Funded opportunities

PhD studentships funded by Research Councils open for September 2024 entry

Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Programme

• Start date: 23 September 2024
• Closed

CENTA studentships

• Start date: 23 September 2024
• Closed

The Sciences and Technology Facilities Research Council (STFC) studentships for September 2024

• Physics and Astronomy
• Start date: 23 September 2024
• Closing date: Closed

Leicestershire Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Doctoral Training Programme (LHII DTP) studentships for 2024

• Start date: 1 October 2024
• Closed

MRC AIM 2024 studentships

• Start date: 23 September 2023
• Closed

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

Population Health Sciences: The development and evaluation of a social cooking intervention in places of worship

• Supervisor: Dr Riya Patel
• Start date: 6 January 2025
• Closing date: 31 October 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

Cardiovascular Sciences: Mediators of loin pain in IgA nephropathy

• Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Barratt
• Start date: 6 January 2025
• Closing date: 30 September 2024

Psychology and Vision Sciences: The perception and effect of glare in normal vision and in developmental visual diseases

• Supervisor: Dr Frank Proudlock
• Start date: 6 January 2025
• Closing date: 1 October 2024.

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 

Studentships will show here as and when available.

Please check eligibility for each individual project.

Engineering: Advanced Microstructure Characterisation of Fusion Structural Materials subject to Simultaneous Creep and Irradiation

• Supervisor: Dr Yang Liu
• Start date: 6 January 2025
• Closing date: 3 October 2024

Mathematics: Exploring multiscale dynamical landscapes and hierarchies of tipping points in the Earth System

• Supervisors: Professor Valerio Lucarini and Dr Larissa Serdukova
• Start date: 6 January 2025
• Closing date: 23 October 2024