There are 130 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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Accelerated Inorganic Materials Discovery Driven by Magnetic Resonance
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Frédéric Blanc Dr Matthew Dyer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Accelerating computational materials discovery with diverse toolsets for verification and optimisation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Alexei Lisitsa Dr Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen
- 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
An investigation of the neural basis of changes in tactile acuity during healthy ageing and its impact on emotional wellbeing
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 7th June 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Nick Fallon Dr Carl Roberts Timo Giesbrecht (Unilever) Jessica Henderson (Unilever)
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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
Antifouling membranes for sustainable water purification and desalination
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Raechelle D’Sa Dr Henry Ng
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Assessing how climate change will impact Cumbrian Coastal Lines (low value of service, but strategically important routes), with a focus on critical infrastructure for freight and energy material transport
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof Neil Macdonald Dr Charlotte Lyddon Dr Luigi Di Sarno (SoE)
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Assessing the consistency assumption underlying network meta-analysis in systematic reviews
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 1st October 2024
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Sarah Donegan Dr Angela Boland Prof Catrin Tudur Smith
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Asset-scale nowcasting of the impact of scour on coastal electricity transmission infrastructure
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof James Cooper Dr Kasey Clark
- 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: Chemical 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: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Hao Zhang Dr Stefano Mazzoni
- 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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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
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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Data science and child health inequalities
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Dan Hawcutt Prof Ian Sinha Dr Olufemi Olajide
- 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
Developing a framework for regulatory conformance of innovative experimental nuclear
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Bruno Merk Prof Johnathan Coleman Prof Andrew Boston
- 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 a simulator for a zero power nuclear reactor experimental facility for innovative
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Bruno Merk Prof Johnathan Coleman Prof Andrew Boston Dr Anna Detkina
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing an in silico method for endodontic restoration of human molar teeth
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 11th April 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Rosti Readioff Dr Alana Sharp Dr Nicholas Longridge Prof Fadi Jarad
- 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
Developing Novel Machine Learning Methods for Equation of State Uncertainty Quantification
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st May 2024
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof Simon Maskell
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Development of a novel AI model for cardiovascular disease risk prediction by analysing retinal vascular structure and functional changes in blood flow
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st August 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr He Zhao Prof Gregory Lip Prof Yalin Zheng Savita Madhusudhan Peck Lin Lip
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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 NMR Methods for the Study of Dynamics in Solids
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Frédéric Blanc
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Digging into anthropogenic vibrations: investigating the impacts of noise on the physiology and behaviour of benthic and infaunal invertebrates
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Jack Thomson Dr Louise Roberts
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Digital discovery of new photocatalysts for photoredox catalysis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2024
- Subject area: Chemical 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
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
Engineering polysaccharide sulfotransferases
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 14th May 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof David Fernig Dr Edwin Yates Dr Igor Barsukov
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Environmentally friendly antibiofouling coatings for marine applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Raechelle D’Sa Dr Jenny Hanson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental discovery of new Inorganic Materials for Net Zero Technologies
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental Discovery of New Ionic Conducting Materials Towards Net-Zero Technologies
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Rosseinsky 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 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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Gaining mechanistic insights into Atrial Fibrillation: Bench to bedside approaches
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 1st July 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rebecca Burton Prof Gregory Lip Dr Parveen Sharma
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Heat, Health and Human Geographies: Exploring Caribbean Responses to Urban Heat Stress through Creative Ethnographic Methods
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 28th June 2024
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Shelda-Jane Smith Prof Chris Pearson Ms Bryony Ella Dr Gabrielle Thongs
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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 power laser development
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st May 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Laura Corner
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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 exploration of multicomponent metal organic frameworks (MOFs)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr Alexandros Katsoulidis
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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: Wednesday 12th June 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr William Sharratt Dr Esther García-Tuñón Professor Vitaly Kurlin
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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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
Impact of flooding and erosion from extreme rainfall on EDF’s fleet of nuclear power stations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Charlotte Lyddon James Cooper Andy Plater
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Improved structural integrity assessments for wrinkling defects in composite turbines
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr William Christian
- 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 local invasion in primary and secondary brain tumours
