There are 82 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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A prospective assessment of associated risk factors for visual impairment after stroke, health inequalities and feasibility assessment for an integrated care intervention in atrial fibrillation post-stroke
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Gregory Lip Professor Rowe
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Alcohol Related Brain Injury (ARBI): Definition, cost and clinical management
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lynn Owens Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
An investigation of management care pathways and health inequalities amongst older people with stroke and atrial fibrillation in care homes: A mixed-methods project
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Gregory Lip Dr S Harrison
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Artificial intelligence and health inequalities – AI and HI
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lucy Frith Prof Gabbay
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Atrial fibrillation: Investigating the impact of atrial fibrosis and atrial myopathy
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 25th March 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Takao Sakai Prof Gregory YH Lip
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Automated screening processes for the development of sustainable surface treatments (ICASE Studentship in partnership with Unilever)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 7th December 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Sam Chong Mr Martin Crossman
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Bioinspired nanotopographies to control bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 18th February 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Raechelle D’Sa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Characterising and Repurposing Cyanobacterial C02-Fixing Oganelles for Metabolic Engineering
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Luning Liu Dr James Hartwell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Characterization and functional analysis of a novel cancer-associated gene
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 17th March 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor JP de Magalhaes
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
Climate Change and the Evoluation of Insect Mating Systems
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Stephen Cornell Dr Tom Price
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Climate change in the deep sea: assessing the resilience of deep-sea communities
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 15th January 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Jeffreys Dr Adrian Glover
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Co-Creation and evaluation of exercise rehabilitation for patients with Atrial Fibrillation: The Co-Create AF project
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Benjamin Buckley Professor Gregory Lip
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Computational identification of new spectrally selective materials for thin film applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 12th August 2021
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Matthew Dyer Professor Matt Rosseinsky
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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
Core outcome sets through the healthcare ecosystem to inform value-based commissioning
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Susanna Dodd Professor P Williamson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Deep Learning on Dynamic Networks
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr X Yi Prof CS Liao
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Defining the role of NF-��B during embryonic stem cell differentiation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 28th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Turner Prof. Anne McArdle
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Determination of the basic science and management of the Clubfoot Condition
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st March 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor Ahmed Elsheikh Professor Eithne Comerford
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing methods for the analysis of sensitive environment and health data
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Becca Wilson Professor Rodgers
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Development of machine learning, mathematical optimisation and algorithmic techniques for materials chemistry problems
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 20th December 2020
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr V Kurlin Prof M J Rosseinsky\n Dr M Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of metabolomics for understanding AMR in mixed infections
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Roy Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Disentangling environmental change in the Amazon: vegetation responses to Holocene drivers in the National Park of Yasuní (Ecuador)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 15th January 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr E Montoya Dr R Marchant Dr Rachel Smedley
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Distributed Algorithms Centre for Doctoral Training Generic Application
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st January 2021
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof Simon Maskell
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Does microcredit work better when it is demand-driven?
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st January 2021
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr S Garikipati
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Enabling risk-stratified epilepsy care: working with service users and health professionals to develop an acceptable care record to enable this
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Louise Roper Dr Noble
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Equity impacts of a system of social assistance for the public subsidisation of the costs of dental care for low income adults
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Rebecca Harris Dr Manu Mathur
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Evolutionary insights for engineering improved globin oxygen carriers
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Mike Berenbrink Dr Jill Madine
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Examining Histoplasmosis in household and community environments at the human-animal interface
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Claire Scantlebury Em P Alan Mc Carthy Dr Gina Pinchbeck
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exchangeability in probability theory and applications in the area of random graphs
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st October 2020
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Linglong Yuan Prof. Takis Konstantopoulos
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploiting advanced methods for protein structure prediction
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Dan Rigden Richard Keegan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploring the Use of Computational Techniques to Support Creativity in Design Engineering
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 1st February 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Ji Han
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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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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HealthCare 4.0 – Digitization of the Healthcare System
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 14th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Dirk Schaefer Dr Jelena Milisavljevic-Syed
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
How can sustainable soil carbon management be improved using river biogeochemical signals?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 15th January 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr J Dean Prof K Parr Dr RG Bryant
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Impacts of telemedicine on maternal, infant and child health
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rebecca Geary Professor Rodgers
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Investigating the molecular mechanisms and consequences of ANP aggregation for cardiovascular disease; a computational and experimental approach
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jill Madine Prof Dan Rigden
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigation of novel porous borosilicate framework materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 12th August 2021
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Investigation of the role of post-translational modifications in hypoxia signalling
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 18th February 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr V See Professor CE Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Live fast, mast or try to last: how do plant life-history trade-offs affect forest responses to climate change?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 15th January 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr A Hacket-Pain Dr S Patrick Dr P Holland
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Low-cost integrated spintronic terahertz transceiver
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr L O'Brien Prof S-H Yang
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Manufacturing 4.0: Design of Smart Manufacturing Systems
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 1st November 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Jelena Milisavljevic Syed
- 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
Mitochondrial protein folding and diseases
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Lu-Yun Lian Dr David Criddle
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Mixed methods process evaluation of the Community Health Worker scheme in Halton and Warrington
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Williams Dr C Giebel
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Mobilising community based women’s groups to improve health outcomes
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st January 2021
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr S Garikipati
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
Multi-omics investigations for enhanced understanding of NF-κB mediated drug resistance
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Roy Goodacre Neil Perkins Claire Eyer
- 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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On some recent developments in mathematical finance : fractional Brownian motion and rough volatility
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st October 2020
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Ehsan Azmoodeh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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PhD in Fundamental Physics: Advanced Charged Particle Dynamics in Electromagnetic Fields
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
PhD in Healthcare Technology Development using Biosensors: Novel Point-of-Care Lateral Flow Assay for Salivary Biomarkers
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
PhD in Instrumentation/Electronics: Development of a Novel Portable Ion Mobility Spectrometer
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
PhD in Micro/Nano Vacuum Electronics
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor Simon Maher Professor Ian Sandall
- 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
Plasma-enhanced catalytic CO2 conversion to value-added fuels
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr X Tu Prof TY Chen
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Post stroke visual impairment: improving service and care
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Fiona Rowe Dr L Hepworth
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Primary care as a link between diagnosis and post-diagnostic support: Dementia care in ethnic minority groups
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Clarissa Giebel Professor Gabbay
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Providing care for older adults in institutional long-term care and community settings during and post COVID-19 pandemic
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Clarissa Giebel Dr Mason
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Role of oral anticoagulants on clinical outcomes in COVID-19 infection: Develop and implement new statistical approaches to evaluate potential relationships and practical implications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ruwanthi Kolamunnage-Dona Professor Barr
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Self-management intervention for diplopia due to ocular cranial nerve palsy
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Fiona Rowe Dr Claire Howard
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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
Single-cell proteomic analysis of host-factor cleavage during norovirus infection
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Edward Emmott Prof Miren Iturriza-Gomara
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Stein method and quantification techniques in probability theory
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st October 2020
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Ehsan Azmoodeh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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The Biology of Parasitism in Parasitic Nematodes
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Mark Viney
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The Burden of Animal Disease in Working Equids – Ethiopia
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 1st November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Jonathan Rushton Dr. Gina Pinchbeck Dr. Klara Saville
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The Consequences of Transmission Heterogeneities for Disease Outbreaks
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 7th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor A Fenton Professor M Viney
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The Eco-Immunology of Wild Mice
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Mark Viney
- 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 genomics of sperm killing gene drive
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Tom PRice Prof Greg Hurst Prof Steve Paterson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Understanding and dissecting microbial communities with Raman spectroscopy
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st December 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Roy Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding health literacy barriers to improve shared decision making when optimizing medications involving complex therapeutic regimes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lauren Walker Prof A Alfirevic
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Understanding non-genetic inheritance in Daphnia magna with Raman spectroscopic imaging and mass spectrometry-based metabolomics
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 7th April 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr H Muhamad Ali Dr S J Plaistow Prof R Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
Using embryonic stem cell models to determine the importance of post transcriptional gene regulation in the early stages of embryo development
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 27th January 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Simon Tew Dr David Turner Dr Rachel Oldershaw
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Validation of novel biomarkers for improved risk stratification and therapy for the paediatric cancer neuroblastoma
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 18th February 2021
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr V See Dr A Herrmann
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Value of location data in routine data linkage: care home equality
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 9th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Sarah Rodgers Professor Frith
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Van der Waals heterostructures for valley and spintronics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th April 2021
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr L O'Brien Prof Y L Chueh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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What are the physiological costs to seabirds adapting to Arctic climate change?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 15th January 2021
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr S Patrick Dr K Arnold Stephanie Jenouvrier
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide