
Taught vs Research Master’s: Funding, PhD Entry & an 8-Question Checklist
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Universities with open positions in digital health in the United Kingdom include University of Bristol, King's College London and University of Edinburgh.
University of Bristol
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United Kingdom
4 days ago
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The University of Bristol is recruiting a Research Fellow in Climate Change and Health for a fixed three-year, full-time position in the School of Geographical Sciences. The role works across the University and with the Cabot Institute for the Environment, the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health, and the Jean Golding Institute for Data Science. Applicants are welcome from across climate change and health, with particular interest in research applying data science and artificial intelligence...
4 days ago
King's College London
Closing soon
United Kingdom
4 days ago
Closing soon
King’s College London is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. The post will support CATAPULTS, an NIHR i4i-funded feasibility randomised controlled trial evaluating RECOGNeyes, an eye-tracking cognitive training intervention designed to improve attention in children with ADHD. The successful candidate will coordinate trial activities across King’s College London, the University of Notting...
4 days ago
University of Edinburgh
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United Kingdom
1 week ago
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Global Health PhD and MScR at the University of Edinburgh — postgraduate research opportunities in global health, epidemiology, public health, population health, infectious disease, health inequalities, e-health/tele-medicine, migration and minority ethnic health, sexual and reproductive health, and related interdisciplinary areas. The programme is based in the School of Population Health Sciences and the Usher Institute , with research links across the Centre for Global Health , Centre for Popu...
1 week ago
Mamunur Rashid
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University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
1 week ago
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A fully funded PhD opportunity is available in the Birmingham AI & Digital Health and Care Group at the University of Birmingham via the MIBTP program. The project, SleeplessAI , sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence , digital health , bioinformatics , and electronic health records (EHRs) . The research aims to discover latent sleep signatures and use them to improve cardiometabolic risk prediction , including conditions such as Type 2 Diabetes . A major focus is addressing health ...
1 week ago
University of Southampton
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United Kingdom
1 week ago
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PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in Unifying distributional and distribution-free uncertainty quantification for trustworthy medical decisions . This project sits at the intersection of machine learning , uncertainty quantification , statistics , and medical science . The research aims to combine distributional approaches (such as hierarchical models) with distribution-free approaches (such as conformal prediction) to better understand and control uncertainty in high-stakes clini...
1 week ago
Benjamin Perry
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University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
1 week ago
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PhD fellowship opportunity in personalised prevention for psychosis , focusing on how to move from predicting physical health risks to identifying which preventive treatments will help each person most. The project is supervised by Benjamin Perry (University of Birmingham) alongside Joie Ensor , Marco Bardus , and Amedeo Minichino , and is offered through the Wellcome-funded Midlands+ Mental Health & Neuroscience PhD Programme for Healthcare Professionals . Research themes include psychosis , ca...
1 week ago
University of Ulster
United Kingdom
3 weeks ago
PhD opportunity in Computing at Ulster University on Managing Cognitive Fatigue using Passive Sensing and Adaptive Interventions . This project sits at the intersection of machine learning , digital health , wearable technology , and passive sensing . The successful PhD researcher will investigate how everyday data from smartphones and wearables—such as heart rate variability, movement, and touchscreen patterns—can be used to detect cognitive fatigue in real time. The research aims to develop in...
3 weeks ago
University of Ulster
United Kingdom
3 weeks ago
PhD scholarships in AI, Digital Health, and Bioinformatics are available at Ulster University (School of Computing), UK. The projects sit within the Belfast Region City Deal Centre for Digital Healthcare Technology and focus on topics such as passive sensing, adaptive interventions for cognitive fatigue, vision-language reasoning for context-aware activity assistance, AI-enabled unobtrusive sensing for frailty monitoring and fall prevention, and secure AI for healthcare digital twins. Research t...
3 weeks ago
Rashid Kamal
University of Ulster
United Kingdom
3 weeks ago
Ulster University is advertising a fully funded PhD opportunity in the School of Computing on Secure AI for Healthcare Digital Twins . The project sits at the intersection of computer science , cybersecurity , artificial intelligence , digital health , and medical science . It focuses on privacy-preserving federated learning, secure synthetic data generation, and adversarial machine learning for healthcare applications such as personalized medicine and remote patient monitoring. This PhD aims to...
3 weeks ago
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University of Cambridge
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United Kingdom
2 months ago
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PhD opportunity at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences on Fluid Biomarkers of Inflammation in Frontotemporal Dementia . This project focuses on neuroscience , neurology , neuroinflammation , frontotemporal dementia , and related neurodegenerative disorders, with additional relevance to Alzheimer’s disease , biomarkers , proteomics , neuroimaging , and clinical data analysis. The research aims to characterise inflammation signatures in blood and CSF from people...
2 months ago
Imperial College London
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United Kingdom
1 month ago
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Funded PhD opportunity at Imperial College London in cardiovascular proteomics, blood proteins, biomarker discovery, bioinformatics, epidemiology, and medical statistics. The project is titled Using Blood Proteins to Improve the Understanding and Treatment of Heart Disease and is hosted by the School of Public Health at Imperial College London, with supervision from Professor Manuel Mayr and Professor Ioanna Tzoulaki. The research combines mass spectrometry-based proteomics with affinity-based p...
1 month ago
Canterbury Christ Church University
United Kingdom
3 weeks ago
Medicine, Health and Social Care PhD Scholarship at Canterbury Christ Church University in the United Kingdom. This is a funded PhD programme for students worldwide, focused on public health in a global context . The research theme invites proposals on global public health challenges or local population health issues, especially work exploring health policies, health systems, health services , and complex interventions within communities. Projects should also align with the Applied Research Coll...
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Estimated costs in United Kingdom.
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![]() University Accommodation On-campus student housing per year | £5.1k $6,500/yr |
![]() Clothing Basic clothing and seasonal needs per year | £948 $1,200/yr |
![]() Books & Academic Supplies Textbooks, stationery, and academic materials per year | £474 $600/yr |
![]() Utilities & Connectivity Electricity, water, internet, and mobile per year | £758 $960/yr |
Estimates based on university averages and Numbeo
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
Human-robot Interaction
Automotive Engineering
Autonomous Vehicle
Convolutional Neural Network
Traffic Safety
Professor of Health Psychology
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
Health Communication
Health Economics
Diabetology
Breast Cancer
Clinical Risk
Full Professor (Personal Chair) in Digital Health and Data Science
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Neuropsychology
Neurology
Physiological Monitoring
Neurodegenerative Disease
Digital Health
Has grant
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
Health Communication
Ergonomics
Digital Health
Chronic Pain
Wearable Technology
Professor of Clinical Psychology
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
Psychiatry
Clinical Psychology
Cyberpsychology
Digital Health
Psychotherapy
University of Ulster
United Kingdom
Health Communication
Psychiatry
Digital Health
Digital Intervention
Emotional Health

Paid summer research studentships for UK undergraduates to gain 8–10 weeks of hands-on experience in plant health, plant science, and related agricultural biology research.

The Boustany Cambridge MBA Scholarship supports outstanding candidates to pursue the Cambridge MBA at the University of Cambridge, with financial support and an internship component.

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Scholarships support graduate students at the University of Oxford whose work is relevant to the Muslim world, helping cover major study costs.
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