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PhD Out of School Youth Provision: An Analysis of Funding and Operational Resilience within the Sector
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31st January 2025
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PhD 3-Directional Frictional Mechanical Metamaterials (3DFMMs)
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 March 2025
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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-timePart-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-timePart-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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PhD Accessing new chemistries: Tuning reactivity of chemical processes using ionic liquids
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Active noise control of automotive tyres using ultrasonic parametric arrays
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 12 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 Adaptive Reconfigurable Intelligent Metasurfaces for 5G/6G Networks
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 February 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 antenna arrays and metasurfaces for 5G and space
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 February 2025
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PhD Advanced Crystallisation Techniques for Sustainable Battery Recycling and Wastewater Treatment
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Advanced Modelling of Carbon Black Morphology in Methane Pyrolysis for CO2-Free Hydrogen Production
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 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-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Agricultural Robot navigation in complex farm and rugged terrain environments using Deep Reinforcement Learning AI.
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 18 February 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-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Antimicrobial gels for biomedical applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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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 Artificial intelligence-assisted modular metabolic engineering for NetZero commodity manufacture
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Bespoke Organometallic Compounds for Anticancer Studies
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 30 September 2025
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PhD Beyond normal - Proteins in Alien Environments
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 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 Bio-based Sustainable Materials for Autonomous Thermal Management in Wearables
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 13 February 2025
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PhD BioDyes - expanding the scope of renewed and renewable textiles
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering, Creative Arts
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 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 Biomimmetic Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of the Bisorbicillinoids and Related Products
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-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 community climate resilience with large language models and remote sensing
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 17 February 2025
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PhD Catalytic and adsorption properties of polymeric silver and zinc oxide stabilized nanocomposites decorated on reduced graphene oxide
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 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-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 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-timePart-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-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 13 March 2025
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PhD Cognitive Monitoring of Human Operators using Multi-modal Artificial Intelligence
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Coherent state methods in spectral asymptotics
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: July 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 of sustainable alloys
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 14 February 2025
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PhD Continuous manufacturing of nano-assemblies for mRNA based therapies and vaccines: from batch to industry scale
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Countering Cyberattacks in Autonomous Vehicles
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Cryptographic primitives for symmetric cryptography
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 January 2026
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PhD Crystallisation with 3D printing template and hydrogel templates
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD CSC PhD Studentship in Exploring Advanced Materials for Wearable Sensors
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 January 2025
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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-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2025
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PhD Data and AI Powered Turbulence Modelling for Fusion Energy Cooling Flows
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 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 and fabrication custom foot orthotics
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 22 January 2025
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PhD Design of Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-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-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2025
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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 Natural Surfactants from Biomass for Industrial Applications
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Developing Novel Antibiofilm Coatings for Sustainable Biofilm-Free Surfaces
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 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-timePart-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-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 5 January 2025
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PhD Development of new digital technologies and Generative Artificial Intelligence tools for the next generation Green-by-Design and sustainable pharmaceuticals.
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 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-timePart-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 robust wall modelling for practical aerodynamic high fidelity prediction
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 19 February 2025
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PhD Digital twins for biofilm management
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 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 Health Humanities
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): English
Study mode: Full-timePart-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-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 14 March 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-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Dynamic external shading for enhanced visual and thermal comfort in schools
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 2 February 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-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 13 March 2025
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PhD Energy efficiency optimisation of electric vehicles in dynamic driving scenarios
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Engineering New Materials for Solid-State Cooling
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 17 February 2025
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PhD Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Emotional Intelligence in Robotics
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 18 February 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-timePart-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-timePart-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 Evaluating Gasification for Sustainable Waste-to-Energy: A CFD and Life Cycle Analysis Against Traditional Incineration
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 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 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 Fiber-based Foams for Sustainable Material Development
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering, Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 17 February 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-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 17 February 2025
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PhD Formulation optimisation by data-enabled decision making
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials, Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 14 February 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 Geomorphic mitigation of contaminated mining sediment mobilization during floods
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Geography and Environment
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 8th January 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-timePart-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-timePart-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-timePart-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-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Hydrogen production by electrolytic water splitting
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Hydrogen storage in conductive functionalized polymer composite aerogels
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Imaging with AI Integration for Early and Continuous Health Diagnostics and Monitoring
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 15 March 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-timePart-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 Inequalities, Power, Justice, and Social Inclusion
Campus: London
Department(s): Institute for Creative Futures
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 26 February 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 Intelligent circularity prediction for building deconstruction
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 January 2025
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PhD Intelligent Dynamic Control for Safety Assured and Highly Productive Maintenance in Fusion Power Plants
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 14 February 2025
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PhD Intelligent Sensor Fusion for Sustainable Cleaning in the Food Industry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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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 Impact of Vehicle Emissions on Urban Air Quality and Mitigation Strategies
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 13 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 Investigation of the maximum allowable mud pressure during Horizontal Directional Drilling
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 January 2025
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PhD Ionic Innovations: Next-Generation Drug Delivery
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 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-timePart-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-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: July 2025
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PhD Laser surface engineering of solid-state batteries for functionalisation of electrochemical performance
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 8 April 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-timePart-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 Making a deposit: mathematical models to describe pattern formation in drying sessile droplets.
