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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-time or Part-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-time or Part-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-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 17 March 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 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 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 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-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 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-time or Part-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 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
Funding status Self-funded
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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 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-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: July 2025
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PhD Averaging in systems with small Hamiltonian and much smaller non-Hamiltonian perturbations
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Bespoke Organometallic Compounds for Anticancer Studies
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 September 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 Biological Logic and Memory Assays for Neuronal Degradation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time or Part-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-time or Part-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 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-time or Part-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-time or Part-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-time or Part-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 Coherent state methods in spectral asymptotics
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-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-time or Part-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 Creating a visual digital twin of an urban environment
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time or Part-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-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Cultural Currents in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: Continuities between 'Victorian' and 'Modernist' Literature
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): English
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2025
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PhD Decentralised Drone Swarm Framework for Dynamic Target Detection in Construction
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 16 April 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-time or Part-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-time or Part-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 prescription guidelines for passive heat therapy
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-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-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 5 January 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-time or Part-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 Vision Language Models for Accurate Defect Detection
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: 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 Dirty statistical models
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-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-time or Part-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-time or Part-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-time or Part-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-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 14 March 2025
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PhD DRIVE Research Cluster: Radio Frequency Sensor Systems for Inclusive Vehicular Mobility
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, 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 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-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Dynamics of three-component liquid mixtures on surfaces
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: July 2025 (applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis)
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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 Eigenvalues of functional difference operators associated to mirror curves
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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PhD 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-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 13 March 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-time or Part-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
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: 1 April 2025, 1 July 2025, 1 October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 2 February 2025
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PhD Exploring AI implications on employee experience and wellbeing: A longitudinal study
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 Exploring the application of Large Language Models in medical image analysis: integrating statistics to ensure fairness and privacy protection
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Female-specific physiological responses to exercise in the heat
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 14 March 2025
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PhD Fibre-optic Instrumentation for Aerospace Manufacturing
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 Formal languages and models of computation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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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 Generative AI and information ecosystems
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 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 Governance and implementation of digital responsibility in the tech industry
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 Governance transplants and the autonomy of National Olympic Committees in the Global South
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: 12 March 2025
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PhD Granular physics and accretion discs
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2025
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PhD Growth of a bacterial biofilm
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: July 2025
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PhD Harnessing quantum spintronics in 2D materials for the quantum technologies
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 14 February 2025
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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-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Immersive Experiences and Technologies Research 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 or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 24 February 2025
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PhD Impact Effects of Football Heading on Brain Tissue Structure
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Improving the Communication of Education Research to Teachers
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematics Education
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Inequalities, Power, Justice, and Social Inclusion
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Creative Futures
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 26 February 2025
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PhD Infinite dimensional systems of interacting chaotic units
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 June 2025
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PhD Influence of postbiotic supplementation on bone health
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: 11 March 2025
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PhD Integrable differential-difference equations: the symmetry approach
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Intersectionality in the design and delivery of digital mental health services for disadvantaged populations
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics, Design
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Investigating the physiological and biomechanical demands of wheelchair rugby game play: Implications for load monitoring
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 13 March 2025
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PhD Just transition in the global south: an investigation into the role of employee collective voice and employer associations in climate change response and post-carbon transformation
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 Kähler Geometry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2025
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PhD Large Language (or Vision) Models in Online Search: Identifying Bias and Misinformation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: July 2025
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PhD Learning from corporate governance: improving megaproject performance through best practices in organisational architecture
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Low cost acoustic camera designs and algorithms for tracking swarms of drones / UAVs
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 21 February 2025
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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-time or Part-time
Start date: 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 Luminescent Molecular Probes for Detection of Reactive Chemical Species
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 19 February 2025
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PhD Machine Unlearning for Privacy-Preserving Cross-Modal Retrieval Systems
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD Making a deposit: mathematical models to describe pattern formation in drying sessile droplets.
