There are 81 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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Accounting and Finance Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 7th January 2022
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Management School supervisor list
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
An novel optical fibre analysis system for particle accelerators
- Application deadline: Monday 31st January 2022
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten P Welsch Dr Joseph Wolfenden
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Analysis of plasma-water interfaces
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st December 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr. Mohammad Hasan Professor J Walsh
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Assessing the changing risk of tick-borne diseases within woodland creation projects
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Caroline Millins Dr A Hacket-Pain Dr B Purse
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Biofilm disrupters for the Maritime industry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 17th December 2021
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Dmitry Shchukin
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Biosynthesis, Self-Assembly and Engineering of bacterial organelles
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Liu Prof J Hinton
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Can polar seabirds really adapt to climate change?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Samantha Patrick Dr Jonathan Potts Prof Kate Parr
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Can we reduce methane emissions to the atmosphere using methane oxidising microbes found in urban environments?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Joshua Dean Dr Jamie Hall Dr Jagroop Pandhal
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Cascading failure of the aorta - The role of collagen degradation in the development of aortic dissection
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 1st March 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Riaz Akhtar Dr J Madine
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Climate change in the deep sea: assessing the resilience of deep-sea communities
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Jeffreys Dr Jack Thomson Dr Adrian Glover
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Coastal Protection with Nature
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr N Leonardi
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Control of mitosis by calcium in mammalian cells
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lee Haynes Dr N Helassa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Defence evolution under protective symbiosis: how do nuclear and symbiont defences interact?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof G Hurst Dr J Ferrari Prof A Fenton
- 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
Diet and thermal limits: eating for survival and fertility
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Wigby Dr T Price Dr N Hemmings
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Does meiotic drive cause speciation?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr T Price Dr N Nadeau Prof G Hurst
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Eco-evolutionary dynamics of soil microbiomes for crop health
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Zytynska Dr J Hall Dr Angela Hodge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Economics Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 7th January 2022
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Management School supervisor list
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Effective Training Programmes for Military Pilots using Machine Learning with Real and Simulated Data (EPSRC CDT in Distributed Algorithms)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st December 2021
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Professor Jason Ralph Dr Dominic Richards
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
Enhancing clinical metabolomic studies through improved laboratory and bioinformatics tools
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 8th November 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor W B Dunn Dr Andrew Davison Prof R Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental Discovery and Electrochemical Characterisation of New Solid-State Materials for Beyond Lithium Ion Batteries
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st May 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Rosseinsky Dr Ruiyong Chen Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Experimental discovery of new Inorganic Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st May 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
Exploring the incentivisation and biodiversity returns of treescapes using agent based models
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Cornell Dr J Touza
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploring the unintended consequences of zero-deforestation oil palm
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Professor Kate Parr Professor Jane Hill Dr Samantha Patrick
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Function, ecology and macroevolution of the mammalian masticatory system
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr KT Bates Dr Philip Cox Dr J Gardiner
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Games, Automata, Verification
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st January 2022
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Patrick Totzke
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Hindcasting faunal distributions in the Holocene to understand interactions between ancient societies, biodiversity and climate
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Bro-Jorgensen Prof CD Thomas
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
How does the environment impact female control of fertilisation?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Liam Dougherty Dr S Wigby Dr N Hemmings
- 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
Imaging of corneal nerve using AI-enabled optical coherence tomography
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 3rd December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Yaochun Shen Dr Y Zheng Dr Uazman Alam
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Immune system diversity and evolution in natural populations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof S Paterson Prof J Slate
- 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 7th October 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr DP Canniffe
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
In-vivo gas jet-based dosimetry for particle beam therapy
- Application deadline: Monday 31st January 2022
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten P Welsch
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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
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Knowledge Graphs for autonomous formulations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st December 2021
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Valentina Tamma Dr Terry Payne Prof B Konev
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Machine Learning Inference of the Ocean Environment from Acoustic Data (EPSRC CDT In Distributed Algorithms)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st December 2021
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Stewart Haslinger
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Marketing Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 7th January 2022
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Management School supervisor list
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Maximising Detection Performance Using High Performance Processing of Multi-Sensor Data (EPSRC Centre for Doctoral raining in Distributed Algorithms)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st December 2021
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Murat Uney Dr Xiaowei Huang
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Mechanics and motion of fused vertebrae during feeding in fish
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr A Camp Dr Z Johanson Dr N Jeffery
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
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 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr A Cartmell Dr Edwin Yates Dr E Heinz
- 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
Molecular basis for the architecture, function, and regulation of photosynthetic machinery
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Liu Dr D Canniffe
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Molecular Virology of Tick-borne encephalitis viruses
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 7th December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Roger Hewson Dr Gillian Slack
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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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
Nanomechanical alterations in Acute Type A Aortic Dissections
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 1st March 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr R Akhtar Mr M Field
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Novel polymicrobial biofilm models for testing new drugs to combat cystic fibrosis lung infections
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 20th December 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jo Fothergill
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Operations and Supply Chain Management - Management School (ULMS) PhD Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 7th January 2022
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Management School supervisor list
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Optimization of low-dose, low cost mobile 3D X-ray Imaging
- Application deadline: Monday 31st January 2022
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten P Welsch Dr Steve Wells
- Eligibility:
Oxygenic photosynthesis in desert environments driven by far-red light
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr D Canniffe Dr A Hitchcock Dr Dennis Nürnberg
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Population genomics of the parasitic nematode Strongyloides
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M Viney Prof S Paterson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Predicting patient specific properties of the dissection flap in aortic emergencies
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 1st March 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr R Akhtar Mr M Field
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Rat diversity and anthropization of the natural environment in South-East Asia
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ben Makepeace Prof J Slate Dr Hannah Vineer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Space charge dominated low energy beam dynamics in high current Energy Recovery Linacs
- Application deadline: Monday 31st January 2022
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Max Klein Prof C Welsch Dr B Militsyn
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship (SIBE) Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) PhD Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 7th January 2022
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Management School supervisor list
- 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 Evolution of maternal effects in Daphnia
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Stewart Plaistow Prof Jurriaan Ton Dr Howbeer Muhamad Ali
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The impact of range expansions on genomic parasitism in Lepidoptera
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Andrea Betancourt Dr I J Saccheri Dr K Dasmahapatra
- 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
The success of strategic restoration for pollinator connectivity
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Hodgson Prof J Hill
- 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
Transferring mass spectrometry from the laboratory to the clinic for metabolic biomarkers in human health and disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st May 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor WB Dunn Dr Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Transgenerational effects of pollutants: the role of the egg
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Howbeer Muhamad Ali Dr Stewart Plaistow Prof R Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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ULMS PhD Funding Call: October 2022 entry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 7th January 2022
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Management School supervisor list
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
Understanding metabolism in the blood cancer multiple myeloma and its precursor condition MGUS
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 8th November 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor W B Dunn Professor C M Bunce
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Using Next Generation Machine Learning and AI Techniques to Aggregate Information Pertinent to Automotive Glazing (EPSRC CDT in Distributed Algorithms)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st December 2021
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Peter Green Dr X Huang
- 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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Work, Organisation and Management Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) PhD Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 7th January 2022
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Management School supervisor list
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide