There are 158 self-funded or funded PhD projects.
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A 3Rs approach to assess drug toxicity on the embryo during early pregnancy in vitro
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 13th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Turner Dr Bettina Wilm
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
A destabilising dynamo? Tracing and explaining Earth’s magnetic field evolution through the Cenozoic
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof A Biggin Prof Richard Holme Dr Greig Paterson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
A discursive investigation of leading in organisational conversations
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th August 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Caroline Ramsey
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Adapting and testing the feasibility of an enhanced community-based rehabilitation programme following hip fracture for people with dementia or cognitive impairment.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 4th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Nefyn Williams
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Advanced Mathematical Optimisation in Materials Chemistry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th April 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Matthew Dyer Dr Vladimir Gusev
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Analysis of Heparin Binding Proteins and the Supramolecular Structure of Extracellular Matrix
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 24th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor D G Fernig Professor C E Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Application of artificial intelligence to analysis of chemical and structural data
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 22nd March 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Sam Chong Dr. Linjiang Chen
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Aquatic and gaseous carbon exchanges in managed land-systems in the British Uplands
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof R Chiverell Dr Joshua Dean Dr Siân Whitehead
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Arsenic determination in groundwater from West Bengal: challenges and solutions
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Pascal Salaun Professor Claire Mahaffey Subhamoy Bhowmick - CSIR National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) Kolkata Zonal
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Artificial Intelligence in volcano seismology and eruption forecasting
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 9th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr S De Angelis Professor Y Lavallee Dr L Zuccarello
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Assessing multiple pressures on seabirds
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Jonathan A. Green Dr Leonie Robinson Dr Julie Black
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Assessing the diversity, drivers & importance of Megaira, intracellular symbiont of aquatic eukaryotes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof G Hurst Dr David Montagnes Prof M Brockhurst
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Assessing the millennial and centennial variability of the West African Monsoon during the late Quaternary: palaeodata and modelling approach
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr F Marret-Davies Professor A Morse
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Augmenting the tumour cell immune response through destabilisation of PD-L1
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 18th December 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Michael Clague Professor Sylvie Urbé
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Before the Inner Core? Palaeomagnetic field intensity measurements from Proterozoic-aged Scandinavian igneous and baked Rocks
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof Andy Biggin Dr Greig Paterson Dr Johanna Salminen
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Bioengineering of bacterial CO2-concentrating system for improved photosynthesis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 9th March 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr LN Liu Dr D Canniffe
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Bringing machine learning techniques to geophysical data processing
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr L Uieda Dr S De Angelis
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Caprock and overburden characterisation: avoiding leakage of CO2 from CCS sites
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof RH Worden Prof D Faulkner Prof K Taylor
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Cathepsin Z as a novel potential biomarker for osteoporosis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th February 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Dong Barraclough Professor Lakshminarayan Ranganath Professor Sobhan Vinjamuri
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Climate change, microbiota, and speciation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr T Price Dr J Ferrai Dr Z Lewis
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Computational identification of new functional materials combining machine learning and structure prediction
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Pforessor Matthew Rosseinsky Dr George Darling Dr Matthew Dyer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Computational Studies of Novel Cathode Materials for Li Ion Batteries
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th April 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Matthew Dyer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Controls on Dissolved Iron Distributions in the Southern Ocean
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Hannah Whitby Prof Alessandro Tagliabue Dr Hélène Planquette
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Controls on Iron Bioavailability to Arctic Microorganisms
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Hannah Whitby Professor Claire Mahaffey Professor Maeve Lohan
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Defining the role of NF-��B during embryonic stem cell differentiation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 28th November 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Turner Prof. Anne McArdle
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Designing efficient search strategies for new material discovery in complex phas
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge Dr Mike Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Designing landscapes that are robust to climate change
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr SJ Cornell Dr J Hodgson Prof CD Thomas
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Detecting ancient carbon leaking from permafrost soils across the Arctic
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr J Dean Professor R Chiverrell Mr Mark Garnett
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Detecting geomagnetic reversals: How low can you go?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr G Paterson Prof A Biggin Dr M Brown
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Determining how ancient human societies and historic climate change have shaped Egypt’s mammalian fauna and its implications for our understanding of the links between people and the environment
