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Current research degree projects

Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.

• Mathematical sciences Efficient optimization algorithms for large scale interdiction problems on networks Closing date: 2026-12-18 Funding: Competition funded
• Mathematical sciences

Efficient optimization algorithms for large scale interdiction problems on networks

• Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Realising upconversion luminescence in supramolecular [d-f] complexes Closing date: 2027-01-31 Funding: Fully funded (UK and international)
• Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Realising upconversion luminescence in supramolecular [d-f] complexes

• Electronics and Computer Science Multiagent market design for circular industrial symbiosis Closing date: 2027-01-31 Funding: Competition funded
• Electronics and Computer Science

Multiagent market design for circular industrial symbiosis

• Geography and environmental science Sex-specific phage therapy for conflict wound healing Closing date: 2026-12-18 Funding: Competition funded
• Geography and environmental science

Sex-specific phage therapy for conflict wound healing

• Medicine AI-Guided Discovery of Immunotherapy Resistance Mechanisms Closing date: 2027-01-10 Funding: Fully funded (UK and international)
• Medicine

AI-Guided Discovery of Immunotherapy Resistance Mechanisms

• Medicine Digital Biomarkers for Mobility Decline and Falls in Dementia Closing date: 2026-12-04 Funding: Fully funded (UK only)
• Medicine

Digital Biomarkers for Mobility Decline and Falls in Dementia

• Engineering Enhancing power capture of tidal turbines using novel blade designs Closing date: 2027-09-01 Funding: Competition funded
• Engineering

Enhancing power capture of tidal turbines using novel blade designs

• Engineering Data-driven urban aerodynamics for net-zero cities Closing date: 2027-01-11 Funding: Competition funded
• Engineering

Data-driven urban aerodynamics for net-zero cities

• Electronics and Computer Science Intelligent and reconfigurable metasurfaces for next-generation optical computing Closing date: 2027-04-30 Funding: Competition funded
• Electronics and Computer Science

Intelligent and reconfigurable metasurfaces for next-generation optical computing

• Photonics and optoelectronics More data, less energy: multicore fibre amplifiers and components for future submarine networks Closing date: 2027-08-31 Funding: Competition funded
• Photonics and optoelectronics

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