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PhD A Network-Edge Symbiosis for Accelerated and Distributed AI
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 June 2026
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PhD A socio-economic impact evaluation on wellbeing and community dynamics of offshore wind farms in the United Kingdom
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 July 2026
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PhD Advanced Manufacturing, Automation and Metrology
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD AI for Sustainable and Inclusive Societies
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Digital Technologies
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD AI in Mechanics of Nonwoven Materials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: 1 April 2026, 1 July 2026, 1 October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 15 June 2026
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PhD AI-Enabled Acoustic Emission System for Industrial Condition Monitoring
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 September 2026
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PhD AI-Enhanced Modelling of Macroeconomic and Financial Markets: Housing, Labour, and Financial Asset
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Digital Technologies
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026, February 2027
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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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: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 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, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Architecture of Flexibility in the UK: Towards Broader Customisation in Industrialised Construction
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Automated and Secure Configuration Management for Heterogeneous Edge Computing Environments
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 June 2026
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PhD Automating inspection of railway earthworks
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 29 March 2026
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PhD Behavioural Sleep Dysfunction as a Mechanistic Driver of Long COVID Symptom Severity: An Integrative Psychophysiological Investigation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2026, July 2026, October 2026, February 2027
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 18 December 2026
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PhD Bespoke Organometallic Compounds for Anticancer Studies
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 April 2026
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PhD Bioengineering and Healthcare Technologies
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Britain’s Transatlantic Strategy in a Changing International Order
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD Carbon Accounting and Optimisation Strategies for the Pipe Industries: A Life Cycle Approach
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 30 April 2026
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PhD Characterisation of High Shear Mixers for Process Intensification
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering, Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 April 2026
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PhD Chemical recycling and life cycle assessment of next-generation thermoplastic composites for wind turbine blade manufacture
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials, Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 July 2026
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PhD Commercial Diplomacy for Inclusive SME Internationalisation
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship, Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD Community and Lifestyle Health
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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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 Modeling of Mixed Metal Oxides for Nuclear Storage Applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Confronting Emerging Challenges to the International Order
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Connected and Intelligent Infrastructure
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Corporate Governance and Responsible Business
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 01 October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Creative Digital Futures: AI, Data, Design, Art
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Design, Creative Arts
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 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 2026, April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 February 2027
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PhD Data Quality Aware Cooperative Multi-Robot Inspection and 3D Reconstruction
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 March 2026
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PhD Delivering an integrated and sustainable built environment
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Delivering efficient buildings, efficiently
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Delivering infrastructure and construction manufacturing
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Delivering sustainable environments within a changing climate
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Detecting and Mitigating False Memory Formation in Virtual Reality Using AI
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Digital Technologies
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 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: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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EngD Development of a Quantum Network Testbed
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 30 April 2026
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PhD Development of novel bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes (BCP) bioisosteres from bench stable [1.1.1]propellane precursors
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Digital Engineering
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Digital Engineering of Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Alloys: Material Development and Performance
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 May 2026
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PhD Digital Futures and Responsible AI
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 01 October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Digital transformation of crystallization processes through model-based design of experiments and optimization
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 15 March 2026
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PhD Digitalisation towards Safety in Construction: The Facilitating Role of Industrialised Construction
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Digitally and Dynamically Assuring Magnet Operations in Fusion Systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 30 April 2026
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PhD Doctoral Studentship in Storytelling Education for Sustainability (UNESCO Chair’s Programme)
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Creative Arts
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 28th February 2026
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PhD Doing multi-lateral, trans-national Public Policy: how nations work with trans-national bodies to devise and implement policy
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026, February 2027
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD E-cigarettes, vaping & appetite control: mapping the evidence and unpicking interactive mechanisms
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 15 March 2026
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PhD Efficient ML Model Design and Optimisation for Resource-Constrained Edge Devices
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025, January 2026, April 2026. October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 June 2026
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PhD Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction for Sustainable Fuels
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD Embedded Intelligence for Pro-active Maintenance of Infrastructure Assets
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: 1 October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 15 June 2026
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PhD Enhancing Membrane-Free Alkaline Electrolysis for Sustainable Hydrogen Production
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Part-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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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: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2026
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PhD Evolving Embodied Intelligence for Next-Generation Robots
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 March 2026
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PhD Examining the impact of RAFAKidz on the Social Connectedness and Mental Health of Serving Royal Air Force Personnel and their families
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 April 2026
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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 Forecasting Brexit: Brexit as a Case Study in Political and Economic Forecasting
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs, Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD Future Transport and Propulsion Systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Gender, Sexuality, Women’s Writing and Feminism in Literature, Film and Creative Writing
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): English
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Geographies of example: Finding the example within the exception and beyond (GeoEx)
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 15 June 2026
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PhD Governance in British Basketball: Funding Precarity, Structural Deficiencies, and Organisational Instability
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 August 2026
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PhD Green and Just Transitions
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 01 October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD The role of science and evidence in public policy - international comparisons: how do governments make sense of data and evidence to tackle complex policy challenges
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026, February 2027
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD Hydrogen, Clean and Sustainable Energy
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Imperialist Designs and the Green Transition
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Creative Futures
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD Improving the Communication of Education Research to Teachers
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematics Education
Study mode: Full-timePart-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 Inclusive Design and Ageing
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Design, Creative Arts
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Integration of Circular Economy Principles into Industrialised Construction: A Design Typology for Reusable Infrastructure
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Investigating Boundary Spanning Capability to Innovate Through Design
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Creative Futures
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD Language and Social Interaction, Communication, Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Communication and Media
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Law and Social Justice
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Law
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Lead-Free Ceramic Materials for Pulsed Power Applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 March 2026
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PhD Life-Writing Today
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): English
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD London in the World: Cities, Policy, Power, and International Relations
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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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 Loughborough University – Rolls-Royce PhD Cluster (Combustion and Aerothermal Technology)
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 30 June 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: 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 Mirror symmetry for fibrations and degenerations of Calabi-Yau manifolds
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 July 2026
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PhD Model-Based Fusion Magnet Digital Twins
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 30 April 2026
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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: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2026
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PhD More than a meal: community food services as ecosystems for co-creating wellbeing and health equity
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 3 April 2026
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PhD Multi-terminal HVDC Control and Operation Strategies for Offshore Wind Farms
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 July 2026
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PhD Multimodal Deepfake Detection Using Transformer-Based Cross-Modal Fusion and Self-Supervised Learning
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Digital Technologies
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD Nanofabrication of novel materials for spintronics and energy harvesting
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD Nanoparticle-reinforced coatings for leading edge protection of offshore wind turbine blades
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials, Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 July 2026
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PhD Net-Zero and Sustainable Energy Systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Neuromorphic Intrusion Detection for Energy-Efficient and Resilient Autonomous Vehicles
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 15 June 2026
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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 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 April 2026
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PhD Novel routes for Carbon Dioxide Utilisation
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: 30 April 2026
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PhD Optimising site transport deliveries: Modern Methods of Construction
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Parameterising wakes for oceanographic models
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 July 2026
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PhD (PATCH) Participatory Action for Transforming Community Health: An Intersectional Modelling Approach to Tackling Health Inequalities
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment, Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 2 April 2026
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PhD Personal Cooling Systems for enhanced thermal comfort and sleep quality
Campus:
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: Octtober 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Productivity and Innovation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 01 October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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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 2026, February 2027 or July 2027
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Reconstructing Fragmented Memories Using Generative AI in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Digital Technologies
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026, February 2027
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD Rehabilitation and Health
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Resilient and Federated Acoustic Defence Approaches for Maritime Security
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: 1 April 2026, 1 July 2026, 1 October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 15 June 2026
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PhD Right Ventricular Remodelling Following Pulmonary Valve Implantation in Patients with Surgically Corrected Tetralogy of Fallot
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 March 2026
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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: April 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 15 March 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 Self-funded PhD opportunities in Chemistry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Self-funded PhD opportunities in Computer Science
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Self-funded PhD opportunities in Mathematics
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Self-funded PhD opportunities in Mathematics Education
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematics Education
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Self-funded PhD opportunities in Physics
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 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: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Shaping Our Creative Futures
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Creative Futures
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Shaping our Creative Futures: Systemic Design for Regenerative Service Ecosystems
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD Simplifying marine polycyclic ether synthesis through symmetry
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 April 2026
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PhD Single-turbine scale quantification of wake turbulence
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 July 2026
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PhD Soil micro-structure evolution during deterioration driven by environmental cycles
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials, Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 19 March 2026
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PhD Spectral Analysis and Integrable PDEs
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-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 Sport Business and Social Innovation: Evaluating Value Beyond Participation
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Sport Business
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD Sport Business in Contemporary Contexts
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Sport Business
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Sport Performance
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Sports Engineering and Human Factors
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Sports Integrity
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD State Capitalism and Entrepreneurship in Global Contexts
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD Sustainability and Regenerative thinking for Design and Creative
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Design, Creative Arts
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Sustainability messaging in sport: Understanding how sport can influence environmental and social action
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Sport Business
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026, February 2027
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD Sustainable and Smart Materials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Sustainable Development, Economic Growth and Finance
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 01 October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Sustainable Hydrogen-Rich Fuel Production from Wastewater and Food Waste for Floating Offshore Fuel Platforms
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 20 March 2026
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PhD Sustainable Transitions: Energy, Environment and Resilience
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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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: October 2025, January 2026, April 2025, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2026
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PhD Systems Engineering and Complexity
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD The Algorithmic Mirror: Identity, Perception and Trust in the Age of AI
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD The State, State-owned enterprises (SOEs), Green Industrial Policy, and Ecological Transition
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 29 April 2026
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PhD The Theatre of Trust: Storytelling, Roleplay, and the Human Side of Cybersecurity
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD Transdisciplinary and Systems Thinking in Design and Creative Arts
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Design, Creative Arts
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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EngD Trustworthy AI for Nuclear Decommissioning Knowledge Retention
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 20 April 2026
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PhD Tyre Particulate Emissions Measurement and Prediction
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026, July 2026, October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2026
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PhD Unravelling Sex-Specific Mechanisms Underpinning Long COVID: An Integrative Epidemiological and Biomarker-Based Investigation of Women’s Disproportionate Burden
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 18 December 2026
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PhD Urban China
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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PhD Wellbeing, Inclusion and the Future of Work
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 01 October 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2026
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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