PhD Opportunities in Nursing in United Kingdom

Green Space, Young People, and Climate Justice is an interdisciplinary PhD project exploring how access to green space can support climate adaptation, climate justice and young people’s wellbeing through nature-based solutions. The research brings together youth engagement, environmental research and climate adaptation to investigate how green spaces can be made more accessible and responsive to the needs of young people. It will consider the relationships among nature, social equity, adaptation...

The Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe AI Systems (SAINTS CDT) offers a multidisciplinary PhD focused exclusively on the safety of artificial intelligence. The programme develops research expertise for ensuring that AI systems deliver benefits without introducing harm as their capabilities, environments and operating contexts evolve. Research centres on the lifelong safety assurance of increasingly autonomous AI systems in dynamic and uncertain contexts. Projects draw on concepts and methods f...

The UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative Doctoral Landscape Award (FGx-DLA) offers a first cohort of PhD projects focused on understanding how genetic variation influences human biology, health and disease. The programme includes 79 projects across wet-lab, computational and combined wet/dry-lab research. Students may work on CRISPR and genome editing , single-cell and spatial genomics , artificial intelligence and machine learning, stem-cell and organoid models, computational genomics, multi...

Measuring What Matters is a funded PhD project at the University of Portsmouth focused on improving the clinical assessment of individuals with limb difference. The research will bridge the gap between what matters to patients and what is measured in rehabilitation. It will integrate patient-centred, functional and biomechanical outcomes to support more meaningful evaluation of rehabilitation interventions and patient experience. The doctoral researcher will work at the intersection of biomechan...

University of Hull PhD project: Enhancing the Otago Exercise Programme to Preserve Bone Health This doctoral project will develop a more accessible exercise approach for postmenopausal women with osteopenia or osteoporosis. The research builds on the established home-based Otago Exercise Programme, enhancing it with resistance bands throughout each movement and high-speed contractions designed to increase the rate of force development and skeletal loading. The approach is intended for people who...

This fully funded PhD investigates how artificial intelligence can support fetal growth monitoring and improve pregnancy care. The project will use longitudinal ultrasound data to identify high-risk fetal growth trajectories, with the aim of enabling more informed monitoring and earlier recognition of pregnancies that may require additional clinical attention. Based in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool, the project forms part of the MRC North West Doctoral Pr...

The University of Sussex is offering a funded full-time PhD in LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing inequalities , based in the School of Psychology within the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine at Falmer, UK. The project is supervised by Dr Ellen Thompson and sits within an interdisciplinary Wellcome Discovery Award focused on pathways to health equity for LGBTQ+ populations. The research will investigate the social, structural and individual determinants of health and health inequalities amon...

NIHR Maternity Disparities Consortium Doctoral Fellowships offer an opportunity to undertake funded doctoral research addressing maternity disparities and related health inequalities in the United Kingdom. The consortium is offering up to eight salaried doctorates across a range of potential projects hosted by universities participating in the consortium. The fellowships are designed to strengthen research capacity among practitioners whose expertise is central to maternity and community-based c...

This PhD opportunity focuses on developing multimodal foundation models and agentic artificial intelligence for heart rhythm disorders at Imperial College London. The project will combine electrocardiograms, electronic health records, clinical free text and medical imaging. The research will investigate foundation models, multimodal fusion, large language models and agentic AI, including AI co-scientist approaches that support multiple stages of the research process. The student will work within...