
Taught vs Research Master’s: Funding, PhD Entry & an 8-Question Checklist
ApplyKite Editorial 3 Nov 2026

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MONASH UNIVERSITY
Australia
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This PhD scholarship sits within Monash University’s evidence-based rheumatology research environment and the Australian and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials Network (ANZMUSC). The project focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of living clinical practice guidelines in rheumatology, an area that aims to keep recommendations current through continuous evidence surveillance, systematic reviewing, GRADE methodology, and digital guideline platforms. The successful cand...
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Karolinska Institutet
Sweden
4 days ago
Karolinska Institutet in Huddinge, Sweden, is offering a full-time PhD position in digital lifestyles and mental wellbeing in adolescents, using mHealth and EEG methodologies. The doctoral student will join the IMPACT research group, led by Professor Marie Löf, and work within the research team of Researcher Ioannis Ioakeimidis. The project investigates how objectively measured digital lifestyle parameters relate to lifestyle behaviours, mental wellbeing and neurophysiological responses among ch...
4 days ago
José Alberto da Silva Freitas
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Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Portugal
5 days ago
Closing soon
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) is recruiting one PhD holder for a research position equivalent to Assistant Researcher within the VR4Health project, Immersive VR Training for Healthcare Professionals (COMPETE2030-FEDER-03404900). The post sits in the scientific area of Digital Health and related fields and is based at FMUP in Porto, Portugal, within the RISE-Health research unit. The work focuses on developing and evaluating immersive virtual reality environments for the t...
5 days ago
The University of Queensland
Australia
1 week ago
PhD opportunity in Evaluating Clinical AI in Real-Time at The University of Queensland , through the Queensland Digital Health Centre and the NASCENT initiative (National Infrastructure for Real-time Clinical AI Trials). This funded doctoral project focuses on how artificial intelligence can be safely and effectively evaluated in real-world healthcare settings. The position is designed for a student interested in clinical AI , digital health , and the responsible deployment of AI in practice. Po...
1 week 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...
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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 ...
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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...
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Benjamin Perry
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University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
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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...
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Franklin Mingzhe Li
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United States
2 weeks ago
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is recruiting two or three PhD students for the ATLAS Lab (Accessible Technology and Life Augmented Systems) in the School of Data and Information Sciences, starting Fall 2027. The lab focuses on human-computer interaction, accessibility, physical AI, AI for health, data science, information science, design, health, and related areas. Current research directions include generative AI tools that help blin...
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Institut Pasteur
France
8 months ago
The Institut Pasteur in France is offering a PhD student position in the Machine Learning for Integrative Genomics team, led by Laura Cantini. This research group operates at the intersection of machine learning and biology, focusing on the development of innovative computational methods for single-cell data analysis. The successful candidate will work on projects involving the integration of multi-omics data, with a particular emphasis on inferring trajectories from spatial transcriptomics data...
8 months ago
Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
France
2 weeks ago
A 3-year PhD position is available at the Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging of Nice (IRCAN), within the Université Côte d’Azur / CNRS / Inserm environment and the IHU RespirERA structure in Nice, France. The project, supervised by Dr Patrick Brest, focuses on antigen–RNA complexes and how they may overcome immune tolerance in cancer vaccination. Therapeutic vaccination against established cancers is often limited by tolerance to self antigens, and this PhD will investigate how protein a...
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Université de Toulouse
France
4 weeks ago
BEST – Between Earth and Sky in Toulouse is an international doctoral programme at the University of Toulouse, France, supported by the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND scheme. The call announces 19 fully funded PhD positions for researchers from around the world, with a planned start in September 2027. The programme covers a broad set of research themes tied to major scientific and societal challenges, including health and well-being, global change, energy, industrial trans...
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Estimated costs in France.
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![]() Books & Academic Supplies Textbooks, stationery, and academic materials per year | €368 $400/yr |
![]() Housing Shared flats and off-campus rentals per year | €5.5k $6,000/yr |
![]() Utilities & Connectivity Electricity, water, internet, and mobile per year | €552 $600/yr |
![]() Visa & Immigration Fees Student visa and residence permit fees per year | €91 $99/yr |
Estimates based on university averages and Numbeo
Professor at École centrale de Nantes, Visiting professor at National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo)
Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes/Centrale Nantes
France
Artificial Intelligence
Medicine
Health Information
Medical Analysis
Healthcare Delivery
Université Paris‐Saclay UVSQ Univ. Paris‐Sud Inserm Equipe d’Epidémiologie Respiratoire Intégrative
France
Epidemiology
Health Communication
Allergy
Respiratory Medicine
Respiratory Therapy
Université de Toulouse
France
Computational Linguistics
Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery
Speech-language Pathology
Oncology
Oral Cancer
Université Paris‐Saclay UVSQ Univ. Paris‐Sud Inserm Equipe d’Epidémiologie Respiratoire Intégrative
France
Health Communication
Epidemiology
Allergy
Respiratory Therapy
Pharmacoepidemiology
Université Côte d'Azur
France
Exercise Physiology
Health Communication
Exercise Therapy
Psychology
Exercise Psychology
Assistant professor
Université de Nîmes
France
Health Communication
Pharmacotherapy
Treatment Cancer
Patient Engagement
Digital Health

The Raman-Charpak Fellowship supports Indian and French researchers through short-term research exchanges, mainly at PhD level, between India and France.

The France Excellence Eiffel Scholarship Program supports outstanding international students for Master's and PhD study in France in priority academic fields.

The MuSkLE Graduate Plus Excellence Doctoral Scholarship supports outstanding international PhD candidates in musculoskeletal and related translational research in Lyon, France, with a funded 3-year doctoral position.
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