Studentships: self-funded and funded PhD projects

There are 103 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.

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A dive into tropical waters: understanding the mechanisms of sea surface temperature patterns that drive global climate and weather

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 14th February 2025
  • Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
  • Supervisors: Dr Anna Deppenmeier Professor Ric Williams
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

A Reliable and Reconfigurable Robot Learning Framework for Accelerating Materials Discovery (R3L4AMD)

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Maths and Computing
  • Supervisors: Dr Gabriella Pizzuto Prof Andy Cooper Dr Shufang Zhu
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Alterations in reparative dentinogenesis with ageing, gender and genetic predisposition

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Automated Approaches for Efficient, Scalable, and Sustainable Synthesis of Material Precursors

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Anna Slater Prof Andy Cooper
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Automated solid state synthesis robotic workflow

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr T Manning
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

B

Beam gas curtain monitor for the High Luminosity LHC

  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Physical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Hao Zhang Dr Stefano Mazzoni
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

C

Cardiac Harmony: Modelling Heart Beats with Stem Cells and Code

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Cardiovascular and Neuromuscular Functions around the Clock: Harnessing Protective Endogenous Mechanisms towards Smarter Design of Novel Therapies and Interventions

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Chromatin regulation of oncogenic transcription and replication stress: mechanism and functional implications in acute myeloid leukemia

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 18th March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Closing in on sub-GeV Dark Matter with Superfluids and Quantum Technology

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 16th February 2025
  • Subject area: Maths and Computing
  • Supervisors: Dr. Juri Smirnov Prof Martin Gorbahn
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Combining genome-scale metabolic models and multi-omics data for a system level understanding of bacteria

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 22nd March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Francesco Del-Carratore Prof Roy Goodacre Prof Steve Paterson
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Combining operando X-ray and Raman spectroscopy for battery material characterisation

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 30th June 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Laurence Hardwick Dr Yvonne Grunder
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Computational Identification of Catalytic Covalent Organic Frameworks

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Matthew Dyer Dr John Ward
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Control of bone shape and function by the extracellular matrix Fibrillin-1

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

D

Determination of the non-coding RNAs in the knee joint tissues of dogs at differing risk to cranial cruciate ligament rupture.

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Determining metabolic reprogramming events in stem cells in response to inflammatory disease phenotype

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Determining the metabolomic fingerprint of premalignant lesions in endometrial cancer for early diagnosis and screening

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Andrew Davison Prof Hapangama Dr Christopher Hill
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Determining the role of mitochondrial DNA variation in hepatic pathways and its impact on physiology, pharmacology and toxicology: a combined in vitro and bioinformatic approach.

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 30th July 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Amy Chadwick Dr Dan Carr Dr Joanna Elson (Joanna.elson@newcastle.ac.uk)
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Developing an in silico method for endodontic restoration of human molar teeth

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 11th April 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning

Developing inverse vulcanised polymers as functional coatings

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 30th June 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Tom Hasell Jo Fothergill
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Developing Sustainable Beam Diagnostics for Particle Accelerators

  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Physical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Hao Zhang Dr Joseph Wolfenden
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Development and validation of the Epilepsy-Heart syndrome: a focus on ictal asystole and developing evidence-based national consensus guidelines

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Thursday 3rd July 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Gashirai Mbizvo Prof Gregory Lip Prof Tony Marson Prof Ian Buchan Dr Adam Noble
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Development of integration bridges between the clinic and the laboratory

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Willian Greenhalf Prof Tim Maughan Dr Richard Jackson
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Development of quantitative imaging biomarkers for characterization of neural functional abnormalities in preclinical models of neurodevelopmental disorders.

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Professor Harish Poptani
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Digital Discovery of Polymeric Materials

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Alessandro Troisi Dr Tom Hasell
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Digital Exploration and Structural Modelling of Hybrid Glass Formers

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Lauren McHugh Dr Matthew Dyer
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Digital Exploration of Novel Polymeric Materials for Structural Composites

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Neil Berry Dr Tom Hasell
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Digital twin of heat pumps integrated with thermal energy storage

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 1st August 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Prof Zhibin Yu
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Digitally-led Discovery of Solid Electrolyte Materials for Net Zero Applications

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rossiensky Dr Matthew Dyer
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Discovery of new inorganic materials for net zero applications

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Do patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears demonstrate muscle strength deficits of the hip, knee, and ankle muscles?