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Bro-Jorgensen Dr S Snape https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/research/ecology-evolution/chris-d-thomas/
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Developing and applying computational methods to understand the genetics of ageing
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 23rd July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Joao Pedro De Magalhaes
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing Artificial Intelligence Tools for the Identification of Sleep Apnoea
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th February 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Yalin Zheng Dr Sonya Craig Professor Gregory Lip
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of a workflow for the assessment of eruption source parameters and volcanic plume rise
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr S De Angelis Prof Y Lavallee Prof B Taisne
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Development of Integrated THz Transmitter Module for Wireless Communications and Imaging
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof Yi Huang Prof Shawn Hsu
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of treatment for Osteoarthritis by blocking metalloproteinases
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 19th December 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof George Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Digital soft contact lenses design and validation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 20th June 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Ahmed Abass Prof Ahmed Elsheikh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Disease control and conservation: applying grazing pressure to solve ’The World’s Worst Wildlife Infectious Disease’
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 10th July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr D J S Montagnes Prof A Fenton
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Disentangling environmental change in the Amazon: vegetation responses to Holocene drivers in the National Park of Yasuni (Ecuador)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr E Montoya Dr F Marret-Davies Dr Rachel Smedley
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Disentangling landuse and climatic roles in sediment delivery to upland British lakes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr H Sangster Professor R Chiverell
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Does phenotypic plasticity help or hinder rapid adaptation?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S J Plaistow Prof J Hill Dr V Oostra
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Durability of detrital grain-coating clays during sediment transport
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr I Verhagen Prof RH Worden Dr S De Angelis
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Dynamics, instability and tracer spreading in a hydrothermal plume
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Professor Ric Williams Professor Alessandro Tagliabue Dr Carl Spingys
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Energy flow and food webs in deep seafloor ecosystems: a multifaceted approach to testing deep-sea models with biochemical observations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr R Jeffreys Professor A Hirst Dr Brian Bett
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Engineering laser beams for novel interaction with materials and enhanced application functionality
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 31st August 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Geoff Dearden Dr Stuart Edwardson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Environmental controls on turbidity current dynamics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr I Verhagen Dr C Stevenson Dr S De Angelis
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Equine Veterinary Surveillance Network for the UK Equine Population
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 6th December 2019
- Subject area: Social Science and Health
- Supervisors: Dr Gina Pinchbeck Professor Alan Radford
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Erosion hazards in river catchments: How resilient is critical infrastructure to climate change?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr James Cooper Prof Andy Plater
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Evaluation of short activating RNAs as novel therapeutic agents in liver cancer
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 18th December 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ian Copple
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Evolution of unique cranial morphology and function in lagomorphs: a combined effect of locomotion and mastication?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Alana Sharp Dr Nathan Jeffery Dr Philip Cox
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Evolutionary genomic analysis of rodent immune genes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor S Paterson Prof M Viney
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Experimental Discovery of New Framework Materials as Ionic Conductors
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr John Clarridge Professor Laurence Hardwick
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental Discovery of New Inorganic Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental discovery of new lead-free Photovoltaic Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental discovery of new three-dimensional covalent organic frameworks
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploring combined geothermal power and mineral extraction potential of the Galway granite complex
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr David McNamara Professor John Wheeler Professor Dan Faulkner
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Exploring the contribution of horizontal gene transfer to greenhouse gas emissions from arable agriculture
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Hall Prof T J Daniell
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Exploring the role of meiotic proteins in cancer
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr U McClurg
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Fault systems and fluid-rock interactions in the oceanic lithosphere: Implications for carbon capture
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr E Mariani Dr P Gonzales Prof J Wheeler
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Female competition and maternal effects in a social mammal
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Paula Stockley Professor JL Hurst
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Fishing in hot water: are the ecological impacts of trawling exacerbated by climate change?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Leonie Robinson Dr Matthew Spencer Dr(s) David Clare & Silvana Birchenough
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Framework for Supply Chain 4.0
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 15th December 2019
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Dirk Schaefer Dr Jelena Milisavljevic Syed
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Genomic architecture of inbreeding depression in butterflies
