There are 127 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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A systems biology analysis of thioredoxin reductase inhibition to support discovery of a novel antifungal treatment
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 21st March 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Tao You Professor Janet Quinn Professor Elaine Bignell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Accelerated Inorganic Materials Discovery Driven by Magnetic Resonance
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 22nd March 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Frédéric Blanc Dr Matthew Dyer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Accelerating energy landscape exploration through optimisation, approximation and parallelisation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Professor Igor Potapov Professor Paul Spirakis
- Eligibility:
Advanced Information Storage
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Wenqing Liu
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Alterations in reparative dentinogenesis with ageing, gender and genetic predisposition
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Laird Professor Fadi Jarad Dr Nick Longridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Analysing the role of statins in cardiovascular protection
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 16th January 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Mike Cross Dr Bettina Wilm Dr Anil Mondru
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Analysis of the role of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells in methotrexate-induced liver toxicity
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 29th November 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Michael Cross Prof Chris Goldring
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven design of macrocycle molecules against drug resistant bacteria
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 1st April 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Neil Berry Dr David Hong
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Assessment of matrix metalloproteinase 9 inhibitor for the treatment of severe skin-blistering adverse drug reactions using in vitro and ex vivo skin models.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Dan Carr
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Automated experimental functional materials discovery for net zero technologies
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matthew Rosseinsky Professor Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen Professor Alexei Lisitsa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Automated Powder Coating Platform for Long-Life Lithium-ion Batteries
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Laurence Hardwick Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr Gabriella Pizzuto Dr Alex Neale
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Beam gas curtain monitor for the High Luminosity LHC
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Hao Zhang Dr Stefano Mazzoni
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Better diagnosis and intervention for sarcopenia and frailty, and multimorbidity (cardiovascular disease, heart failure, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)) utilizing metabolomic.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad Dr Howbeer Muhammad Ali Dr E Emmott
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Biological pathways supporting the formation and function of chromatin (Scholarship)
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 8th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Colin Hammond
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Carbon dioxide utilisation from captured industry emissions
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Alex Cowan
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Cardiac Harmony: Modelling Heart Beats with Stem Cells and Code
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Richard Barrett-Jolley Dr Rachel Oldershaw
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Cardiovascular and Neuromuscular Functions around the Clock: Harnessing Protective Endogenous Mechanisms towards Smarter Design of Novel Therapies and Interventions
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Vanja Pekovic-Vaughan Dr Masoud Isanejad Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki Dr Sunil Loganthama
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Chromatin regulation of oncogenic transcription and replication stress: mechanism and functional implications in acute myeloid leukemia
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 18th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Manolis Papamichos Chronakis Prof David MacEwan Dr Aditi Kanhere
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Combining genome-scale metabolic models and multi-omics data for a system level understanding of bacteria
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 22nd March 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Francesco Del-Carratore Prof Roy Goodacre Prof Steve Paterson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Computational exploration of substrates and interfaces for thin film solar cells
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st May 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Matthew Dyer Dr Troy Manning
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Computationally driving automated functional materials discovery for net zero technologies with machine reasoning and decision-making
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen Professor Alexei Lisitsa Professor Matthew Rosseinsky
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Control of bone shape and function by the extracellular matrix Fibrillin-1
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Blandine Poulet
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Creation of cell lines modelling complex karyotype in B cell lymphomas using CRISPR/Cas9
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st May 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Joseph Slupsky Prof Nagesh Kalakonda Dr Mark Glenn
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Decarbonising global supply chains: tools for trade-off decision-making
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 15th April 2024
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Elisabetta Mariani Dr Gopalakrishnan Narayanamurthy Dr Katherine Moore
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Deploying safer robot chemists in real laboratory environments
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Gabriella Pizzuto Professor Andy Cooper
- Eligibility:
Determination of the non-coding RNAs in the knee joint tissues of dogs at differing risk to cranial cruciate ligament rupture.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Eithne Comerford Professor Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Determining metabolic reprogramming events in stem cells in response to inflammatory disease phenotype
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Oldershaw Dr Amy Chadwick Dr Marie Phelan Dr Brendan Norman
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Determining the biocompatibility of, novel, nano-silica coated surfaces on oral and gastrointestinal immune barriers
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 30th March 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Neill Liptrott Prof Rachel Williams
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing a New Class of Electromagnetic Field Solvers for Charged Particle and Mass Spectrometry Modelling & Simulation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 30th September 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing industrial AI support tools for processing legal cases in medical negligence
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Professor Katie Atkinson
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Development of an autonomous mobile robotic system for agriculture applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Heba Lakany Dr Ian Sandall
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of bespoke algorithms for autonomous optimisation in flow
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Anna Slater Professor Prudence Wong
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of neutron imaging sensors for applications in energy and healthcare
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 24th March 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jon Taylor Prof Gianluigi Casse Prof Sergey Burdin
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of NMR Methods for the Study of Dynamics in Solids
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 5th April 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Frédéric Blanc
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Digital discovery of new photocatalysts for photoredox catalysis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr John Ward Professor Alessandro Troisi
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Digital Exploration of Novel Polymeric Materials for Structural Composites
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Neil Berry Dr Tom Hasell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Digital Routes to Next Generation Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Rosseinsky Dr Bei Peng
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Discovery of Functional Inorganic Materials for Net Zero Applications using High-Throughput Synthesis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge Dr Troy Manning
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Do patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears demonstrate muscle strength deficits of the hip, knee, and ankle muscles?
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Oldershaw Mr Richard Norris
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Electrochemically switchable materials down to the single molecule level
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 1st August 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Richard Nichols
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Elucidation of a new pathological mechanism for brittle bone disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Laird
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Endosymbionts as an overlooked threat for insect reintroductions
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 22nd March 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Ilik Saccheri Dr Jenny Hodgson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Engineered nanomaterials for safe sustainable water purification
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 9th January 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Raechelle D’Sa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Engineering more water-use efficient crops: functional genomics of CO2 fixation during Crassulacean acid metabolism
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 30th November 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr James Hartwell Dr Peter Walley
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
ENVISAGE: Evaluating gamma-imaging with the SIGMA detector
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 5th April 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Andy Boston Prof Laura Harkness-Brennan
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Enzyme Optimisation, Scale-up and Application Testing: Ester and Amide Modification of Anionic Polysaccharides for Use in Home Care Formulations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 8th April 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Andrew Carnell Prof Dan Rigden Dr Jesus Enrique Salcedo Sora
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Experimental discovery of new Inorganic Materials for Net Zero Technologies
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Explaining structure-property relations in the materials space
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Professor Vitaliy Kurlin Professor Andrew Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploiting Deep Learning-based protein structure prediction for function annotation and structural biology
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 15th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof D J Rigden Dr R Keegan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploring the role of SVA retrotransposons in the risk and progression of motor neurone disease
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 15th April 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ben Middlehurst Prof John Quinn
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Exploring the roles of dynamic atypical protein phosphorylation in cancer
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Claire Eyers Prof Andy Jones
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploring tyrosine metabolism as a source of oxidative stress
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Brendan Norman Dr Juliette Hughes Prof Lakshminarayan Ranganath
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Hepatic Models to personalise cancer chemotherapy
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Chris Goldring Dr Amy Chadwick Professor Ian Copple Dr Sudeep Pushpakom
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
High-throughput discovery of new materials as functional coatings on glass for net-zero applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Rosseinsky Dr Richard Potter Dr Troy Manning Prof Paul Chalker
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
High-throughput first-principle simulations of charge transport in organic semiconductors
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Pavel Buividovich Professor Alessandro Troisi
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
High-Throughput Soft Matter Characterisation for Formulation Discovery
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 29th March 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr William Sharratt Dr Esther García-Tuñón Professor Vitaly Kurlin
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
How can we use psychology to improve the nation’s diet?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 8th April 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Loukia Tzavella Professor Eric Robinson
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Identifying age-related extracellular microenvironment in dental tissues
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto Prof Fadi Jarad
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Improving patient outcomes following mandibular reconstruction after oral cancer: novel finite element methods for better surgical design
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Alana Sharp Prof Andrew Schache
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency - Engineering and Evolution of Light-Harvesting Complexes via Synthetic Biology
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 2nd August 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Daniel Canniffe
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Interaction between innate immune activation and endothelial cells, linked to adverse cardiovascular events
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Neill Liptrott Dr Richard Rainbow Prof Caroline Dart
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating how tumour associated macrophages affect cancer metastasis and response to therapies
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 15th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Ainhoa Mielgo Prof Michael Schmid
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the cellular functions of Trappc9 in brain development and microcephaly
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st January 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Antonius Plagge Dr Tobias Zech
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the impact of galectin-ligand interaction on cancer cell resistance to chemotherapeutic treatment
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Lu-Gang Yu
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the Local Mode of Action of Anti-Perspirants using model systems and advanced probing techniques
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Rasmita Raval Dr P Pudney
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Investigating the regulation of neutrophil gene expression by intracellular signalling and small non-coding RNAs
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Helen Wright Prof Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of Aquaporins in age related diseases
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Caroline Staunton Dr Robert Heaton
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of ethnicity and inflammation in intramural hematoma to understand disease progression and guide future treatment avenues
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jill Madine Dr Helen Wright Dr Riaz Akhtar Prof Mark Field Dr Vitaly Sorokin
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of Golga3 cleavage during SARS-CoV-2 infection
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 4th April 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ed Emmott Prof. Pat Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of neutrophil-mediated tissue damage in a model of lupus nephritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Helen Wright Dr David Wilkinson Dr David Turner
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of oxidative metabolites in joint destruction in osteoarthritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Brendan Norman Dr Juliette Hughes Prof George Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigation into the challenges and scenarios faced in decommissioning
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 5th April 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Andy Boston Prof Dave Joss
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Lifting barriers to Black Academia
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 25th March 2024
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Prof Mark Towsey Dr Sam Caslin
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Machine Learning-Enabled Optimisation for Small Modular Reactors in Maritime Propulsion
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 12th April 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Anna Detkina Prof Maulik Patel Dr Aiden Peakman (National Nuclear Laboratory)
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Mechanisms controlling gene expression in hypoxia and inflammation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Sonia Rocha
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Microbial Induced Electrochemistry at the Local Site and Single Cell Level
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Rasmita Raval Dr Andrea Vezzoli
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Microstructure-flow interplay in 3D printing: linking structure, rheology and printability of bespoke and commercial formulations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Esther Garcia-Tunon Dr William Sharratt
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Morphology, motion, and mechanics of vertebral joints in fish
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ariel Camp Dr Alana Sharp
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MUSIC-AF: Personalised music interventions to reduce arrhythmia recurrence after rhythm control in patients with atrial fibrillation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 1st April 2024
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Dr Eduardo Coutinho Dr Alena Shantsila Prof Gregory Lip
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MuslceGaiN: Muscle Gut axis and Nutrition investigation: utilizing bioinformatic, omics and molecular data analyses to target muscle ageing
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad Dr Howbeer Muhamad Ali
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Nanocomposite Membranes for Antibiotics Removal from Water: A Multidisciplinary Approach Towards Sustainability and Scalability
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 12th April 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Hamid Rajabi Prof Mohaddeseh Mousavi Nezhad Prof John Bridgeman
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Network-based predictive modelling of cardiovascular disease risk
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 1st August 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Tao You
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Neural Network solutions for Anaerobic Digestion
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 12th April 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Davide Dapelo Prof John Bridgeman
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Non-Metal Organic Frameworks for proton and ion conduction
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Andrew Cooper Professor Laurence Hardwick
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Non-thermal plasma as a chemical reagent: elucidating mechanism and exploring NTP for pharmaceutically relevant electroreductive reactions
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Anna Slater Dr Christophe Aissa
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Optical fiber-based RF-breakdown detection and prediction
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Joseph Wolfenden Dr David Rowlands
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Personalising cancer treatment with tumour evolution modelling using AI-based genomics biomarkers and PK/PD
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 1st August 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Tao You
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Phage Dynamics and Interaction Study: Real-time Observation and Analysis (PhD-ISROA)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 12th April 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Francesco Giorgi Prof Jude Curran
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
PhD Studentship on the History of Race, Health and Medicine
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 25th March 2024
