Browse all live, fully funded phd studentship and programs available.
United Kingdom
Innovate UK
£25.4M for clinical validation and evaluation of early cancer diagnostic technologies. UK registered businesses.
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UK Research and Innovation
£12.05M for high-risk speculative research on sustainable AI. Max award £602.5K. Funds approximately 20 projects.
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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
£8M to establish CoSTAR Showcase Labs - flagship national creative R&D infrastructure nodes. Max award £4M.
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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
£4M to establish CoSTAR Satellite Labs - accessible creative R&D infrastructure nodes. Max award £2M.
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Innovate UK
£12.5M for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. UK academic institutions apply on behalf of business partners.
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
£26.25M infrastructure funding to provide high-performance compute resources for EPSRC research communities.
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Innovate UK
EoI for UK flexibility providers for Demand Turn Up trial. Up to £16M available in full trial stage.
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
£17M for collaborative research integrating quantum computing into HPC workflows. Max award £3.75M.
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Innovate UK
Innovate UK pilot competition: £1M for UK businesses developing measurement, instrumentation, or sensing technologies for manufacturing.
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UK Research and Innovation
UKRI-wide £2M single consortium award to develop tools measuring public trust and confidence in policing by 2030.
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Innovate UK
Up to £3M (including VAT) for Contracts for Innovation in Engineering Biology for Defra and FSA challenges.
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Innovate UK
Up to £15M for UK SMEs in ACT and Semiconductors. Grant alongside private investment.
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Innovate UK
Up to £12M for collaborative industrial research in advanced materials translation. UK registered businesses.
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Innovate UK
Up to £13M for small collaborative R&D partnership projects in farming innovation. UK registered businesses lead.
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
NetworkPlus funding of up to £5.41M for three years on circular economy, data and metrics, and textiles.
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Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Transnational call on sustainable water management. UK fund £1.875M, max award £312,500. Open to UK research organisations.
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Single focal award of £5.9M to establish a Fire Engineering Skills Hub delivering doctoral training and postgraduate programmes.
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Innovate UK
Innovate UK invests up to £5M to help UK SMEs scale engineering biology innovations. Access to pilot-scale facilities.
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Innovate UK
UK registered organisations can apply for up to £500,000 to establish the Medicines Manufacturing Data Institute Phase 1. Consortium building activities.
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Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Transnational call funding research on novel ecosystems. UK fund £3.75M. Minimum award £375,000. Open to UK-based research organisations as lead.
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University of Edinburgh
Fully funded PhD scholarships at University of Edinburgh covering full tuition and stipend (£20,780/year). Open to UK and international students. Funding for 2027/28 not yet confirmed.
Poland
University of Warsaw
325 fully funded PhD seats across 26 disciplines at University of Warsaw. Tuition-free with monthly stipend PLN 4,346-5,500.50. Next application window opens April 2027.
HK
Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
400 fully funded PhD fellowships in Hong Kong. Annual stipend HK$344,400 plus HK$14,400 travel allowance. Open to all nationalities. Deadline: 1 Dec 2026.
Canada
University of Waterloo
Funded PhD & postdoc positions in AI-enhanced NDT for infrastructure at University of Waterloo. Rolling review, starts Jan/May 2027. Email CV to apply.
Canada
University of Manitoba
Professor YoungJin Cha at the University of Manitoba is recruiting 2 M.Sc. and 2 Ph.D. students for Fall 2026/Winter 2027 in AI-driven structural health monitoring and autonomous robotic systems. The positions offer full financial support.
United Kingdom
University of Cambridge
PhD studentships in the Reisner Laboratory developing technologies to convert solar energy into sustainable fuels and chemicals open to home and international students.
United States
San Diego State University
Two fully funded PhD positions in Electric Energy Systems through the SDSU-UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program combining AI cybersecurity power systems and power electronics.
Italy
Human Technopole
Human Technopole offers 17 fully funded PhD positions in AI computational biology genomics structural biology molecular medicine imaging and health data science at Italy's premier life sciences institute.
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University of Leeds
This PhD will explore how stakeholders value technologies designed to reduce falls in residential social care settings as part of the NIHR-funded SENSITISE project.
United Kingdom
Heriot-Watt University
A self-funded PhD programme focusing on the built environment's contribution to GHG emissions and holistic carbon reduction strategies across the whole life cycle.
Australia
RMIT University
RMIT University offers 2 fully funded PhD scholarships in Green Computing, focusing on sustainable AI and energy-efficient cloud computing.
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King's College London
Department- and project-specific fully or partially funded PhD studentships are available across all faculties at King's College London.
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University of Cambridge
This project focuses on Biohybrid Photosynthesis, Photocatalysis, Air-to-Fuel, and Sustainable Technologies within the Reisner Lab.
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University of Leeds
Focusing on developing mixed-precision algorithms for numerical linear algebra on next-generation exascale supercomputers as part of the School of Computer Science Scholarship.
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University of Leeds
This project focuses on using AI and modelling to understand the flow and compaction behaviour of refractory metal powders for high-performance manufacturing.
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King's College London
Two fully funded PhD positions are available exploring what happens when textbook assumptions about near-field waves are removed.
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Imperial College London
A fully funded PhD studentship in Parkinson's Disease at the UK DRI at Imperial.
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The University of Manchester
This project focuses on developing a comprehensive Bayesian learning framework for high-dimensional structural data with practical applications.
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The University of Manchester
This dual-award PhD project will investigate how environmental factors influence the evolution of antimicrobial resistance across Manchester and Peking University.
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University of Leeds
Focusing on the biomechanics of hip replacement surgery and peri-prosthetic fracture, this PhD is part of the EPSRC Faculty with Industry DTP Award 2026/27.
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Imperial College London
This PhD project will focus on the single most pressing challenge in quantum computation: errors in these machines.
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University of Salford
Investigating fast computational approaches like Lattice Boltzmann Methods and GPU-accelerated CFD for modelling urban airflow and environmental hazard assessment.
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University of Liverpool
Funded PhD studentships at the Institute of Irish Studies, covering literature, politics, history, and culture.
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University of Birmingham
This project explores how to embed intelligence directly into the 'body' of robotic materials, sitting at the intersection of mechanical metamaterials, robotics, active matter physics, and embodied AI.
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The University of Manchester
A fully funded PhD in the Department of Materials focusing on microstructurally informed modelling of metal fragmentation.
United Arab Emirates
Heriot-Watt University
A self-funded PhD programme at the Dubai Campus focusing on Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Security.
United Kingdom
Imperial College London
This project aims to improve pgSIT performance to control important agricultural insect pests by refining CRISPR construct design.
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The University of Manchester
This fully funded PhD explores AI-native and sensing-aware wireless systems where communications and sensing are co-designed end-to-end.
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University of Birmingham
This 4-year PhD/EngD project aims to design refractory high-entropy alloys (HEAs) resistant to irradiation damage for advanced modular nuclear reactors (AMRs).
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University of Birmingham
This 4-year PhD project focuses on reactivity in supramolecular materials and related mechanochemistry projects, in collaboration with Dstl.
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University of Warwick
This collaborative project investigates how actor training skills are translated, adapted, and mobilised beyond the rehearsal room and stage.
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University of Salford
This PhD project will enhance the mechanical properties of concrete materials using graphene products, assessing mechanical and durability properties to identify market-ready products.
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University of Birmingham
This project focuses on supramolecular host engineering to enhance the capture and neutralisation of chemical warfare agents (CWAs).
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University of Leeds
This PhD investigates climate-resilient biogas upgrading technologies to recover biohydrogen and biomethane from organic wastes.
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University of Birmingham
This project focuses on developing next-generation smart sensing and data analytics technologies for aerospace applications in collaboration with Rolls-Royce.
United Kingdom
University of Birmingham
This project investigates the mechanisms of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) repair using Drosophila and human cell models in Prof. Hansong Ma's laboratory.
Germany
University of Würzburg
The University of Würzburg offers 6 fully funded PhD positions in RNA Biology & Therapeutics (RNAmed), focusing on CRISPR-Cas, microRNAs, and non-coding RNA.
United Kingdom
University of Leeds
Focusing on developing methods for root cause analysis of cyber security incidents, in collaboration with industry partners as part of the EPSRC DTP Award.
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University of Cambridge
This project will investigate how mitochondrial metabolism is altered during Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) and evaluate novel mitochondrial-targeted therapeutic strategies.
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The University of Manchester
This project employs atomistic spin-lattice dynamics simulations to investigate ways of manipulating spins in various magnetic systems, including 2D magnetic materials.
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University of Warwick
This PhD redefines electromagnetic sensing by establishing a conductivity-driven eddy-current framework for tracking microstructural evolution at high temperature.
United Kingdom
Heriot-Watt University
A self-funded PhD programme focusing on construction project management, ICT in construction, and sustainable procurement practices.
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University of Birmingham
This project involves developing mathematical models to study population dynamics in biological systems.