Postgraduate research

Funded opportunities

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

Research Council Studentships

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

College of Life Sciences

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

NIHR BRC: Improving pregnancy outcomes in women with early onset type 2 diabetes

  • Supervisor: Professor Claire Meek
  • Start date: 1 December 2024
  • Closing date: 19 September 2024

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

  • Supervisor: Professor James Burton
  • Start date: 1 November 2024
  • Closing date 30 August 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 October 2024

Cardiovascular Sciences: Mediators of loin pain in IgA nephropathy

  • Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Barratt
  • Start date: 6 January 2025
  • Closing date: 30 September 2024
  Population Health Sciences Evidence-based empathy education and training
  • Supervisor: Professor Jeremy Howick
  • Start date:As soon as possible - date to be agreed at interview.
  • Closing date: 15 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

Population Health Sciences

  • Various projects
  • Open until filled

Respiratory Sciences

  • Various projects
  • Open until filled

Healthcare

  • Various projects
  • Open until filled

College of Science and Engineering

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: 3rd October 2024

Computer Science  4 year Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA) funded PhD

  • Various projects
  • Start date: January 2025
  • Closing date: 20 September 2024

College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities

Studentships will show here as and when available.

Please check eligibility for each individual project.

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