There are 46 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Algorithms for Six Degree-of-freedom Virtual Reality Streaming
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 15th October 2021
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof Prudence Wong Associate Prof Cheng-Hsin Hsu
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Atomic Layer Deposition of metals and oxides on ‘shaped’ catalyst support particles: Creating advanced catalysts for the production of sustainable next-generation feedstock chemicals for the consumer chemical sector
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 27th January 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Richard Potter Prof P R Chalker Prof M J Rosseinsky
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Clinical Research Fellowship in Oncology
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 1st October 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Nagesh Kalakonda The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Defence evolution under protective symbiosis: how do nuclear and symbiont defences interact?
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 13th October 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof G Hurst Dr T Price
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Defining the role of oxidative stress snoRNAs in osteoarthritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Mandy Peffers Prof Tim Welting Dr Fanny Hontoir
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Defining the role of WT1 in cellular and molecular processes during gastrulation, in embryos and gastruloids
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 31st December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Bettina Wilm
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Determination of the microstructural extracellular and cellular response of young and aged anterior cruciate ligaments in the mammalian knee joint to mechanical load
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 7th May 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Eithne Comerford Dr B Geraghty Prof Hazel Screen
- Eligibility:
Determining the biocompatibility of, novel, nano-silica coated surfaces on oral and gastrointestinal immune barriers
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 19th May 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Neill Liptrott Professor Rachel Williams
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of a Reverse ChIP-Sequencing (RChIPS) technology to discover novel proteins regulating gene expression
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 5th December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr McClurg Dr Suzanne Madgwick Prof Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of sensitive molecular viral assays to screen anti-SARS-CoV-2 formulations
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 7th December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof W Paxton Dr G Pollakis
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Diagnosis of Baby Neurodevelopmental Disorders Using Millimetrewaves
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st October 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr. Jiafeng Zhou Dr Xiaowei Huang Dr. Richard Hutchinson
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Diet and thermal limits: eating for survival and fertility
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 13th October 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Wigby Dr T Price Dr N Hemmings
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Engineering more water-use efficient crops: functional genomics of CO2 fixation during Crassulacean acid metabolism
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 21st January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. James Hartwell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploring structural ensembles to enhance unconventional Molecular Replacement and facilitate Cryo-EM map interpretation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 7th December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor D Rigden Dr R Keegan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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How does the provision of different ecosystem services interact? A multi-habitat approach across the rural-urban continuum in the UK
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 13th October 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr C Garcia Perez
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Identification of different cell populations in cruciate ligaments of the murine knee joint and how they respond to injury
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 7th May 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Eithne Comerford Dr S Tew Prof G Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the biology and importance of microbial symbiosis in the plant pest, Empoasca decipiens
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 7th December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof G Hurst Dr Zytynska
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of calmodulin in human muscular hypotonia and immunodeficiency
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 15th February 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Nordine Helassa Prof C Dart Prof Alexei Tepikin
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Irish Studies PhD Studentships
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th September 2021
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Isle of Man Anti-Cancer Association Non-Clinical Studentship
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 1st October 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility:
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Learning Enabled Human Activity Recognition and Tracking for Healthcare
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 1st November 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Xiaowei Huang Dr J Zhou Prof Mark Turner
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Mechanisms of synapse loss during neurodegeneration and ageing
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th November 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Sanchez-Soriano
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Mechanistic understanding of cancer drug induced cardiotoxicity using patient derived induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) derived cardiomyocytes
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Parveen Sharma Dr Richard Rainbow
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Metabolomics investigation of impacts of metal nanoparticles on multispecies biofilm consortia
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 21st April 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Howbeer Muhamad Ali Prof Kathryn Whitehead
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Metabolomics investigation of oral bacteria involved in chronic periodontitis to determine biomarkers indicative of systemic disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 21st April 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Howbeer Muhamad Ali Prof Kathryn Whitehead
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Metal-organic framework derived multi-metallic catalysts and catalytic functionalisation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 27th January 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Prof A I Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Modelling antibiotic resistance in chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 2nd December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Fothergill Dr Childs Dr Sharkey
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Modulation of cell survival in cancer via the PERP route
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 24th May 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Luminita Paraoan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Molecular dissection of cell-extracellular matrix interactions in hepatic homeostasis and the development of fibrosis\n
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 4th November 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Takao Sakai
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Nanomaterial based antimicrobials to treat hospital acquired infections
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 25th May 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr. Raechelle D’Sa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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PhD in Healthcare Diagnostics: Novel Point-of-Care Immunoassay for Salivary Biomarkers
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 1st November 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
PhD in Instrumentation: Novel and Portable Ion Mobility Spectrometer
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 1st November 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Post stroke visual impairment: improving our risk assessment and service and care
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 1st November 2021
- Subject area: Social Science and Health
- Supervisors: Professor Fiona Rowe Prof GYH Lip
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Predicting body size shrinkage - the third universal response to environmental warming
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 13th October 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Professor D Atkinson Dr T Price
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Sarcopenia in stroke: Improving diagnosis, risk stratification, and intervention
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 31st December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad Dr Mohsen Mazidi Dr Deirdre Lane
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Searching for amyloid forming bacteria using bioinformatics and experimental approaches
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 4th December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Madine Prof D Rigden Prof M Taggart
- 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: Tuesday 14th December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor de Magalhaes
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The effect of low protein diet on the development of the musculoskeletal system
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 23rd September 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki Professor Malcolm Jackson Dr Katarzyna Whysall
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The role of CaBP4 in human epilepsy
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 9th September 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr L P Haynes Dr N Helassa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The role of protein palmitoylation during mitosis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 4th May 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lee Haynes Dr Nordine Helassa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The role of small non-coding RNA extracellular vesicle cargo in age-related anterior cruciate ligament degeneration
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 7th May 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Eithne Comerford Professor Mandy Peffers Dr Yalda Kharaz
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Tissue mechanics: A driver of pathogenesis in B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (B-NHL) and a therapeutic opportunity?
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 29th June 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kathy Till Dr Mark Morgan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Towards understanding age-related macular degeneration: dysregulation of oxidative stress response and protein homeostasis in the retinal pigment epithelium
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 24th May 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Luminita Paraoan
- 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: Tuesday 14th December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor de Magalhaes
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Validating NMR metabolomics as a novel technology for measuring drug safety using human induced pluripotent stem cell-cardiomyocytes
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 4th December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Oldershaw Dr Amy Chadwick Dr Marie Phelan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Zeolite and Zeotype synthesis and modification for biomass-derived chemical feedstock transformation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 27th January 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr J Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide