Funded opportunities

Available to UK/EU applicants

BBSRC Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) Studentships

• Departments: College of Life Sciences - various departments
• Closing date: 7th June 2020

CLS 2020 Studentship: The application of epidemiology and informatics to heart failure using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)

• Department: Health Sciences
• Supervisors: Professor Umesh Kadam and Dr Claire Lawson
• Deadline: Open until filled

CLS 2020 Studentship: Indoor air exposures to VOCs and mould and relationship with severe asthma 

• Department: Health Sciences
• Supervisors: Professor Anna Hansell, Dr Rebecca Cordell, Professor Salman Siddiqui
• Deadline: 19th April 2020

CLS 2020 Studentship: Exploring associations between multimorbidity, frailty and lifestyle

• Department: Diabetes Research Centre (Health Sciences)
• Supervisors: Dr Francesco Zaccardi and Professor Kamlesh Khunti
• Deadline: 30 June 2020 

Novo Nordisk Studentship: Global burden and determinants of hypoglycaemia: epidemiological analyses of the Hypoglycaemia Assessment Tool (HAT) study

• Department: Leicester Diabetes Centre (Health Sciences)
• Supervisors: Dr Francesco Zaccardi and Professor Kamlesh Khunti
• Deadline: 31st May 2020

CLAHRC East Midlands Studentship: Role of diabetes and ethnicity in the epidemiology of cardiovascular transition from atherothrombotic diseases to heart failure

• Department: Health Sciences (Diabetes Research Centre)
• Supervisor: Dr Francesco Zaccardi
• Deadline: 1st May 2020

Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship: Enzyme mechanism through advanced techniques

• Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
• Supervisor: Professor Peter Moody
• Deadline: 3rd May 2020

NIHR ARC East Midlands Studentship: Various projects available

• Department: Health Sciences
• Supervisors: Various
• Deadline: 26th May 2020

CLS 2020 Studentship: The Value and Impact of  Patients and Carers Supporting Professional Healthcare Training

• Department: Health Sciences (Leicester Medical School)
• Supervisors: Professor Liz Anderson and Professor Simon Gay
• Deadline: 1st June 2020

CLS 2020 Studentship: Leicester Cancer Research Centre project

• Department: Leicester Cancer Research Centre
• Supervisors: To be determined
• Deadline: Open until filled

Available to asylum seekers within the UK

Sanctuary Scholarship: 1x award available 

• Department: Various - See Research Degrees
• Deadline: 31st July 2020

Available to UK/EU applicants

EPSRC Studentship: Automated Generation and Inference of Unit Tests for Legacy Software

• Supervisor: Dr Jose Rojas Siles
• Department: School of Informatics
• Deadline: 25th June 2020

NERC CENTA studentships

• Supervisors:  various
• Departments: Physics and Astronomy; Geography
• Deadline 5th June 2020 at Noon

Available to UK/EU and International applicants 

CSE studentship: Blockchain as a means to make major medical datasets available for research

• Supervisors: Profesor Ashiq Anjum and Profesor Lu Liu
• Department: School of Informatics
• Deadline: 13th May 2020 

CSE studentship: From Newton to ML: efficient ways to combine physical modelling and machine learning for high performance automation.

• Supervisor: DR Lanlan Su
• Department: School of Engineering
• Deadline: 13th May 2020

Available to Asylum Seekers within the UK  - Sanctuary Scholarship: 1x award available 

• Department: Various - See Research Degrees
• Deadline: 31st July 2020

UK applicants only 

3 x 4 year BAME Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Funded PhD Studentships for September 2020

• Departments: Various across the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
• Deadline 30th June 2020

Available to asylum seekers within the UK

Sanctuary Scholarship: 1x award available

• Department: Various  - See Research Degrees
• Deadline: 31st July 2020

Applications open for 2020/1 entry 

Please check your eligibility carefully before applying for Research Council funding. If you are unsure please email pgradmissions@le.ac.uk

NERC CENTA studentships September 2020 entry

• Supervisors:  various
• Departments: Physics and Astronomy; Geography
• Deadline 5th June 2020 at Noon

BBSRC Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) September 2020 entry

• Various across the College of Life Sciences
• Deadline 7th June 2020

Projects for 2021 entry will be available towards the end of 2020.

​Wellcome Trust  

• no projects currently available

MRC  Medical Research Council IMPACT

• no projects currently available.

ESRC Economic and Social Research Council - Midlands Graduate School Training Partnership

• no projects currently available

ARHC Midlands4Cities Open Doctoral Awards

• no projects currently available

STFC: Science and Technology Facilities Council 

• no projects currently available

EPSRC: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

• no projects currently available