Explore Fully Funded PhD opportunities at the University of Leicester, Leicester, England across a range of departments. Apply now to be considered for these prestigious positions.
1. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Geography Geology
Summary of PhD Project
TARGET will support the training and development of researchers engaged in the challenge of meeting the changing patterns of resource demand. As we move away from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, and as the technology we use at home and at work evolves, we need greater amounts, and an increasingly diverse list of metals and minerals. Many of the materials we need are critical, with significant risk of disruption to their supply.
Application Deadline: 21 July 2025
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2. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Digital Transformation of Metals Industry (DigitalMetal CDT)
Summary of PhD Project
DigitalMetal CDT, led by the University of Leicester, in partnership with Universities of Birmingham, Loughborough, Nottingham, and Warwick, invites applications for about 14 fully funded PhD positions for 2025 entry. This programme is designed to train future leaders equipped with combined expertise in metals and alloy engineering and digital technology and AI, supported by a broad foundation in manufacturing management, product development, leadership, and personal development skills.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Direct recycling of Lithium-ion Batteries Using Novel Nanoemulsions
Summary of PhD Project
In 2025, in the UK alone, a stockpile of ca. 70,000-106,000 units of obsolete end-of-first-life EV batteries are waiting to be recycled. The challenge posing across the entire industry is how to recycle and remanufacture EV cells without destructive recovery of precious metals via legacy processes such as pyro/hydrometallurgy, which are the current industry standards.
Application Deadline: 27 July 2025
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4. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Development of multi-modality learning techniques for early chemical anomaly detection
Summary of PhD Project
Breathomics has recently become a popular research area, where tiny chemical molecules in the air that people breathe out can be measured and quantified. These molecules can be considered as fingerprints of what happens inside the human body or in the environment. By analysing the changes in our breath, breathomics can help us to predict human diseases or environmental changes early, and convince healthcare or governmental agencies to deploy early intervention to prevent the occurrence of worse scenarios.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Unravelling Organoid Heterogeneity and Drug Response with a Novel Foundation Model
Summary of PhD Project
This research program focuses on the development of a foundation model, with an application to organoid models in preclinical and translational drug discovery. Unlike traditional two-dimensional cellular assays, organoid models are translatable, physiologically relevant, and robust. However, they are also inherently heterogeneous, poorly reproducible, and difficult to model and predict. To address these challenges, we will explore the use of modern deep learning-based foundation model that integrates morphological profiling with multi-omics analysis.
Application Deadline: 3 August 2025
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6. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Life Sciences
Summary of PhD Project
These studentships are open only to applicants studying one of the following courses at the University of Leicester, with a start date of January 2026.
MSc Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology
MSc Molecular Genetics
Application Deadline: 30 September 2025
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7. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Molecular and Cell Biology
Summary of PhD Project
One PhD scholarship, starting January 2026, is available competitively to a student recruited to the University of Leicester MSc Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology or MSc Molecular Genetics and registered in the January 2025 intake. One PhD scholarship is available to a student recruited to the University of Leicester MSc Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology or MSc Molecular Genetics in January 2025.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Artificial Empathy
Summary of PhD Project
Empathic healthcare improves patient safety,1 quality of life, and satisfaction with their care while reducing pain2,3 and mortality.4 Empathy can also reduce practitioner burnout.5,6 In parallel, artificially intelligent (AI) care- and chat-bots are increasingly playing patient-facing roles in healthcare. There are concerns regarding how empathic these AI care- and chat-bots can provide empathic (and therefore, effective and safe) care. To address this, the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare are seeking to ensure that AI care- and chat-bots provide empathic healthcare, while simultaneously ensuring that healthcare practitioners retain their human advantages.
Application Deadline: 15 August 2025
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9. Fully Funded PhD Programs in A multimodal fine-funded foundation model to support precision medicine of mesothelioma
Summary of PhD Project
Mesothelioma is a lethal cancer caused by asbestos, with less than 10% surviving more than 5 years. Precision medicine although feasible [1], is in its infancy [2]. New approaches to personalise therapy are needed to ensure patients acquire the best chance of clinical benefit, avoiding futile and potentially toxic therapy. Identifying patients who are likely to respond to a given treatment is challenging, often requiring complex multiomic interrogation.
Application Deadline: 20 July 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Inferring the evolutionary history of premalignant mesothelioma to identify drugable bottlenecks for therapy and prevention
Summary of PhD Project
Mesothelioma is a rare cancer that uniquely, is caused by exposure to asbestos. It is an incurable malignancy associated with a survival time of 18 months. The UK has the highest incidence in the world, with the rate increasing in females. Mesotheliomas take around 30 years to form following exposure to asbestos, however the stepwise evolutionary pathway that leads to an established mesothelioma is poorly understood.
Application Deadline: 18 July 2025
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11. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Cardiovascular Sciences
Summary of PhD Project
Our British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence is offering two PhD studentships from the projects listed below. Please select your preferred project and follow the application advice under How to Apply below. Funding and entry requirements are also in the drop down sections below.
Dr Xin Li: Personalised Prediction of Sudden Cardiac Death Using LifeMap Features and Deep Learning (word doc 26kb)
Dr Maryam Afzali: Development and implementation of cardiac diffusion tensor imaging in patients with or at risk of developing heart failure (word doc 20kb)
Dr Tom Webb (Project 1): Engineering 3D Vascular Models for Functional Genomics and Systems Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease. (word doc 19kb)
Professor David Adlam: Machine-learning directed plasma proteomics to develop a novel blood test for the diagnosis of spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) (word doc 19kb)
Dr Tom Webb (Project 2): Integrating Disease-Relevant Epigenomics and AI to Identify Functional Genetic Variants in Cardiovascular Disease (word doc 20kb)
Application Deadline: 18 July 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Telomere length and vascular disease, investigating the role of gene expression through Machine Learning
Summary of PhD Project
Telomeres are protein bound tandem hexamer DNA repeats which are protective structures at the end of chromosomes. The length of the telomere sequence declines with progressive cellular division. Telomere length (TL) is therefore reflective of cellular age and is also seen to decline with increasing age in humans. In addition, TL shows wide inter-individual variation at any age throughout the life course and is a heritable trait.
Application Deadline: 21 July 2025
