There are 125 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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A multi-disciplinary approach to understand the mechanisms of immunotoxicity induced by the dual-antibiotic combination of vancomycin and tazocin
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 31st March 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Xiaoli Meng Prof Dean Naisbitt Prof Gareth Veal
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Additive manufacturing of biodegradable drug delivery implants
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 20th October 2023
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Raechelle D'Sa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Aphid protective symbionts as unseen drivers of population and community dynamics and the impact for biological control
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Sharon Zytynska Dr Julia Ferrari Prof Greg Hurst Dr Helen Hesketh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Application of molecular imaging techniques for better understanding antimicrobial resistance in biofilms
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Howbeer Muhamad Ali Prof R Goodacre Dr Lee Gethings
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Arterial Compliance and the Rupturing Aorta – A Novel Screening Tool for Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st December 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/engineering/staff/riaz-akhtar/
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Assessment of novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of severe skin-blistering adverse drug reactions using in vitro and ex vivo skin models.
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 1st January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Dan Carr
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Assessment of the stiffness of the aortic Wall by Pulse Wave Velocity To predict risk of thoracic aortic aneurysm among hypertensive patients: The T-watch study
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 24th August 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Riccardo Proietti
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Automated synthesis and characterisation of polymers
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Andy Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Autonomous monitoring of dairy cattle body mass and oestrus behaviour using a deep learning approach
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Joseph Neary Dr W Al-Nuaimy Prof Georgios Oikonomou
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Beyond landcover maps, modelling the patches that matter to species
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jenny Hodgson Dr S Smart
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Bioengineering a full thickness cornea
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Hannah Levis Prof Rachel Williams Dr Kate Black
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Brain rhythms that serve as the binder for memory and concept formation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Emmanuel Biau Dr Yukiko Kikuchi Dr C Petkov Dr S Wuerger
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Breeding for improved organoleptic quality in Wild Rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia (L.) DC) using marker assisted breeding
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr P Walley Mr Sujit Tha
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Can we use machine learning to predict viral spill-overs and the next pandemic virus?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Maya Wardeh Dr Marcus Blagrove Dr A Mill Prof M Baylis
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Characterising novel regulation processes for a structurally important skeletal gene
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 30th June 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Simon Tew Prof G Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Cleaner Futures: Electron microscopy of catalysts for renewable transformations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 20th January 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Prof N Browning
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Computational analyses of the conservation, competition and crosstalk of lysine-based post-translational modifications (PTMs)\n
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof A Jones Prof M Trost Prof Claire Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Defining the links between ROS and inflammaging in a human model of neutrophil-driven inflammation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr HL Wright Prof E Veal Prof Claire Eyers
- 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: Tuesday 21st February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Bettina Wilm
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Design and Synthesis of New Chiral Heterogeneous Photocatalysts for Light-Driven Asymmetric Organocatalysis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 28th February 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr John Ward
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Determining the impact of lifestyle-related biomechanics on muscle in the ageing human arm
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Karl Bates Prof Tom Joyce Dr S Fichera Mr Daniel Brown
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing bio-acoustic monitoring: can current challenges be overcome?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Professor Kate Parr
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing new cancer therapeutic agents from foodstuff: characterizing galectin interaction with novel inhibitors
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 17th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Lu-Gang Yu Dr Edwin Yates
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing novel flukicides: the effect of neurotoxic spider venoms on the parasite, Fasciola hepatica
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Jane Hodgkinson Dr E Fitches Prof A Jones Prof A Maule
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing novel technologies to analyse cellular differentiation processes during embryonic development in vivo and ex vivo
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr B Wilm Dr D Turner Prof M Taggart
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Discovery of new materials for applications on glass using Deep Machine Learning and Data Analytics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 15th February 2023
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof J Y Goulermas Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr M Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Diversifying the histone code: defining the role of non-canonical phosphorylation in chromatin structure
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 15th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Claire Eyers Prof A Jones Prof J Higgins
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Dynamics and Impact of Arsenophonus apicola infection in pollinator communities\n
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof G Hurst Prof Giles Budge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Ecological and evolutionary consequences of nanoplastic pollution in the water flea, Daphnia magna
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Stewart Plaistow Dr Howbeer Muhamad Ali Dr T McDonald
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Economics Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 6th January 2023
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Management School supervisor list
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Engineered nanomaterials for water purification and decontamination
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 20th October 2023
- 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: Tuesday 31st October 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. James Hartwell Dr Peter Walley
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Enhanced and robust characterisation of dynamic protein post-translational protein modifications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Claire Eyers Dr Lee Gethings Prof A Jones
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Evaluation of healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) systems to monitor and protect older people via IoT trust.
