Analytical Chemistry
Durham University
About the Project This project will develop the first broadly applicable technology to identify carbon dioxide (CO₂)-binding sites on proteins, revealing a previously hidden layer of biological regulation with applications in biomedicine and sustainable biotechnology. CO₂ is typically viewed as a metabolic waste product and major contributor to climate change.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 23 October 2026
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Applied Mathematics
Durham University
About the Project Pollinating insects are essential to agriculture and biodiversity, yet monitoring wild bees in natural environments remains extremely difficult. Bees are small, fast-moving and visually diverse, and must be detected against complex vegetation under changing illumination, weather and seasonal conditions.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Artificial Intelligence
Durham University
About the Project Agriculture is becoming an increasingly challenging environment for autonomous systems. Robots must operate around changing crops, weather, terrain and farm practices, while making reliable decisions from imperfect visual and sensor information. At the same time, experienced farmers possess substantial knowledge about how and when agricultural tasks should be performed, much of which is difficult to encode explicitly.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Artificial Intelligence
Durham University
About the Project Understanding how the insect brain functions and generates behaviors is crucial for fields such as ecology, biodiversity conservation, agriculture, pest control, disease prevention and robotics . Advances in computer vision, AI and genetic tools now enable detailed analysis of molecular, cellular and whole-organism behavioral processes , which allow researchers to uncover fundamental biological mechanisms and develop applied solutions .
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Artificial Intelligence
Durham University
About the Project PhD in Computer Science at Durham University, UK AI-based interventions for mental health conditions This project will aim to explore, design, develop and evaluate AI-based interventions for mental health conditions. Mental health conditions are conditions, disorders or illnesses where significant changes in emotions, thinking and behaviour of an individual are evident [ APA ], [ WHO ].
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Artificial Intelligence
Durham University
About the Project Facial recognition is one of the most academically studied and industrially developed areas within computer vision where we readily find a ssociated applications deployed globally. This widespread adoption has uncovered significant performance variation across subjects of different racial profiles leading to focused research attention on racial bias within face recognition spanning both current causation and future potential solutions.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Artificial Intelligence
Durham University
About the Project Artificial intelligence is moving beyond passive prediction towards systems that can reason, plan, interact and act. This shift is driving rapid progress in agentic AI - i.e., AI systems that can interpret goals, make decisions, use tools, coordinate with humans and operate in changing real-world environments.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Applied Mathematics
Durham University
About the Project High-dimentional data is central to many computer vision research. Such data includes videos, 3D motions and trajectories, LiDAR, RADAR, medical images, meshes, time series, etc. They inform real-world applications such as healthcare, suivellience and monitoring. This project focuses on deep learning based computer vision methods to understand high-dimensional data, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence that makes responsible decisions.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Applied Mathematics
Durham University
About the Project This project aims at deep learning based machine vision and/or robotics methods to facilitate space-related applications. There is a wide range of projects within this scope. Some examples include: Satellite image analysis for earth observation and climate change monitoring. Computer vision on telescopic imagery for satellite detection, tracking and characterisation. Robotics-informed active machine vision system.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Biochemistry
Durham University
About the Project A self-funded PhD studentship to develop chemical genetic tools to study signal transduction in the unfolded protein response in human cells is available in the group of Dr. Martin Schröder in the Department of Biosciences at Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom. Accumulation of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) causes ER stress and activates a signalling network called the unfolded protein response (UPR) [1, 2].
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Civil Engineering
Durham University
About the Project This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Durham University.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Applied Mathematics
Durham University
About the Project A funded PhD studentship is available under the supervision of Peter Davies-Peck , part of the Network Engineering Science and Theory in Durham (NESTiD) group in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University, UK. We are seeking a bright and motivated student interested in working on any aspects of distributed and parallel algorithms.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Artificial Intelligence
Durham University
About the Project Autonomous robots are increasingly deployed in industries such as precision agriculture, environmental monitoring, and logistics. However, their ability to operate efficiently in real-world environments is constrained by the high computational demands and energy consumption of traditional AI-based vision systems.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Artificial Intelligence
Durham University
About the Project Today, autonomous vehicle and robotics research is a continuously evolving field and spanning all areas of AI autonomy, including perception, behaviour prediction, motion planning, explainability and safety critical AI systems.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Bioinformatics
Durham University
About the Project Climate change brings many challenges for the planet’s plants and one of these is the vulnerability caused by erratic temperatures. Many plants, including major crops, prepare for winter through a process called cold acclimation . In this process, plants respond to the cooler temperatures that prevail in the autumn, by making changes that equip them with resilience against subsequent freezing conditions in winter.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Civil Engineering
Durham University
About the Project This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Durham University. The deployment of offshore wind energy requires operations that interact with the seabed.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Aerospace Engineering
Durham University
About the Project This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Durham University.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Artificial Intelligence
Durham University
About the Project About the Project This PhD project focuses on how large language models can enhance deep learning for medical image analysis. The research will develop methods that combine imaging data with clinical text, radiology reports, and diagnostic guidelines to improve disease detection, segmentation, and prognosis. A central aim is to build trustworthy multimodal models that provide accurate predictions together with interpretable clinical explanations.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Applied Mathematics
Durham University
About the Project This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience, a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The successful applicant will undertake six-months of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Durham University.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Applied Mathematics
Durham University
About the Project This PhD aims at advanced deep-learning based Artificial Intelligence designs and development for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones or swarms) detection and tracking using multimodal sensing, spatiotemporal analysis, and vision–language models. Unlike conventional object detection research, drone detection systems are often deployed in critical contexts such as airport security, where reliability is paramount.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Civil Engineering
Durham University
About the Project This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience; a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Durham University.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computer Architectures
Durham University
About the Project The project: The research group of Prof David Oswald at Durham University, UK, is looking for PhD student(s) to work on physical attacks on confidential computing and trusted execution environments (TEEs), including those extending to GPUs. Technologies such as Intel SGX and TDX, AMD SEV-SNP, and Arm CCA are designed to protect sensitive workloads even from a compromised operating system, hypervisor, or cloud provider.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Archaeology
Durham University
About the Project Understanding the world around us is a fundamental challenge for social and industrial impact. This PhD project fits within the scope of spatial reasoning, solving AI problems from theoretical to real-world applications from a vision/image perspective. Research students are encouraged to work on novel problems/domains that challenge the trend of large annotated datasets.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Artificial Intelligence
Durham University
About the Project X-ray security screening is widely used to maintain aviation/transport security, and its significance poses a particular interest in future automated screening systems that can be deployed for transportation and border security screening alike. Within this context deep learning based computer vision techniques have already been used to enable automated prohibited and threat item detection spanning X-ray scanned baggage, freight and postal items.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Applied Mathematics
Durham University
About the Project Anomaly detection , and the synonymous topics of novelty and out-of-distribution detection, addresses the computer vision ("visual AI") challenge of automatically identifying outliers within the scene or image based on their appearance, motion or behaviour characteristics. Essentially asking - "what differs and why?" - but doing this algorithmically in the age of Large Language Models (LLM) and Vision Language Models (VLM) tools.
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only