There are 83 self-funded or funded PhD projects.
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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
A Life Course Approach to Understand Clustering of Behavioural Risk Factors for NCDs in United Kingdom
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 9th November 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Manu Raj Mathur Prof. David Taylor-Robinson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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
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
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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
C
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: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr T Price Dr J Ferrai Dr Z Lewis
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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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
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 and application of in-situ electrochemical TEM methods for energy storage application
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 30th November 2019
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr. B. Layla Mehdi
- 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
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
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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
Ethics, Integrity, Trust and Public Involvement in Big Data Management
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 21st November 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lucy Frith Prof Iain Buchan
- 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
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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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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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: Friday 1st November 2019
- 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
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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
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
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 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
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
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
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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
Promoting physical activity for people living with or beyond cancer: Using mixed-methods of health services research
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 1st December 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Nefyn Williams Dr Ruaraidh Hill
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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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
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
Researching human trafficking policies and programmes in West Africa
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 8th November 2019
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Professor Alex Balch
- 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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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
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
Systemic Inflammation in Cystic Fibrosis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 24th October 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor CM Hedrich Professor P McNamara
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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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 impacts of climate change on pollinator-plant interactions
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr R Whitlock Dr K L Evans Dr C Garcia
- 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 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
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 response of variability in tree reproduction (masting) to climatic and environmental change
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2020
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Andrew Hacket-Pain Prof Andy Morse
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Using social media to engage patients and the public in clinical trials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 16th November 2019
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr K Woolfall Prof Iain Buchan
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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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