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 2nd December 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rasheed Zakaria Prof Michael Jenkinson Ian Scott
- 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 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: Monday 29th April 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Andy Boston Prof Dave Joss
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Linking historic, contemporary, and future inspection data for improved asset monitoring
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 29th April 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Will Christian Dr Ksenija Dvurecenska
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Long-term corrosion in fluoride salts for the development of molten salt nuclear reactor
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 29th April 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Maulik Patel
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Marine track-before-detect: Machine learning to track multiple objects using raw radar data in the maritime environment
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st May 2024
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Angel Garcia-Fernandez
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Maritime autonomy for safe, fuel efficient port operations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Jonathan Higham Andy Plater Jake Rigby (BMT)
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
Micro-PIV Investigation of Seabed Reactions to Hydrodynamic Conditions and Energy Changes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Mohad Nezhad Prof John Bridgeman Dr Allison Schaap
- 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: Wednesday 12th June 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 30th September 2024
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Dr Eduardo Coutinho Dr Alena Shantsila Prof Gregory Lip
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Nature-based protection of coastal electricity assets: Optimal design of Coir in combating coastal erosion through habitat restoration
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th May 2024
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof James Cooper Prof Nicoletta Leonardi Prof Andy Plater
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
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: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Joseph Wolfenden Dr David Rowlands
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Optimising Trenching Techniques for Subsea Cable Installation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Xue Zhang Dr Yan Zhou Dr Hui Yan
- 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
Planning for climate resilient energy infrastructure in the coastal zone
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Charlotte Lyddon Prof Andy Plater Cai Bird (CoastSense Ltd.)
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Platinum Self Powered Neutron Detectors
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 29th 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: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten P Welsch Dr Lee Jones, ASTeC/STFC
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Probing Death Decisions from Morphogen Gradient Fields
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 5th April 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Marisa Merino
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Process-based model tools for prediction of scour around offshore structural foundations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Ming Li Dr Yan Zhou
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Process-based modelling of long-term morphological impacts from offshore marine renewable energy installations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Ming Li Wendi Liu (Daresbury Laboratory) Charles Moulinec (Daresbury Laboratory)
- 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
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Real-time risk assessment of meteorological hazards to coastal energy infrastructure
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof James Cooper Prof Jonathan Higham
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
Repeat Physical Traumas an initiator for motor neuron disease (MND): \nan insight from professional rugby
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th June 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr C Staunton Professor A McArdle Professor G Close Professor C Young
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Resilient and Sustainable Modular Steel Platform for Critical Components Exposed to Extreme Loadings (RESIST-2-EXTREMES)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st May 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Luigi di Sarno Adam Mannis Simon Gilliland
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Resilient design of floating wind turbines exposed to climate change effects based on sustainable structural health monitoring and early warning systems
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Luigi di Sarno Professor John Bridgeman
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Simulating Dynamic Battery Interfaces: In Search of Next Generation Lithium Batteries
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st May 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Aaron Finney Prof Laurence Hardwick
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Structural modifications in aged PuO2
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 29th April 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Maulik Patel
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Study of early pathological changes in calcified cartilage in osteoarthritis and alkaptonuria
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th May 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Juliette Hughes Prof George Bou-Gharios Prof Andrew Pitsillides
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Synchrotron X-ray Studies of Energy Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st May 2024
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Christopher Lucas Dr Yvonne Grunder
- 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 evolution of large brains and complex cognition across animal taxa
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Christopher Mitchell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The nexus between climate change, extreme air pollution events and public health – Towards a holistic approach
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st December 2025
- Subject area: Social Science and Health
- Supervisors: Dr Vasilis Matthaios Dr Chris Kypridemos Dr Brendan Collins
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The Role of Nutrition and Exercise in Physical and Cognitive Function (such as sarcopenia and frailty), utilizing clinical, metabolomic, proteomic, and gut microbiota data
- 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
Two-phase modelling of flocculation process due to offshore installations in coastal waters
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Yan Zhou Prof John Bridgeman
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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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
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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Vulnerability of Coastal Energy Infrastructure to Climate and Environmental Change
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th May 2024
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof Andy Plater Dr Rachel Smedley Dr Charlotte Lyddon
- 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