There are 111 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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Advancing a Participated GIS-based Policy Tool for Addressing the Needs of People with Impaired Mobility in Urban Environments.
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 15th March 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr. Gabriele Filomena Dr. Olga Gkountouna Dr. Ron Mahabir
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
AI and Geodemographics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 21st March 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor Alex Singleton
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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
Automated Prioritisation and Engagement of Maritime Threats
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof S Maskell Prof J Ralph
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Hao Zhang Dr Stefano Mazzoni
- 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
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
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
Creating Sustainable Fuel from Ocean Microplastics Using Plasma Conversion
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof Xin Tu Dr Xue Yong
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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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 metabolomic fingerprint of premalignant lesions in endometrial cancer for early diagnosis and screening
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Andrew Davison Prof Hapangama Dr Christopher Hill
- 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 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 methods for communicating confidence in computational models
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr K Dvurecenska Dr Hannah Little Prof EA Patterson
- 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
Developing Sustainable Beam Diagnostics for Particle Accelerators - PPPR074
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 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 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
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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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
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
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
EPSRC-Funded PhD Studentship – Open to All Areas of Mathematics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 7th March 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr. Bakhti Vasiev Dr. Alice Rizzardo Dr. Gabriel Berzunza-Ojeda Dr. Ronnie Loeffen
- 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
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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From Waste to Wealth: Dredged Sediments Powering Coastal Renewal
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof Nicoletta Leonardi
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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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
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High Power Laser Development
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 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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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
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 Next Generation, Self-Repairing Tidal Turbine Blades Using CAN Polymers
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Unthank Dr Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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 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 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 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
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
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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
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
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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
Novel Processing of Bird-borne Biologger Data to Improve Offshore Windfarm Consenting and Operations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Prof Jonathan Green Dr Oliver Padget
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Optimising testing and control strategies in the early stages of infectious disease outbreaks
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 24th March 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Emily Nixon Professor Christl Donnelly Dr Richard Vipond Dr Emily Adams
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Optoelectronic Artificial Synapses Using Solar Cell Materials for Neuromorphic Computing
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Jon Major Dr Laurie Phillips
- 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 - PPPR076
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Bifeng Lei
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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
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
Preventing chronic diseases and reducing health inequities in the UK post-Brexit: The impact of the UK Internal Market Act on the discretion of devolved Nations to promote better health for all\n
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 27th February 2025
- Subject area: Law
- Supervisors: Prof Amandine Garde Prof Michael Dougan
- 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
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Quantifying Fire Size, Structural Failure, and Water Pollution from Lithium-Ion Battery Fires
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Xu Dai Dr Martina Manes Prof John Bridgeman Prof Jin Wang
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Quantifying the Deletious Effects of Seabird Windfarm Interactions by Understanding Individual Decisions
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Samantha Patrick Dr Jonathan Green
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Real-Time Subsampled Analysis and Recovery for High-Resolution 3D Tomography
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 1st April 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof. Nigel Browning
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Realization of a Cherenkov-Diffraction Radiation based Outcoupling Scheme for Beam Diagnostic Applications - PPPR077
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten Welsch Dr Hao Zhang Dr Gero Kube
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Rescue Me: Investigating the impact of ‘small furry’ animal rescue on owner wellbeing.
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 26th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carri Westgarth Dr Helen Clough Prof Liz Perkins
- 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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Selective C-H functionalisations in industrially important alkylarenes
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 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
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 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
THREE AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards on the project “Visual Cultures of Fascism”
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Professor Roland Clark Professor Aristotle Kallis Chris Millington Christine Schmidt Rebecca Jackson
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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
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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
Unravelling the Data Behind Battery Fires
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Dr Martina Manes Dr Xu Dai Prof John Bridgeman
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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 Causal inference methods for making and using medicines better
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Reecha Sofat Dr Vicky Garfield
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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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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