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.
Molecular and Cell Biology PhD available to selected January 2024 Master's students
- Open to students registering on the MSc Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology or MSc Molecular Genetics in January 2024.
Molecular and Cell Biology Mechanisms of control of 3D genome organisation
- Supervisor Professor Daniel Panne
- Start date: 23 September 2024
- Closing date 29 April 2024
Molecular and Cell Biology Molecular dissection of horizontal gene transfer mechanisms in mycobacteria
- Supervisor: Dr Abhinav Koyamangalath Vadakkepat
- Start date: 23 September 2024
- Closing date: 29 April 2024
Population Health Sciences: Predicting diabetes-related complications with machine learning techniques
- Supervisor: Dr Sharmin Shabnam
- Start date: as soon as possible
- Closing date: To be confirmed
Population Health Sciences: Sarcopenia as a biomarker for people with multiple long-term conditions: an epidemiological perspective
- Supervisor: Dr Thomas Wilkinson
- Start date: 23 September 2024
- Closing date: 9 June 2024
Population Health Sciences: Health inequalities in medication adherence in those with cardiometabolic disease(s)
- Supervisor Dr Patrick Highton
- Start date: 23 September 2024
- Closing Date 21 April 2024
School of Healthcare: Artificial Empathy
- Supervisor: Professor Jeremy Howick
- Start date: 23 September 2024
- Closing date: 7 April 2024
Self funded PhD projects
- Evidence-based empathy education and training
- Population Health Sciences
- Supervisor: Professor Jeremy Howick
- Closing date: Open until filled
- Start date: September 2024
- Population Health Sciences
- Open until filled
- Respiratory Sciences
- Open until filled
College of Science and Engineering
Please check eligibility for each individual project.
Geography: Articulating the Impact of Cultural Programming in UK Public Libraries
- Supervisors: Professor Katy Bennett and Dr Tess Osborne
- Start date: 1 October 2024
- Closing date: 12 April 2024 (Interviews w/c 22 April 2024)
Mathematics: Exploring multiscale dynamical landscapes and hierarchies of tipping points in the Earth System
- Supervisor: Professor Lucarini
- Start date: 23 September 2024
- Closing date: 10 April 2024
Physics and Astronomy: Understanding Changes in Tropical Wetlands with Remote Sensing, Machine Learning and Land Surface Modelling
- Supervisor: Dr Robert Parker
- Start date: 23 September 2024
- Closing date: 8 April 2024
College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
We currently have no studentships available for this college. We will update the page as new funding becomes available.