PhD programmes in United Kingdom

Supervision is available for research across all discipline areas in the School of Ocean Sciences. The Ocean Sciences (PhD/MPhil) is offered at Bangor University. 

The Cardiff University's PhD in Vision Sciences comprises student-led research across a wide range of disciplines, from molecular and cell biology to neuroscience and clinical studies of human vision.

A PhD is the highest academic award for which a student can be registered. This Engineering programme from University of Huddersfield allows you to explore and pursue a research project built around a substantial piece of work, which has to show evidence of original contribution to knowledge.

If you want to continue to be immersed in the biological sciences, and further your career with a postgraduate Biological Sciences degree at  University of Portsmouth, get started at Portsmouth.

Roots will be modelled as bonded DEM particles. By means of simple artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, the model will include features such as gravitropism, time-dependent root stiffening (thickening), root branching and root tip reorientation based on penetration resistance in the Micro-Bio-Mechanical Modelling of root growth in soils at University of Dundee 

The Clinical Psychology Doctorate programme from University of Birmingham leads to a professional qualification in Clinical Psychology and eligibility to apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council. It is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) and confers Chartered status with the BPS.

If you want to take your expertise in Architecture, Interiors and Urbanism (Distance Learning) at University of Portsmouth  into a postgraduate research degree, University of Portsmouth is the perfect place to do it.

The main technical limitation for these studies is the scale: few stellar radii to sub-au are impossible to map even with interferometry. The A long-term variability study of young stars - Periodicity, hot spots, accretion and early evolution at the time of planet forma course is offered at University of Dundee.

The academics in the field of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee are based within the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), part of the wider School of Social Sciences.

Our Pharmacy and Biomedical Science research at University of Portsmouth  focuses on growing our understanding of how the body functions in health, how it malfunctions in disease, and the genetic and molecular drivers of physical and mental illnesses.

This aim of this Dialects, registers, and accents - investigating the use of sociolinguistic variants project at University of Dundee is to marry the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic sides of this problem, by combining cognitive and social psychological methods to investigate both the cognitive mechanisms behind sociolinguistic variant use.

Extensions of the Alber equation and statistical modulation instability analysis for crossing seas is offered at University of Dundee and is well known that nonlinear dispersive equations exhibit modulation instability, a phenomenon linked to extreme events such as rogue waves. 

The University of Dundee has some of the top Law academics in the UK working on world-leading research as part of the wider School of Social Sciences.

As a research programme, the course does not have a modular outline. Each student receives close supervision on an individual and original project, which has the potential to make a new and substantial contribution to the field. The Music programme is offered at Bangor University.

We’re a proud member of the AgriFoRwArdS EPSRC studentships in Agri-food Robotics and Autonomous Systems at University of East Anglia. AgriFoRwArdS has been funded by EPSRC to solve problems facing the agriculture and food sector by undertaking fundamental research into robotics and autonomous systems, in close collaboration with industry partners.

The Geographical Sciences (Physical Geography) programme offered by the University of Bristol encompass a wide range of subjects at the leading edge of geographical research.

This research Writing trans and non-binary lives in the 20th and 21st centuries- autobiography, autofiction, autotheory project at University of Dundee aims to explore the ways in which trans and non-binary people have been using different approaches in writing about their lived experiences.

If you want to further your psychology knowledge through your own research, start your journey at the Psychology (Distance Learning) programme from University of Portsmouth.

The Physics programme is offered by the University of Bristol. For more than 100 years, the Bristol School of Physics has made major research contributions, including the discovery of the pi meson (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1950) and fundamental advances in quantum mechanics.

Research is of central importance within the accounting and finance subject areas at the University of Bristol. The 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) rated 88 per cent of the research in Business and Management as 'world leading' or 'internationally excellent.' The Accounting and Finance programme is offered by the University of Bristol.