There are 110 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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A rigorous identification of all metastable polymorphs for better and safer drugs
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 12th April 2020
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Vitaliy Kurlin Dr Angeles Pulido
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Adapting and testing the feasibility of an enhanced community-based rehabilitation programme following hip fracture for people with dementia or cognitive impairment.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 4th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Nefyn Williams
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Advanced Mathematical Optimisation in Materials Chemistry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th April 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Matthew Dyer Dr Vladimir Gusev
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Analysis of Heparin Binding Proteins and the Supramolecular Structure of Extracellular Matrix
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 24th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor D G Fernig Professor C E Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Antimicrobial resistance in sexually transmissible enteric infections
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 26th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr K Baker Dr C Jenkins
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Application and development of machine learning approaches for automated analysis of Paediatric Brain Tumours
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 12th April 2020
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Martin Gairing Professor Andy Jones
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Artificial Intelligence in Design Creativity - Exploring the Use of Artificial Intelligence to Support Designers in Creative Idea Generation of Evaluation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st April 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr. Ji Han Prof. Dirk Schaefer
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Atrial fibrillation: Investigating the impact of atrial fibrosis and atrial myopathy
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 25th March 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Takao Sakai Prof Gregory YH Lip
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Bayesian graphical models for strain resolution from hybrid metagenomics sequencing
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 26th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Associate Professor C Quince Professor A Darby
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Bioinspired nanotopographies to control bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 18th February 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Raechelle D’Sa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Characterising and Repurposing Cyanobacterial C02-Fixing Oganelles for Metabolic Engineering
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Luning Liu Dr James Hartwell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Characterization and functional analysis of a novel cancer-associated gene
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 17th March 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor JP de Magalhaes
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Climate Change and the Evoluation of Insect Mating Systems
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Stephen Cornell Dr Tom Price
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Computational identification of new functional materials combining machine learning and structure prediction
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matthew Rosseinsky Dr George Darling Dr Matthew Dyer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Computational Studies of Novel Cathode Materials for Li Ion Batteries
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th April 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Matthew Dyer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Dam reliability assessment
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th April 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor Scott Ferson Dr. Luigi di Sarno
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Defining antigenic structure of avian influenza virus haemagglutinin protein to generate broadly reactive antibodies
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 8th May 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jean-Remy Sadeyen Professor James Stewart
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Defining the role of NF-��B during embryonic stem cell differentiation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 28th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Turner Prof. Anne McArdle
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Designing efficient search strategies for new material discovery in complex phase and data space
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge Dr Mike Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Determination of the basic science and management of the Clubfoot Condition
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st March 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor Ahmed Elsheikh Professor Eithne Comerford
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing and applying computational methods to understand the genetics of ageing
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 23rd July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Joao Pedro De Magalhaes
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of metabolomics for understanding AMR in mixed infections
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Roy Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Differential Regulation of the Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING) pathway in HPV+ and HPV- Head and Neck Cancer
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 2nd April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lekh N Dahal Prof Terry Jones
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Digital soft contact lenses design and validation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 20th June 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Ahmed Abass Prof Ahmed Elsheikh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Discovery of new transparent conducting materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr J. Alaria Dr M. Dyer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Disease control and conservation: applying grazing pressure to solve ’The World’s Worst Wildlife Infectious Disease’
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 10th July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr D J S Montagnes Prof A Fenton
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Does microcredit work better when it is demand-driven?
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st January 2021
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr S Garikipati
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Economics Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 29th May 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Electrochemical Conversion of Captured Carbon Dioxide
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st March 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Alex Cowan
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Engineering laser beams for novel interaction with materials and enhanced application functionality
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 31st August 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Geoff Dearden Dr Stuart Edwardson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
ESRC CASE Studentship PhD in Monetary Policy Economics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 13th April 2020
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Prof Oliver de Groot Prof Jozef Konings
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
ESRC CASE Studentship. Cultivating inclusive ‘place-based’ entrepreneurship support across the UK: Exploring the impact of the British Library’s Business & Intellectual Property Centre (BIPC) national network
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 13th April 2020
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Dr Benito Giordano Dr Ming Li
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
ESRC CASE Studentship. Effective Prison Leadership
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 13th April 2020
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Prof Yves Guillaume Dr Joanne Lyubovnikova
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Establishing and validating different histology-based approaches to quantitatively assess efficacy of therapies in an animal model of ischaemia reperfusion injury (IRI)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 19th May 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Lorenzo Ressel Prof Patricia Murray Dr Bettina Wilm
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Evaluation of national syndromic surveillance data for the surveillance of GI pathogens and exploration of novel sources of syndromic surveillance data to enhance GI surveillance
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 26th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor A Elliot Professor I Buchan
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Evolutionary genomic analysis of rodent immune genes
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 8th August 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof S Paterson Prof M Viney
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Evolutionary insights for engineering improved globin oxygen carriers
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Mike Berenbrink Dr Jill Madine
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Examining Histoplasmosis in household and community environments at the human-animal interface
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Claire Scantlebury Em P Alan Mc Carthy Dr Gina Pinchbeck
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental Discovery of New Framework Materials as Ionic Conductors
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr John Clarridge Professor Laurence Hardwick
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental Discovery of New Inorganic Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental discovery of new lead-free Photovoltaic Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental discovery of new three-dimensional covalent organic frameworks
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploiting advanced methods for protein structure prediction
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Dan Rigden Richard Keegan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Finance and Accounting Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 29th May 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Genome-wide association studies for gastrointestinal infections
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 26th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor X Didelot Professor N McCarthy
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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High pressure hydrothermal synthesis of magnetic and electronic materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge Dr Jon Alaria
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Innovating an anti-tilt human eye topographer
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 20th June 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Ahmed Abass Prof Ahmed Elsheikh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the impact of local government environmental health services on gastrointestinal infections
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 26th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor B Barr
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Investigating the molecular mechanisms and consequences of ANP aggregation for cardiovascular disease; a computational and experimental approach
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jill Madine Prof Dan Rigden
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of the kidney in Alkaptonuria
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof G Bou-Gharios Prof LR Ranganath Prof JA Gallagher
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Investigation of the role of post-translational modifications in hypoxia signalling
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 18th February 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr V See Professor CE Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Joint analysis of national surveillance and external data and modelling of disease spread
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 26th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor N McCarthy
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Knowledge-based Design of Cyber-Physical-Product-Service (CPPS) Systems
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 1st September 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Jelena Milisavljevic Syed
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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LaNts and laminins in breast cancer
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 1st May 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kevin Hamill
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
LaNts in wound repair, stem cell activation and squamous cell carcinoma
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 1st May 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kevin Hamill
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Machine learning approaches for the clinical diagnosis of autoimmune disease
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 12th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Anna Fowler Dr Peter Green
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Management School (ULMS) PhD Funding Call: September 2020
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 29th May 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Manufacturing 4.0: Design of Smart Manufacturing Systems
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 1st November 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Jelena Milisavljevic Syed
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Marketing Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 29th May 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Mass spectrometry analysis of human tissue to characterise cleavage events resulting in amyloid deposition associated with aortic aneurysm and dissection
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 11th July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Madine Prof C E Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Methionine adenosyltransferases in disease and regulation of gene expression
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 24th July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Antonyuk Prof S Hasnain
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Mitochondrial protein folding and diseases
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Lu-Yun Lian Dr David Criddle
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Mobilising community based women’s groups to improve health outcomes
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st January 2021
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr S Garikipati
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Molecular analysis of the dynamic sulfotyrosine proteome
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 24th June 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor C Eyers Professor P Eyers Dr A Jones
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Multi-omics investigations for enhanced understanding of NF-κB mediated drug resistance
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Roy Goodacre Neil Perkins Claire Eyer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Multicellular Cell Differentiation Model: The control of root hair patterning in Aspergillus thaliana
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 24th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr N Savage Dr A Bishopp
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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New reactions of sulfoxonium ylides – for safer synthetic chemistry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Christophe Aïssa
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Novel methods for tracking movement of mobile genetic elements in the human gut microbiome
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 26th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Associate Professor C Quince
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Novel microbial source tracking markers for identification of fecal contaminations in inflow rivers of Taihu Lake
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th August 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Sekar Raju Professor Alan McCarthy
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Novel non-coding RNAs in Drug response, DNA Damage and Aging
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 17th October 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Aditi Kanhere
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Operations and Supply Chain Management - Management School (ULMS) PhD Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 29th May 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Optics measurements and corrections for future electron colliders and light sources
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st March 2020
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Tessa Charles Dr Ilya Agapov
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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PhD in Fundamental Physics: Advanced Charged Particle Dynamics in Electromagnetic Fields
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
PhD in Healthcare Technology Development using Biosensors: Novel Point-of-Care Lateral Flow Assay for Salivary Biomarkers
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
PhD in Instrumentation/Electronics: Development of a Novel Portable Ion Mobility Spectrometer
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
PhD in Micro/Nano Vacuum Electronics
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor Simon Maher Professor Ian Sandall
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
PhD in Porous Materials for Challenging Separations (Computational)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st March 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
PhD in Porous Materials for Challenging Separations (Experimental)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st March 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Police Discretion: an ethnographic study
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th August 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Mike Rowe
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Rapid and precise detection of gastrointestinal infections using metagenome sequencing
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 26th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Associate Professor C Quince Professor A Darby
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Rule Learning from Data – Automated Report Writing from Medical Microbiology Data
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 12th April 2020
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Stuart Thomason Dr Yalin Zheng
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Selective C-H and C-C functionalisations of unactivated arenes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr A Sergeev
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
SHINERS for the study of electrochemical and catalytic processes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Laurence Hardwick
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Single-cell proteomic analysis of host-factor cleavage during norovirus infection
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Edward Emmott Prof Miren Iturriza-Gomara
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
SOD1 The Key protein for finding a cure for familial Motor Neurone Disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 24th July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Svetlana Antonyuk Prof Samar Hasnain
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
STEC surveillance and patient management in the culture-free era
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 26th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr C Jenkins Dr T Dallman
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship (SIBE) Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) PhD Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 29th May 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Syndromic surveillance of gastrointestinal illness for a more connected future
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 26th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor I Buchan Dr Alex Elliot
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Synthesis of functional materials from elemental sulfur
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st March 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Tom Hasell
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Taking control of cancer-associated splicing switches
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 1st May 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kevin Hamill
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Targeting ageing: Genes and compounds with pro-longevity, health-preserving effects
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 23rd July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr JP de Magalhaes
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
TDP-43 The Key protein for finding a cure for Motor Neurone Disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 24th July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Antonyuk Prof S Hasnain
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The Biology of Parasitism in Parasitic Nematodes
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Mark Viney
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The Eco-Immunology of Wild Mice
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Mark Viney
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The effect of low protein diet on the development of the musculoskeletal system
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 18th September 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki Professor Malcolm Jackson Dr Ioannis Kanakis
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The genomics of sperm killing gene drive
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Tom PRice Prof Greg Hurst Prof Steve Paterson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Thin Film Tandem Solar Cells
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st April 2020
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jon Major
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Time, organisations and innovation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th August 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Paul Ellwood
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Towards ‘Hospices Without Walls’; How Could Human Centred Design and Robotics facilitate ‘Enhanced Independence’ and ‘Alternative Access’ in Future Palliative Care Scenarios?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 12th April 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Farnaz Nickpour Dr Paolo Paoletti Dr Sebastiano Fichera
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Towards prediction of synthetically accessible organic molecular crystals
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 29th March 2020
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Vitaliy Kurlin Prof Andy Cooper Dr Angeles Pulido
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Transnational Production, Global Wealth Chains and Emerging Market Economies
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th August 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Claes Belfrage Dr Adriana Nilsson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Uncovering the mechanisms of cryoprotectant toxicity and improving cryopreservation protocols
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 23rd July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr JP de Magalhaes
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding and dissecting microbial communities with Raman spectroscopy
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Roy Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding ethnic inequalities in gastrointestinal infections in the UK
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 26th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor B Barr
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Using embryonic stem cell models to determine the importance of post transcriptional gene regulation in the early stages of embryo development
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 27th January 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Simon Tew Dr David Turner Dr Rachel Oldershaw
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Validation of novel biomarkers for improved risk stratification and therapy for the paediatric cancer neuroblastoma
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 18th February 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr V See Dr A Herrmann
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Vapour deposited coatings for long cycle-life Li-ion positive electrodes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 1st June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Laurence hardwick Professor Paul Chalker Professor Matthew Rosseinsky
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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When Social Meets Professional: The Performance Implications of Adopting Social Media in Workplaces
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th August 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Hugo Lam
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Work, Organisation and Management Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) PhD Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 29th May 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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X-ray Characterisation of Energy Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st April 2020
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Chris Lucas
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide