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PhD Studentship in Computer Science: Programming Matter - Dynamic DNA Data Structures for Molecular Information Storage and Computing
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Prof. Natalio Krasnogor
Award Summary 100% home fees covered, and a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £21,805 (2026-27 UKRI rates) Overview DNA has emerged as one of the most promising media for ultra-dense information storage. However, most DNA storage systems remain passive: data are written, archived, and read. This PhD project will help pioneer a new generation of dynamic DNA data storage systems capable not only of storing information, but also of manipulating, organising, and retrieving it through molecular data structures analogous to those used in computer science. Building on our pioneering experim
PhD Studentship - Predicting Reservoir and Wellbore Scaling in Geothermal Developments through Integrated Subsurface Interpretation and Modelling
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Award summary 100% home fees covered, and a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £21,805 (2026/27 UKRI rate). An additional allowance will be provided to contribute towards consumables, equipment, and travel related to the project. Overview Deep geothermal energy has the potential to provide a long-term, sustainable source of low-carbon heat. However, the long-term performance can depend on complex interactions between geology, fluid flow and water–rock reactions. Changes in pressure, temperature and fluid chemistry during production and reinjection can promote mineral dissolution and p
PhD Studentship - Investigating How Water-rock Interactions Influence Geothermal Reservoir Sustainability using Experiments and Geochemical Modelling
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Award summary 100% home fees covered, and a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £21,805 (2026/27 UKRI rate). An additional allowance will be provided to contribute towards consumables, equipment, and travel related to the project. Overview Deep geothermal reservoirs can provide a long-term, sustainable supply of heat and energy to serve society’s needs. The performance and operational lifespan of geothermal systems depend on the subsurface distribution of heat, fluid flow pathways, and recharge mechanisms and fluid chemical composition. These factors control the precipitation, dissolut
PhD Studentship in Medicinal Chemistry: High-throughput Chemistry and Direct-to-Biology Testing to Accelerate Drug Discovery
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Prof. Mike Waring
Award Summary 100% fees covered (home fees only) and a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £21,805 (2026/27 UKRI rate). Additional project costs will also be provided. Overview Discovering a new medicine usually means making and testing candidate drug molecules one at a time, with each cycle of design, synthesis and testing taking months. This project will pioneer a faster way to do this: new chemistry methods that let around 100 candidate compounds be made, purified and tested for biological activity together, in a single operation taking as little as a week. You will apply this new a
PhD Studentship in Computer Science: Policy-Compliant Secure AI
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Aydin Abadi
Award Summary 100% home fees covered, and a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £21,805 (2026-27 UKRI rates) Overview Artificial intelligence now supports high-stakes decisions in cybersecurity, finance, healthcare, and public services, where accuracy alone is not enough. Such systems must also respect legal, regulatory, contractual, or organisational limits on their use and disclosures. Enforcing these is hard when the data, the model, and the rules belong to different parties, none of whom can hand over what they hold. Privacy-preserving AI protects data and models but not rules, whi
PhD Studentship: Wildlife Connectivity Potential of Tree-Based Agricultural Systems (TROPS lab, Newcastle University)
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Prof Marion Pfeifer
Award Summary 100% Home fees covered and a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £21,805. Research funds are available for the field and lab related aspects of the PhD research. Overview Agricultural expansion and intensification are major drivers of habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss. Yet agricultural landscapes are not necessarily biodiversity deserts. Trees retained or planted within farms (TIFs) may provide habitat, food resources and movement pathways for wildlife. However, we know surprisingly little about which characteristics of tree-based agricultural systems make them
PhD Studentship: Mechanisms Driving Water use in Tree-based Agricultural Systems (TROPS lab, Newcastle University)
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Prof Marion Pfeifer
Award Summary 100% Home fees covered and a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £21,805. Research funds are available for the field and lab related aspects of the PhD research. Overview Trees are increasingly being incorporated into agricultural landscapes to provide shade, improve soils, support biodiversity, store carbon and protect farms from climate extremes. However, trees also use water, and the consequences of tree planting for water availability depend strongly on tree characteristics, root and canopy systems, soil conditions, climate and the spatial configuration of trees withi
PhD Studentship in Cardiovascular Development: “Pharyngeal endoderm transcriptional networks regulating aortic arch artery development and malformation”, funded by the British Heart Foundation
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Dr. Simon Bamforth
Award summary 100% of home tuition fees paid; annual stipend starting at £21,114; research costs and travel to conferences. Overview Congenital cardiovascular malformations are the most common birth defects and remain a leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality. Despite their clinical importance, the molecular mechanisms controlling development of the aortic arch arteries, which give rise to the major arteries supplying the heart and body, are poorly understood. This PhD project will investigate how the pharyngeal endoderm, a specialised embryonic tissue, regulates aortic arch artery dev
PhD Studentship - Computer Science: Empirical Security Assessment of AI Decision Engines in Cyber-Physical Systems
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- School of Computing
- Dr Mujeeb Ahmed
Award summary 100% home fees covered, and a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £21,805 (2026-27 UKRI rates). Overview Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven decision engines are increasingly embedded into cyber‑physical systems (CPS) such as autonomous vehicles, smart grids, industrial control systems, robotics, healthcare devices, and intelligent transport infrastructure. While significant research has focused on improving the performance, efficiency, and autonomy of such systems, their empirical security assessment remains underdeveloped, representing a growing and critical gap. Recent
NUAcT PhD Studentship – Histories of Child Protection
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- School of History, Classic and Archaeology
- Dr. Claudia Soares
Award Summary 100% of home tuition fees paid and an annual stipend (living expenses) of £21,805 (2026-27 UKRI rates). Successful international candidates are required to fund the difference between the home and international fees. Overview The School of History, Classics and Archaeology invites applications for a funded doctoral studentship in the history of child protection (19th and 20th centuries), in partnership with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). Using the NSPCC’s rich historical archives, this project will make a contribution to histories of care,