Postgraduate research
Chemistry Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) PhD
Qualification: PhD
Department: School of Chemistry
Application deadline: 5 February 2025
Start date: 22 September 2025
Overview
The School of Chemistry is offering 2 x 4-year fully-funded Graduate Teaching Assistant PhD Studentship starting in September 2025 open to UK applicants only.
The Graduate Teaching Assistantship is available for full-time registration and payable as a full UK tuition fee waiver for four years subject to annual progress review. The successful applicant will also receive a combined annual stipend and salary package (£19,237 pa for 2024/5 Stipend for 2025/6 to be confirmed).
About Graduate Teaching Assistantships
This is a Graduate Training Assistantship (GTA), which means that you will be required to do some teaching, particularly lab demonstrating, as part of your training. GTAs allow research students to fund their PhD through part-time teaching work with the University.Approximately 80% of your time will be spent on doctoral research leading to a PhD and 20% on GTA responsibilities. Training is provided to help Graduate Teaching Assistants develop their teaching related skills and enhance their professional competencies.
Select the project you want to apply for and follow the application advice under the How to Apply section below.
- Dr Philip Ash: Chemical energy conversion in biology studied using advanced spectroscopic and structural tools (word doc. 26kb)
- Dr Richard Hopkinson: Development of a novel cancer treatment strategy targeting reactive protein N-termini (word doc 214 kb)
- Dr Fabrizio Ortu: Rare earth reagents for small molecule activation (word doc. 142 kb)
Funding
Funding
GTA Studentships provide funding for 4 years to include:
- Tuition fees at UK rates
- A combined teaching and stipend payment ( currently £19,237 for 2024/5. The Teaching/Stipend rates for 2025/6 to be confirmed)
International students will need to demonstrate they are able pay the difference between UK and overseas fees. For 2025/6 entry this will be £18,864 per year of study.
Entry requirements
Entry requirements
Applicants are required to hold/or expect to obtain a UK Bachelor degree 2:1/1st, or overseas equivalent, in a Chemistry-related subject.
The University of Leicester English language requirements apply
Informal enquiries
Informal enquiries
Please email enquiries to csepgr@le.ac.uk (include Chemistry GTA in the subject line)
Project enquiries please email the relevant supervisor - details on each project page.
How to apply
How to apply
To apply, please select the 'Apply' button below and then select September 2025.
With your application, please include:
- CV
- Personal statement explaining, briefly, your interest in the project and your experience.
- Degree Certificates and Transcripts of study already completed and if possible transcript to date of study currently being undertaken
- Evidence of English language proficiency, if applicable.
- In the reference section please enter the contact details of your two academic referees in the boxes provided or upload letters of reference if already available.
In the funding section please specify Chemistry GTA studentship.
In the proposal section please provide the name of the project supervisor and the project title you wish to be considered for (a research proposal is not required).
Eligibility
Eligibility
The studentships are available to UK and overseas* applicants.
*International students will need to demonstrate they are able pay the difference between UK and overseas fees. For 2025/6 entry this will be £18,864 per year of study.
If you hold EU settled or pre-settled status you may be eligible for UK fees. Once you have applied for the PhD, please email pgradmissions@le.ac.uk a share code so that we can verify your status (Share code we need starts with S). Include your application number.
