There are 106 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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A dive into tropical waters: understanding the mechanisms of sea surface temperature patterns that drive global climate and weather
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 14th February 2025
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Anna Deppenmeier Professor Ric Williams
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
A Reliable and Reconfigurable Robot Learning Framework for Accelerating Materials Discovery (R3L4AMD)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Gabriella Pizzuto Prof Andy Cooper Dr Shufang Zhu
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Advancing Plasma-Facing Materials: A Data-Driven Approach to Tungsten Alloy Design for Fusion Reactors (Materials Strand Project)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Xue Yong Dr Kirsty McKay
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Alterations in reparative dentinogenesis with ageing, gender and genetic predisposition
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Laird Professor Fadi Jarad Dr Nick Longridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
An investigation into the mechanistic interactions between sustainable fragrances and proteins employing in silico and in situ methods
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 7th February 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Neil Berry Jyoti Gupta James Marshall Craig Jones
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Automated Approaches for Efficient, Scalable, and Sustainable Synthesis of Material Precursors
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Anna Slater Prof Andy Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Automated solid state synthesis robotic workflow
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr T Manning
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Beam gas curtain monitor for the High Luminosity LHC
- Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Hao Zhang Dr Stefano Mazzoni
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Biological pathways supporting the formation and function of chromatin (Scholarship)
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 8th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Colin Hammond
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Cardiac Harmony: Modelling Heart Beats with Stem Cells and Code
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Richard Barrett-Jolley Dr Rachel Oldershaw
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Cardiovascular and Neuromuscular Functions around the Clock: Harnessing Protective Endogenous Mechanisms towards Smarter Design of Novel Therapies and Interventions
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Vanja Pekovic-Vaughan Dr Masoud Isanejad Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki Dr Sunil Loganthama
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Chromatin regulation of oncogenic transcription and replication stress: mechanism and functional implications in acute myeloid leukemia
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 18th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Manolis Papamichos Chronakis Prof David MacEwan Dr Aditi Kanhere
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Combining genome-scale metabolic models and multi-omics data for a system level understanding of bacteria
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 22nd March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Francesco Del-Carratore Prof Roy Goodacre Prof Steve Paterson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Computational Identification of Catalytic Covalent Organic Frameworks
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Matthew Dyer Dr John Ward
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Control of bone shape and function by the extracellular matrix Fibrillin-1
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Blandine Poulet
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Deciphering mechanisms of host-to-host transmission in pathogenesis of pneumococcal disease
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 26th January 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Aras Kadioglu Dr. Caroline Vipond
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Determination of the non-coding RNAs in the knee joint tissues of dogs at differing risk to cranial cruciate ligament rupture.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Eithne Comerford Professor Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Determining metabolic reprogramming events in stem cells in response to inflammatory disease phenotype
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Oldershaw Dr Amy Chadwick Dr Marie Phelan Dr Brendan Norman
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Determining the role of mitochondrial DNA variation in hepatic pathways and its impact on physiology, pharmacology and toxicology: a combined in vitro and bioinformatic approach.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th July 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Amy Chadwick Dr Dan Carr Dr Joanna Elson (Joanna.elson@newcastle.ac.uk)
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing an in silico method for endodontic restoration of human molar teeth
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 11th April 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Rosti Readioff Dr Alana Sharp Dr Nicholas Longridge Prof Fadi Jarad
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing Sustainable Beam Diagnostics for Particle Accelerators
- Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Hao Zhang Dr Joseph Wolfenden
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development and validation of the Epilepsy-Heart syndrome: a focus on ictal asystole and developing evidence-based national consensus guidelines
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 3rd July 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Gashirai Mbizvo Prof Gregory Lip Prof Tony Marson Prof Ian Buchan Dr Adam Noble
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of integration bridges between the clinic and the laboratory
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Willian Greenhalf Prof Tim Maughan Dr Richard Jackson
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Development of quantitative imaging biomarkers for characterization of neural functional abnormalities in preclinical models of neurodevelopmental disorders.
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Harish Poptani
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Digital Discovery of Polymeric Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Alessandro Troisi Dr Tom Hasell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Digital Exploration and Structural Modelling of Hybrid Glass Formers
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Lauren McHugh Dr Matthew Dyer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Digital Exploration of Novel Polymeric Materials for Structural Composites
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Neil Berry Dr Tom Hasell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Digital twin of heat pumps integrated with thermal energy storage
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 1st August 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Zhibin Yu
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Digitally-led Discovery of Solid Electrolyte Materials for Net Zero Applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rossiensky Dr Matthew Dyer
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Discovery of new inorganic materials for net zero applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Do patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears demonstrate muscle strength deficits of the hip, knee, and ankle muscles?
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Oldershaw Mr Richard Norris
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Elucidation of a new pathological mechanism for brittle bone disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Laird
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Establishing the biomarker potential of extracellular RNA structure in chronic diseases
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 9th May 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Simon Tew
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Experimental Discovery of New Ionic Conducting Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr T Manning
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Explaining Structure-property Relations in the Materials Space
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof Vitaliy Kurlin Prof Andy Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploiting Deep Learning-based protein structure prediction for function annotation and structural biology
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 15th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof D J Rigden Dr R Keegan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploring influenza virus evolution using state-of-the-art technology and experimental animal model
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Mahmoud Naguib
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploring the roles of dynamic atypical protein phosphorylation in cancer
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Claire Eyers Prof Andy Jones
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploring the therapeutic potential of calmodulin in the context of inherited cardiac arrhythmia
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Nordine Helassa Prof Caroline Dart
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Green electrospun nanofiber membranes for water treatment
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Raechelle D'Sa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Guaranteed Structure Prediction with Machine Learning
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Vladimir Gusev Prof Matthew Rosseinsky
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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High-throughput exploration of multicomponent metal organic frameworks (MOFs)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr A Katsoulidis
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
High-throughput First-principle Simulations of Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Pavel Buividovich Prof Alessandro Troisi
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Identifying age-related extracellular microenvironment in dental tissues
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto Prof Fadi Jarad
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Identifying challenges and opportunities for sustainable parasite control in UK horses
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 10th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Tamzin Furtado Professor Gina Pinchbeck Professor Jane Hodgkinson April Lawson Dr Rebecca Smith
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Identifying metabolic perturbations that drive kidney cancer
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Paraskevi Kritsiligkou Marco Sciacovelli
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Improving chemical and immunological assessment to drive safer development of the new breed of drugs: PROTACS
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Xiaoli Meng Prof Dean Naisbitt Dr Gemma Nixon Dr Sean Hammond
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Improving patient outcomes following mandibular reconstruction after oral cancer: novel finite element methods for better surgical design
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Alana Sharp Prof Andrew Schache
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Instrumentation studies for AWAKE Run 2c
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 19th December 2026
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Carsten Welsch Prof Andy Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Investigating how tumour associated macrophages affect cancer metastasis and response to therapies
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 15th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Ainhoa Mielgo Prof Michael Schmid
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the cognitive ecology of the European nightjar
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Oliver Padget Kate Parr Dmitry Kishkinev
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Investigating the impact of galectin-ligand interaction on cancer cell resistance to chemotherapeutic treatment
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Lu-Gang Yu
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the regulation of neutrophil gene expression by intracellular signalling and small non-coding RNAs
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Helen Wright Prof Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of Aquaporins in age related diseases
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Caroline Staunton Dr Robert Heaton
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of neutrophil-mediated tissue damage in a model of lupus nephritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Helen Wright Dr David Wilkinson Dr David Turner
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of oxidative metabolites in joint destruction in osteoarthritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Brendan Norman Dr Juliette Hughes Prof George Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigation of Novel Accessory Proteins in the Replication of Infectious Bronchitis Virus
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Sarah Keep Dr Edward Emmott
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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LYONS-JONES Scholarship PhD programme within the Institute of Systems, Integrative and Molecular Biology
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: A supervisor will be allocated to you
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Machine Learning for Material Performance Predictions Across Climates
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Vladimir Gusev
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Machine learning methods for modelling and optimising CO2 heat pumps
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 1st August 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Zhibin Yu
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Mathematical Modelling of Cell Shape and Localised Cell growth.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 1st August 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Natasha Savage
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Microbial Induced Electrochemistry at the Local Site and Single Cell Level
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 15th June 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Rasmita Raval Dr Andrea Vezzoli
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Micromechanical properties as a diagnostic marker for systemic sclerosis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Riaz Akhtar Dr Rosalain Benson Dr Marina Anderson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Molecular mechanisms underpinning A. baumannii virulence
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 1st June 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Christopher Harding Prof Aras Kadioglu
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Morphology, motion, and mechanics of vertebral joints in fish
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ariel Camp Dr Alana Sharp
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Multiphysics data-driven validation framework for component qualification in fusion
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr K Dvurecenska
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Optimisation algorithms for flow chemistry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof Prudence Wong Prof Anna Slater
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Optimized Flow Pathways for Monodisperse Nanoparticles of Porous Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Anna Slater Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr Kai Hoettges
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
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PhD in Carbon Nanotube-Based Ultra-Compact Particle Accelerators
- Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Bifeng Lei
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Polarised rheo-microscopy and dynamic coarse-grained modelling of hydrogels
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Esther García-Tuñón Dr Aaron Finney Dr Will Sharratt
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Precise predictions for lepton scattering experiments
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 16th February 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Yannick Ulrich Prof Martin Gorbahn
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Precision flavour physics observables from Lattice QCD
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 16th February 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Tobias Tsang Prof Martin Gorbahn Prof Simon Hands
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Preclinical testing of collagen synthesis inhibitors for fibrotic disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Laird
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Probing Death Decisions from Morphogen Gradient Fields
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 5th April 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Marisa Merino
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Protecting cells from mechanical stress: A novel role of cell-surface receptor LRP1 in extracellular matrix- nuclei communication
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto Dr Riaz Akhtar\n
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Protecting cells from mechanical stress: A novel role of cell-surface receptor LRP1 in extracellular matrix- nuclei communication.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Putting a brain in the mobile robotic chemist
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof A I Cooper Dr Xenofon Evangelopoulos
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Quantum Technology: the MAGIS and AION experiments, combined with future satellite-based experiment
- Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jonathan Tinsley Prof Jonathon Coleman Mark Bason (external placement – RAL Space, STFC)
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Realization of a Cherenkov-Diffraction Radiation based Outcoupling Scheme for Beam Diagnostic Applications
- Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Hao Zhang Dr Gero Kube
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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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Searches for Higgs pair production with the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC
- Application deadline: Wednesday 29th January 2025
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Carl Gwilliam
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Searches for long-lived axion-like particles at the ATLAS experiment
- Application deadline: Wednesday 29th January 2025
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Monica D’Onofrio Dr Nikolaos Rompotis
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
Studentships in Theoretical Computer Science
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Any academic of the department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Sustainable synthesis: reaction development and applications in synthesis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Regius Professor John Bower
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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The effect of low protein diet on the development of the neuromuscular system
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The evolution of large brains and complex cognition across animal taxa
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Christopher Mitchell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The nexus between climate change, extreme air pollution events and public health – Towards a holistic approach
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st December 2025
- Subject area: Social Science and Health
- Supervisors: Dr Vasilis Matthaios Dr Chris Kypridemos Dr Brendan Collins
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The role and molecular actions of Galectin-3 in peritoneal fibrosis formation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st May 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Bettina Wilm Prof Lu-Gang Yu Dr David Turner
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The Role of Nutrition and Exercise in Physical and Cognitive Function (such as sarcopenia and frailty), utilizing clinical, metabolomic, proteomic, and gut microbiota data
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad Dr Howbeer Muhamad Ali
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
The Role of the Endosomal System in Alzheimer’s Disease.
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kirsty McMillan Professor Sylvie Urbé Professor Heather Mortiboys
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
The Shape of Things to Come: Personalized 3D Printed Medicines
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Raechelle D'Sa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine approaches to understand and treat eye disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Carl Sheridan Dr Neeru Vallabh Dr Lucy Bosworth
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Translating Deep Learning protein bioinformatics methods to accelerate structural determination by X-ray crystallography
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 14th August 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Daniel Rigden Dr Ronan Keegan Dr David McDonagh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Uncovering the mechanochemical signalling inputs that drive gastruloid axial patterning
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Turner
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding the barriers to healthcare for women with chronic pelvic pain
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Selina Johnson Prof Helen Poole Dr Emma Evans
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding the origins of oxidation in the nucleus
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Paraskevi Kritsiligkou
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Urokinase-plasminogen activator as a target to block osteoarthritic cartilage destruction
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Wilkinson Professor George Bou-Gharios Professor Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Using pre-clinical models of disease to define new targets to slow joint degeneration in osteoarthritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Blandine Poulet
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Vaccine development for important spirochaetal diseases of cattle
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st May 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Nicholas Evans
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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What Lurks Beneath: Integrating the physical and chemical signals of magma ascent for enhanced volcanic eruption forecasting
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 24th January 2025
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof. Janine Kavanagh Dr. Katy Chamberlain Dr. Pablo Gonzalez Dr. Michael Poland
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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