Postgraduate research
Funded opportunities
Listed below are the funded studentship opportunities which are currently accepting research student applications.
College of Life Sciences
Please read the studentship adverts for eligibility criteria, funding and application process.
Windsor Fellowship/ Diabetes UK 3 year studentship (applicants apply direct to Diabetes UK)
- Eligibility: UK applicants only From a Black African, Black Caribbean or Mixed Black background
- Start: September 2025
- Closing date: 12 January 2025 at 11.45pm (GMT)
Cardiovascular Sciences: 4 Year MRes/PhD Programme
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: 7 February 20205
Cardiovascular Sciences: Mediators of loin pain in IgA nephropathy
- Supervisors: Professor Jonathan Barratt, Dr Haresh Selvaskandan, Dr Róisín Thomas
- Start date: As soon as possible.
- Closing date: 14 February 2025
- Supervisors: Professor Flaviano Giorgini and Professor Ed Hollox
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: 17 January 2025
Population Health Sciences: Human health impact of exposure to environmental chemicals
- Professor Anna Hansell
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: 9 February 2025
Population Health Sciences: Assessment of Flame Retardant Exposure Pathways in Households in the UK
Supervisors: Professor Anna Hansell and Dr Rebecca Cordell
Start date: 2 September 2025
Closing date: 9 February 2025
BBSRC MIBTP Studentships 2025
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: 16 January 2025
Leicestershire Healthcare Inequalities Improvement DTP Studentships
- Start date: 1 October 2025
- Closing date: 7 February 2025
MRC AIM DTP studentships
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: midday (GMT) Friday 10 January 2025
The Leicester Lifestyle and Health Research Group
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: 21 February 2025
Molecular and Cell Biology PhD for January 2025 Master's students
- Available for 2026 entry for students who register on the University of Leicester Master's MSc Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology or MSc Molecular Genetics January 2025 intake.
Self funded projects
Open to overseas applicants who can fund their own study or hold their own external sponsorship. For further information about the available projects please click on the subject page links.
- Dr Sharmin Shabnam: Personalising thresholds of risk factor control for prevention of cardiovascular disease in subjects with diabetes
- Dr Dimitrios Papamargaritis: Harnessing mechanistic technologies and real-world clinical data to advance the interdisciplinary field of obesity and cancer prevention
- Projects open until filled
- Dr John E. Pearl: Survey of clinical non-tuberculous mycobacteria isolates for mycobacteriophages: their presence, diversity and potential role in disease
- Dr Natalie Garton: Rhodococcus equi lipid bodies: Targeting the pathogen’s fat reserves for infection control
- Professor Andrea Cooper: Stratification of TB risk by immunophenotyping and expression of key diagnostic markers
- Professor Galina Mukamolova: Development of novel therapeutic strategies to target Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence
- Projects open until filled
- Lesley McBride: Biomarkers Associated with motor Neurone Disease and Dementia development after concussion in Females and Males: BANDD
- Professor Joseph Manning: Reducing pressure injury in critically Ill hospitalised infants, children and young people: An intervention bundle development and feasibility testing study
- Professor Debi Bhattacharya: Development and evaluation of a theory and evidence-based model for normalising Self-Administration of Medicines (SAM) in hospital
- Professor Joseph Manning: Paediatric to Adult intenSive care tranSition for chronicAlly critically ill younG pEople: The PASSAGE Study
- Professor David Wright: Improving pharmaceutical care for people with epilepsy and dysphagia
- Dr Linda Birt: Advance care planning conversations in care home, understanding resident and family experiences
- Dr Sion Scott: An intervention to facilitate deprescribing for people with intellectual disability
- 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 Characterisation and Modelling of Materials for Hydrogen Energy Systems
- Supervisors: Dr Elsiddig Elmukashfi, Prof Simon Gill
- Start date: 1 May 2025
- Closing date: 15 January 2025
TARGET CDT Studentships for 2025
- Start date: October 2025
- Closing date: 22 January 2025
Physics: Lunar South Pole Landing Sites: Analogue Mineralogy and ISRU
- Supervisor: Professor John Bridges
- Start date: date to be agreed at interview
- Closing date: 31 January 2025
Physics STFC studentships
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: 17 January 2025
MRC AIM DTP studentships
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: midday (GMT) Friday 10 January 2025
Chemistry Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Studentships
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: 5 February 2025
EPSRC CDT in Digital Transformation of Metals Industry (DigitalMetal CDT)
- Start date: 22 September 2024
- Closing date: 30 January 2025
- Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Clsoing Date: 31 January 2025
College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
Studentships will show here as and when available.
Please check eligibility for each individual project.
Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Programme Open awards
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Ideally 3rd January 2025 for your Leicester PhD application.
- Absolute deadline of 13th January 2025 (12.00pm UK time) for your M4C funding application and references
Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Programme Collaborative awards
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Ideally 3rd January 2025 for your Leicester PhD application
- Absolute deadline of 13th January 2025 (12.00pm UK time) for your M4C funding application and references
ESRC Midlands Graduate School DTP
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: Midday Tuesday 21st January 2025
College of Business
ESRC Midlands Graduate School DTP
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: Midday Tuesday 21st January 2025
Research Council Studentships
PhD studentships funded by Research Councils open for September 2025 entry
Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Programme Open awards
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Ideally 3rd January 2025 for your Leicester PhD application.
- Absolute deadline of 13th January 2025 (12.00pm UK time) for your M4C funding application and references
Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Programme Collaborative awards
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Ideally 3rd January 2025 for your Leicester PhD application
- Absolute deadline of 13th January 2025 (12.00pm UK time) for your M4C funding application and references
ESRC Midlands Graduate School DTP
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: Midday Tuesday 21st January 2025
CENTA studentships
- closed for 2025
The Sciences and Technology Facilities Research Council (STFC)
- Physics and Astronomy
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: 17 January 2025
- Start date: October 2025
- Closing date: 22 January 2025
Leicestershire Healthcare Inequalities Improvement DTP
- Start date: 1 October 2025
- Closing date: 7 February 2025
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: 16 January 2025
- Start date: 22 September 2025
- Closing date: midday (GMT) Friday 10 January 2025
EPSRC CDT in Digital Transformation of Metals Industry (DigitalMetal CDT)
- Start date: 22 September 2024
- Closing date: 13 January 2025