There are 213 studentships.
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A behavioural study on licensing decision making under risk of infringement
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Giulia Solinas
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
A discursive investigation of leading in organisational conversations
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 21st August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Caroline Ramsey
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Additive Manufacturing: Analysis of Low Adoption in UK Manufacturing Firms
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Andy Lyons
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Adhesion force regulation as a mechanism of cell adaptation to tissue stiffness and composition in health and disease
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr I Barsukov
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Advanced Anti-biofilm Surface Coatings Probed by Spatially Resolved Imaging and Microbiology Techniques
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st May 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Rasmita Raval
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Advanced Microscopy Image Analysis for Life Science Applications
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th June 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Yalin Zheng
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Aetiopathogenesis and genomic architecture of resistance to claw horn disruption lesions in dairy cattle
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof G Oikonomou
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
AI approaches for NMR analysis of biomolecular mixtures
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2019
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Alexei Lisitsa Dr Igor Barsukov
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
AI Techniques for Advanced Materials Design
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Andrew Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Analysing ECG with deep learning: human supervised analysis versus A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 31st December 2018
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr R Barrett-Jolley Dr C Dart
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Anatomy of subduction megathrust: a unique view from deep drilling into the Nankai Trough, Japan
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Dan Faulkner Dr John Bedford Dr Betty Mariani
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Are farm animal-associated Salmonella hyper-susceptible to bacteriophage killing?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Jay Hinton
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Asset markets with frictions
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Alessandro Marchesiani
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Assurance of Machine Learning Enabled Systems
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st January 2019
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Louise Dennis Dr Xiaowei Huang
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
B
Before the Inner Core? Palaeomagnetic field intensity measurements from Proterozoic-aged Scandinavian igneous and baked Rocks
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Andy Biggin Dr Mimi Hill Dr Greig Paterson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Bioengineering of bacterial CO2-concentrating system for improved photosynthesis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr LN Liu
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Bypass to deposition: Architecture and processes in deep-water turbidite transition zones
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Chris Stevenson Dr Ian Kane Dr Rhodri Jerrett
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
C
Calving behaviour, glacier dynamics and glacier stability in Greenland
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. James Lea Dr Nicoletta Leonardi Prof. Doug Mair
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Can periodic sediment input signals make it through to the sedimentary archive?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Robert Duller Prof. Pete Burgess
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Changes in metabolic energy use with body sizes within pelagic invertebrate species: new insights from jellyfish
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Andrew Hirst Prof David Atkinson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Characterisation of cell death mechanisms in cancer: protein interactions in p53/PERP-mediated apoptosis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 21st February 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor L Paraoan Dr I Prior
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Characterising and repurposing cyanobacterial CO2-fixing organelles for metabolic engineering
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 5th July 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Luning Liu Dr J Hartwell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Characterising genetic diversity of Wild Rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia (L.) DC) and developing a pipeline for marker assisted breeding
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Peter Walley
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Charge carrier dynamics in colloidal nanocatalysis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st January 2019
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr F Jaeckel Dr A Cowan
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Combinatorial Design for Mobile Edge Caching/Computing in Large-scale Content Distribution Networks
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 1st April 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Dr Xinping Yi
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Computational Efficiency and Better Understanding of River Deltas Using Lattice Botlzmann Method
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 1st April 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Dr N Leonardi
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Computational Identification of New Inorganic Materials for Automotive Applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 14th May 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor M J Rosseinsky Dr Matthew Dyer
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Conservation genetics and infectious disease in Brandt’s bats
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof S Paterson Dr T Lilley
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Consumer research/Critical Studies in Consumption: Risky and Unchartered consumption practices
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Ming Lim
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Copper speciation and its impact on iron cycling
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Pascal Salaun Dr. Alessandro Tagliabue
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Cryptosporidium parvum – B-cells as a route to control
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr R Flynn
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Cultural Diversity, Team Conflicts and Team Performance
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Huadong Yang
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Deep Learning with main target to Discover High-Temperature Superconductors
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2019
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr Danuska Bollegala Dr Mike Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Deep Learning with main target to Discover Solid Electrolytes for New Battery Technology
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2019
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Danuska Bollegala Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr Mike Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Defining the importance of mitochondrial genotype in determining individual variation in hepatic fatty acid oxidation and dysregulation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 25th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Amy Chadwick Dr Ana Alfirevic
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Dehydrating on a Greek island: corundum formation in relation to fluid flow and deformation on Naxos
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor John Wheeler Dr. Elisabetta Mariani Prof. Janos Urai
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Design and Discovery of Functional Inorganic Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Design and Discovery of large pore open framework materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 13th December 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr A Katsoulidis
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Designing efficient search strategies for new materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2019
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Danushka Bollegala Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr Mike Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Designing efficient search strategies for new materials discovery (Reference LRC1906CHEM)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Danuska Bollegala Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr Mike Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Detecting Pancreatic Cancer in Individuals with New-Onset Diabetes Mellitus
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th December 2018
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Eithne Costello-Goldring Prof Bill Greenhalf
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Determination of hyper-elasticity, viscoelasticity and anisotropy of ocular tissue
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 8th August 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Professor Ahmed Elsheikh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing co-culture systems to enable the modelling of interactions between cells of the synovial joint
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 2nd July 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Tew
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of Advanced Methods for Biological Signal Analysis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 22nd February 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Y Zheng
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of Novel Imaging Technologies for Eye Disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 31st December 2018
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Yalin Zheng
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Diabetic osteoarthritis : Investigating its causes and discovering interventions using tissue engineered human cartilage
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 28th August 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr James Henstock
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Diagnosis and management of corneal conditions based on its response to dynamic excitation by an external air puff
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 8th August 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Professor Ahmed Elsheikh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Discovery of complex intermetallics as advanced magnetic and electrocatalytic materials (Reference LRC1901)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr Alexander Cowan Dr Jonathon Alaria
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Discovery of high-temperature superconductors using Deep Learning (Reference LRC1902CHEM)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Danushka Bollegala Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr Mike Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Discovery of solid electrolytes for new battery technology using Deep Learning (Reference LRC1904CHEM)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Danushka Bollegala Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr Michael Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Disease control and conservation: applying grazing pressure to solve ’The World’s Worst Wildlife Infectious Disease’
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr D J S Montagnes Prof A Fenton
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) PhD studentships in Mathematical Sciences
- Application deadline: Friday 15th February 2019
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Shirley Farrell
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Don’t do it: Oculomotor approaches to inhibitory control
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 26th February 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Paul Knox
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Durability of detrital grain-coating clays during sediment transport
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Iris Verhagen Dr Silvio De Angelis Prof Richard Worden
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Dynamics, instability and tracer spreading in a hydrothermal plume
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Supervisors from University of Liverpool and University of Southampton
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Early development of the avian mucosal immune system
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof P Wigley
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Earthquake-induced instabilities in orogenic and volcanic environments
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Yan Lavallée Dr. Jackie E. Kendrick
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Ecological mechanisms that underlie ecosystem resilience to land use changes: demographic compensation in plant-pollinator networks
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr C García Dr J Hodgson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Effect of transposable element insertions on gene expression
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Andrea Betancourt
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Elucidation of the role of newly discovered post-translational modification of proteins involved in hypoxia signalling using proteomic analysis and live cell imaging
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th June 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr V See Prof C E Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Emerging Market Growth and Commodity Prices\n
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Stephan Pfaffenzeller
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Emission Control and Sustainable Energy in Green Port Development
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Prof Dongping Song
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Employee Sense-Making of HR system
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Huadong Yang
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Endocytosis in joint health and disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 12th July 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr K Yamamoto Professor G Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Engineering a water retention system for plants based on novel polysaccharide sulfotransferases from red algae
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr E A Yates
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Engineering more water-use efficient crops: functional genomics of the circadian control of CO2 fixation associated with Crassulacean acid metabolism
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr James Hartwell
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Environmental regulation of mRNA decay in adult stem cells
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st July 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Simon Tew
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Erosion hazards in a changing climate: making inland communities more resilient
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr James Cooper Prof Andy Plater Prof Janet Hooke
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Evolutionary insights for engineering improved globin oxygen carriers
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th June 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr M Berenbrink Dr J Madine
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in media replicating the conditions of the upper and lower airways\n
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 20th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Daniel Neill Dr Jo Fothergill
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Exploiting advanced methods for protein structure prediction
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th June 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr D J Rigden Dr R Keegan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploring Stem Cell Regulation by Heparan Sulphates using Chemical Biology and Glycomics Strategies
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th June 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof J E Turnbull
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Fault systems and fluid-rock interaction in the Samail peridotite: implications for carbon capture in mantle rocks
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Elisabetta Mariani Prof John Wheeler
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Feeling hot, hot, hot! Harnessing energy from magma in New Zealand
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Janine Kavanagh Dr. Ben Edwards
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Formulation of Surface Treatments for Contamination Prevention
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 31st May 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Colin Crick
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Fracture Behaviour of the Cross Laminated Timber
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 1st April 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Prof E Patterson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Functional and –omics investigation of neutrophil activation in rheumatoid arthritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Helen Wright Professor RJ Moots Dr Marie Phelan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
G
Geophysical and stratigraphical evidence for sediment dynamics and catchment landscape evolution in UK lake basins
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Richard Chiverrell Professor Andy Biggin Dr Rachel Smedley
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Going round the twist: The effect of stress on magma intrusion in Scotland and the Canary Islands
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Janine L. Kavanagh Prof. Andy Biggin Dr. David Dennis
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) PhD studentships in Mathematical Sciences
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 15th February 2019
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Shirley Farrell
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
H
High-resolution imaging and spectroscopic characterisation of physical and chemical interactions at bio-interfaces
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st May 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Raval
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Household debt and the financial crisis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Shalini Mitra
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
How common are heritable microbes, and why?
