There are 71 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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A 3Rs approach to investigate the feto-maternal interface: visualisation of pathogen and antibody in a 3D in vitro human placental model
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st May 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Marie Yang Dr D Turner Prof A Kadioglu
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
A Human-Centred Design Taxonomy for Healthcare Technologies; Developing criteria for assessment, improvement and communication
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th May 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr F Nickpour Mr Iain Hennessey
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
A hybrid process-based modelling and machine learning approach to predict shoreline evolution
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th May 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof P Dong
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Accounting and Finance Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th May 2021
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Algorithmic techniques for energy landscape exploration of crystal structures
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof. Paul Spirakis Prof. Igor Potapov
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Application of Machine Learning Tools to guide Materials Discovery
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr Dmytro Antypov Dr Vladimir Gusev
- 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
Autonomous robots for materials discovery; putting a brain in the mobile robot chemist
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th July 2021
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof A I Cooper Dr S Luo Dr V Gusev
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Balancing Physical and Machine Learning models in Materials Discovery
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Alessandro Troisi
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Changing iceberg calving styles: implications for future projections of sea level rise (GTA eligible project)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 21st April 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Isabel Nias Dr James Lea
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Chromatic analysis of behaviour and neural substrate of pain perception in cuttlefish
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor Joseph W Spencer Dr Lynne Sneddon
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Computational modelling of submarine landslides and their consequences
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th May 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Xue Zhang
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Computational Studies of Novel Functional Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr George Darling
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Control of turbulent flow in a square duct using a moving wall
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr DJC Dennis Dr R Poole Prof C A Lin
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Development in Postcolonial West Africa: Building the Nation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 25th May 2021
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Professor Iain Jackson Dr Juliette Desplat Dr Patrick Zamarian
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of novel fluorescent glucose indicators for lungs in vivo imaging
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Nordine Helassa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of Raman Spectroscopy for non-invasive assessment of ochronosis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Roy Goodacre Prof J A Gallagher
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Development of self-biased circulators for mobile communication systems
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Huang
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of Tandem Perovskite Photovoltaic Cells
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 30th October 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Amanda Hughes Dr L Philips
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Diagnosis of Baby Neurodevelopmental Disorders Using Millimetrewaves
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st May 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr. Jiafeng Zhou Dr Xiaowei Huang Dr. Richard Hutchinson
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Disentangling landuse and climatic roles in sediment delivery to upland British lakes (GTA eligible project)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 21st April 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof. Richard Chiverrell Dr Heather Sangster
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Economics Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th May 2021
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Employing advanced transcriptomic approaches to identify characteristics of anterior cruciate ligaments which contribute toward tissue failure
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st July 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Simon Tew Professor Eithne Comerford
- 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: Friday 21st January 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. James Hartwell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental Measurement for the Validation of CFD for flows in Confined Geometries of Relevance to Liquid Metal Reactors
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th May 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Rob Poole Dr D Dennis Prof EA Patterson
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Exploring urban rivers and canals to halt the global rise in methane emissions (GTA eligible project)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 21st April 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Joshua Dean Prof A Plater Dr Caitlin Robinson
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Genomic and metabolomic approaches to individualised antimicrobial therapy
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 2nd September 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof S Paterson Prof R Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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High-throughput Exploration of New Porous Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr J Claridge Dr Alexandros Katsoulidis
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Improving estimates of Antarctic geothermal heat flow from geophysical data (GTA eligible project)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 21st April 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr L Uieda Dr Vanderlei Oliveira Jr Prof R Holme
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Investigating the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on gastrointestinal illness using advanced linked data systems
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 18th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Iain Buchan
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Investigating the role of calmodulin in human muscular hypotonia and immunodeficiency
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th June 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Nordine Helassa Prof C Dart Prof Alexei Tepikin
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the spatio-temporal drivers of inequalities in gastrointestinal infections
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 18th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Ben Barr
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Ionic Liquid and redox mediator electrolyte blends for long-life lithium-air batteries
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 15th June 2021
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Laurence Hardwick
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Marketing Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th May 2021
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Mass-spectrometry-based proteomic analysis of protease activity during SARS-CoV-2 infection
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 26th November 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr E Emmott Dr Lance Turtle
- 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
Method and Realisation of Parallel Computing for Switching Arc Simulation based on a Mix of Structured and Unstructured Grids
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor J D Yan Prof J Chou
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Micro-Environment Lab Chips for Disease and Cancer Studies fabricated via Ultrafast-laser combined with Spatial Light Modulators and Lab on Chip Techniques
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr. Stuart Edwardson Dr. Cheng-Hsien Liu
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Microplastic as a sediment: physical and dynamical properties of microplastic particles (GTA eligible project)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 21st April 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Iris Verhagen Dr Robert Duller Dr E Mariani
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Microplastic flux in modern estuarine environments (GTA eligible project)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 21st April 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Iris Verhagen Dr Robert Duller Dr E Mariani
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Modelling subretinal injections to improve delivery of treatment for age-related eye diseases
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 21st September 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Brendan Geraghty Dr V Kearns Dr A Abass
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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
Multi-scale simulation study for high entropy materials as electrode
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Hsin-Yi Tiffany Chen Matthew Dyer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Musculoskeletal function around the clock: The effects of age, exercise and shift work
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 27th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Vanja Pekovic-Vaughan Dr Kris D’Aout
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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National syndromic surveillance data for the surveillance of GI viral pathogens and exploration of novel digital data to enhance GI surveillance
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 18th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Alex Elliot
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Operations and Supply Chain Management - Management School (ULMS) PhD Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th May 2021
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Organic materials synthesis using robots
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st August 2021
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Andy Cooper Dr Anna Slater
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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PhD - APRIES (Africa Programming and Research Initiative to End Slavery)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Prof. Alex Balch
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Plasma Induced Incorporation of Single Metal Atoms in 2D Materials for Versatile Applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof JW Bradley Dr Y L Chueh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Prediction of outcomes for patients at high-risk of stroke and post-stroke atrial fibrillation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 19th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Stephanie Harrison Dr D Lane Prof GYH Lip
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Replacement of animal use in measuring cardiomyocyte response to drug safety profiling using a novel NMR metabolomics technology
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st May 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Oldershaw Dr Marie Phelan Dr A Chadwick
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Robust and interpretable graph neural networks for the analysis of MRI and EEG to classify epilepsy subtypes and predict patient outcomes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th May 2021
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Xiaowei Huang Dr Simon Keller Prof Tony Marson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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SHINERS for the study of electrochemical and catalytic processes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th June 2021
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Laurence Hardwick
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Smart-algorithms for understanding wrist biomechanics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 21st May 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Sebastiano Fichera Dr Peter Green Dr Karl Bates
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Solar Energy Engineering: Solar Thermal Heating systems with Integrated Storage
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 30th October 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Amanda Hughes
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship (SIBE) Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) PhD Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th May 2021
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- 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 lysosomes during mitosis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 1st June 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lee Haynes Dr N Helassa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Tidewater glacier dynamics: modelling the recent past to better predict the future (GTA eligible project)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 21st April 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Isabel Nias Dr James Lea
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Topology optimisation design for offshore foundations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th May 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Xue Zhang
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Towards Earth-Abundant Electrolyser Components for Green Hydrogen
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 29th January 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Rosseinsky Prof Alexander Cowan Dr. Ruiyong Chen
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Transport of radioactive waste along the Sellafield shoreline: climate change impact and mitigation strategies through nature based solutions
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Leonardi Prof A Plater Mr Jonathan Dodds
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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ULMS PhD Funding Call: September 2021 entry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th May 2021
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- 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 the link between the axilla microbiome bacteria and odorous thioalcohol generation at the molecular level
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Roy Goodacre Professor Steve Paterson Dr Jane Ford
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Underwater acoustics: Advances in mathematical modelling to study complex sound propagation in an inhomogeneous moving ocean
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Stewart Haslinger
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Unravelling the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying chemoresistance in cancer
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 30th July 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Varadarajan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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What can river biogeochemical signals tell us about sustainable landscape carbon management? (GTA eligible project)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 21st April 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Joshua Dean Dr Rachel Smedley Dr John Boyle
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Work, Organisation and Management Subject Group - Management School (ULMS) PhD Funding Call
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th May 2021
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- 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