There are 103 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
A
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
- Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Laird Professor Fadi Jarad Dr Nick Longridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Prof Richard Barrett-Jolley Dr Rachel Oldershaw
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Vanja Pekovic-Vaughan Dr Masoud Isanejad Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki Dr Sunil Loganthama
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Manolis Papamichos Chronakis Prof David MacEwan Dr Aditi Kanhere
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Blandine Poulet
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Professor Eithne Comerford Professor Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Oldershaw Dr Amy Chadwick Dr Marie Phelan Dr Brendan Norman
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Rosti Readioff Dr Alana Sharp Dr Nicholas Longridge Prof Fadi Jarad
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Oldershaw Mr Richard Norris
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
E
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
- Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Laird
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
G
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
I
Identifying age-related extracellular microenvironment in dental tissues
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto Prof Fadi Jarad
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Xiaoli Meng Prof Dean Naisbitt Dr Gemma Nixon Dr Sean Hammond
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Alana Sharp Prof Andrew Schache
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Prof Ainhoa Mielgo Prof Michael Schmid
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Prof Lu-Gang Yu
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Helen Wright Prof Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Caroline Staunton Dr Robert Heaton
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Brendan Norman Dr Juliette Hughes Prof George Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
M
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
- Supervisors: Prof Rasmita Raval Dr Andrea Vezzoli
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
- Supervisors: Dr Ariel Camp Dr Alana Sharp
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
O
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
P
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
- Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Laird
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Marisa Merino
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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 Dr Riaz Akhtar\n
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
R
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
S
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
T
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
- Supervisors: Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Christopher Mitchell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Vasilis Matthaios Dr Chris Kypridemos Dr Brendan Collins
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad Dr Howbeer Muhamad Ali
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
U
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
- Supervisors: Dr David Wilkinson Professor George Bou-Gharios Professor Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
- Supervisors: Dr Blandine Poulet
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
V
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
W
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
- Supervisors: Dr Urszula McClurg
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide