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PhD 3D Nanozymes: Fabrication and assembly of the first hybrid enzymes
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024, October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2024
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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: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 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: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Advancing Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Transport Infrastructure Monitoring and Maintenance
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 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: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Analytical and computational studies of complex liquid-film flows
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2024
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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 Biomarkers of aging
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Building Resilience through Imagination and Children’s Knowledge
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 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: January 2025, 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: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Computational modelling of Microbeam Radiation Therapy delivery exploiting compact X-ray sources
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024, October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2024
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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 Deep learning for traffic prediction and analysis
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 23 September 2024
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PhD Design and fabrication custom foot orthotics
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 22 January 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: January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2024
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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 next generation lane-changing impact models for traditional, connected, and autonomous vehicles
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 7 November 2024
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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: July 2024, October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2024
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PhD Digital Technologies for Construction Occupational Safety and Health: Measuring Performance and Capturing Best Practice
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2024, January 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 September 2024
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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: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 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: January 2025, 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
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2024. January 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2024
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PhD Environmental factors and the stability of cognitive performance
Campus:
Department(s): Mathematics Education
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024, October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2024
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PhD Experimental process chemical recycling of textile waste
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024, October 2024, january 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2024
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PhD Future of Glass – Viability and Innovation opportunities of glass building envelopes for Net Zero Future
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Geotechnics: Acoustic Emission Monitoring in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Geotechnics: Climate Change Impacts on Slope Stability
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Growth of a bacterial biofilm
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024, October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2024
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PhD How do the languages that we speak affect numerical processing and math achievement?
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematics Education
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024, October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2024
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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: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Improvements in purity analysis and the production of suitable reference materials for renewable applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2024, January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: Applications will be reviewed at the start of each month for shortlisting.
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PhD Investigating weight loss in secondary care settings
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 October 2024
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PhD Language Models for Enhancing Healthcare and Clinical Decision Support Systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024, October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2024
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PhD Learning in Multi-Agent Systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024, October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2024
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PhD Lifelong learning and shareable models: How to reduce the energy footprint of AI and contribute to a sustainable decarbonised future
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 09 August 2024
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PhD Low-cost high-performance catalysts for green hydrogen production from water and seawater electrolysis
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering, Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2024, January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: Applications will be reviewed at the start of each month for shortlisting.
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PhD Low-cost high-performance catalysts for green hydrogen production from wastewater
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry, Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2024, January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: Applications will be reviewed at the start of each month for shortlisting.
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PhD Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Advanced Medical Imaging and Diagnostics
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024,October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2024
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PhD Mechanics of biomaterials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 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: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Miniaturized optical atomic clocks: pioneering quantum technology for ultra-precise timing with microcombs
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 5 August 2024
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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: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Motility and self-organization of cyanobacteria colonies
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024, October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2024
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PhD Motivational dynamics during endurance performance
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2025
Funding status Self-funded
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PhD Multi-Modal Anomaly Detection in Human Behavior using Deep Learning and large Language Models
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024, October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2024
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PhD Multimodal Understanding of Visual and Textual Information through Large Language Models for Advanced Cognitive Visual Tasks
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 1st July 2024, 1st October 2024 and 1st January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2024
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PhD New approaches to modelling compressible boundary layer flows
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Next-Generation Optical Imaging with Synthetic Peptides and Lanthanide Probes
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2024
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 2 August 2024
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PhD Novel High-Performance Coatings- Product and Process Development
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering, Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2024
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PhD Novel multi-objective optimisation strategies for enhanced efficiencies and agility in hydrogen gas supply
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2024, January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: Applications will be reviewed at the start of each month for shortlisting.
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PhD On the prevalence of Spatial-Numerical Associations
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematics Education
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024, October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2024
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PhD Personal Cooling Systems for enhanced thermal comfort and sleep quality
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Phase-field Modelling of Stacked Two-Dimensional Materials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024, October 2024, January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2024
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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: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 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: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 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: January 2025, April 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2024
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PhD Readiness of construction professionals to maximise effective application of Artificial Intelligence: broadening existing skillsets and capabilities
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 15 October 2024
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PhD Self-Supervised Learning for Complex Visual Understanding
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2024, October 2024 and January 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2024
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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
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.