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr SJ Cornell Prof G Hurst
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
How do Arctic seabirds coordinate parental care in a changing climate?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Samantha Patrick Dr Ben Hatchwell
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
How does bed topography effect turbulence and flow resistance in rivers?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr James Cooper Dr Jonathan Higham
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
How is the Gut Microbiome Community Assembled in Wild Rodents?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M Viney Prof JL Hurst
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Hybrid models for the analysis of complex dynamic systems
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 1st August 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Dr Fiorenzo Fazzolari
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
I
Ice nucleation and the wetting of solid surfaces
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st May 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Andrew Hodgson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Identification of drug resistance genes in Fasciola hepatica using a combined in vitro phenotyping and pooled genotyping approach
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Hodgkinson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Identify differentially-expressed microRNAs in alkaptonuria patients
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 27th July 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr D Barraclough Prof James Gallagher Prof L Ranganath
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Identifying nutrient and pesticide modulation of ion channels with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr R Barrett-Jolley
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Impact of recent climate change on phytoplankton composition in the Arctic Ocean
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Fabienne Marret-Davies Dr Claire Mahaffey Dr Bart van Dongen
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Improving Paleointensity: A key to understanding the past and future of Earth’s magnetic field
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Greig Paterson Prof. Richard Holme Prof. Andrew Biggin
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Improving photosynthetic efficiency - engineering and evolution of light-harvesting complexes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr D Canniffe
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
In situ far-infrared spectroscopy of electrochemical interfaces within batteries
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Laurence Hardwick Professor Richard Nichols
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Influence of underlying matrix on induced pluripotent stem cell differentiation and integration of trabecular meshwork cells
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 13th February 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr CM Sheridan Dr R Oldershaw
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Inkjet Printing for Security Features: delivering and characterising a series of inkjet inks suitable for printing bespoke authentication features
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Dr Kate Black https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/engineering/staff/paul-chalker/
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Inner ear development and evolution - investigating prenatal development of the inner ear region at the micro and macro-anatomical level
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Nathan Jeffery
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Innovative Reactor Development - Resource Renewable Boiling Water Reactor Studies
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th December 2018
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Dr Maulik Patel Professor Bruno Merk
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Integrating antimicrobial resistance mechanisms of Staphylococcus aureus
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Mal Horsburgh
- 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: Friday 28th June 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jill Madine Dr D J Rigden
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of mesenchymal stem cell populations in the pathogenesis of systemic idiopathic juvenile arthritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 26th February 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr R Oldershaw
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
J
Judgement in day to day managing
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Caroline Ramsey
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
M
Machine Learning approaches for robust analysis of complex systems
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Dr Edoardo Patelli
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Mapping the food consumption of seabirds in space and time
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jonathan A. Green Dr Francis Daunt
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Mass and energy flow in seafloor ecosystems, testing and tuning deep-sea models with biochemical observations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Jeffreys Professor Andrew Hirst
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Mathematical modelling of plant circadian clocks - addressing the question of how the clock oscillators are coordinated in plants
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 23rd May 2019
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Mirela Domijan
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Mechano-culture of stem cells for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 28th June 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr JR Henstock
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
microRNAs as tools to regulate senescence of musculoskeletal cells during ageing
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 22nd November 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr K Whysall Prof P Clegg
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Mobile robot chemists for autonomous solar fuels research
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Andrew Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Mobile robot chemists for discovery crystalline materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Andrew Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Modelling Competition and Cooperation in Container Shipping Supply Chains
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Prof Dongping Song
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Modelling movement of large sediment in river flows
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Janet Hooke Dr James Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Molecular analysis of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in rheumatoid arthritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Helen Wright Prof RJ Moots
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Money and Liquidity
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Alessandro Marchesiani
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Monitoring magma rheology-seismicity feedbacks during volcanic eruptions
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Yan Lavallée Dr. Jackie E. Kendrick Dr. Silvio De Angelis
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Antiretroviral-induced metabolic toxicity: Role of adipose- miRNAs as mechanistic regulators and toxicity biomarkers