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2025
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PhD Mathematical modelling of mature bacterial biofilms
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: October 2025
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PhD Mechanics of biomaterials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: 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-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Memristor driven by self-propelled particles (Active Matter)
Campus:
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: July 2025
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PhD Mirror symmetry for fibrations and degenerations of Calabi-Yau manifolds
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 July 2025
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PhD Mobile Robot Automation of Large Volume Inspection and Data Fusion
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 Modelling carbon materials using new machine learning techniques
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Modelling of phases and interfacial behaviour to enhance sustainability in manufactured products
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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PhD Modelling skeletal response to exercise to reduce risk of osteoporosis and/or osteoarthritis
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 March 2025
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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-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Models of quantum reservoir computing
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences, Physics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Motivational dynamics during endurance performance
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 2025
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PhD Multinationals, transfer pricing, and tax competition: competition for capital versus competition for profits
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Multiprojective birational geometry
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 Nanofabrication of novel materials for spintronics and energy harvesting
Campus:
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Net zero, sustainability and international trade from a developing country perspective
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Neural Machine Unlearning for Privacy-Preserving Information Retrieval: Novel Methods and Corrective Mechanisms
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
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PhD 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 Novel antireflective metasurfaces for energy applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Novel Fluorinated Heterocycle Synthesis for Medicinal Chemistry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: October 2025
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PhD Novel routes for Carbon Dioxide Utilisation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026, July 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2026
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PhD Optically-Reconfigurable Nanomagnetic Devices for Data Processing
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: April or July 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 16 December 2024
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PhD Optimised laser textured surfaces for preventative electrical erosion damage
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 Optimising The Health and Performance of Female Soccer Players: A Co-Created Health Literacy Framework for Players and Staff
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 14 March 2025
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PhD Exploring organisational sustainability and the interplay between economic, social and environmental logics within not-for-profit sport organisations
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 March 2025
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PhD Oxide film devices for AI processing of temporal signals
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 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 crystal models for two-dimensional quantum materials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Physical activity and sports participation of disabled children and young people – understanding current levels and time-trends, and how to tackle inequalities
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 March 2025
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PhD Policy, Sport, and Geopolitics in an Unstable World
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Sport Business, Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 25 February 2025
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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-time or Part-time
Start date: 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-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Privacy Protected Federated Learning Algorithms for Credit Card Fraud Detection
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Process Development for New Formulation Products with Nanoparticles
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering, Materials
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Psychology of Human Performance and Health
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 March 2025
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PhD Qualitative Theory of Large Open Quantum Structures
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 14 February 2025
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PhD Quantifying the physical and tactical demands of wheelchair tennis on different court surfaces
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 14 March 2025
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PhD Quantum dynamics of electrons in emerging 2D devices
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Random-field modelling of amorphous solid structures
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Reconceptualising abusive leadership behaviours, and their impact on employee wellbeing: a novel measurement approach
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD Reconfigurable atomically thin memristors via nano-engineered defects
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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PhD Resilience Evaluation of Transport Infrastructure in an Uncertain Climate Future
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April, July or October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Robust and efficient financial risk management
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 July 2025
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PhD Semantic-Aware Data Deduplication for Efficient and Reliable Machine Learning Training
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2027
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PhD Simplifying marine polycyclic ether synthesis through symmetry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: January 2026
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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-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Spectral Analysis and Integrable PDEs
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 July 2026
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PhD Spiking Neural Networks for Satellite Communications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 June 2025
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PhD Start-up strategies for battery electric vehicles and aircraft in cold climates
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive 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 Stochastic dynamics of complex systems over finite times
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: July 2025 (applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis)
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PhD Super-Smart Textiles: A Self-Powered Wearable Technology for Remote Health Monitoring
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Superconductivity of kagome' metals
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 Sustainable Routes for Upcycling Copper for High-Performance Applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 28 February 2025
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PhD Synthesis and biological potential of benzofuran natural products
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: January 2026
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PhD Synthetic and Mechanistic Investigations with Perfluoroarenes
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 October 2025
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PhD The barriers to AI adoption faced by SMEs owned by women, minorities, or underrepresented groups
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Business and Economics
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 27 February 2025
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PhD The impact of artificial intelligence on employee satisfaction
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 The role of sleep disturbances and psychological processes in self-injury: implications for suicide prevention
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 4 April 2025
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PhD Topics in Fractal Geometry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 19 February 2025
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PhD Topics in Fractal Geometry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 19 February 2025
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PhD Trustworthy AI for Multi-Agent Systems: Balancing Transparency and Performance of Human-AI Interaction Systems
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Digital Technologies
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 26 February 2025
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PhD Understanding Catalysts for a Sustainable Hydrogen Economy using Advanced X-ray Spectroscopy
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 1 March 2025
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PhD Understanding human perceptions of randomness
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics Education
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis
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PhD Understanding polymer-protein interactions for nanoparticle drug delivery
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Using the metabolome to study aging and geroprotectors in 3D cell models
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Chemistry
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Women in Historical Fiction of the English Civil War Era Creative/Critical
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): English
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2025
A-Z of current PhD opportunities
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