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Application guidance

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Academic Supervisors

Find out how academics at our partners can submit to the Materials 4.0 project calls!

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Industry Collaborators

Learn about opportunities to fund studentships, collaborate with our academics, or support your staff in a “PhD at work”

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New PhD Projects

Explore the current PhD projects open for application

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FindaPhD

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Application deadlines

You can find all of our currently advertised PhD projects further down this page. Alternatively, visit our FindaPhD webpage to explore these PhD projects further and follow the application links.

There are four application deadlines for applying to PhD projects across all the partners for 2026 recruitment:

    • Thursday, 8 January, 2026
    • Tuesday, 3 March, 2026
    • Thursday, 14 May, 2026
    • Tuesday, 30 June, 2026

Applications will be evaluated after each deadline and shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview with project supervisors. If a project does not recruit, then applications will reopen in the autumn for Cohort 4 and an autumn 2027 start.

Applicants must:

  1. complete the university-specific application for the project of interest
  2. submit any university-specific additional supporting documents