Funded opportunities
Listed below are the funded studentship opportunities which are currently accepting research student applications.
College of Life Sciences
Available to UK/EU applicants
- Royal Society Fellowship: Enzyme mechanism through advanced techniques
- Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
- Supervisors: Professor Peter Moody and Dr Jaswir Basran
- Deadline: Open until filled
Available to UK/EU and International applicants
- Wellcome Trust: Doctoral Training Programme
- Research: Genomic Epidemiology and Public Health Genomics - range of projects
- Deadline: 5th December 2020
College of Science and Engineering
Available to UK/EU and International applicants
- 3 Year IFPRI Funded Project: Adhesion of powders to metal surfaces during compaction
- Department: School of Engineering
- Supervisor Prof I.C. Sinka
- Deadline 1 December 2019
- 3.5 year CSE Project: Unlocking Western Tropical Indian Ocean temperature and hydroclimate back to the Little Ice Age and the Holocene, reconstructed from coral geochemistry
- Department: School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
- Supervisors: Professor Jens Zinke and Dr Arnoud Boom
- Deadline: 21st November 2019
- 3.5 year CSE Project: Bioinspired worm-like nanoparticles for the delivery of anti-cancer stem cell agents
- Department: School of Chemistry
- Supervisors: Dr Kogularamanan (Rama) Suntharalingam and Dr Robert Britton
- Deadline: 21st November 2019
- 3.5 year CSE Project: Efficient Evolution for Intelligent Autonomous Systems
- Department: School of Informatics
- Supervisors: Dr Jan Oliver Ringert and Dr Ivan Tyukin
- Deadline: 21st November 2019
- 3.5 year CSE Project: Taphonomy of the exceptionally-preserved Cambrian Chengjiang biota, Yunnan Province, China: how fossilization affects ecological and evolutionary interpretations
- Department: School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
- Supervisors: Professor Sarah Gabbott and Professor Mark Williams
- Deadline: 21st November 2019
- 3.5 year CSE Project: Assembling a toolbox to study protein molecular glue kinetics.
- Department: School of Chemistry
- Supervisors: Dr Richard Doveston and Dr Andrew Hudson
- Deadline: 21st November 2019
- 3.5 year CSE Project: Discovering rare brown dwarf companions to white dwarfs
- Department: School of Physics and Astronomy
- Supervisors: Dr Sarah Casewell and Professor Graham Wynn
- Deadline: 21st November 2019
- 3.5 year CSE Project: Constraining CO2 emission of cities with sensor networks
- Department: School of Physics and Astronomy
- Supervisors: Professor Hartmut Boesch adn Dr Josh Vande Hey
- Deadline: 21st November 2019
- 3.5 year CSE Project: The first supermassive black holes
- Department: School of Physics and Astronomy
- Supervisors: Dr James Aird and Professor Julian Osborne
- Deadline: 21st November 2019
Available to UK/EU applicants
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3.5 year CENTA Project: Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Extensive Agriculture in the Indio-Gangetic Plain
- Department: School of Physics and Astronomy Supervisors: Professor Hartmut Boesch and Dr Harjinder Sembi
- Deadline: 8th November 2019 (12 noon UK time)
- Project: Mathematical Models and Algorithms for Allocating Scarce Airport Resources
- Department: School of Informatics
- Supervisor: Dr John Drake and Professor Edmund Burke
- Deadline: 31st October 2019
- Project: Human-Centred Design and User Experience for Augmented Reality in Education (HCI-ARETE)
- Department: School of Informatics
- Supervisor: Professor Effie Law
- Deadline: 15th October 2019 - to start 1st November 2019
- Project:Unlocking Past and Present Climatic and Anthropogenic Drivers of Environmental Change Influencing Miri-Sibuti Coral Reefs National Park (Borneo, Malaysia)
- Department: School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
- Supervisor: Professor Jens Zinke and Dr Arnoud Boom
- Deadline: 3rd October 2019
- College Funded Project: Environmental modelling and exposure assessment
- Department: School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
- Supervisors: Professor John Gulliver and Professor Anna Hansell
- Deadline: Open until filled
MPhil Projects available to UK/EU applicants
- ERDF LIH109 Project: To design a Universal Household Utility Bill Reader for the Purpose of Automation
- Department: School of Mathematics
- Supervisor: Dr Evgeny Mirkes and Dr Ayo Akinduko
- Deadline: Open Until Filled
- ERDF LIH018 Project: To develop an advanced battery monitoring system for single or multi-cell batteries used in standby or emergency power systems
- Department: Engineering
- Supervisors: Dr Paul Lefley, Dr Jose Miguel Rojas Siles
- Deadline: Open until filled
- ERDF LIH169 Project: To build an innovative service designed to securely store and monitor electronic awards in a blockchain technology
- Department: Informatics
- Supervisor: Prof Reiko Heckel
- Deadline: Open until filled
Research Council Funding
- Departments: 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
Available to UK/EU applicants
- ESRC Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Midlands Graduate School Training Partnership
- Pathways: Communication and Media, History, Health Sciences, Geography, Museum Studies
- Deadline: Wednesday 22nd January 2020
- AHRC Midlands4Cities (M4C) Open Doctoral Awards
- Subject areas: Archaeology and Ancient History, English, History, History of Art and Film, Law, Modern Languages, Media and Communication, Museum Studies,
- Deadline: 14th January 2020
- AHRC Midlands4Cities Collabroative Doctoral Awards
- Deadline: 14th January 2020
Research Councils
Applications open for 2020/1 entry
- ESRC Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Midlands Graduate School Training Partnership
- Pathways: Communication and Media,Geography, History, Health Sciences, Museum Studies
- Deadline: Wednesday 22 January 2020
- AHRC Midlands4Cities (M4C) Open Doctoral Awards
- Subject areas: Archaeology and Ancient History, English, History, History of Art and Film, Law, Modern Languages, Media and Communication, Museum Studies
- Deadline: 14th January 2020
- ARHC Midlands4Cities Collabroative Doctoral Awards
- Deadline: 14th Janaury 2020
- Wellcome Trust Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Programme
- Research: Genomic Epidemiology and Public Health Genomics - range of projects
- Deadline: 5th December 2019
Applications for 2020/1 will be open shortly
MRC IMPACT Doctoral Training Programme
BBSRC Midlands Innovative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Studentships
M4C Collaborative Doctoral Awards