A-Z of current PhD opportunities

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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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• PhD 3D Concrete-Printed Scour Protection for Offshore Wind Foundations Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 15 January 2027

PhD 3D Concrete-Printed Scour Protection for Offshore Wind Foundations

• PhD Active Noise Control of Automotive Tyres Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 10 January 2027

PhD Active Noise Control of Automotive Tyres

• PhD Adaptive Multimodal Sensing and Scene Understanding for Underwater Robots Campus: Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: 1 February 2027, 1 July 2027, 1 October 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 20 February 2027

PhD Adaptive Multimodal Sensing and Scene Understanding for Underwater Robots

• PhD Advanced Modelling of Waste Immobilisation Materials for Long‑Term Nuclear Waste Storage Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 April 2027

PhD Advanced Modelling of Waste Immobilisation Materials for Long‑Term Nuclear Waste Storage

• PhD Advancing temperature-differentiated carbon isotope analysis Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Geography and Environment Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: February 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 15 November 2026

PhD Advancing temperature-differentiated carbon isotope analysis

• PhD AI in Mechanics of Nonwoven Materials Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: Oct 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 October 2027

PhD AI in Mechanics of Nonwoven Materials

• 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: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Architecture of Flexibility in the UK: Towards Broader Customisation in Industrialised Construction

• PhD Astrocyte Metabolism as Inspiration for Ultra‑Efficient Neuromorphic Computing Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027, October 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: July 2027

PhD Astrocyte Metabolism as Inspiration for Ultra‑Efficient Neuromorphic Computing

• PhD Autonomous Wireless Sensing for Long-Term Air Ducts Monitoring in Decommissioning Environment Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: 1 February 2027 or 1 July 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 29 November 2026

PhD Autonomous Wireless Sensing for Long-Term Air Ducts Monitoring in Decommissioning Environment

• 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-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 18 December 2026

PhD Behavioural Sleep Dysfunction as a Mechanistic Driver of Long COVID Symptom Severity: An Integrative Psychophysiological Investigation

• PhD Biomimetic peroxide-derived polyketide synthesis: the total synthesis of manzamenone Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 July 2027

PhD Biomimetic peroxide-derived polyketide synthesis: the total synthesis of manzamenone

• PhD Building Simulation And Digital Twins: New Methods Of Reducing The Performance Gap Of New And Existing Buildings Campus: Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Building Simulation And Digital Twins: New Methods Of Reducing The Performance Gap Of New And Existing Buildings

• PhD CFD-Based Design Optimisation of 3D Concrete-Printed Scour Protection for Offshore Wind Foundations Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 15 January 2027

PhD CFD-Based Design Optimisation of 3D Concrete-Printed Scour Protection for Offshore Wind Foundations

• 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: October 2026, February 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 5 November 2026

PhD Characterisation of High Shear Mixers for Process Intensification

• PhD Computability and Constrained Equations in Free Semigroups Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Computer Science Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 January 2027

PhD Computability and Constrained Equations in Free Semigroups

• PhD Computational Modelling of Advanced Functional Materials Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 30 April 2027

PhD Computational Modelling of Advanced Functional Materials

• PhD Computational Modelling of Nuclear Materials Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry, Mathematical Sciences Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 April 2027

PhD Computational Modelling of Nuclear Materials

• PhD Creep and Durability of Weakly Stabilised Clays Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Creep and Durability of Weakly Stabilised Clays

• PhD Cultural Currents in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: Continuities between 'Victorian' and 'Modernist' Literature Campus: Loughborough Department(s): English Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 February 2027

PhD Cultural Currents in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: Continuities between 'Victorian' and 'Modernist' Literature

• PhD Degenerations, fibrations, and mirror symmetry Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mathematical Sciences Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 16 November 2026

PhD Degenerations, fibrations, and mirror symmetry

• PhD Delivering an integrated and sustainable built environment Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Delivering an integrated and sustainable built environment

• PhD Delivering efficient buildings, efficiently Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Delivering efficient buildings, efficiently

• PhD Delivering infrastructure and construction manufacturing Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Delivering infrastructure and construction manufacturing

• PhD Delivering sustainable environments within a changing climate Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Delivering sustainable environments within a changing climate

• PhD Designing the Teaching of Problem-Solving Tactics in School Mathematics Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mathematics Education Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 30 April 2027

PhD Designing the Teaching of Problem-Solving Tactics in School Mathematics

• PhD Developing Bio‑Inspired Adaptive Materials for Next‑Generation Neuromorphic Devices Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027, October 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: July 2027

PhD Developing Bio‑Inspired Adaptive Materials for Next‑Generation Neuromorphic Devices

• PhD Developing Luminescent Supramolecular Receptors for the Selective Detection and Removal of Toxic Heavy Metals from Aquatic Environments Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 6 January 2027

PhD Developing Luminescent Supramolecular Receptors for the Selective Detection and Removal of Toxic Heavy Metals from Aquatic Environments

• PhD Development of Analytical Laboratory Simulations Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 March 2027

PhD Development of Analytical Laboratory Simulations

• 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: February 2027, July 2027, October 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: July 2027

PhD Development of novel bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes (BCP) bioisosteres from bench stable [1.1.1]propellane precursors

• PhD Digital Social Licence for Offshore Wind: Misinformation, Public Discourse and Coastal Community Resilience Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Business and Economics, Communication and Media Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 15 January 2027

PhD Digital Social Licence for Offshore Wind: Misinformation, Public Discourse and Coastal Community Resilience

• 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: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Digitalisation towards Safety in Construction: The Facilitating Role of Industrialised Construction

• PhD Eco-Mimetic IoT: Nature-Inspired Microclimate Monitoring in Forests Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 6 January 2027

PhD Eco-Mimetic IoT: Nature-Inspired Microclimate Monitoring in Forests

• PhD Experimental Study of Stratified Waters to Enable Deep Water Offshore Wind Farms Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 15 January 2027

PhD Experimental Study of Stratified Waters to Enable Deep Water Offshore Wind Farms

• PhD Explainable cognitive systems as plastic dynamical systems Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mathematical Sciences, Physics Study mode: Full-time Start date: February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 May 2027

PhD Explainable cognitive systems as plastic dynamical systems

• PhD Exploring Alkali Charge Carriers in Novel Devices through Advanced X-ray Spectroscopy Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Start date: February 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 30 November 2026

PhD Exploring Alkali Charge Carriers in Novel Devices through Advanced X-ray Spectroscopy

• PhD Fusing AI and Fluid Dynamics for a Multi-Terawatt Offshore Wind Future Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 15 January 2027

PhD Fusing AI and Fluid Dynamics for a Multi-Terawatt Offshore Wind Future

• PhD Garden ponds – wildlife havens or invasion pathways? Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Geography and Environment Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 6 January 2027

PhD Garden ponds – wildlife havens or invasion pathways?

• PhD Hidden Signals Beneath Our Feet: AI and Soil eDNA for Predicting Ecosystem Health and Drought Resilience Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Computer Science Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 6 January 2027

PhD Hidden Signals Beneath Our Feet: AI and Soil eDNA for Predicting Ecosystem Health and Drought Resilience

• PhD How can spatial skills improve mathematics learning? Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mathematics Education Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 April 2027

PhD How can spatial skills improve mathematics learning?

• PhD How do the languages that we speak affect numerical processing and mathematics achievement? Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mathematics Education Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 7 January 2027

PhD How do the languages that we speak affect numerical processing and mathematics achievement?

• PhD How Do We Acquire Number Names in a Second Language? Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mathematics Education Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 April 2027

PhD How Do We Acquire Number Names in a Second Language?

• PhD Human-Centred Physical AI for Safe and Adaptive Industrial Robotics Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: 1 February 2027, 1 July 2027, 1 October 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 20 February 2027

PhD Human-Centred Physical AI for Safe and Adaptive Industrial Robotics

• PhD Identifying and managing defects in polycrystalline thin film solar cells Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: February 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 30 November 2026

PhD Identifying and managing defects in polycrystalline thin film solar cells

• PhD Impact of Fluids of Different Densities Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mathematical Sciences Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027, October 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 July 2027

PhD Impact of Fluids of Different Densities

• PhD Intelligent Cardiovascular Digital Twin and Adaptive Control for Clinical and Sport Applications Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: 1 October 2026, 1 February 2027, 1July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 January 2028

PhD Intelligent Cardiovascular Digital Twin and Adaptive Control for Clinical and Sport Applications

• PhD Lean Construction and Whole-Life Information Management Through Integrated Digital Twins Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Lean Construction and Whole-Life Information Management Through Integrated Digital Twins

• PhD Learning The Dynamics Of Turbulence To Inform Practical Fluids' Modelling Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Learning The Dynamics Of Turbulence To Inform Practical Fluids' Modelling

• PhD Lieb-Thirring inequalities for Generalized Indefinite Strings Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mathematical Sciences Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 February 2027

PhD Lieb-Thirring inequalities for Generalized Indefinite Strings

• PhD Low-Cost Monitoring of Dynamic River Channels to Improve Flood and Drought Forecasting Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Geography and Environment Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 6 January 2027

PhD Low-Cost Monitoring of Dynamic River Channels to Improve Flood and Drought Forecasting

• PhD Luminescent Anion Receptors for High-Throughput Bioassays in Drug Discovery Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 February 2027

PhD Luminescent Anion Receptors for High-Throughput Bioassays in Drug Discovery

• PhD Luminescent Molecular Probes to Detect Phosphate in UK Waterways Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 February 2027

PhD Luminescent Molecular Probes to Detect Phosphate in UK Waterways

• PhD Mathematics Anxiety and Arithmetic Strategy Flexibility in Primary School Children Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mathematics Education Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 April 2027

PhD Mathematics Anxiety and Arithmetic Strategy Flexibility in Primary School Children

• PhD Memristive Reservoirs and Artificial Neurons for Neuromorphic Computing Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Physics Study mode: Full-time Start date: February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Memristive Reservoirs and Artificial Neurons for Neuromorphic Computing

• 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: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 January 2027

PhD Modelling of phases and interfacial behaviour to enhance sustainability in manufactured products

• PhD Modelling the Energy and Indoor Environment Performance of the Housing Stock Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Modelling the Energy and Indoor Environment Performance of the Housing Stock

• PhD Next-Generation Coordinated Lateral Stability Control for Electric Vehicles Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: 1 October 2026, 1 February 2027, 1 July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 January 2028

PhD Next-Generation Coordinated Lateral Stability Control for Electric Vehicles

• PhD Novel Compounds for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: April 2027

PhD Novel Compounds for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment

• PhD Novel High Performance Coatings - Product and Process Development Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemical Engineering, Materials Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 5 November 2026

PhD Novel High Performance Coatings - Product and Process Development

• PhD Offshore Wind and Coastal Communities: Economic Resilience, Well-being and the Just Energy Transition Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Business and Economics Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 15 January 2027

PhD Offshore Wind and Coastal Communities: Economic Resilience, Well-being and the Just Energy Transition

• PhD Optimising Site Transport Deliveries: Modern Methods of Construction Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Optimising Site Transport Deliveries: Modern Methods of Construction

• PhD Optimising site transport deliveries: Modern Methods of Construction Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Optimising site transport deliveries: Modern Methods of Construction

• PhD Pedagogies of Disasters Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Pedagogies of Disasters

• PhD Personal Cooling Systems for Enhanced Thermal Comfort and Sleep Quality Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Personal Cooling Systems for Enhanced Thermal Comfort and Sleep Quality

• PhD Placemaking through the Pedestrian's Eyes Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Placemaking through the Pedestrian's Eyes

• PhD Plastic confetti’s origins, pathways and fate on heavily-littered shorelines Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Geography and Environment Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 6 January 2027

PhD Plastic confetti’s origins, pathways and fate on heavily-littered shorelines

• PhD Point-Cloud-Based Structural Health Monitoring and Quality Control for Complex Heritage Morphologies Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Point-Cloud-Based Structural Health Monitoring and Quality Control for Complex Heritage Morphologies

• PhD Predicting Safety Risks in Offshore Wind Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 15 January 2027

PhD Predicting Safety Risks in Offshore Wind

• PhD Quantum Systems Engineering Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 15 July 2027

PhD Quantum Systems Engineering

• PhD Scalable Grey-Box Modelling For Adaptive Control Of Existing Housing Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Scalable Grey-Box Modelling For Adaptive Control Of Existing Housing

• PhD Seeing extreme winds - Machine learning applied to video clips to better estimate site-specific wind hazard Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Geography and Environment Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 6 January 2027

PhD Seeing extreme winds - Machine learning applied to video clips to better estimate site-specific wind hazard

• PhD Space Satellite Structures Manufacturing Using 3D Printing of Advanced Polymers and Composites Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: April 2026 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 30 November 2026

PhD Space Satellite Structures Manufacturing Using 3D Printing of Advanced Polymers and Composites

• PhD Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric MRI Contrast Agents for Advanced Imaging Applications Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 February 2027

PhD Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric MRI Contrast Agents for Advanced Imaging Applications

• PhD Stochastic analysis and modelling of flow boiling Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: February 2027, July 2027, October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 10 December 2026

PhD Stochastic analysis and modelling of flow boiling

• PhD Synthesis and biological potential of benzofuran natural products Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: October 2027

PhD Synthesis and biological potential of benzofuran natural products

• PhD Synthesis of Fluorinated Heterocycles Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Synthesis of Fluorinated Heterocycles

• PhD The development of young children’s understanding of multi-digit numbers Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mathematics Education Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 7 January 2027

PhD The development of young children’s understanding of multi-digit numbers

• PhD The hidden cost of waves: Mitigating wake-induced power loss in floating wind farms Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 15 January 2027

PhD The hidden cost of waves: Mitigating wake-induced power loss in floating wind farms

• PhD The Impact of Artificial Intelligence Recommendations on Sustainable Consumer Behaviors Across Generations Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Business and Economics Study mode: Full-time Start date: February, July, October, Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: Project open until 2027 (intake dates October, February and July).

PhD The Impact of Artificial Intelligence Recommendations on Sustainable Consumer Behaviors Across Generations

• PhD The Impact of Low Emission Zones in Cities Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD The Impact of Low Emission Zones in Cities

• PhD The Productivity Promise: A Critical Study of AI-Driven Monitoring Technologies and Their Impact on Construction Productivity Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD The Productivity Promise: A Critical Study of AI-Driven Monitoring Technologies and Their Impact on Construction Productivity

• PhD Tracking Reactive Active Centres in Sustainable Alcohol Coupling Reactions using Operando Spectroscopy Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Chemistry Study mode: Full-time Start date: July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 30 April 2027

PhD Tracking Reactive Active Centres in Sustainable Alcohol Coupling Reactions using Operando Spectroscopy

• PhD Understanding the Impact of a Team-Based Sport Weight Loss Intervention on Men’s Health: Evaluation of MAN v FAT Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 April 2027

PhD Understanding the Impact of a Team-Based Sport Weight Loss Intervention on Men’s Health: Evaluation of MAN v FAT

• PhD Understanding the Relationship Between Patterning and Mathematics Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mathematics Education Study mode: Full-time Start date: July 2027, October 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: July 2027

PhD Understanding the Relationship Between Patterning and Mathematics

• 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-time Part-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 18 December 2026

PhD Unravelling Sex-Specific Mechanisms Underpinning Long COVID: An Integrative Epidemiological and Biomarker-Based Investigation of Women’s Disproportionate Burden

• PhD Utilisation of Textile Waste for Enhanced Biogas Production Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 31 December 2026

PhD Utilisation of Textile Waste for Enhanced Biogas Production

• PhD Variational principles and integrable PDEs Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Mathematical Sciences Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2026, February 2027, July 2027 Funding status Self-funded Application deadline: 1 April 2027

PhD Variational principles and integrable PDEs

• PhD Volcanoes and microplastics: microplastic abrasion and degradation by pyroclastic materials Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 6 January 2027

PhD Volcanoes and microplastics: microplastic abrasion and degradation by pyroclastic materials

• PhD Wake, Mix, Repeat: Engineering the Environmental Footprint of Deep-Water Wind Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Study mode: Full-time Part-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 15 January 2027

PhD Wake, Mix, Repeat: Engineering the Environmental Footprint of Deep-Water Wind

• PhD Human-in-the-loop machine learning for expert-guided environmental impact assessment of offshore wind farms Campus: Loughborough Department(s): Computer Science Study mode: Full-time Start date: October 2027 Funding status Funded Application deadline: 15 January 2027

PhD Human-in-the-loop machine learning for expert-guided environmental impact assessment of offshore wind farms

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