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 9th December 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Valerio Selis Dr. Kristiaan D’Août
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Experimental discovery of new Inorganic Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 23rd December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Experimental Discovery of New Inorganic Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 8th December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr J Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Exploiting Deep Learning-based protein structure prediction for function annotation and structural biology
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 19th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof D J Rigden Dr R Keegan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploring the incentivisation and biodiversity returns of treescapes using agent based models
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Cornell Dr J Touza
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Failure and recovery of robotic chemists for computationally-guided materials discovery
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st January 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Andy Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Flow chemistry to control molecular nanotopology
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 16th April 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Anna Slater Professor Liang Zhang Dr John Ward
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Forecasting and monitoring seed production in European forests: providing the seeds for woodland expansion
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Andrew Hacket Pain Dr B Purse Dr Freddie Draper Dr S Brough
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Formation of Functional Hybrid Glasses for Adsorptive Applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lauren McHugh
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Function, ecology and macroevolution of the mammalian masticatory system
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr KT Bates Dr J Gardiner Dr Philip Cox Prof A Goswami
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Gene therapy for Alkaptonuria
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 15th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. George Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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How do female relationships shape the social system of a group-living mammal?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Paula Stockley Professor Jane Hurst
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
How does the metabolism of host glycans shape microbiota interactions?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr A Cartmell Dr H Strahl von Schulten Dr Edwin Yates
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Identification of the role of small nucleolar RNAs in cartilage ageing
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 23rd November 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Identifying novel SNORD116 targets and signaling pathways
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 23rd November 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Imaging nanoprobes and technologies to enable the clinical translation of cell-based therapies\n
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Marco Giardiello Prof H Poptani Dr P A Murray
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Immune system diversity and evolution in natural populations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof S Paterson Prof J Slate
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Improving core outcome set uptake in trials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 16th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Williamson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Improving sustainable parasite control in British dairy cattle
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Graham-Brown Dr K Marie McIntyre Dr Hannah Vineer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Integrating patient-reported data from multiple sources into registries and research databases for inflammatory bowel disease
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 16th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Keith Bodger
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating a novel treatment for retinal scaring
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Carl Sheridan Dr Victoria Kearns
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating symbiont impacts on natural enemy susceptibility in ladybird beetles
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Greg Hurst Prof M Viney Dr H Roy Dr Andrew Salisbury
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the ability of circadian clocks to mitigate degeneration of the back of the eye
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Victoria Kearns Dr V Pekovic-Vaughan Dr C Sheridan Dr H Levis
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the connection between cytoskeletal and mitochondrial homeostasis during ageing\n
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Natalia Sanchez-Soriano Dr. Viktor Korolchuk
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the effects of a training aid on golf putting mechanics
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st May 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Karl Bates Dr James Gardiner
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the interaction between immune cells and biomaterial scaffolds
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st August 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lucy Bosworth Dr Neill Liptrott
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
ITCH-CF: Investigating The Cardiovascular Health of people living with Cystic Fibrosis in the CFTR modulator era
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 27th October 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Feddy Frost Professor Gregory Lip
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Joint models for longitudinally measured outcomes and non-terminal recurrent event processes – developing a framework
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 15th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Laura Bonnett Dr Maria Sudell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Laser-driven Proton Beam Therapy
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st January 2023
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten P Welsch Dr Narender Kumar
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Leaky Blood Vessels and Basement Membranes (Diabetes, Inflammation, Cancer)
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kevin Hamill Dr C Sheridan Prof G Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Mating strategies in changing environments
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Stuart Wigby Dr Liam Dougherty Dr T Price Dr N Hemmings
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Mechanistic understanding of how Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver disease (NAFLD) can lead to cardiovascular dysfunction using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) derived cardiomyocytes and hepatocytes.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st March 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Parveen Sharma Dr Theresa Hydes Dr Amy Chadwick
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Methods of modulation of mitochondrial function in glaucoma
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Ms Neeru Vallabh Dr C Sheridan Dr Amy Chadwick Prof R Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Microbial evolution to environmental change: The response of a model Bacteroidetes community to the challenge of novel polysaccharide energy sources
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr A Cartmell Dr E A Yates Dr E Heinz
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Modelling scar formation in endometriosis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th April 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Bettina Wilm Prof Dharani Hapangama Dr N Liptrott
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Modern human variation as a model for locomotor evolution in ancestral hominins
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st May 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Karl Bates Dr Kristiaan D’Aout Dr James Charles
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Molecular characterisation of a novel transporter for the atypical antipsychotic clozapine
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 6th April 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Dickens Prof Sir M Pirmohamed
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Molecular characterization of galectin-ligand interactions in cancer and beyond
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 20th October 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Lu-Gang Yu Dr. Svetlana Antonyuk
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Molecular principles for the biogenesis and assembly of α-carboxysomes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof LN Liu Dr J Marles-Wright Dr T Zech
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Developing novel quantitative imaging methods for target validation in experimental models of glioblastoma brain cancer
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof H Poptani Dr L Stead Prof J Coulson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Evaluation of the pharmacology and toxicology of next-generation Nrf2 activators; novel drugs for the treatment of diseases associated with oxidative and metabolic stress
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ian Copple Prof Andy Jones Dr Richard Mead
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Handbrake on hysterectomy: Developing a personalised and fertility sparing pharmacological therapy for uterine fibroid-induced symptoms
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Dharani Hapangama Dr Eva Caamano Gutierrez Dr P Sharma
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Harnessing the power of T-cell responses to control future pandemics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lance Turtle Dr K Baker Dr Krishanthi Subramaniam
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Investigating the role of Golga3 cleavage during SARS-CoV-2 infection\n
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr E Emmott Prof Daniel Ungar Prof P Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Non-coding RNA biomarkers to predict liver injury during cancer therapy
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr A Kanhere Prof C Goldring Prof R Sutton
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Role of macrophage-mediated efferocytosis in cancer – mechanisms and new therapeutic opportunities
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Michael Schmid Prof M Trost Dr A Mieglo
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: THROMB-AI: Computational risk stratification of thrombus formation and lysis in post-stroke patients
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Wahbi El-Bouri Prof GYH Lip Dr Ying Gue Dr Andrew Narracott Prof Diana Gorog
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Tyrosine kinase inhibitors: application of chemical and discovery proteomics to the problem of chemotherapeutic toxicity in cancer patients
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr R Jenkins Prof M Trost Dr A Mieglo
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the burden of disease caused by the loss of TEX12 protein and its impact in cancer
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Urszula McClurg Dr J Poulter
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Using single cell transcriptomic and blood proteomic data to understand how pancreatic cancer causes diabetes and to find ways to detect the cancer earlier
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Eithne Costello Dr Jamie Soul
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: What features of opportunistic pathogens makes them likely to harbour antimicrobial resistance elements?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr James Hall
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Neuroanatomical dualism: morphological plasticity and stability
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 16th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Nathan Jeffery
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Next-generation mass spectrometry diagnostics to guide patient management post-SARS-CoV-2 infection
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 17th May 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ed Emmott Dr Anna Smielewska Prof P McNamara Dr Jordan Skittrall
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Novel non-coding RNAs in regulating cancer epigenome
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 7th March 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Aditi Kanhere
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Novel, biologically relevant, in vitro model of the blood-brain tumour barrier (BBTB)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 4th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Dickens Prof. Micahel Jenkinson
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Nutrition and Exercise Human Clinical Trial for common older age conditions, including Physical Function, Sarcopenia and Frailty, Dementia, Cognitive Impairment, and cardiovascular disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 8th April 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Omic data integration and machine learning to define molecular drivers of chondrogenesis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jamie Soul Prof David Young Prof Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Organic materials discovery using automated/robotic workflows
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st January 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Andy Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Personalising cancer treatment with modelling tumour evolution based on genomics biomarkers and PK/PD
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 16th November 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Tao You
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Photocathodes for the Generation of High-Brightness Electron Beams
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st January 2023
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten P Welsch Dr Lee Jones, ASTeC/STFC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Pivoting to new environments, the role of the neck in teleost fish evolution and diversity
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ariel Camp Dr N Jeffery Prof A Goswami
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Plasminogen-activator inhibitor (PAI-1) in the musculoskeletal system: a key serine proteinase inhibitor regulating joint homeostasis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 25th July 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Wilkinson Professor George Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Post-Impact Ejecta Dynamics in Binary Asteroids
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 21st October 2023
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Stefania Soldini
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Predicting agricultural Greenhouse gas emissions through improved model representation of soil biogeochemical processes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Victoria Janes-Bassett Dr John Boyle Prof N McNamara Dr P Levy Dr Roisin O'Riordan
- Eligibility:
Protecting cells from mechanical stress, A novel role of cell-surface receptor LRP1 in extracellular matrix- nuclei communication
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr K Yamamoto Dr R Akhtar\n Dr L Reynard\n
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Quantifying Amazonian tree diversity using next generation technologies
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 10th January 2023
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Frederick Draper Prof. Kate Parr Dr Alberto Viceniti Prof. Tim Baker
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Quantifying and conserving West Papuan wetland forests
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Freddie Drape Prof D Edwards
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Quantifying biodiversity benefits and disease disbenefits from woodland creation projects
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Caroline Millins Dr B Purse\n
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Reaction Optimisation using Intelligent Mobile Robots (collaboration with AstraZeneca)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 28th February 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr John Ward Prof. A Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Reconstruction of Transverse Beam Distribution using Machine Learning
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st January 2023
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten P Welsch Dr Federico Roncarolo, CERN, Switzerland
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Regenerative medicine treatment for the blinding disease Glaucoma
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Carl Sheridan Dr L Bosworth Dr R Oldershaw Prof Colin Willoughby
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Rockpools or rocking pools? Sensing the vibrations of coastal animals and understanding the potential effects of vibrational noise
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Louise Roberts Dr J Thomson\n
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Role of diet to combat Heart Failure and Stroke comorbidities: based on metabolomic approach
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 19th July 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad Dr Howbeer Muhammad Ali Professor Deirdre Lane Professor Gregory Lip
- Eligibility:
Roles of the microcephaly and obesity-associated gene Trappc9 in the cellular regulation of lipid droplets and lipophagy
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr A Plagge\n Dr V Korolchuk\n
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Sarcopenia and frailty diagnosis, management, and treatment in older patients with long term conditions (heart failure, diabetes, stroke, CKD)
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 7th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Self-optimising reactors for supramolecular materials discovery
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 16th April 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Anna Slater Professor Andy Cooper Professor Richard Bourne
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
SnoRNA dysregulation is a driver of chondrocyte ageing and contributes to osteoarthritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 1st September 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Speciation by genetic conflict
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr T Price Dr N Nadeau Prof G Hurst\n
- 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: Friday 23rd December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Alex German Professor Eithne Comerford
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Sustainable enantioselective C-C cross-couplings: reaction development and applications in synthesis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 15th November 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor John Bower
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Targeting Neuromuscular Ageing using Novel Synthetic Retinoids and Chrono-pharmacological Approaches
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr V Pekovic-Vaughan Dr P Chazot Dr A Vasilaki Dr D Shanley
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The effect of extreme environmental temperature spikes on mosquito longevity, fertility and ability to transmit viruses
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Marcus Blagrove Prof J Hill Dr Liam Dougherty Prof M Baylis
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The impact of resources on parasite transmission in wildlife communities
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof A Fenton
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The role of the meniscus in osteoarthritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 24th November 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. M Peffers Eithne Comerford
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Tracking microplastic contamination of coastal environments and impacts on ecosystem engineers
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Nova Mieszkowska Prof A Ryan Dr T Webb Dr J Thomson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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ULMS PhD Management Funding Call: October 2023 entry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 6th January 2023
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: ULMS supervisors
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Ultra-short Bunch Length Measurements with Femtosecond Resolution
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st January 2023
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten P Welsch Dr Joseph Wolfenden
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Uncovering the role of NF-κB in embryonic stem cell pluripotency and differentiation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr D Turner Prof N Perkins
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding risks to non-breeding seabirds from offshore wind farms
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr John Green Dr Francis Daunt Dr R Jeffreys
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding the influence of land-based nutrient pollution on coastal ecosystems in a Caribbean Bay\n
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th January 2023
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Kasey Clark Dr C Mahaffey Prof L L Maltby Dr Rachel Collin
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Use of a systems toxicology approach to understand the role of liver metabolism and stress responses in drug toxicity
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ian Copple Dr Tao You Dr Ciarán Fisher Dr Jon Lyon
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Using existing data to optimise adaptive interventions in epilepsy
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 16th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Tudur Smith
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide