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Compare 13 doctoral research opportunities connected with Cyber Security, including project summaries, funding and application deadlines.
Cyber Security
Newcastle University
100% home fees covered, and a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £21,805 (2026-27 UKRI rates)
Cyber Security
University of Southampton
About the Project Supervisory Team: Dr Erisa Karafili This project develops AI-enhanced threat-modelling techniques to improve the cybersecurity and resilience of autonomous vehicles. It analyses vulnerabilities in AI-driven sensing and decision systems, models complex adversarial interactions, and designs adaptive detection and mitigation strategies, with applicability to other safety-critical domains.
Cyber Security
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project Virtual machines have been around for a long time, and are used heavily throughout the internet. However, they are not immune to misuse, abuse, and attacks. Malware for instance can infect a virtual machine, and there is a reliance on the user of the virtual machine to deal with such problems.
Cyber Security
University of Southampton
About the Project Supervisory Team: Dr Firman Simanjuntak and Dr Basel Halak Memristors mimic how the brain learns—offering low-cost, secure, and energy-efficient computing. This PhD tackles challenges limiting their adoption, from ageing to variability, to create unforgeable, self-identifying chips.
Cyber Security
Cardiff University
About the Project Considering doing a PhD in cyber security, but don’t want to spend three years working on something nobody outside academia ever sees? Fair. That’s why CyberInvent exists. Through CyberSight25 , industry leaders have laid out the cyber problems they genuinely want solved. Not “nice to have” ideas, but the stuff they’re actually dealing with. Things like: How do we make sense of the ridiculous amount of cyber data already being collected?
Cyber Security
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project n computer forensics, investigators need to be able to analyse the contents of storage devices. Such devices generally store information in blocks, and the arrangement of blocks in a certain order is the thing which represents a files. However, if the information about how each block connects together is lost, then it can almost impossible to piece the blocks back together again in order to reform all the data objects.
Cyber Security
The University of Manchester
About the Project Perfect Developer, from Escher Technologies, is a language system that combines specification constructs, programming constructs, code generation and verification.
Cyber Security
The University of Manchester
About the Project These days, the world is increasingly being populated with systems that interact directly with the physical world. Of course such systems have existed for a long time in niche safety-critical areas, eg. avionics, train control, nuclear plant shutdown, etc. Now the physical world is described using continuous mathematics, while the systems in contact with it are digital, being described using discrete mathematics.
Cyber Security
The University of Manchester
About the Project These days, the world is increasingly being populated with systems that interact directly with the physical world. Of course such systems have existed for a long time in niche safety-critical areas, eg. avionics, train control, nuclear plant shutdown, etc. Now the physical world is described using continuous mathematics, while the systems in contact with it are digital, being described using discrete mathematics.
Cyber Security
Kingston University
About the Project We are seeking a motivated PhD candidate to join our cutting-edge research project on developing post-quantum cryptographic systems for securing communication in Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Classical cryptographic systems which are used to protect our sensitive data, are now under threat from the advent of quantum computing. Quantum computers use the principles of quantum mechanics to perform computations that are not possible for classical computers.
Cyber Security
University of Birmingham
About the Project The threat posed by the imminent advent of quantum computers has led to the development of a new branch of cryptography: post-quantum cryptography. The goal of post-quantum cryptography is to design cryptosystems that are not only resistant to quantum computers but also capable of interoperating with our digital infrastructure.
Cyber Security
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project Blockpass and the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University have set up an advanced Blockchain Identity Lab (BIL), which supports world-leading research related to cryptography, blockchain, distributed ledger technologies, privacy-preserving machine learning, and their linkage to sovereign identities such as decentralised identities and verifiable credentials. It currently supports several PhD studentships, and it aims to increase this number.
Cyber Security
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project A current weakness in many evidence gathering infrastructures is the handling of digital evidence bags, and how they are handled through criminal investigations and for insurance purposes. This work aims to understand the key stakeholders involved in the handling of digital evidence, and understand the key areas of the trustworthiness of the data, including the immutability of the gathered evidence and in the evidence chain.