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

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Edge-Cloud Collaborative Motion Planning for Autonomous Navigation with Large Language Models

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Heba Lakany Ian Sandall
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Elucidation of a new pathological mechanism for brittle bone disease

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Establishing the biomarker potential of extracellular RNA structure in chronic diseases

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 9th May 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Simon Tew
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Experimental Discovery of New Ionic Conducting Materials

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr T Manning
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Explaining Structure-property Relations in the Materials Space

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Maths and Computing
  • Supervisors: Prof Vitaliy Kurlin Prof Andy Cooper
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Exploiting Deep Learning-based protein structure prediction for function annotation and structural biology

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 15th February 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof D J Rigden Dr R Keegan
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Exploring influenza virus evolution using state-of-the-art technology and experimental animal model

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Mahmoud Naguib
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

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Green electrospun nanofiber membranes for water treatment

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Prof Raechelle D'Sa
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Guaranteed Structure Prediction with Machine Learning

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Maths and Computing
  • Supervisors: Dr Vladimir Gusev Prof Matthew Rosseinsky
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

H

High Power Laser Development

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Dr Laura Corner
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

High-throughput exploration of multicomponent metal organic frameworks (MOFs)

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr A Katsoulidis
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

High-throughput First-principle Simulations of Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Maths and Computing
  • Supervisors: Dr Pavel Buividovich Prof Alessandro Troisi
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

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Identifying age-related extracellular microenvironment in dental tissues

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Improving chemical and immunological assessment to drive safer development of the new breed of drugs: PROTACS

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 28th March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Improving patient outcomes following mandibular reconstruction after oral cancer: novel finite element methods for better surgical design

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Instrumentation studies for AWAKE Run 2c

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Saturday 19th December 2026
  • Subject area: Physical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Professor Carsten Welsch Prof Andy Cooper
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Investigating how tumour associated macrophages affect cancer metastasis and response to therapies

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 15th February 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Investigating the impact of galectin-ligand interaction on cancer cell resistance to chemotherapeutic treatment

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Investigating the regulation of neutrophil gene expression by intracellular signalling and micro RNAs

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 6th February 2026
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Helen Wright Prof Mandy Peffers
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Investigating the regulation of neutrophil gene expression by intracellular signalling and small non-coding RNAs

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Investigating the role of Aquaporins in age related diseases

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Investigating the role of oxidative metabolites in joint destruction in osteoarthritis

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Investigation of Novel Accessory Proteins in the Replication of Infectious Bronchitis Virus

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Sarah Keep Dr Edward Emmott
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

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Machine Learning for Material Performance Predictions Across Climates

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Maths and Computing
  • Supervisors: Dr Vladimir Gusev
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Machine learning methods for modelling and optimising CO2 heat pumps

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 1st August 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Prof Zhibin Yu
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Mathematical Modelling of Cell Shape and Localised Cell growth.

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 1st August 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Natasha Savage
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Microbial Induced Electrochemistry at the Local Site and Single Cell Level

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 15th June 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences

Micromechanical properties as a diagnostic marker for systemic sclerosis

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Dr Riaz Akhtar Dr Rosalain Benson Dr Marina Anderson
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Molecular mechanisms underpinning A. baumannii virulence

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Sunday 1st June 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Christopher Harding Prof Aras Kadioglu
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Morphology, motion, and mechanics of vertebral joints in fish

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

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Optimisation algorithms for flow chemistry

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Maths and Computing
  • Supervisors: Prof Prudence Wong Prof Anna Slater
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Optimized Flow Pathways for Monodisperse Nanoparticles of Porous Materials

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Anna Slater Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr Kai Hoettges
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Optoelectronic Artificial Synapses Using Solar Cell Materials for Neuromorphic Computing

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Physical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Jon Major Dr Laurie Phillips
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Organic Radicals and Diradicaloid for Single-Molecule Electronics and Quantum Information Processing

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 30th September 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof. Andrea Vezzoli Dr Amit Sil
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

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PhD in Carbon Nanotube-Based Ultra-Compact Particle Accelerators

  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Physical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Bifeng Lei
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Polarised rheo-microscopy and dynamic coarse-grained modelling of hydrogels

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Dr Esther García-Tuñón Dr Aaron Finney Dr Will Sharratt
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Precise predictions for lepton scattering experiments

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 16th February 2025
  • Subject area: Maths and Computing
  • Supervisors: Dr Yannick Ulrich Prof Martin Gorbahn
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Precision flavour physics observables from Lattice QCD