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr I J Saccheri Dr V Oostra
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Global insect declines? Assessing the resilience of urban insects
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof Kate Parr Dr Rachel Jeffreys Dr Karl Evans
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Hidden greenhouse gas emissions from urban waterways
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Joshua Dean Dr Sarah Clement Professor Andy Plater
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
High pressure hydrothermal synthesis of magnetic and electronic materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Matt Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge Dr Jon Alaria
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
How do dehydration reactions work?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof J Wheeler Dr E Mariani Dr D Mcnamara
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
How does changing bed topography during floods effect turbulence and flow resistance in rivers?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr J Cooper Dr J Higham
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
How does glacier runoff impact the stability of glaciers and their proglacial environment?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr J Lea Dr Stephen Brough Professor Alessandro Tagliabue
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
How much can a landscape take?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr R Duller Dr J Lea Professor Pete Burgess
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Ice response in the Andes (24-55 °C) to climate variability of the Little Ice Age
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Smedley Dr James Lea Dr Alessa Geiger
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Impact of recent climate change on phytoplankton composition in the Arctic Ocean
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Fabienne Marret-Davies Professor 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: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Greig Paterson Prof Andy Biggin Prof Richard Holme
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency - Engineering and Evolution of Light-Harvesting Complexes via Synthetic Biology
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 11th February 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr D Canniffe
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Innovating an anti-tilt human eye topographer
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 20th June 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Ahmed Abass Prof Ahmed Elsheikh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of the kidney in Alkaptonuria
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof George Bou-Gharios Prof JA Gallagher Prof LR Ranganath
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
K
Knowledge-based Design of Cyber-Physical-Product-Service (CPPS) Systems
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 1st September 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Jelena Milisavljevic Syed
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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LaNts and laminins in breast cancer
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 1st May 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kevin Hamill
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
LaNts in wound repair, stem cell activation and squamous cell carcinoma
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 1st May 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kevin Hamill
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Large-scale mapping of the thickness of the crust from satellite gravity and gravity gradient data
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr L Uieda Prof R Holme
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Magma Ascent Down Under: Magma Flow in Basaltic Fissure Systems
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr J Kavanagh Dr E Mariani Dr T Jones
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Make Liverpool’s Air-Quality Great Again – Sensing our city
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Jonny Higham Professor Andy Morse
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Manufacturing 4.0: Design of Smart Manufacturing Systems
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 1st November 2020
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Jelena Milisavljevic Syed
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Mass spectrometry analysis of human tissue to characterise cleavage events resulting in amyloid deposition associated with aortic aneurysm and dissection
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 11th July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Madine Prof C E Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Mechanistic mathematical / computational modelling of integrin signalling
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 25th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Natasha Savage Dr M Morgan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Mechanistic mathematical/computational modelling of the PAR polarity network
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 20th December 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr N Savage Dr J Rodriguez
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Metal speciation in a dynamic intermittent hypoxic marine environment (Loch Etive, Scotland)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr. Pascal Salaun Professor Jonathan Sharples Professor Mark Innall
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Methionine adenosyltransferases in disease and regulation of gene expression
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 24th July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Antonyuk Prof S Hasnain
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Mobile robotic chemists for complex formulations (iCase joint with Unilever Research)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 18th March 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Andrew Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Molecular analysis of the dynamic sulfotyrosine proteome
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 24th June 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor C Eyers Professor P Eyers Dr A Jones
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Molecular Assembly in Porous Liquids
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr R Greenaway
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Monitoring magma rheology-seismicity feedbacks during volcanic eruptions
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof. Yan Lavallée Dr. Silvio De Angelis Dr. Paolo Papale
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Mountains to Basins: Evolution of structure and sedimentary architectures within an actively deforming foreland basin
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr C Stevenson Prof D Faulkner
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Moving about a new axis: The role of the backbone in major adaptive radiations of terrestrial vertebrates
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Karl Bates Dr Katrina Jones Dr James Gardiner
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Can we isolate and characterise lymphocyte subsets in paediatric samples using electrical energy and mass cytometry?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr L Oni Dr J Slupsky Dr R Wright
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Combining single-cell proteomics and RNA sequencing to track heterogeneity in alphavirus infection
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr E Emmott Dr A Darby
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Deep learning approaches to discover new roles for non-canonical protein modifications in cancer
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof C Eyers Prof A Jones
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Design and Optimisation of Red/NIR Fluorescent Dyes for the Assessment of Antimicrobial Susceptibility
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof D Kell Dr G Nixon
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Developing Novel Bispecific Antibody-Drug Conjugates to Treat Leukaemia
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Woolley Dr J Slupsky
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Elucidating Disease Mechanisms using New Approaches to Capture Transient Protein Complexes in the Mitochondria
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof L-Y Lian Prof A J Wilson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Functional and genetic analyses of HSPB mutations underlying progressive neuronal deficits in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Barclay Dr E Seward Dr D Hammond
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: How does a common SNP predispose to age-related cardiovascular and musculoskeletal disease? A tissue engineering and lncRNA approach using MSCs
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Laird Dr James Henstock Prof David Young
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Investigating the potential of a regenerative medicine therapy to treat cardiorenal disease
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof P Murray Prof J Schneider Prof H Poptani
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Liquid biopsy of the liver to improve molecular targeted cancer therapy
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Christopher Goldring Prof F Falciani Dr Amy Chadwick
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Machine learning approaches for the analysis of circulating tumour DNA
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr A Auer-Fowler Dr A Jorgensen Dr J Cook
- 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 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr J Madine Prof C Eyers
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: MicroRNAs in the fat tissue – Next generation biomarkers for predicting drug-induced cardiometabolic disease
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Pushpakom Prof M Bushell Prof M Pirmohamed
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Targeting cancer through disruption of the ubiquitin economy
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M Clague Prof S Urbé
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Targeting lung fibrosis: Dissecting molecular crosstalk mechanisms that drive disease pathogenesis and therapeutic response
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr M Morgan Prof L Yu
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding how ageing can damage your heart
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr P Sharma Prof GYH Lip
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the mechanism of actin-microtubule co-regulation underlying neurodegeneration in motor neurons
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr T Zech Dr A Twelvetrees
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Use of 3D skin models and patient-derived immune cells to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of skin detachment in severe drug-induced skin adverse reactions
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr D Carr Professor D Naisbitt Professor A Dickinson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Multicellular Cell Differentiation Model: The control of root hair patterning in Aspergillus thaliana
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 24th April 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr N Savage Dr A Bishopp
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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NMR-Driven Design of Ion Transporting Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 20th March 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Frédéric Blanc
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Novel microbial source tracking markers for identification of fecal contaminations in inflow rivers of Taihu Lake
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th August 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Sekar Raju Professor Alan McCarthy
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Novel non-coding RNAs in Drug response, DNA Damage and Aging
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 17th October 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Aditi Kanhere
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Nutrient limitation in the Arctic Ocean
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Professor Claire Mahaffey Professor Alessandro Tagliabue Professor Maeve Lohan
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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PhD in Porous Materials for Challenging Separations (Computational)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st March 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
PhD in Porous Materials for Challenging Separations (Experimental)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st March 2020
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Police Discretion: an ethnographic study
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th August 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Mike Rowe
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Reducing harm to wildlife from rodent pest control strategies
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof JL Hurst Prof Paula Stockley
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Resolving the frequency of mass movements (landslides, rockfalls) in response to climate change with new luminescence techniques
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr R Smedley Dr Elisabetta Mariani Dr Stuart Dunning
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Robot grasping and manipulation for materials discovery in a chemistry lab
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th January 2020
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof. Andy Cooper Dr Shan Luo
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Salt intrusion and salinization management in coastal areas for a sustainable food production and ecosystem health
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr N Leonardi Dr N Shokri
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Salt marsh resilience in Chingming Eco-Island, China
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr N Leonardi Dr X Mei
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Shape, shear, search & strife; mathematical models of bacteria
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 16th December 2019
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Professor Rachel Bearon Dr Mal Horsborough Dr Bakhti Vasiev
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Single-Molecule Electroluminescence: Building photon sources, one molecule at a time.
