Funded opportunities
Find below currently available PhD Studentships and postgraduate funding opportunities for subjects in each of the three colleges.
College of Life Sciences
Available to UK/EU applicants
Unlocking the potential of biomedical data to understand the causes of disease (College Funded)
- Department: Genetics
- Supervisor: Dr Tim Beck and Professor Anthony Brookes
- Deadline: 30 June 2019
Enzyme mechanism through advanced techniques (Royal Society Fellowship)
- Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
- Supervisors: Professor Peter Moody and Dr Jaswir Basran
- Deadline: Open until filled
MRC IMPACT Doctoral Training Programme
- Deadline: Closed for 2019/0
BBSRC Midlands Innovative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP)
- Themes: Food security; bioenergy and industrial biotechnology; molecules, cells and systems
- Deadline: Closed for 2019/0 entry (annually recurring)
- Departments: Genetics; Infection,Immunity and Inflammation; Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
- Deadlines: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)
College of Science and Engineering
Available to UK/EU and International applicants
Graduate Teaching Assistantships in Informatics- Department: Informatics
- Deadline: 27 June 2019
- Department: Engineering
- Supervisors: Professor Bo Chen and Professor Hongbiao Dong
- Deadline: 30th June 2019
Available to UK/EU applicants
- Department: School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
- Supervisor: Professor Zinke
- Deadline: 13 June 2019
Environmental modelling and exposure assessment (College Studentship)
- Department: School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
- Supervisors: Professor John Gulliver and Professor Anna Hansell
- Deadline: Monday 1st July 2019
MPhil projects available to UK/EU applicants
A Novel Support Tool to Help Farmers Determine Nitrogen Fertiliser Application Plans Using Satellite Imagery (MPhil LIH014)
- Department: Engineering
- Supervisor: Professor Tanya Vladimirova
- Deadline: Open until filled
To Design a Universal Household Utility Bill Reader for the Purpose of Automation (MPhil LIH109)
- Department: Mathematics
- Supervisors: Dr Evgeny Mirkes and Dr Ayo Akinduko
- Deadline: Open until filled
- Department: Engineering, Informatics
- Supervisors: Dr Mateusz Bocian and Dr Yi Hong
- Deadline: Open until filled
- Department: Informatics
- Supervisor: Dr Stephan Reiff-Marganiec
- Deadline: Open until filled
Research Councils
- Department: Physics and Astronomy
- Deadline: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)
- Departments: Chemistry; Geography, Geology and the Environment; Physics and Astronomy
- Deadline: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Studentships
- Departments: Chemistry, Engineering, Informatics, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy
- Deadline: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)
College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Scholarship (Fee-waiver)
- Department: History
- Deadline: 15 July 2019
Midlands4Cities (M4C) Open Doctoral Awards
- Subject areas: Archaeology and Ancient History, Criminology, Economics, Education, English, Geography, History, History of Art and Film, Law, Management, Modern Languages, Media and Communication, Museum Studies, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
- Deadline: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)
M4C Collaborative Doctoral Awards
- Subject areas: Archaeology and Ancient History, Criminology, Economics, Education, English, Geography, History, History of Art and Film, Law, Management, Modern Languages, Media and Communication, Museum Studies, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
- Deadline: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Midlands Graduate School Training Partnership
- Pathways: Communication and Media, Economic and Social History, Health and Wellbeing, Human Geography, Museum Studies
- Deadline: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)
Research Councils
MRC IMPACT Doctoral Training Programme
- Deadline: Closed for 2019/0
BBSRC Midlands Innovative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP)
- Themes: Food security; bioenergy and industrial biotechnology; molecules, cells and systems
- Deadline: Closed for 2019/0 entry (annually recurring)
- Departments: Genetics; Infection,Immunity and Inflammation; Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
- Deadlines: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)
- Department: Physics and Astronomy
- Deadline: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)
- Departments: Chemistry; Geography, Geology and the Environment; Physics and Astronomy
- Deadline: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Studentships
- Departments: Chemistry, Engineering, Informatics, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy
- Deadline: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)
Midlands4Cities (M4C) Open Doctoral Awards
- Subject areas: Archaeology and Ancient History, Criminology, Economics, Education, English, Geography, History, History of Art and Film, Law, Management, Modern Languages, Media and Communication, Museum Studies, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
- Deadline: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)
M4C Collaborative Doctoral Awards
- Subject areas: Archaeology and Ancient History, Criminology, Economics, Education, English, Geography, History, History of Art and Film, Law, Management, Modern Languages, Media and Communication, Museum Studies, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
- Deadline: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Midlands Graduate School Training Partnership
- Pathways: Communication and Media, Economic and Social History, Health and Wellbeing, Human Geography, Museum Studies
- Deadline: Closed for 2019 entry (annually recurring)