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 16th February 2025
  • Subject area: Maths and Computing
  • Supervisors: Dr Tobias Tsang Prof Martin Gorbahn Prof Simon Hands
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Preclinical testing of collagen synthesis inhibitors for fibrotic disease

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Prescriptions for psychiatric medications in the perinatal period

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 15th April 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Camacho Dr Leanne Jackson Prof Ben Barr
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Preventing chronic diseases and reducing health inequities in the UK post-Brexit: The impact of the UK Internal Market Act on the discretion of devolved Nations to promote better health for all\n

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Thursday 27th February 2025
  • Subject area: Law
  • Supervisors: Prof Amandine Garde Prof Michael Dougan
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Probing Death Decisions from Morphogen Gradient Fields

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 5th April 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Protecting cells from mechanical stress: A novel role of cell-surface receptor LRP1 in extracellular matrix- nuclei communication

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Protecting cells from mechanical stress: A novel role of cell-surface receptor LRP1 in extracellular matrix- nuclei communication.

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

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Real-Time Subsampled Analysis and Recovery for High-Resolution 3D Tomography

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 1st April 2025
  • Subject area: Maths and Computing
  • Supervisors: Prof. Nigel Browning
  • Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants

Realization of a Cherenkov-Diffraction Radiation based Outcoupling Scheme for Beam Diagnostic Applications

  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Physical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Hao Zhang Dr Gero Kube
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Rescue Me: Investigating the impact of ‘small furry’ animal rescue on owner wellbeing.

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 26th February 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Carri Westgarth Dr Helen Clough Prof Liz Perkins
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Research on flexible heat pump technology

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 1st August 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Prof Zhibin Yu
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

RNA therapy development for inherited eye diseases

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 1st August 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Kevin Hamill
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

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Selective C-H functionalisations in industrially important alkylarenes

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Alexey Sergeev
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Single-Molecule Electroluminescent Devices as Single-Photon Sources

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 30th September 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof. Andrea Vezzoli Dr Amit Sil
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Solution synthesis of multi-anion functional materials

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

STFC-funded project in Theoretical Physics

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 16th February 2025
  • Subject area: Physical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Yannick Ulrich
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Studentships in Theoretical Computer Science

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Maths and Computing
  • Supervisors: Any academic of the department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Sustainable synthesis: reaction development and applications in synthesis

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Regius Professor John Bower
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

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The effect of low protein diet on the development of the neuromuscular system

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

The evolution of large brains and complex cognition across animal taxa

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Friday 28th March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

The nexus between climate change, extreme air pollution events and public health – Towards a holistic approach

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 31st December 2025
  • Subject area: Social Science and Health

The role and molecular actions of Galectin-3 in peritoneal fibrosis formation

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Saturday 31st May 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Bettina Wilm Prof Lu-Gang Yu Dr David Turner
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

The Role of Nutrition and Exercise in Physical and Cognitive Function (such as sarcopenia and frailty), utilizing clinical, metabolomic, proteomic, and gut microbiota data

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

The Shape of Things to Come: Personalized 3D Printed Medicines

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
  • Subject area: Engineering and Planning
  • Supervisors: Prof Raechelle D'Sa
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

THREE AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards on the project “Visual Cultures of Fascism”

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
  • Subject area: Arts and Humanities
  • Supervisors: Professor Roland Clark Professor Aristotle Kallis Chris Millington Christine Schmidt Rebecca Jackson
  • Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants

Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine approaches to understand and treat eye disease

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Carl Sheridan Dr Neeru Vallabh Dr Lucy Bosworth
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Translating Deep Learning protein bioinformatics methods to accelerate structural determination by X-ray crystallography

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Thursday 14th August 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Daniel Rigden Dr Ronan Keegan Dr David McDonagh
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

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Uncovering the mechanochemical signalling inputs that drive gastruloid axial patterning

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr David Turner
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Understanding the barriers to healthcare for women with chronic pelvic pain

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Selina Johnson Prof Helen Poole Dr Emma Evans
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Urokinase-plasminogen activator as a target to block osteoarthritic cartilage destruction

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

Using Causal inference methods for making and using medicines better

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Professor Reecha Sofat Dr Vicky Garfield
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Using pre-clinical models of disease to define new targets to slow joint degeneration in osteoarthritis

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences

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Vaccine development for important spirochaetal diseases of cattle

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Saturday 31st May 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof. Nicholas Evans
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

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Why do cancers cells re-express meiotic SYCP1 protein?

  • Funding: Self-funded project
  • Application deadline: Monday 4th August 2025
  • Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences