There are 113 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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A mixed methods approach to quantifying and characterising vaccine uptake and vaccine hesitancy in UK companion animals
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 21st June 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Gina Pinchbeck Prof Elizabeth Perkins Prof Alan Radford
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Assessing changes in wrist biomechanics during ageing and optimal design of total wrist arthroplasty and assistive rehabilitation devices
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 15th June 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr K Bates Dr S Fichera Dr B Geraghty
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Assessing stored energy due to radiation effects in nuclear waste forms
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Maulik Patel Dr F Blanc
- 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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Bio-inspired morphing solutions for aeroelastic problems
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr S Fichera Prof J-Y Chang
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
Brain computer interface (BCI) to reduce risk of fall in older people
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr H Lakany Prof Kea-Tiong Tang
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Broad spectrum antiviral and antibiofilm materials to treat hospital acquired infections
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr R D'Sa
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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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
Chemically Soldered Single Metal Clusters – Electronics, Electrochemistry and Photonics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Andrea Vezzoli Dr S J Higgins
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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: Friday 31st July 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matthew Rosseinsky Dr George Darling Dr Matthew Dyer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Control of turbulent flow in a square duct using a moving wall
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr DJC Dennis Dr R Poole Prof C A Lin
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Cooperative and Autonomous Control of Smart Microgrid
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr L Jiang Professor Chia-Chi Chu
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Deep Learning on Dynamic Networks
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr X Yi Prof CS Liao
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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: Friday 31st July 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge Dr Mike Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Designing efficient search strategies for new materials discovery (Reference LRC1907CS)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st July 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr V Kurlin\n Dr M Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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
Developing novel antibiotics from natural products against resistant bacteria
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 1st June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr W. David Hong
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Developing Operando Methods for Precision Battery Characterisation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th September 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor Nigel D. Browning
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development and application of in-situ electrochemical TEM methods for energy storage application
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st August 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr. B. Layla Mehdi
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Development of machine learning, mathematical optimisation and algorithmic techniques for materials chemistry problems
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 20th December 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky\n Dr V Kurlin Dr M Gaultois
- 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
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: Friday 31st July 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr J. Alaria Dr M. Dyer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Discovery of transparent conductors for sustainable buildings using Deep Learning (Reference NSGML2020PS)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st July 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Prof Y Goulermas Dr M Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Discovery of transparent conductors for sustainable buildings using Machine Learning and Advanced Data Analytics (Reference NSGML2020CS)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st July 2020
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof Yannis Goulermas Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr M Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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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Electrochemical Conversion of Captured Carbon Dioxide
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 10th June 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
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 30th June 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 West Nile virus transmission risk in the UK
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 10th June 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M Baylis Dr J Medlock Dr G Hughes
- 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 and numerical investigation of the cold expansion process
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Khurram Amjad Dr K Dvurecenska Dr P Green
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental Discovery of New Framework Materials as Ionic Conductors
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st July 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: Friday 31st July 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: Friday 31st July 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew 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
Extracting Important Information from Noisy Spectra (EPSRC CDT in Distributed Algorithms)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st May 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr M Broccardo Dr L Mason
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Future Rotorcraft Human Machine Interface
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof M White Prof I Owen
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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HealthCare 4.0 – Digitization of the Healthcare System
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 14th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Dirk Schaefer Dr Jelena Milisavljevic-Syed
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
High pressure hydrothermal synthesis of magnetic and electronic materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st July 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge Dr Jon Alaria
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Imaging brain networks in patients with Neurocysticercosis: identifying markers of seizure presentation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st August 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Simon Keller Dr S Sinha
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Inclusive Design for Future Oral Health Scenarios; A lifespan design approach investigating mainstream and extreme oral health pathways
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 15th June 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Farnaz Nickpour Dr N Longridge
- Eligibility:
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 molecular mechanisms and consequences of ANP aggregation for cardiovascular disease; a computational and experimental approach
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 15th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jill Madine Dr D J Rigden
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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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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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Learning to See More: Better Bayesian Track Before Detect using Statistical Machine Learning (EPSRC CDT in Distributed Algorithms)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st May 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr A Garcia-Fernandez Prof V Alexandrov
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Low-cost integrated spintronic terahertz transceiver
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr L O'Brien Prof S-H Yang
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Low-temperature atmospheric pressure plasma functionalized 2D materials for versatile sensing and optoelectronic devices
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr K McKay Prof Y L Chueh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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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
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
Method and Realisation of Parallel Computing for Switching Arc Simulation based on a Mix of Structured and Unstructured Grids
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor J D Yan Prof J Chou
- 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
Modelling subretinal injections to improve delivery of treatment for age-related eye diseases
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 15th June 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Victoria Kearns Dr Brendan Geraghty Dr A Abass
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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
Musculoskeletal function around the clock: The effects of age, exercise and shift work
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 27th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Vanja Pekovic-Vaughan Dr Kris D’Aout
- 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
Non-Myopic Approaches to Sensing and Surveying (EPSRC CDT in Distributed Algorithms)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st May 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Angel Garcia-Fernandez
- 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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Optics measurements and corrections for future electron colliders and light sources
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st May 2020
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Tessa Charles Dr Ilya Agapov
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Optimized Sampling Approaches for Compressive Sensing in Multi-Dimensional Datastreams (EPSRC CDT in Distributed Algorithms)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st May 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Ke Chen Dr Y Zheng
- 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
Plasma Induced Incorporation of Single Metal Atoms in 2D Materials for Versatile Applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof JW Bradley Dr Y L Chueh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Plasma-enhanced catalytic CO2 conversion to value-added fuels
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr X Tu Prof TY Chen
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
Post stroke visual impairment: improving service and care
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 1st September 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor F Rowe Dr L Hepworth
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Powder Processing for Hot Isostatic Pressing of Nuclear Waste
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 1st June 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor Karl Whittle
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Saliva-based Biosensors for Non-invasive Disease Monitoring
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 15th June 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Maher Dr D Hawcutt Prof J Blair
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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
Severe infection in coronavirus and haemorrhagic fever viruses
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 19th June 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Julian A. Hiscox Tom Fletcher Miles Carroll
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Shape, shear, search & strife; mathematical models of bacteria
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st May 2020
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Professor Rachel Bearon Dr Mal Horsborough Dr Bakhti Vasiev
- 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
Strain-based Monitoring of Damage Creation in Heterogeneous Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr W Christian Prof W-C Wang
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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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
Terahertz integrated circuit based on 3D-printed multi-material functional structures
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Esther García-Tuñón Prof Shang-Hua Yang
- 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 Consequences of Transmission Heterogeneities for Disease Outbreaks
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 7th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor A Fenton Professor M 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 15th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr T Price Professor G Hurst Professor S Paterson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Towards Data Driven Aerodynamic Models: Data Fusion of Experiment and Simulation (EPSRC CDT in Distributed Algorithms)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st May 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Timme Dr J Castagna
- 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 non-genetic inheritance in Daphnia magna with Raman spectroscopic imaging and mass spectrometry-based metabolomics
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 7th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr H Muhamad Ali Dr S J Plaistow Prof R Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Use of Machine Learning for Helicopter Ship Operational Research
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor M White Prof I Owen
- 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
Van der Waals heterostructures for valley and spintronics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr L O'Brien Prof Y L Chueh
- 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