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Dr Sam Caslin Prof Mark Towsey
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Platinum Self Powered Neutron Detectors
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 5th April 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Andy Boston Prof Dave Joss
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Pollution, plastics and plumes: understanding the behaviour of microplastics in aquatic sediments
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof John Bridgeman Dr Annie Ockelford
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Predictive molecular models of high-performance elastomers in demanding environments
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Roman Boulatov
- Eligibility:
Preparation and Characterisation of ‘Green’ Photocathodes for the Generation of High-Brightness Electron Beams
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten P Welsch Dr Lee Jones, ASTeC/STFC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Probing Death Decisions from Morphogen Gradient Fields
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Marisa Merino
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Protecting cells from mechanical stress: A novel role of cell-surface receptor LRP1 in extracellular matrix- nuclei communication
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto Dr Riaz Akhtar\n
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Protecting cells from mechanical stress: A novel role of cell-surface receptor LRP1 in extracellular matrix- nuclei communication.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Putting a brain in the mobile robotic chemist
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Andy Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Reliable modelling of non-Newtonian sludge flows using novel computational fluid dynamics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof John Bridgeman Prof Eann Patterson Steve Graham
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Remote Gait Evaluation for People with Parkinson’s Disease
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st May 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Heba Lakany Dr Kris D’Août Dr Antonella Macerollo
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Simulating Dynamic Battery Interfaces: In Search of Next Generation Lithium Batteries
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 30th March 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Aaron Finney Prof Laurence Hardwick
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Studying the effects of a nutritional intervention on inflammageing, health, cognition and physical activity in senior cats
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 1st April 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Alex German Professor Eithne Comerford
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Sustainable Biomaterial Formulations for 3D Bioprinting of Gradient Structures
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 12th April 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr William Sharratt Dr Esther García-Tuñón Dr Kasia Gurzawska-Comis
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Sustainable enantioselective cross-couplings: reaction development and applications in synthesis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor John Bower
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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The development and application of metabolomics tools to study human metabolism in health and disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor WB Dunn Dr H Muhamad-Ali
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The effect of low protein diet on the development of the neuromuscular system
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The importance of diatom biodiversity in the response of Southern Ocean ecosystems and biogeochemistry to climate change
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2024
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof Alessandro Tagliabue Dr Chris Follett Prof Laurent Bopp
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
THROMB-AI: Computational risk stratification of thrombus formation and lysis in post-stroke patients
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 5th April 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Wahbi El-Bouri Dr Ying Gue Prof GYH Lip Dr Andrew Narracott Prof Diana Gorog
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Translating protection of cell-surface receptor LRP1 into potential disease-modifying therapies for osteoarthritis.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 11th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto Prof George Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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ULMS Accounting and Finance PhD Funding Call: October 2024 entry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 28th March 2024
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Research Support Team
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
ULMS Economics PhD Funding Call: October 2024 entry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 28th March 2024
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Research Support Team
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
ULMS PhD Management Funding Call: October 2024 entry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 28th March 2024
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Research Support Team
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Uncovering the mechanochemical signalling inputs that drive gastruloid axial patterning
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Turner
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding the barriers to healthcare for women with chronic pelvic pain
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Selina Johnson Prof Helen Poole Dr Emma Evans
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding the benefits and risks of the therapeutic targeting of the Nrf2 stress response
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Ian Copple
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Unlocking precision experiments: Optimizing beam transport and instrumentation at the antimatter experiment AEgIS at CERN
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten P Welsch Dr Benjamin Rienaecker
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Upskilling robotic scientists for long-term laboratory workflows
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2024
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Gabriella Pizzuto
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Urokinase-plasminogen activator as a target to block osteoarthritic cartilage destruction
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Wilkinson Professor George Bou-Gharios Professor Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Using pre-clinical models of disease to define new targets to slow joint degeneration in osteoarthritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Blandine Poulet
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Why do cancers cells re-express meiotic SYCP1 protein?
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 2nd August 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Urszula McClurg
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide