Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
Applicants are invited for a 4-year PhD studentship in the Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience (PDN) from October 2025. Jointly funded by PDN and Wolfson College, the student will participate in training and cohort-building events of the Cambridge Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme and undertake a Professional Internship for PhD Students (PIPS) of 3 months.
Application Deadline: 7 January 2025
2. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Archaeology of Later Pastoralism in Kenya
Summary of PhD Program:
The LHEAAPS project aims to investigate the origins and evolution of Pastoral Iron Age societies in north-central Kenya through integrated analysis of patterns of human and livestock mobility, dietary practices, exchange networks, and responses to periods of known drought and increased rainfall over the last c. 1800 years. Through the innovative use of diverse bioarchaeological, archaeological and materials sciences approaches, these two PhD projects are intended to contribute to the reconstruction of exchange networks through archaeometric analyses of lithic and ceramic artefacts; and reconstructions of diet and herd management strategies (including seasonal and longer-term mobility of livestock) via combined zooarchaeology and isotopic analyses.
Application Deadline: 7 January 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Somatic evolution of the immune response to chronic inflammation and liver cancer progression through single-cell multiomics
Summary of PhD Program:
Our body’s immune system is one of the most powerful tools in the fight against cancer. An improved understanding of how the adaptive immune system evolves in the context of cancer, including the effects of chronic inflammation and the phenotypic changes from premalignancy to cancer progression, could lead to improved cancer outcomes. However, these immune dynamics are difficult to study directly in humans due to longitudinal sampling constraints. To overcome these obstacles, this project will apply state-of-the-art lineage tracing techniques and single-cell multiomics to track CD8+ T cell dynamics in an inflammatory premalignancy and the resulting liver cancer.
Application Deadline: 3 January 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Social Anthropology of Inner Asia
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited for the Sigrid Rausing MIASU PhD Studentship in the Social Anthropology of Inner Asia. The studentship, funded by a generous donation from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, will cover the University Composition Fee (tuition fees) and maintenance at the home fee rate. Applications from international students are welcome. Whilst we endeavour, where possible, to award full studentships, international students may be required to cover the fee gap between the home and overseas fee rates. The studentship is available for full-time students only and normally tenable for three years.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Role of long non-coding RNAs in Zika virus-induced neuropathogenesis
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited for a fully-funded 4-year PhD studentship based in the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Dr Nerea Irigoyen starting October 2025. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) account for approximately 30% of human genes, and 40% are specifically expressed in the brain. Recent ribosome profiling analysis have shown that many cytoplasmic lncRNAs contain unannotated small open reading frames that can be translated into functional (micro)proteins involved in neurodevelopment.
Application Deadline: 3 January 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Classics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge seeks applications for a funded PhD, to begin on 01 September 2025, or as near to that date as possible, to work in the context of the Swiss National Foundation project ‘Citation, Indirect Transmission, Exegesis (CITE). Modes of Reading in Antiquity’, which will run jointly in Basel and Cambridge. The successful applicant will work, under the supervision of Prof Gábor Betegh and Prof Richard Hunter, on the traditions, citations and reading of the Presocratics from the classical period onwards.
Application Deadline: 7 January 2025
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Drugging kinase-driven brain cancer with multi-topic compounds
Summary of PhD Program:
Dr Pau Creixell wishes to recruit a PhD student to work on the project entitled: Drugging kinase-driven brain cancer with multi-topic compounds. This is a unique opportunity for PhD study in the world-leading Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI), to start a research career in an environment committed to training outstanding cancer research scientists of the future. The Institute’s particular strengths are in genomics, computational biology and imaging; and significant research effort is currently devoted to cancers arising in the breast, pancreas, brain, and colon.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2025
8. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Uncovering the origin and evolution of primitive compartments
Summary of PhD Program:
The origin of cell membranes is a major unresolved issue in evolution. Evolutionary biology points to the existence of primitive cells with compositionally diverse membranes that could actively participate in genetic and metabolic processes. However, the assumption that such lipid diversity is dependent upon enzymatic chemistry has generated models comprising compositionally minimal membranes (binary or ternary mixtures of short-chain fatty or phosphatidic acids) that passively host genetic or metabolic processes. This project seeks to reconcile biology and chemistry by challenging the critical limiting assumption that lipid diversity cannot be achieved through non-enzymatic, prebiotic chemistries.
Application Deadline: 7 January 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Interdisciplinary Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NanoDTC)
Summary of PhD Program:
A particular emphasis of this programme is exposure of students to a broad range of world-class research environments to allow them to discover their individual research and technology interests and develop strong ownership of their PhD topic. As a student of the programme, you will have the opportunity to shape your PhD project, drawing from cutting-edge research being conducted across various departments in the university. Examples of projects being done by our current students are available here.
Application Deadline: 3 January 2025
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero
Summary of PhD Program:
We have funding for a number of 1+3 MRes/PHD studentships, in collaboration with industry, as part of our EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero (FIBE3 CDT), under the four following themes:
Current and disruptive technologies
Circularity and whole life approach
Al-driven digitalisation and data
Risk-based systems thinking and connectivity
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
This project integrates cognitive research with digital technology to develop an individualized approach to second language learning. Tailoring instruction to students’ abilities improves outcomes, while using multiple languages brings cognitive, cultural and economic benefits to individuals and society. Language learning is thus an obvious candidate for tailored instruction. Yet it is still dominated by one-size-fits-all approach. This has become a pressing issue as language education now faces a widening participation crisis. Many students, particularly from underrepresented backgrounds, are increasingly unable to access language programmes.
Application Deadline: 7 January 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in cardiovascular sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited for 3-year non-clinical PhD studentships based at Cambridge University. The BHF Cambridge Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) is a world-leading Interdisciplinary Research Centre. Our overarching scientific objective is to advance understanding of pathobiology, diagnosis, prevention, and therapy of cardiovascular disease, including implementation of new diagnostics/treatment, by applying our combined expertise in hypothesis-driven and assumption-free approaches. We achieve this through interdisciplinary capabilities in clinical, experimental, population and data sciences.
Application Deadline: 16 January 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Common ground: exploring methods of communication at a system and landscape level for floods and other risks in the UK
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited for an AHRC CDA doctoral studentship offered by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, to start in October 2025. The studentship will be based in the Department of Architecture. The successful applicant will work on a collaborative project co-led by Professor Emily So (ekms2@cam.ac.uk), University of Cambridge and Dr Juliet Mian, co-supervisor, and Fellow, Infrastructure Resilience & Global Resilience Skills Leader at Arup. Additional supervision is possible from Professor Alan Blackwell, Department of Computer Science.
Application Deadline: 7 January 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in The Portraiture of Rowland Lockey (c.1566-1616): A Historical and Technical Examinatio
Summary of PhD Program:
The studentship will provide an opportunity to undertake technical art-historical research on paintings attributed to Lockey in the collection of the National Trust, understanding the use of techniques such as MA-XRF, cross-section sampling, and X-radiography. Assisted by Trust curators the award holder will research documentary evidence in the Hardwick archives of Lockey’s work for patrons such as Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, and her son, William Cavendish. This will be complemented by research in The National Archives and other repositories, to build as full a picture as possible of Lockey’s career which will be the backbone of outreach and community engagement activity by the Trust.
Application Deadline: 7 January 2025
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Translational control during host-pathogen interaction
Summary of PhD Program:
Biotic stresses often unfold rapidly, demanding swift responses from both host and pathogen to ensure survival. Upon their encounter, a sophisticated network of gene regulation is instantly activated in both organisms, spanning transcription, translation, and protein turnover. While transcriptional regulation offers versatility, translational control enables potent, efficient and rapid adjustment in protein abundance, which is crucial during the initial stages of infection for both host and pathogen. This project seeks to unravel the intricate translational regulatory mechanisms governing host-pathogen interactions, aiming to decode the molecular dynamics and triggers that influence virulence, pathogenicity, and innate immunity.
Application Deadline: 3 January 2025