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2019
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Andrea Vezzoli Prof. Richard J. Nichols
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Snap, crackle or pop? Understanding induced seismicity from fluid injection
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof D Faulkner Dr B Edwards
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
SOD1 The Key protein for finding a cure for familial Motor Neurone Disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 24th July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Svetlana Antonyuk Prof Samar Hasnain
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Taking control of cancer-associated splicing switches
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 1st May 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kevin Hamill
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Targeting ageing: Genes and compounds with pro-longevity, health-preserving effects
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 23rd July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr JP de Magalhaes
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
TDP-43 The Key protein for finding a cure for Motor Neurone Disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 24th July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S Antonyuk Prof S Hasnain
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The Biology of Parasitism in Parasitic Nematodes
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 20th December 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M Viney
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The Consequences of Transmission Heterogeneities for Disease Outbreaks
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof A Fenton Prof M Viney
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
The Eco-Immunology of Wild Mice
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 20th December 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Mark Viney
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The effect of low protein diet on the development of the musculoskeletal system
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 18th September 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki Professor Malcolm Jackson Dr Ioannis Kanakis
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The effects of high-speed rail on innovation and developing inter-connected high-tech science landscape in Taiwan
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2019
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Chia-Lin Chen Dr Olivier Sykes Dr Chan-Yuan Wong
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The imprint of the Atlantic jet stream and storm track on ocean overturning in the North Atlantic
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Professor Ric Williams Professor Tim Woollings Dr Doug Smith
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
The molecular mechanisms underlying reproductive organ photosynthesis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 5th March 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr D O'Maoileidigh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The origin of pseudotachylytes in seismogenic fault zones and their role during slow interseismic creep
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr E Mariani Prof D Faulkner Dr L Menegon
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
The University of Liverpool Management School Graduate Teaching Fellowships (GTFs)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Time, organisations and innovation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th August 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Paul Ellwood
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Toward a new generation of High-power THz radiation sources
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2019
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr. Mohamad Hasan Professor Yen-Chieh Huang
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Towards prediction of synthetically accessible organic molecular crystals
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 22nd March 2020
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Vitaliy Kurlin Prof Andy Cooper Dr Angeles Pulido
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Transnational Production, Global Wealth Chains and Emerging Market Economies
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th August 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Claes Belfrage Dr Adriana Nilsson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Uncovering the mechanisms of cryoprotectant toxicity and improving cryopreservation protocols
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 23rd July 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr JP de Magalhaes
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding basic biological mechanisms and the development of targeted therapies
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 19th December 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof George Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding bone mass using collageneases and aggrecanases
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 19th December 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof George Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding how adaptive evolution shapes microbial community functioning in a changing environment
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr S O'Brien Dr S Zytynska Professor D Cameron
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Understanding the importance of spatio-temporal variation in oceanographic and climate conditions for biological traits
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Samantha Patrick Professor Jonathan Sharples Sébastien Descamps
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Understanding the response of variability in tree reproduction (masting) to climatic and environmental change
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr A Hacket-Pain Professor A Morse Dr J Dean
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Understanding tree rings – how the interplay of climate and seed production controls tree growth
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr A Hacket-Pain Dr N Macdonald Dr E Montoya
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Volcanic plumbing system dynamics and their impact on communities living near active volcanoes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr J Kavanagh Dr H Sangster
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Volume changes during diagenesis and metamorphism: where are they?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof J Wheeler Dr E Mariani
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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What fault properties control earthquake rupture in the shallow portion of subduction zones?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof D Faulkner Dr B Edwards
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
When Social Meets Professional: The Performance Implications of Adopting Social Media in Workplaces
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th August 2020
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: Dr Hugo Lam
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide