Topologically Protected Dark Resonances for Simultaneous Classical and Quantum
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 5 January 2025
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PhD Development of new digital technologies and Generative Artificial Intelligence tools for the next generation Green-by-Design and sustainable pharmaceuticals.
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 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 Development of robust wall modelling for practical aerodynamic high fidelity prediction
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 19 February 2025
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PhD Development of Vision Language Models for Accurate Defect Detection
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 March 2025
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PhD Digital sustainability through AI
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Digital twins for biofilm management
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 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 Dispersionless integrable systems in 2+1 dimensions
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 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 Does socialised real-life body exposure promote body image positivity?
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 14 March 2025
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PhD DRIVE Research Cluster: Simulation-based Optimisation for Inclusive Transport Systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 20 April 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: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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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 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 Energy dissipation in human soft tissue during impacts
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 13 March 2025
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PhD Energy efficiency optimisation of electric vehicles in dynamic driving scenarios
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Engineering New Materials for Solid-State Cooling
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 17 February 2025
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PhD Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Emotional Intelligence in Robotics
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 18 February 2025
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PhD Enhancing Motivation in Sport and Exercise Contexts
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 11 March 2024
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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: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Environmental Evaluation of Microcomb Stability
Campus: Loughborough
A-Z of current PhD opportunities
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