There are 80 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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Adaptive Robotic Chemists for Resilient Pharmaceuticals
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 25th May 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Gabriella Pizzuto Dr Anthony Bradley
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Advancing a Participated GIS-based Policy Tool for Addressing the Needs of People with Impaired Mobility in Urban Environments.
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 15th April 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr. Gabriele Filomena Dr. Olga Gkountouna Dr. Ron Mahabir
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
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 - PPPR075
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Hao Zhang Dr Stefano Mazzoni
- 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
Design and synthesis chemical probes for fluorescent imaging and mass spectroscopy
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 25th April 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr W. David Hong Dr Victoria Ingham Prof Paul O’Neill
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
Developing new generation adsorbent for Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) removal
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st May 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Xue Zhang Prof Chai Chen Li Dr Evrim Celik Madenli
- Eligibility: Open to EU/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 Transformation of Chemical Analysis for Sustainable Materials Development
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr John Ward Dr Gabriella Pizzuto
- 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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Edge-Cloud Collaborative Motion Planning for Autonomous Navigation with Large Language Models
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Heba Lakany Ian Sandall
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Effects of offshore wind farms on the distribution of invasive species
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Mohad Mousavi Nezhad
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
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
Evaluating change in biodiversity at local and regional ecosytem scale
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Jack Thomson Dr Nova Mieszkowska
- 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
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
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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 Power Laser Development
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Laura Corner
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
Hybrid Porous Scaffold 2D Materials for Water Purification
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st May 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr William Sharratt Dr Evrim Celik Madenli Prof Y L Chueh
- 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 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 ocean circulation the ultimate driver of biological carbon storage in the ocean?
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 1st June 2025
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Jamie Wilson Prof Alessandro Tagliabue
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
Locating and sizing electric vehicle charging stations through multi-stage stochastic optimisation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st May 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Anna Charly Prof S Ferson Prof Dung_Ying Lin
- 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
Mechanistic investigation of immunotoxicity associated with Adeno-associated virus vector-based gene therapy
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 2nd May 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Xiaoli Meng
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
Mitigating Synthesisability Loss in 3D Generative Models
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 25th May 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Anthony Bradley Dr Gabriella Pizzuto
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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 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
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Next Generation Electroactive Membranes (EMs) for Sustainable Water Purification
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st May 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Evrim Celik Madenli Prof Jyh Ming Wu Prof John Bridgeman
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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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Optimising Vaccination Outreach Through Epidemiological-Behavioural Modelling and AI
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 7th May 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Edward Hill Professor Iain Buchan Professor Cathy Montgomery Dr André Charlett
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
PhD studentship for entry into the Politics PhD programme
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th May 2025
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Dr Birte Gippert
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Prescriptions for psychiatric medications in the perinatal period
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 15th April 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Camacho Dr Leanne Jackson Prof Ben Barr
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
Rydberg Quantum Sensing Technologies for Resilient Communications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th May 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Yi Huang Dr Jiafeng Zhou
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Selective C-H functionalisations in industrially important alkylarenes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Alexey Sergeev
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Single-Molecule Electroluminescent Devices as Single-Photon Sources
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 30th September 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Andrea Vezzoli Dr Amit Sil
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Solution synthesis of multi-anion functional materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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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
The role and molecular actions of Galectin-3 in peritoneal fibrosis formation
- Funding: Self-funded project
- 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
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
Two PhD Studentships in History
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 30th May 2025
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: HLC Scholarships Team
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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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 the link between odorous thioalcohol generation and axillary microbiome bacteria at the molecular level
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Roy Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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
Underwater Radiated Noise Prediction of Commercial Ships (BMT)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 18th April 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor John Bridgeman Dr Matt Fulton Professor Andrew Plater Dr Louise Roberts
- 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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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