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: April 2025
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PhD Mechanics of biomaterials
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-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-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 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-timePart-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 Data-driven modelling and analysis of ammonia spray combustion for net-zero transitions
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 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-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Moments of Power: Performance of Energy Systems in Real-World Conditions
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 13 February 2025
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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 Nanoemulsification process relevant to the development of environmentally friendly crop protection products
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Nanofabrication of novel materials for spintronics and energy harvesting
Campus:
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-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 Nanostructured functional ceramics produced by cold sintering process
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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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-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025, January 2026, April 2026
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
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PhD Novel high-performance coatings: product and process development
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 18 February 2025
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PhD Novel routes for Carbon Dioxide Utilisation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-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 The Influence of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on the Development and Prevention of Skin Cancers
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 12 February 2025
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PhD Optically-Reconfigurable Nanomagnetic Devices for Data Processing
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Physics
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April or July 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 16 December 2024
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PhD Optimal Control for Dynamic, Agile and Energy-Efficient Robotics
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 31 January 2025
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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 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 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-timePart-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-timePart-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-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Process Development for New Formulation Products with Nanoparticles
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering, Materials
Study mode: Full-timePart-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-timePart-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-timePart-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 Rapid strength assessment of re-used structural steel using laser speckle interferometry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 January 2025
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PhD Reconciling the Semiotics of Value in Construction as a New Axiological Foundation for Safe Project Management in the Post-Grenfell Era
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 30 January 2025
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PhD Reimagining Architecture in the Face of Climate Breakdown: A Critical Exploration of Sustainability Discourses and Extractive Practices
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Design
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 30 January 2025
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PhD Renewable Space Robots
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 12 February 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 Resilient Green Hydrogen Production Driven by Generative AI
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Reversing Hydrogen Embrittlement Sustainably: finding a pathway to facilitate long-term hydrogen storage and distribution
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 1 March 2025
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PhD Self-tuneable metasurfaces for self-powered sensing and vibration absorption
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 31 March 2025
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PhD Simplifying marine polycyclic ether synthesis through symmetry
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-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-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Smart stimuli responsive multi functional wound dressings - on demand drug release
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Smart Textiles for Next-Generation Sports, Healthcare, and Rehabilitation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 25 January 2025
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PhD Spectral Analysis and Integrable PDEs
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences
Study mode: Full-timePart-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 Standards to specify damping and loss factor in joint connections through ultrasonic inspection techniques where temperature and humidity in real world conditions are important
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 20 February 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 Structural robust optimisation of tall timber buildings
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 30 January 2025
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PhD Study of SCO2 compressor instability by using high fidelity CFD and data-driven reduced order model
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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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-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1 April 2025
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PhD Sustainable bio-based polymers for liquid formulations
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Materials
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 11 February 2025
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PhD Sustainable decentralised method for removing fluoride pollution from drinking water
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 10 February 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 Sustainable self-healing microcapsules for self-repairing asphalt pavements
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Synthesis and biological potential of benzofuran natural products
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemistry
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: April 2025, July 2025, October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: January 2026
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PhD The Catfish Hunter: Games for Combating Online Deception
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Computer Science
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 18 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 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-timePart-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 26 February 2025
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PhD Understanding human perceptions of randomness
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics Education
Study mode: Full-timePart-time
Start date: 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis
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PhD Unveiling molecular mechanisms of the beneficial impact of exercise on cancer metabolism
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 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 Visual Data Mining on Proteins and Biomedicine Crystallisation
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
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PhD Waste-derived bioplastics for a circular and sustainable food packaging economy
Campus: Loughborough
Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Study mode: Full-time
Start date: October 2025
Funding status Funded
Application deadline: 11 February 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-timePart-time
Start date: January 2025, April 2025, July 2025
Funding status Self-funded
Application deadline: 1st October 2025
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