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.

Molecular and Cell Biology: Mechanisms of control of 3D genome organisation

• Supervisor Professor Daniel Panne
• Start date: 23 September 2024
• Closing date: 29 April 2024

Molecular and Cell Biology: Molecular dissection of horizontal gene transfer mechanisms in mycobacteria

• Supervisor: Dr Abhinav Koyamangalath Vadakkepat
• Start date: 23 September 2024
• Closing date: 29 April 2024

Population Health Sciences: Predicting diabetes-related complications with machine learning techniques

• Supervisor: Dr Sharmin Shabnam
• Start date: 23 September 2024 or 1 October 2024
• Closing date: 31 May 2024

Population Health Sciences: Sarcopenia as a biomarker for people with multiple long-term conditions: an epidemiological perspective

• Supervisor: Dr Thomas Wilkinson
• Start date: 23 September 2024
• Closing date: 9 June 2024

Population Health Sciences: Health inequalities in medication adherence in those with cardiometabolic disease(s)

• Supervisor: Dr Patrick Highton
• Start date: 23 September 2024
• Closing date: 21 April 2024

Population Health Sciences: Investigating the association between cardiometabolic health and labour market outcomes using administrative health data sources

• Supervisor: Dr Cameron Razieh
• Start date: 1 October 2024
• Closing date: 31 May 2024

School of Healthcare: Artificial Empathy

• Supervisor: Professor Jeremy Howick
• Start date: 23 September 2024
• Closing date: 7 April 2024

MIBTP Studentships - open to UK applicants only

• Various projects/supervisors
• Start date: 23rd September 2024
• Closing Date: 23rd May 2024

Self funded PhD projects 

• Evidence-based empathy education and training
• Population Health Sciences
• Supervisor: Professor Jeremy Howick
• Closing date: Open until filled
• Start date: September 2024 

• Population Health Sciences
• Open until filled

• Respiratory Sciences
• Open until filled

Please check eligibility for each individual project.

Geography: Articulating the Impact of Cultural Programming in UK Public Libraries

• Supervisors: Professor Katy Bennett and Dr Tess Osborne
• Start date: 1 October 2024
• Closing date: 12 April 2024 (Interviews w/c 22 April 2024)

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

• Supervisor: Professor Lucarini
• Start date: 23 September 2024
• Closing date: 10 April 2024

Physics and Astronomy: Understanding Changes in Tropical Wetlands with Remote Sensing, Machine Learning and Land Surface Modelling

• Supervisor: Dr Robert Parker
• Start date: 23 September 2024
• Closing date: 8 April 2024

Chemistry GTA Studentship

• Projects available with Dr Alison Stuart, Dr Fabrizio Ortu, Dr Philip Ash and Dr Richard Hopkinson
• Start date:  23 September 2024
• Closing Date: 22 April 2024

Archaeology and Ancient History

Ground stone in a metallic world

Symbols of power, prestige goods or vibrant materials? Rethinking gold, jet and amber grave goods in Early Bronze Age Britain.

• Supervisor: Dr Rachel Crellin
• Start Date: 1 October 2024
• Closing Date: 21 June 2024

School of Business. Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA) funded PhD

• Start Date: 23 September 2024
• Closing Date: 28 April 2024