BRC Projects
Available for September 2024/January 2025
Previous applicants need not apply.
Postgraduate research
Qualification: PhD
Departments: College of Life Sciences Population Health Sciences
Application deadline: 18 August 2024
Start date: 23 September 2024 or 6 January 2025
The NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is a partnership between the University of Leicester, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Loughborough University and the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group. It has been funded £26.1 million to carry out pioneering research into medical advancements within these six themes:
Our overall purpose is to translate scientific breakthroughs in these areas into diagnostic tests, preventions and life-saving treatments. We do this by creating a collaborative workspace that allows scientists and clinicians to share their findings and deliver research that is relevant to patients, the professionals who treat them and the general public.
Over the next 5 years the NIHR Leicester BRC will:
Within the NIHR Leicester BRC, we have a strategic commitment to nurture the next generation of researchers to become world-leaders in their field. To support this mission, we have a number of PhD studentships for our 2024 cohort that span all of our research themes.
*The scholarships cover the cost of tuition fees based on the UK (home) rate. Applications from international students are welcome but applicants will have to source alternative funding for the difference between the UK (home) rate and the overseas rate. This will be £18,864 per year for 2024/25 entry.
BRC Projects
Previous applicants need not apply.
The BRC Studentship provides:
*The scholarships cover the cost of tuition fees based on the UK (home) rate. Applications from international students are welcome but applicants will have to source alternative funding for the difference between the UK (home) rate and the overseas rate. This is will amount to £18,864 per year for 2024/25 entry.
Applicants are required to hold/or expect to obtain a UK Bachelor's Degree 2:1 or better (or overseas equivalent) in a relevant subject before the study start date.
The University of Leicester English language requirements apply.
To submit your application, please use the apply button at the bottom of the page and select September 2024 dropdown menu.
Include with your application:
Open to UK and overseas* applicants.
*Please refer to the funding section
*Applicants holding EU Settled or Pre-Settled status, we will require a UK government share code so that we can verify your status (the share code we require starts with S). Please email your share code together with your application ID to pgradmissions@leicester.ac.uk once you have submitted your PhD application.