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Sudeep Pushpakom Prof M Bushell Prof Sir M Pirmohamed
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Biochemical and Cryo-EM analysis of cancer-causing pseudokinases
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor P Eyers Dr E Zeqiraj
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Detection of ultra-low frequency heart rate variability markers of disease using AI beat detection and HRV modelling
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr R Barrett-Jolley Dr Jaume Bacardit Dr I Welters
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Determining how mRNA turnover and translation contributes towards age-associated joint diseases
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Tew Dr J Aspden Professor G Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Developing non-invasive imaging strategies to investigate the effect of kidney disease on cardiovascular health and assess the ameliorative effect of a regenerative medicine therapy
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor P Murray Professor J Schneider Professor H Poptani
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Evaluation of adult stem cell differentiation in the trabecular meshwork of the eye as a regenerative medicine approach for Glaucoma using novel polymer 3D scaffolds
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Carl Sheridan Dr Rachel Oldershaw
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Genetic epilepsy: identifying mechanisms and potential drug treatments, from nematodes to humans
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Alan Morgan Prof A Trevelyan Dr A Ilie
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Integrated system for rigorous personalised diagnosis for Giant Cell Arteritis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Professor S Ferson Professor A Morgan Dr M de Angelis
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Mass spectrometry analysis of human tissue to characterise cleavage events resulting in amyloid deposition associated with aortic aneurysm and dissection
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jill Madine Prof Claire Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Mass-spectrometry analysis and live cell/zebrafish imaging to discover the function of novel post-translational modifications occurring in hypoxia signalling
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr V See Professor C Eyers Dr P Elks
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Personalised mitochondrial health: a functional and multi-omic assessment to predict individual susceptibility to hepatotoxicity of antiepileptic drugs
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr A Chadwick Dr A Alfirevic Dr R Jenkins
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Proteomics approaches to discover new roles for non-canonical signalling in cancer
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Claire E. Eyers Prof. Andy Jones
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Role of GPNMB in susceptibility to influenza virus infection: friend or foe?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Coombes Prof J Stewart
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: The direct effect of statins on cardiovascular function
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr M Cross Dr B Wilm Prof H Poptani
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: The molecular cell biology jigsaw of Parkinson’s disease: bringing the pieces together
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof S Urbé Prof M Clague
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Towards greater understanding of Atrial Fibrillation: Proteomics and genomics of a common global cardiac rhythm disorder
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor GYH Lip Dr P Sharma
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN DTP: Dissecting INPP5K function: cell biology, structural determination by X-ray crystallography and enzymology of a key protein implicated in muscular dystrophy, insulin signalling, spastic paraplegias and Parkinsonism
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 21st January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Laura Swan Dr Svetlana Antonyuk Dr Massimiliano Stagi
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Multiscale modelling and multifield analysis of composite structures
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st March 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Dr F Fazzolari
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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New Mathematical Models for Longitudinal Perfusion-weighted Imaging Study of Lesion In Stroke
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 1st January 2019
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Professor Ke Chen Professor Gloria Yang
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
New models for structure and dynamics of sessile marine communities
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Matthew Spencer Dr Kamila Zychaluk
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
New reactions of sulfoxonium ylides – for safer synthetic chemistry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 1st February 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Christophe Aissa
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Non-canonical signalling mechanisms in phagosome maturation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof C E Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Novel approaches for defining the Gram negative mobile antimicrobial resistance reservoir in poultry farming environments under varying antimicrobial selective pressure
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof N Williams
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Novel core-shell catalysts for the conversion of CO2 to value-added fuels and chemicals\n\n
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 1st April 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Dr Xin Tu
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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On the stability of money demand
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Alessandro Marchesiani
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Optimal search strategies for automated, robotic material discovery
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2019
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr John Fearnley Professor Andrew Cooper Dr Vladimir Gusev
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Optimisation of techniques for improving the storage of osteochondral allograft tissue
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 13th February 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Oldershaw Dr PI Milner Dr Marie Phelan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Optimising reproductive organ photosynthesis to improve seed oil content
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr D O'Maoileidigh
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Organisation in the Age of Digital Reproduction
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Prof Mike Zundel
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Patterns of antimicrobial use and resistance in a cohort of UK dairy farms
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Latham
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Phage WO as a vehicle to transform Wolbachia, a symbiont of major crop pests
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr B Makepeace
- Eligibility:
Physical drivers of plankton variability in a shelf sea
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Jonathan Sharples Dr Claire Mahaffey Dr Jo Hopkins
