The University of Manchester Invites Applications For 24 PhD Studentships Across Multiple Departments

Applications are now open for 24 PhD student positions at the University of Manchester, a prestigious Russell Group Member and a leader on the global stage in Higher Education through excellence in research. With a long-standing tradition of pioneering research and an exceptional academic legacy, the University is inviting motivated individuals to become part of the diverse community of Researchers and work together on some of the most innovative research projects across many different Disciples.

1- PhD Studentship: Universality in Random Growth Models
Department: Mathematics
Funding Amount: £20,780 annual tax free stipend for 2025/26, plus full tuition fees.
Deadline: 15 Mar, 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the main supervisor Dr William Fitzgerald - [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV891

2- PhD Studentship - Characterisation of Offshore Turbulent Conditions
Department: Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Funding Amount: £20,780
Deadline: 28th February 2026
How To Apply: To apply please contact the supervisor: Dr Hannah Mullings, Prof Tim Stallard and Dr Samuel Draycott ([email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]). Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPU869

3- PhD Studentship: Trends and Mitigations in Behaviour-Based Domestic Stove Emissions
Department: Civil Engineering and Management
Funding Amount: £20,780 annual tax-free stipend plus full tuition fees paid.
Deadline: 30th June 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the main supervisor, Dr Lea-Langton - [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW286

4- PhD Studentship: Investigating the Environmental Radiochemistry of Uranium under Dynamic Redox
Funding Amount: Annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26; subject to annual uplift), and tuition fees will be paid.
Deadline: 14th February 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the main supervisor, Dr Thomas Neill ([email protected]). Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL597

5- PhD Studentship - High Build Rate and Low Carbon Emissions Laser Direct Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing Via Advanced Laser-matter Interactions
Department: Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Funding Amount: £20,780 - please see advert
Deadline: 31st January 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact Dr Yuze Huang ([email protected]). Please enclose the following documents:

• A one-page statement addressing your background and suitability for this project.
• A two pages CV

More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM811

6- PhD Studentship: Designing Isogeny-Based Advanced Protocols
Funding Amount: £20,780 annual tax-free stipend (for 2025/26) plus full tuition fees paid.
Deadline: 10th March 2026
How To Apply: To apply please contact the supervisors; Dr Bernardo Magri - [email protected] and Dr Takoboris Fouotsa - [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPU414

7- PhD Studentship: Design, Synthesis and In Vitro Translation of Non-Canonical Amino Acids
Funding Amount: (£20,780 for 2025/26; subject to annual uplift), and tuition fees will be paid. We expect the stipend to increase each year.
Deadline: 6th January 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the supervisors: Prof Gavin Miller - [email protected] and Dr Richard Obexer - [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE446

8- PhD Studentship - Adaptive Kinetic Spectral Deconvolution
Department: Chemistry
Funding Amount: £20,780
Deadline: 31st January 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the main supervisor, Dr Ralph Adams - [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW831

9- PhD Studentship: Optimisation of thermomechanical ageing processing: influence of quenching and pre-ageing on the performance of high strength 6xxx aluminium alloys
Funding Amount: an annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26; subject to annual uplift), and tuition fees
Deadline: 31st January 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the main supervisor, Prof. Xiaorong Zhou via email to [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPY433

10- PhD Studentship: Examining the shape of proton-rich nuclei
Department: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Funding Amount: Not Specified
Deadline: 31st January 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the main supervisor, Dr Kara Lynch - [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPY354

11- PhD Studentship - Building Privacy-Preserving and Secure Decentralized AI via Cryptography
Department: Computer Science
Funding Amount: £20,780
Deadline: 1st July 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the main supervisor Dr Zhipeng Wang - [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY820

12- PhD Studentship: Advancing Hyperpolarised Solid-state NMR Spectroscopy for Materials Science
Department: Chemical Engineering
Funding Amount: Annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26; subject to annual uplift)
Deadline: 13th January 2026
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA598

13- PhD Studentship - The Production and Separation of Exotic Isotopes for Medical Applications
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Funding Amount: annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26) and tuition fees will be paid. We expect the stipend to increase each year
Deadline: 24th January 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the main supervisor, Dr. Tom Day Goodacre - [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW163

14- PhD Studentship - Detection and Study of Exotic Radioactive Ions using Laser Cooling and Precision Laser Spectroscopy
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Funding Amount: annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26) and tuition fees will be paid. We expect the stipend to increase each year
Deadline: 31st January 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the main supervisor, Dr Paul Campbell - [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPY373

15- PhD Studentship - Cryopreservation of T-cells for Improved Transport and Therapy
Department: Chemistry
Funding Amount: annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26; subject to annual uplift), and tuition fees will be paid. We expect the stipend to increase each year.
Deadline: 19th February 2026 
How To Apply: Please send a 2 page CV (max) including publications, research experience and grades to Professor Gibson - [email protected].
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN232

16- PhD Studentship: Complex structure in Quantum Dynamics
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Funding Amount: £20,780 Tax free stipend based on the UKVI rate for 2025/26 and tuition fees will be paid.
Deadline: 7th January 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the main supervisor, Dr Thomas Elliott ([email protected]). Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPO597/

17- PhD Studentship: Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes
Department: Chemistry
Funding Amount: Tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26; subject to annual uplift), and tuition fees will be paid.
Deadline: 31st January 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the main supervisor, Dr Josh Abbenseth - [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI423

18- PhD Studentship - (EPSRC) High-Entropy Coatings for Hydrogen Gas Turbines
Department: Materials
Funding Amount: annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26; subject to annual uplift), and tuition fees will be paid. We expect the stipend to increase each year.
Deadline: 14th February 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the main supervisor; Dr Chen - [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL685

19- PhD Studentship - Investigating the Links between Appetite Control, the Gut Microbiome and Anorexia/cachexia in Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients
Funding Amount: currently £20,780 for the academic year 2025/26
Deadline: 12th March 2026
How To Apply: Interested applicants should contact Dr. Adora Yau ([email protected]) for an informal discussion.
To apply you will need to complete the online application form for a full time PhD in Biological Science.
You should also submit a standard CV. As part of the application, please provide a cover letter addressing the project’s aims and objectives, demonstrating how the skills you have map to the area of research and the essential/desirable skills. You should also address why you see this area as being of importance and interest. You will need to upload your statement in the supporting documents section of the University’s Admissions Portal. Please quote the reference: SciEng-AY-2026-27-GI Cancer Cachexia
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS625

20- PhD Studentship: GAIA: Generating Artificial Intelligence Assisted Assessment for Alopecia
Deadline: 20th February 2026
Funding For: UK Students, EU Students, International Students
Funding Amount: currently £20,780 for the academic year 2025/26
How To Apply: Interested applicants should contact Dr Adrian Davison for an informal discussion if they require further information or clarification.
To apply you will need to complete the online application form for a full time PhD in Computing & Digital Technology
Please complete the Doctoral Project Applicant Form, and include your CV and a covering letter to demonstrate how your skills and experience map to the aims and objectives of the project, the area of research and why you see this area as being of importance and interest.

21- PhD Studentship - Industrial Process Optimization for a High-Value Ingredient Used in Food and Health Applications
Department: Chemical Engineering
Salary: currently £20,780 for the academic year 2025/26
Deadline: 31st January 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact our main supervisor, Dr Ashwin Kumar Rajagopalan - [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPX978

22- PhD Studentship: ACCESS4ALL An AI-informed Rehabilitation Model for Working Adults with Multiple Long-Term Conditions
Salary: £20,780 stipend plus £5,006 home tuition fees. Please refer to advert for further details.
Deadline: 27th February 2026
How To Apply: Interested applicants should contact Dr Amy Harwood for an informal discussion. 
To apply you will need to complete the online application form for a full time PhD in Sports & Exercise Science
Please complete the Doctoral Project Applicant Form, and include your CV and a covering letter to demonstrate how your skills and experience map to the aims and objectives of the project, the area of research and why you see this area as being of importance and interest. 
Please upload these documents in the supporting documents section of the University’s Admissions Portal.

23- PhD Studentship: An experimental study of mineral reactivity and critical metal mobility in faulted granites
Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Salary: An annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26) and tuition fees
Deadline: 1st February 2026
How To Apply: To apply, please contact the main supervisor, Dr Natalie Farrell - [email protected]. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.
More Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPY356

24- PhD Studentship - Generalisable Multimodal Learning for Socio-Contextual Human Behaviour Modelling
Funding For: UK Students, EU Students, International Students
Deadline: 31st January 2026
Stipend: currently £20,780 for the academic year 2025/26
How To Apply: Interested applicants should contact Prof. Moi Hoon Yap for an informal discussion. 
To apply you will need to complete the online application form for a full time PhD in Computing & Digital Technology.
Please complete the Doctoral Project Applicant Form, and include your CV and a covering letter to demonstrate how your skills and experience map to the aims and objectives of the project, the area of research and why you see this area as being of importance and interest. 
Please upload these documents in the supporting documents section of the University’s Admissions Portal.