There are 63 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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A Multi-Omics approach to understanding cardiovascular risk in patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 1st December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Anirudh Rao Dr Gary McDowell Prof GYH Lip Dr P Sharma
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Beyond Lithium Ion Batteries: Experimental Discovery and Electrochemical Characterisation of New Solid-State Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 23rd December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Rosseinsky Dr Ruiyong Chen Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Bioengineering a full thickness cornea
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Hannah Levis Prof Rachel Williams Dr Kate Black
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Biopsychosocial Prediction Models of Pain Management Programme (PMP) Outcomes for Chronic Pain
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 22nd August 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Christopher Brown Dr Jennie Day Dr Katie Herron
- 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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Characterising novel regulation processes for a structurally important skeletal gene
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 30th June 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Simon Tew Prof G Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Cleaner Futures: Electron microscopy of catalysts for renewable transformations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 20th January 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Prof N Browning
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Cleaner Futures: MOF catalysts for CO2 utilisation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Matt Rosseinsky FRS Prof. Andrew Cooper FRS
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Cleaner Futures: New materials for catalytic conversion of CO2 to chemicals
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Matt Rosseinsky FRS Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Cleaner Futures: New porous frameworks for Sustainable Biomass Catalysis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Matt Rosseinsky FRS Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Cleaner Futures: New porous materials for CO2 Catalysis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Matt Rosseinsky FRS Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Crystallography of Advanced Inorganic Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 2nd December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky FRS Dr Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Defining the role of WT1 in cellular and molecular processes during gastrulation, in embryos and gastruloids
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 21st February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Bettina Wilm
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing new cancer therapeutic agents from foodstuff: characterizing galectin interaction with novel inhibitors
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 17th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Lu-Gang Yu Dr Edwin Yates
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing novel fibre/gel composites to support conjunctiva repair
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 1st September 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lucy Bosworth Professor Rachel Williams Mr James Hsuan Dr Neill Liptrott
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Discovery of high-temperature superconductors using Deep Learning
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 23rd December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr V Gusev Dr M Gaultois Prof Rahul Savani
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Discovery of new materials for applications on glass using Deep Machine Learning and Data Analytics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 15th February 2023
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof J Y Goulermas Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr M Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Discovery of new p-type transparent conducting materials for the flat glass industry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 15th February 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr J Alaria Dr Troy Manning
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Discovery of solid state electrolytes using Deep Learning
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 23rd December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr V Gusev Dr M Gaultois Prof Rahul Savani
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Diversifying the histone code: defining the role of non-canonical phosphorylation in chromatin structure
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 15th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Claire Eyers Prof A Jones Prof J Higgins
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Electronic, Magnetic, Optical and Thermal Properties of new Inorganic Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 3rd December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky FRS Dr Luke Daniels Dr J Alaria
- 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: Saturday 11th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. James Hartwell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Enhanced Solid-State NMR of Amorphous Solid Dispersion in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st October 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Frédéric Blanc
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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
EPSRC iCASE Project: Optimal Sensing of Multi-dimensional Datasets in Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st August 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor Nigel D. Browning Dr Louise Hughes
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Experimental discovery of new Inorganic Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 23rd December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Experimental Discovery of New Inorganic Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 8th December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr J Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Exploiting Deep Learning-based protein structure prediction for function annotation and structural biology
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 19th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof D J Rigden Dr R Keegan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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HBLB Senior Equine Clinical Scholarship in Equine Imaging & Sports Medicine
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 26th September 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Debra Archer
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Holistic Condition Monitoring Methodology for Power System Assets using Machine Learning
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 1st September 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Christos Zachariades
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Impact of olfactory sensory stimuli on affective processing networks in the brain
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 9th September 2022
- Subject area: Social Science and Health
- Supervisors: Dr Nick Fallon Dr Carl Roberts
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
Investigating a novel treatment for retinal scaring
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Carl Sheridan Dr Victoria Kearns
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the ability of circadian clocks to mitigate degeneration of the back of the eye
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Victoria Kearns Dr V Pekovic-Vaughan Dr C Sheridan Dr H Levis
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the bidirectionality of microbiome composition and neurobiological indicators of stress and wellbeing
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 9th September 2022
- Subject area: Social Science and Health
- Supervisors: Dr Carl Roberts Dr Nick Fallon
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Investigating the effects of a training aid on golf putting mechanics
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st May 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Karl Bates Dr James Gardiner
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the interaction between immune cells and biomaterial scaffolds
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st August 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lucy Bosworth Dr Neill Liptrott
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Joint models for longitudinally measured outcomes and non-terminal recurrent event processes – developing a framework
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 15th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Laura Bonnett Dr Maria Sudell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Leaky Blood Vessels and Basement Membranes (Diabetes, Inflammation, Cancer)
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kevin Hamill Dr C Sheridan Prof G Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Local, succinct, and semi-distributed graph representations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st August 2022
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Viktor Zamaraev Professor Chung-Shou Liao Dr Sebastian Wild
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Machine Learning of Behavioural Models for Improved Multi-Sensor Fusion (Distributed Algorithms CDT)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st August 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Murat Uney
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Metabolic disorders, psychosocial aspects and cardiac arrhythmias: data-analysis and clinical study
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th November 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Riccardo Proietti Dr Masoud Isanejad
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Methods of modulation of mitochondrial function in glaucoma
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Ms Neeru Vallabh Dr C Sheridan Dr Amy Chadwick Prof R Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Modelling scar formation in endometriosis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th April 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Bettina Wilm Prof Dharani Hapangama Dr N Liptrott
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Modern human variation as a model for locomotor evolution in ancestral hominins
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st May 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Karl Bates Dr Kristiaan D’Aout Dr James Charles
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Molecular 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 characterisation of a novel transporter for the atypical antipsychotic clozapine
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 6th April 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Dickens Prof Sir M Pirmohamed
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Multi-Fidelity AI for Accelerated Chemical Discovery (ICASE studentship with IBM Research)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st August 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Andy Cooper Prof. Simon Maskell
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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New materials for Sustainable Biomass Oxidation Catalysis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Matt Rosseinsky FRS Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Next-generation mass spectrometry diagnostics to guide patient management post-SARS-CoV-2 infection
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 17th May 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ed Emmott Dr Anna Smielewska Prof P McNamara Dr Jordan Skittrall
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Novel non-coding RNAs in regulating cancer epigenome
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 7th March 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Aditi Kanhere
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Nutrition and Exercise Human Clinical Trial for common older age conditions, including Physical Function, Sarcopenia and Frailty, Dementia, Cognitive Impairment, and cardiovascular disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 8th April 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Pathobiology of head and neck cancer (various projects available)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 7th October 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Keith Hunter
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
PhD Studentship in Irish Studies
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th September 2022
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Dependent on application topic
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
PhD Studentship in Irish Studies and Politics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st August 2022
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Dependent on application topic
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Plasminogen-activator inhibitor (PAI-1) in the musculoskeletal system: a key serine proteinase inhibitor regulating joint homeostasis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 25th July 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Wilkinson Professor George Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Quantifying drivers of tick-borne diseases in livestock to inform management recommendations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 26th August 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Caroline Millins
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Regenerative medicine treatment for the blinding disease Glaucoma
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Carl Sheridan Dr L Bosworth Dr R Oldershaw Prof Colin Willoughby
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Role of diet to combat Heart Failure and Stroke comorbidities: based on metabolomic approach
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 19th July 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad Dr Howbeer Muhammad Ali Professor Deirdre Lane Professor Gregory Lip
- Eligibility:
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Sarcopenia and frailty diagnosis, management, and treatment in older patients with long term conditions (heart failure, diabetes, stroke, CKD)
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 7th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Towards a Multivariate Biomarker-Based Diagnosis of sarcopenia in heart failure
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 31st October 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad
- 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: Friday 18th November 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor WB Dunn Dr Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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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