There are 63 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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Advancing Nanotechnology with Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st October 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Advancing Paper-Arrow Mass Spectrometry for Rapid, Non-Invasive Diagnostics
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st October 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Applying automated systems to monitor the behaviour and welfare of captive animals in complex environments
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 17th April 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Paula Stockley Prof Jane Hurst Dr Lisa Holmes Prof Paul O'Neill
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Assessing cardiovascular risk in transgender patients on gender affirming hormonal therapy
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 2nd May 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Riccardo Proietti Prof Andrea Jorgensen Dr Leong King Sun Lecturer Schadrac Agbla
- 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
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Breeding for improved organoleptic quality in Wild Rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia (L.) DC) using marker assisted breeding\n
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 17th April 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Peter Walley
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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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
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Defining the links between ROS and inflammaging in a human model of neutrophil-driven inflammation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th April 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Helen Wright Prof Claire Eyers
- 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 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
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
Digital soft contact lenses design and validation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 11th March 2026
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Ahmed Abass Dr Jenny Hanson
- 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
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
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Enhancing Marine Biodiversity Through Repurposing Manmade Structures with Secondary Coastal Flood Defence Benefits
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 30th June 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Nicoletta Leonardi
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
Exploiting Deep Learning-based protein structure prediction for function annotation and structural biology
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 18th February 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof D J Rigden Dr R Keegan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Funded PhD studentship on acoustics (sound and vibration)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 27th June 2025
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Prof. Carl Hopkins Dr Pyoung Jik Lee
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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High Entropy Alloys for new PGM (Platinum Group Metal) applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 30th June 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Prof Alex Cowan Dr Troy Manning Dr Ruiyong Chen
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
High Throughput Discovery of Iridium Free OER Catalysts
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 30th June 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Prof Alex Cowan Dr Troy Manning Dr Ruiyong Chen
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
High-Throughout Materials Discovery and Analysis for Atmospheric Water Harvesting
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st July 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof A I Cooper Dr Isil Akpinar
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
High-Throughout Materials Discovery and Analysis for Water Contaminant Removal
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st July 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof A I Cooper Dr Isil Akpinar
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
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Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency - Engineering and Evolution of Light-Harvesting Complexes via Synthetic Biology
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th April 2026
- 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: Wednesday 11th March 2026
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Ahmed Abass Dr Jenny Hanson
- Eligibility:
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 Charged Particle Dynamics & Weber’s Force Law
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st October 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the interaction between immune cells and biomaterial scaffolds
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 17th April 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lucy Bosworth Dr Neill Liptrot
- 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 Role of Polarity Regulators in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) Pathogenesis and Therapy.
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th September 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Pedro Perez-Mancera Prof William Greenhalf
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Is the skeletal muscle the “fountain of cardiac youth”?
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th September 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Richard Rainbow Prof. McArdle Dr David Turner Dr David Wilkinson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Linking historic, contemporary, and future inspection data for improved asset monitoring
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 18th February 2026
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr W Christian Dr K Dvurecenska
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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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
Mechanisms controlling gene expression in hypoxia and inflammation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 17th April 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Sonia Rocha
- 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
Miniature Mass Spectrometry
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st October 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Modelling non-standard longitudinal outcomes using fast Bayesian inference
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th April 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Hughes Dr Maria Sudell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Molecular characterization of galectin interaction with compound inhibitors to aid development of novel cancer theraputic drugs
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 17th April 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Lu-Gang Yu Dr Svetlana Antonyuk
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Multiphysics data-driven validation framework for component qualification in fusion
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st July 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr K Dvurecenska
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Non-invasive strategies for the mobilisation and washout of radioactive heels and residues from vessels and pipework
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 18th February 2026
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Davide Dapelo Prof Rob Poole
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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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
Oxygenic photosynthesis in desert environments driven by far-red light
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th April 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr D Canniffe
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Personalised Coffee: Advanced Coffee Flavour Analysis and Custom Brewing
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st October 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Personalising cancer treatment with modelling tumour evolution based on genomics biomarkers and PK/PD
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 17th April 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Tao You
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
R
Rankin Studentship for Postgraduate Study in Egyptology (PhD)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 20th June 2025
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: HLC Research Team
- 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
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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
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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
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
Transition-to-turbulence in partially filled pipes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 18th February 2026
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Henry Ng Prof Rob Poole Dr Christopher Cunliffe Dr Jonathan Dodds
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors: application of chemical and discovery proteomics to the problem of chemotherapeutic toxicity in cancer patients
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 17th April 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr R Jenkins Dr C Duckworth Prof C Goldring Prof Paul O'Neill
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Uncovering the hidden costs and benefits of mate choice
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 17th April 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Liam Dougherty Dr S Wigby Prof Paula Stockley
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Uncovering the role of Wnt and Notch signalling in embryonic stem cell pluripotency and differentiation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th April 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Turner
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding skeletal tissue responses to sex and menopause in osteoarthritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 8th April 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr B Poulet Dr Rosti Readioff Prof E Comerford
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding why cardiovascular complications are the number one cause of death in patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 27th February 2026
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Claire Eyers Prof Richard Scheltema
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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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
Why don't all blood vessels behave the same way? A proteomic, transcriptomic and functional “Rat map” of vascular tissue
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th September 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Richard Rainbow Prof. McArdle Dr David Turner Dr David Wilkinson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide