Postgraduate research

Funded opportunities

Listed below are the funded studentship opportunities which are currently accepting research student applications.

College of Life Sciences

Please read the studentship adverts for eligibility criteria, funding and application process.

UoL/China Scholarship Council Scholarship 2025

  • PhD start date: 22 September 2025
  • Closing date: 11 December 2024

Cardiovascular Sciences: Cultural adaptation of a digital health platform for patients with chronic kidney disease from a South Asian background

  • Supervisor: Dr Matthew Graham-Brown
  • Start date: 6 January 2025
  • Closing date: 11 November 2024

Cardiovascular Sciences: Establishing the needs of a holistic lifestyle intervention for patients on haemodialysis

  • Supervisor: Professor James Burton
  • Start date: January 2025
  • Closing date: 11 November 2024

Psychology and Vision Sciences: Advancing Early Diagnosis and Clinical Characterisation of Retinoblastoma through Innovative Imaging

  • Supervisor: Dr Zhanhan Tu
  • Start date: as soon as possible
  • Closing date: 6 November 2024

Genetics: Leveraging single-nucleus RNA sequencing data to dissect mechanisms of polyglutamine toxicity in Huntington’s disease

  • Supervisors: Professor Flaviano Giorgini and Professor Ed Hollox
  • Start date: 22 September 2025
  • Closing date: 17 January 2025

Genetics: Selection of bacteriophages for therapeutic use in cystic fibrosis-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections

  • Supervisors:  Dr Andrew Millard and Professor Martha Clokie
  • Start date: January/February 2025
  • Closing Date: 27 November 2024

Wellcome Trust Genomic Epidemiology and Public Health Genomics

  • Open to UK applicants only
  • Start date: 6 January 2025
  • Closing date: 26 November 2024

CENTA studentships 2025

  • Start date: 22 September 2025
  • closing date: 8 January 2025 (23:59 GMT)

BBSRC MIBTP Studentships 2025

  • Start date: 22 September 2025
  • Closing Date: 16 January 2025

Leicestershire Healthcare Inequalities Improvement DTP Studentships

  • Start date: 1 October 2025
  • Closing Date: 7 February 2025

Molecular and Cell Biology PhD for January 2025 Master's students

  • Available for 2026 entry for students who register on the University of Leicester Master's MSc Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology or MSc Molecular Genetics January 2025 intake.

Self funded projects

Open to overseas applicants who can fund their own study or hold their own external sponsorship. For further information about the available projects please click on the subject page links.

Population Health Sciences

  • Dr Sharmin Shabnam: Personalising thresholds of risk factor control for prevention of cardiovascular disease in subjects with diabetes
  • Dr Dimitrios Papamargaritis: Harnessing mechanistic technologies and real-world clinical data to advance the interdisciplinary field of obesity and cancer prevention
  • Open until filled

Respiratory Sciences

  • Dr John E. Pearl: Survey of clinical non-tuberculous mycobacteria isolates for mycobacteriophages: their presence, diversity and potential role in disease
  • Dr Natalie Garton: Rhodococcus equi lipid bodies: Targeting the pathogen’s fat reserves for infection control
  • Professor Andrea Cooper: Stratification of TB risk by immunophenotyping and expression of key diagnostic markers
  • Professor Galina Mukamolova: Development of novel therapeutic strategies to target Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence
  • Open until filled

Healthcare

  • Lesley McBride: Biomarkers Associated with motor Neurone Disease and Dementia development after concussion in Females and Males: BANDD
  • Professor Joseph Manning: Reducing pressure injury in critically Ill hospitalised infants, children and young people: An intervention bundle development and feasibility testing study
  • Professor Debi Bhattacharya: Development and evaluation of a theory and evidence-based model for normalising Self-Administration of Medicines (SAM) in hospital
  • Professor Joseph Manning: Paediatric to Adult intenSive care tranSition for chronicAlly critically ill younG pEople: The PASSAGE Study
  • Professor David Wright: Improving pharmaceutical care for people with epilepsy and dysphagia
  • Dr Linda Birt: Advance care planning conversations in care home, understanding resident and family experiences
  • Dr Sion Scott: An intervention to facilitate deprescribing for people with intellectual disability
  • Open until filled

Cardiovascular Sciences

  • Supervisor: Dr Jatinder Minhas
  • Project: Impairment of cerebral blood flow regulatory mechanisms in stroke: the influence of stroke sub-type, severity and location
  • Start date of PhD between January 2025 and August 2025
  • Closing date: 17 October 2024 

College of Science and Engineering

Studentships will show here as and when available.

Please check eligibility for each individual project.

University of Leicester/China Scholarship Council Scholarship 2025

  • PhD start date: 22 September 2025
  • Closing date: 11 December 2024

NERC CENTA Studentships

  • Start date: 2 September 2025
  • Closing date: 8 January 2025 (11.59pm GMT)

TARGET CDT Studentships for 2025

  • Start date: October 2025
  • Closing date: 22 January 2025

Physics: Lunar South Pole Landing Sites: Analogue Mineralogy and ISRU

  • Supervisor: Professor John Bridges
  • Start date: January / March 2025 - date to be agreed at interview
  • Closing date: 1 December 2024

Physics STFC studentships

  • Start date: 22 September 2025
  • Closing date: 17 January 2025

College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities

Studentships will show here as and when available.

Please check eligibility for each individual project.

UoL/China Scholarship Council Scholarship 2025

  • PhD start date: 22 September 2025
  • Closing date: 11 December 2024

Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Programme Open awards

  • Start date: 22 September 2025
  • Ideally 3rd January 2025 for your Leicester PhD application.
  • Absolute deadline of 13th January 2025 (12.00pm UK time) for your M4C funding application and references

Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Programme Collaborative awards

  • Start date: 22 September 2025
  • Ideally 3rd January 2025 for your Leicester PhD application
  • Absolute deadline of 13th January 2025 (12.00pm UK time) for your M4C funding application and references

College of Business

UoL/China Scholarship Council Scholarship 2025

  • PhD start date: 22 September 2025
  • Closing date: 11 December 2024

Research Council Studentships

PhD studentships funded by Research Councils open for September 2025 entry

Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Programme Open awards

  • Start date: 22 September 2025
  • Ideally 3rd January 2025 for your Leicester PhD application.
  • Absolute deadline of 13th January 2025 (12.00pm UK time) for your M4C funding application and references

Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Programme Collaborative awards

  • Start date: 22 September 2025
  • Ideally 3rd January 2025 for your Leicester PhD application
  • Absolute deadline of 13th January 2025 (12.00pm UK time) for your M4C funding application and references

CENTA studentships

  • Start date: 22 September 2025
  • 8 January 2025 (23:59 GMT)

The Sciences and Technology Facilities Research Council (STFC)

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Start date: 22 September 2025
  • Closing date: 17 January 2025

TARGET CDT

  • Start date: October 2025
  • Closing date: 22 January 2025

Leicestershire Healthcare Inequalities Improvement DTP 

  • Start date: 1 October 2025
  • Closing date: 7 February 2025

BBSRC MIBTP

  • Start date: 22 September 2025
  • Closing date: 16 January 2025

MRC AIM Studentships

  • Start date:
  • Closing date:

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