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Police Discretion: an ethnographic study
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 22nd August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Mike Rowe
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Political Marketing: Political Marketing in a Post-Brexit and Post-Trump Era
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Ming Lim
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Post-transcriptional gene regulation during chondrogenesis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Tew
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Preventing neonatal infectious arthritis in lambs: sources, transmission and characterisation of Streptococcus dysgalactiae
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Duncan
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Quantification of sediment organic matter fractions at Crose Mere, Shropshire FTNIRS and FTIRS
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr John Boyle Professor Richard Chiverrell
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Quasi-3D beam models for the nonlinear aeroelastic response of metallic and composite structures
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 10th August 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Dr Fiorenzo Fazzolari Dr Sebastiano Fichera
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases: which interventions are more effective and equitable?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Social Science and Health
- Supervisors: Dr M. O'Flaherty Dr C Kypridermos
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Reducing the environmental impact of controlling invasive rodent pests
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof JL Hurst Prof Paula Stockley
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Regional variation of biomechanical stiffness across the surface of the cornea using a non-contact method
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 8th August 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Professor Ahmed Elsheikh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Regulating Shedding of Syndecan-3: A Novel Approach to Combat Bone Ageing
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th October 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor R van 'T Hof Dr K Yamamoto Dr A Daroszewska
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Reproductive suppression in mammals: social mediators and implications for conservation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Paula Stockley Prof JL Hurst
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Resolving the frequency of mass movement events with new luminescence dating techniques
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Smedley Dr Elisabetta Mariani Dr Stuart Dunning
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Resource-Based Life Course Pathways to Entrepreneur Earnings
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 15th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr D Jayawarna
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Response of ringed seal populations to environmental change in the Canadian Arctic
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Rachel Jeffreys Dr. Claire Mahaffey
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Revisiting the basics of choroidal melanocyte embryology/biology and their stem cells
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 4th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Sarah Coupland Dr Helen Kalirai
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
RISK CDT - Vulnerability of coastal infrastructures under climate change
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 4th January 2019
- Subject area: Engineering
- Supervisors: Dr Edoardo Patelli Dr Nicoletta Leonardi
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Robot chemists for organic synthesis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Andrew Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Robotic formulation of solar fuel photocatalysts\n
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Andrew Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Siberian summers: detecting the leakage of old carbon from permafrost catchments
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Joshua Dean Prof Richard Chiverrell Dr Jorien Vonk
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Social Entrepreneurship: investment, impact and growth
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Pablo Muñoz
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy and Imaging at Surfaces and Bio-interfaces
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 30th June 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof R Raval
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Suffering Together? The Effects of Suppliers’ Environmental Violations on Buyers’ Performance
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Hugo Lam
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Sum-Frequency Generation (SFG) Spectroscopy of Fuel Cells
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 22nd February 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Alex Cowan
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Targeting ageing: Genes and compounds with pro-longevity, health-preserving effects
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 3rd February 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr JP de Magalhaes
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The dynamics and drivers of horizontal gene transfer in soil bacterial communities
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Steve Paterson Prof A Fenton
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
The ecology and evolution of parasites associated with bumblebees in South America, Japan, and Europe
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Barribeau Prof S Paterson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
The ecology of a sex-ratio distorting meiotic driver
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr T Price Prof Greg Hurst
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
The effect of low protein diet on the development of the musculoskeletal system
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th June 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr A Vasilaki Dr K Whysall Dr Iannis Kanakis
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The equity impact of changing spatial distribution of resources for population health and inequalities
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Social Science and Health
- Supervisors: Dr B Barr Prof D Taylor-Robinson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The genomics of sperm killing gene drive
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 29th June 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr T Price Professor G Hurst Professor S Paterson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The Impact of Health Qigong/Tai Chi Exercises on Healthy Living and Healthy Ageing
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 17th July 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Dong Barraclough Prof Malcolm Jackson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The impact of livestock on parasite transmission in communities of African savanna herbivores
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Bro-Jorgensen Prof A Fenton
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
The molecular biology of back pain: identifying determinants of spine health amenable for therapeutic intervention
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 26th July 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof G Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The political consequences of Rationality for Inequality
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 20th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Giulia Piccillo
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The role of interspecific interactions in shaping adaptive evolution in soil microbial communities
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof S Paterson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
The role of modified microRNAs in fibrosis during ageing
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 22nd November 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr K Whysall Professor G Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The role of neuromuscular junction (NMJ) degeneration in age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 21st February 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor MJ Jackson Professor A McArdle Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The Social Economy
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 15th August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr A Southern
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Thermal tolerance of intertidal species: scaling from organisms to regional responses to environmental change
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Nova Mieszkowska Dr Tom Webb
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Tides in a changing climate
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Chris Hughes Prof Ric Williams
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Time, organisations and innovation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 22nd August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Paul Ellwood
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Tissue Engineering of Functional Cardiac Tissue using a Newly Characterised Cardiac Stem Cell Population
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 13th February 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Oldershaw Dr R Barrett-Jolley Dr A P Meeson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Transgenerational effects of pollutants: the role of the egg
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S J Plaistow Dr P Antczak
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Translating discovery science: DUBs that regulate centrosome clustering, an Achilles’ heel of cancer
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 1st February 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Judy Coulson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Translation of Cardiovascular Control Models: Are ‘resistant hypertension’ patients truly drug resistant and does neuronal dysregulation contribute?
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 17th July 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr R Barrett-Jolley
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Transnational Production, Global Wealth Chains and Emerging Market Economies
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 22nd August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Claes Belfrage Dr Adriana Nilsson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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ULMS PhD Funding Call: September 2019 entry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Dilani Jayawarna
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding and improving care of the older horse
- Application deadline: Sunday 16th December 2018
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Gina Pinchbeck Prof Elizabeth Perkins
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Understanding patterns of AMR selection and transmission between sheep and their environment
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr P Davies
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Understanding regional basin evolution through integrated global palaeo-Earth systems models and numerical stratigraphic forward modelling
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof P Burgess Prof D Faulkner
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Understanding the biology of TEX12 as a centrosomal protein
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Urszula Mcclurg
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Understanding the role of TNFRSF11B polymorphisms in osteoprotegerin bioavailability and bone metabolism
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 21st August 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr A Daroszewska Prof Rob Van 'T Hof
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding tree rings – how the interplay of climate and seed production controls tree growth
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Andrew Hacket-Pain Professor Andy Morse
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Using machine learning to identify the functional consequences of naturally occurring variants in the rice genome
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr A R Jones
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Using stem cell-derived “mini-guts” to determine the role of the microbiota in resistance to Cryptosporidium infection in cattle
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 11th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Janine Coombes
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Using synthetic biology to develop natural sunscreen compounds from algae
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 29th June 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor M X Caddick
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Utilizing community ecology to examine the role of environmental niches of Histoplasma capsulatum to better understand host-environment dynamics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 9th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr C Scantlebury Prof A J McCarthy
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Variation and style in Liverpool English: corpus building to support automatic dialect recognition
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 18th January 2019
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Dr Sofia Lampropoulou Dr Paul Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Vascular health in the obese heart: A mechanism for the ‘obesity paradox’ for cardiovascular disease
- Application deadline: Thursday 1st August 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Gregory Lip Dr VS Sprung Dr Alena Shantsila
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Voltammetric detection of trace metals at mercury-free electrodes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Pascal Salaun Dr. Claire Mahaffey
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Volume changes during diagenesis and metamorphism: where are they?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor John Wheeler Dr Elisabetta Mariani Dr Jeremy Elvins
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Programme in Global Health - Health priorities in resource limited settings
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 18th January 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
When Social Meets Professional: The Performance Implications of Adopting Social Media in Workplaces
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 22nd August 2019
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Hugo Lam
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Will salt marsh survive sea level rise? An integrated numerical model and field investigation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Nicoletta Leonardi Dr. Rachel Smedley
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants