New PhD Positions in the United Kingdom — Latest Listings

New today: PhD positions in the United Kingdom

This page carries the newest PhD positions advertised in the United Kingdom, updated daily. The entries below are the same funded doctoral posts you will find on our PhD positions in the United Kingdom page — this feed shows them in the order they were published, newest first, so you never miss a fresh call. Each listing links to the official announcement. Many calls are open to international applicants, and the positions page explains the funding model and how to apply from abroad.

New positions

Updated 11 Nov 2026. Newest first.

• PhD Studentship - FSE PhD President's Doctoral Scholarship - Mechanochromic Molecules for Cellular Forces Sensing - The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Field: Chemistry. Deadline: 18 Dec 2026. Funded position.
• PhD Studentship - FSE PhD President's Doctoral Scholarship Engineering - Chemical Probes to Sense Dynamic Molecular Neighbourhoods in Living Cells - The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Field: Chemistry. Deadline: 18 Dec 2026. Funded position.
• FSE PhD President's Doctoral Scholarship: Treatment Planning of FLASH Delivery of Cancer Therapy with Focussed Very High Energy Electron Beams - The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Field: Physics and astronomy. Deadline: 18 Dec 2026. Funded position.
• PhD Studentships: EPSRC CDT in Applied Quantum Technologies - University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom. Field: Physics and astronomy. Deadline: 31 Jan 2027.
• PhD Studentship - (UoM-Peking) Developing Density Functional Approximations for Accurate Modelling of Magnetic Organic Conjugated Systems - The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Field: Chemistry. Deadline: 7 Dec 2026. Funded position.
• PhD Studentship - (UoM-Peking) Uranium and Thorium in Arene-Trigonal-Donor Environments - The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Field: Chemistry. Deadline: 7 Dec 2026. Funded position.
• PhD Studentship: Terahertz Photons for Quantum Control and Topological Quantum Information - UCL, United Kingdom. Field: Physics and astronomy. Deadline: 8 Jan 2027. Funded position.
• PhD Studentship: Computer Science: ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Digital Economy and Society – Computer Science - Swansea University, United Kingdom. Field: Computer science and AI. Deadline: 6 Dec 2026. Funded position.
• PhD Studentship: High-Performance Lanthanide Single-Molecule Magnets with Monodentate Ligands - The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Field: Chemistry. Deadline: 18 Dec 2026. Funded position.
• PhD Studentship - Process Industries: Net Zero CDT: Energy and Resource Recovery from Spent Filters - Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Field: Chemistry. Deadline: 7 Jan 2027. Funded position.
• PhD Studentship - (UoM-Peking) Advanced Energy Materials for Bright and Efficient Optoelectronic Devices - The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Field: Chemistry. Deadline: 7 Dec 2026. Funded position.
• PhD Studentship: 3.5 Year PhD Studentship in Artificial Intelligence for Eliciting Patient Histories - UCL, United Kingdom. Field: Computer science and AI. Deadline: 21 Dec 2026. Funded position.
• PhD Studentship - (UoM-Peking) Metal-Organic Framework Materials for Gas Adsorption and Catalysis - The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Field: Chemistry. Deadline: 7 Dec 2026. Funded position.
• PhD Studentship - (UoM-Peking) Mineral–Fluid–Rock Interactions for Sustainable Subsurface Energy Technologies - The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Field: Chemistry. Deadline: 7 Dec 2026. Funded position.
• PhD Studentships in Engineering Solutions for Antimicrobial Resistance (Fully funded/ Four-Year) - UCL, United Kingdom. Field: Engineering. Deadline: 13 Dec 2026. Funded position.

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