Funded opportunities

PhD studentships funded by Research Councils

PhD Studentship Wellcome Trust DTP

• Open to UK and International applicants
• Various projects
• Start date: 26 September 2022
• Closing date: 12 June 2022

PhD Studentships BBSRC Midlands Integrative Biosciences (Doctoral) Training Partnership (MIBTP)

• Open to UK and International applicants (international applicants must be able to fund the difference between UK and Overseas Fees)
• Various projects
• Start date: 26 September 2022
• Closing date: 22 June 2022

Please read the studentship adverts for eligibility criteria, funding and application process.

PhD Studentship in Genetics Comparative studies of paediatric tissues frequently injured during abusive head trauma: A histological and 3D micro computed tomography approach

• Open to UK applicants only
• School: Genetics ( East Midlands Forensic Pathology Unit)
• Supervisors: Dr Emma Cheshire and Professor Mark Williams (Warwick)
• Start Date: October 2022
• Closing date: 13 May 2022

PhD studentship in Health Sciences: Improving Mental Health Literacy: Exploring and understanding how young adult carers of seriously ill relatives from ethnically diverse backgrounds recognise and seek support for their own mental and emotional-wellbeing

• Open to UK applicants only
• School: Health Sciences
• Supervisors: Professor Alice Smith, Dr Hawn Harrad-Hyde and Dr Zoebia Islam (Loros)
• Start date: October 2022
• Closing Date: 19 June 2022

PhD Studentship Wellcome Trust DTP

• Open to UK and International applicants 
• Various projects
• Start date: 26 September 2022
• Closing date: 12 June 2022

PhD Studentships BBSRC Midlands Integrative Biosciences (Doctoral) Training Partnership (MIBTP)

• Open to UK and International applicants (international applicants must be able to fund the difference between UK and Overseas Fees)
• Various projects
• Start date: 26 September 2022
• Closing date: 22 June 2022

Please check eligibility for each individual project.

PhD studentships

EPSRC I-CASE with Industry Partner Thales-Alenia Space UK Ltd: A novel miniaturised atmospheric aerosol satellite instrument: developing a small form factor multi-angle spectropolarimeter

• Open to UK (Home) applicants
• Supervisor: Dr Joshua Vande Hey
• School: Physics and Astronomy
• Start date: 26 September 2022
• Application deadline: 6 May 2022

Three 4-year Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTA) available in Informatics

• Open to UK and International applicants *International applicants must be able to fund the difference between UK and International tuition fee themselves
• School: Computing and Mathematical Sciences
• Supervisor: Various
• Start date: 1 September 2022
• Application deadline: 26 May 2022

College of Science and Engineering Studentship: High-level search methodologies for problem solving in industrial applications

• Open to UK and International applicants *International applicants must be able to fund the difference between UK and International tuition fee themselves
• School: Computing and Mathematical Sciences
• Supervisors: Dr John Drake and Professor Edmund Burke
• Start date: 26 September 2022
• Application deadline: 8 June 2022

Engineering studentship in close collaboration with Industry Partners; Teer Coating Ltd, National Space Centre and Space Park Leicester: Diamond coatings for antibacterial applications in Space

• Open to UK (Home) applicants
• Supervisor: Professor Haitao Ye
• School: Engineering
• Start date: 26 September 2022 (an earlier start date is also possible)
• Application deadline: 30 June 2022

College of Science and Engineering Studentship Creep-fatigue Life Prediction of High Temperature Materials

• Open to UK and Overseas applicants (overseas applicants must be able to fund the difference between UK and Overseas fees)
• Supervisor: Professor Bo Chen
• School Engineering
• Start date: 26 September 2022
• Closing date: 30 June 2022

MPhil studentships

• Open to UK applicants only
• Supervisors: Dr Paul King and Dr Yi Hong
• School: Computing and Mathematical Sciences
• Start date:1 June 2022
• Application deadline: 18 May 2022

MPhil ERDF HUB 1056 LIA 690 with Industry Partner SanaMente Services Ltd: Advanced data analytics for health and wellbeing

• Open to UK applicants only
• Supervisors Dr Bo Yuan and Professor John Maltby
• School: School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Department of Neurosciences, Psychology and Behaviour
• Start date: 1 July 2022
• Closing date: 2nd June 2022

MPhil ERDF LIA 719 with Industry Partner European Thermodynamics Ltd: Advanced Testing Methods for Rapid Thermoelectric Device Development and Manufacture

• Open to UK applicants only
• Supervisors: Dr Ramy Mesalam and Piyal Samara-Ratna
• School: School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Department of Neurosciences, Psychology and Behaviour
• Start date: 1 June 2022
• Closing date: 18 May 2022

PhD/MPhil Studentships

2 x 4 Year GTA funded PhD Studentships

• School of Criminology
• 1 GTA to be awarded to Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic student
• Available to UK and International*  applicants. *International applicants must be able to fund the difference between the UK and International tuition fee for each year of their studies.
• Start date: 26 September 2022
• Closing date: 16 June 2022

ERDF Industry funded MPhil with DPI Ltd  DPI Market Diversification

• School of Business (Management MPhil)
• Supervisors: Professor James Fitchett and Dr Shelly Chapman
• Open to UK and International* applicants (*International applicants must be able to fund the difference between the UK and International tuition fee for each year of their studies.)
• MPhil state date: 1 June 2022 (this cannot be extended)
• Closing date: 12 May 2022

ERC Studentship: Clerics and Domestic Slavery in the Latin West, 400-600

• School: History
• Supervisor: Dr Erin Thomas Dailey
• Available to UK and International applicants. *International applicants must be able to fund the difference between the UK and International tuition fee for each year of their studies.
• Start date: 26 September 2022
• Closing date: 17 June 2022

ERC Studentship: Domestic Slaves in Early Islamic Conceptions of the Past

• School: History
• Supervisor: Dr Erin Thomas Dailey
• Available to UK and International applicants. *International applicants must be able to fund the difference between the UK and International tuition fee for each year of their studies
• Start date: 26 September 2022
• Closing date: 17 June 2022

College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Masters Excellence Scholarship

• The Masters Excellence Scholarships are available to new UK applicants registering for a full- or part-time, campus-based taught Masters degree or MPhil Research Degree within the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.
• Four Masters Excellence Scholarships are available, each providing a full fee waiver and £9,000 stipend
• Submit your MPhil application from the Subject list under Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities no later than 10 May 2022 at the very latest
• Submit your Masters Excellence Studentship Application by the closing date of 23rd May 2022