There are 74 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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Alterations in reparative dentinogenesis with ageing, gender and genetic predisposition
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Laird Professor Fadi Jarad Dr Nick Longridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Analysing the role of statins in cardiovascular protection
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 16th January 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Mike Cross Dr Bettina Wilm Dr Anil Mondru
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Analysis of the role of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells in methotrexate-induced liver toxicity
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 29th November 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Michael Cross Prof Chris Goldring
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Assessing the physical impact of a six-week yoga intervention on brain structure, function, cognition and inflammatory profile in healthy volunteers
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 6th January 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Victoria Kinsley Prof Simon Keller
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Biological pathways supporting the formation and function of chromatin (Scholarship)
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 8th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Colin Hammond
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Cardiac Harmony: Modelling Heart Beats with Stem Cells and Code
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Richard Barrett-Jolley Dr Rachel Oldershaw
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Cardiovascular and Neuromuscular Functions around the Clock: Harnessing Protective Endogenous Mechanisms towards Smarter Design of Novel Therapies and Interventions
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Vanja Pekovic-Vaughan Dr Masoud Isanejad Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki Dr Sunil Loganthama
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Chromatin regulation of oncogenic transcription and replication stress: mechanism and functional implications in acute myeloid leukemia
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 18th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Manolis Papamichos Chronakis Prof David MacEwan Dr Aditi Kanhere
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Combining genome-scale metabolic models and multi-omics data for a system level understanding of bacteria
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 22nd March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Francesco Del-Carratore Prof Roy Goodacre Prof Steve Paterson
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Control of bone shape and function by the extracellular matrix Fibrillin-1
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Blandine Poulet
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Designing and characterising complex fluids for advanced materials manufacturing using advanced imaging techniques, rheology and flow experiments.
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 1st November 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr E García-Tuñón Dr William Sharratt
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Detecting gravity anomalies in asteroids: application to Hera's radio science
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 1st November 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Stefania Soldini Dr M D'Onofrio
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Determination of the non-coding RNAs in the knee joint tissues of dogs at differing risk to cranial cruciate ligament rupture.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Eithne Comerford Professor Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Determining metabolic reprogramming events in stem cells in response to inflammatory disease phenotype
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Oldershaw Dr Amy Chadwick Dr Marie Phelan Dr Brendan Norman
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Determining the role of mitochondrial DNA variation in hepatic pathways and its impact on physiology, pharmacology and toxicology: a combined in vitro and bioinformatic approach.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 30th July 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Amy Chadwick Dr Dan Carr Dr Joanna Elson (Joanna.elson@newcastle.ac.uk)
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing an in silico method for endodontic restoration of human molar teeth
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 11th April 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Rosti Readioff Dr Alana Sharp Dr Nicholas Longridge Prof Fadi Jarad
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development and validation of the Epilepsy-Heart syndrome: a focus on ictal asystole and developing evidence-based national consensus guidelines
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 2nd December 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Gashirai Mbizvo Prof Gregory Lip Prof Tony Marson Prof Ian Buchan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Development of NMR Methods for the Study of Dynamics in Solids
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 14th November 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Frédéric Blanc
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Discovery of Functional Inorganic Materials for Net Zero Applications using High-Throughput Synthesis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr John Claridge Dr Troy Manning
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Do patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears demonstrate muscle strength deficits of the hip, knee, and ankle muscles?
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rachel Oldershaw Mr Richard Norris
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Elucidation of a new pathological mechanism for brittle bone disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Laird
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Engineered nanomaterials for safe sustainable water purification
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 9th January 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Raechelle D’Sa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Engineering more water-use efficient crops: functional genomics of CO2 fixation during Crassulacean acid metabolism
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 30th November 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr James Hartwell Dr Peter Walley
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Establishing the biomarker potential of extracellular RNA structure in chronic diseases
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 9th May 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Simon Tew
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Examining how post-transcriptional gene regulation mechanisms affect stem cell function
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 30th November 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Simon Tew David Turner Rachel Oldershaw
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Expanding the Chemical Universe: 3D Features Driving Next-Gen Synthesis Predictions
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 20th December 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Anthony Bradley John Ward Fergus Imrie
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Exploiting Deep Learning-based protein structure prediction for function annotation and structural biology
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 15th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof D J Rigden Dr R Keegan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploring the roles of dynamic atypical protein phosphorylation in cancer
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Claire Eyers Prof Andy Jones
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Green electrospun nanofiber membranes for water treatment
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Raechelle D'Sa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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High speed ‘laminar’ flows for laser and hypersonic applications.
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Kirsty McKay Prof Jason Ralph
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
High-throughput exploration of multicomponent metal organic frameworks (MOFs)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky Dr Alexandros Katsoulidis
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Identifying age-related extracellular microenvironment in dental tissues
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto Prof Fadi Jarad
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Improving chemical and immunological assessment to drive safer development of the new breed of drugs: PROTACS
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Xiaoli Meng Prof Dean Naisbitt Dr Gemma Nixon Dr Sean Hammond
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Improving patient outcomes following mandibular reconstruction after oral cancer: novel finite element methods for better surgical design
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Alana Sharp Prof Andrew Schache
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating how tumour associated macrophages affect cancer metastasis and response to therapies
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 15th February 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Ainhoa Mielgo Prof Michael Schmid
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating local invasion in primary and secondary brain tumours
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 2nd December 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Rasheed Zakaria Prof Michael Jenkinson Ian Scott
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the cellular functions of Trappc9 in brain development and microcephaly
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st January 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Antonius Plagge Dr Tobias Zech
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the impact of galectin-ligand interaction on cancer cell resistance to chemotherapeutic treatment
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Lu-Gang Yu
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the Local Mode of Action of Anti-Perspirants using model systems and advanced probing techniques
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 15th June 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Raval
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Investigating the metabolic response of low and high dietary vitamin A intake in humans using cell and mammal models
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Warwick Dunn Prof Georg Lietz
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the regulation of neutrophil gene expression by intracellular signalling and small non-coding RNAs
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Helen Wright Prof Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of Aquaporins in age related diseases
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Caroline Staunton Dr Robert Heaton
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of neutrophil-mediated tissue damage in a model of lupus nephritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Helen Wright Dr David Wilkinson Dr David Turner
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the role of oxidative metabolites in joint destruction in osteoarthritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Brendan Norman Dr Juliette Hughes Prof George Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Ionic Motion in Solids: Advanced Solid-state NMR Spectroscopy Probing Dynamics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 14th November 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Frédéric Blanc
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Knowledge-based Design of Dental Surfaces to combat Oral Biofilms
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 15th June 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof R Raval Prof Ian Prior Dr V Slomka
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Machine Learning for LDEW target recognition and line-of-sight stabilisation.
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Kirsty Mckay Prof J Ralph
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Microbial Induced Electrochemistry at the Local Site and Single Cell Level
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 15th June 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Rasmita Raval Dr Andrea Vezzoli
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Morphology, motion, and mechanics of vertebral joints in fish
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ariel Camp Dr Alana Sharp
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Non-thermal plasma as a chemical reagent: elucidating mechanism and exploring NTP for pharmaceutically relevant electroreductive reactions
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 10th January 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Anna Slater Dr Christophe Aissa
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Preclinical testing of collagen synthesis inhibitors for fibrotic disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Laird
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Probing Death Decisions from Morphogen Gradient Fields
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 5th April 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Marisa Merino
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Protecting cells from mechanical stress: A novel role of cell-surface receptor LRP1 in extracellular matrix- nuclei communication
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto Dr Riaz Akhtar\n
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Protecting cells from mechanical stress: A novel role of cell-surface receptor LRP1 in extracellular matrix- nuclei communication.
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 10th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Putting a brain in the mobile robotic chemist
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof A I Cooper Dr Xenofon Evangelopoulos
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Regulation of mitosis through centrosomal calcium signals and coupled actin dynamics
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 31st October 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Tobias Zech Dr Nordine Helassa Dr Adam Wollman
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
RNA therapy development for inherited eye diseases
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 1st August 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Kevin Hamill
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Studentships in Theoretical Computer Science
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Any academic of the department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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The effect of low protein diet on the development of the neuromuscular system
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The evolution of large brains and complex cognition across animal taxa
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 28th March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Christopher Mitchell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The nexus between climate change, extreme air pollution events and public health – Towards a holistic approach
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 31st December 2025
- Subject area: Social Science and Health
- Supervisors: Dr Vasilis Matthaios Dr Chris Kypridemos Dr Brendan Collins
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
The rise of vertebrate necks: how salamanders use the spine in feeding
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Monday 28th October 2024
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ariel camp Dr Daniel Schwarz Prof. Peter Falkingham Dr Kris D’Aout
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
The Role of Nutrition and Exercise in Physical and Cognitive Function (such as sarcopenia and frailty), utilizing clinical, metabolomic, proteomic, and gut microbiota data
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad Dr Howbeer Muhamad Ali
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
The Shape of Things to Come: Personalized 3D Printed Medicines
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 31st March 2025
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Raechelle D'Sa
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Translating Deep Learning protein bioinformatics methods to accelerate structural determination by X-ray crystallography
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 14th August 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Daniel Rigden Dr Ronan Keegan Dr David McDonagh
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Ultra High-Field NMR Spectroscopy for Advanced Understanding of Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 14th November 2024
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Frederic Blanc
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Uncovering the mechanochemical signalling inputs that drive gastruloid axial patterning
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Turner
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding the barriers to healthcare for women with chronic pelvic pain
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Selina Johnson Prof Helen Poole Dr Emma Evans
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Urokinase-plasminogen activator as a target to block osteoarthritic cartilage destruction
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Wilkinson Professor George Bou-Gharios Professor Mandy Peffers
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Using pre-clinical models of disease to define new targets to slow joint degeneration in osteoarthritis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 1st March 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Blandine Poulet
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Vaccine development for important spirochaetal diseases of cattle
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 31st May 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Nicholas Evans
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Why do cancers cells re-express meiotic SYCP1 protein?
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 4th August 2025
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Urszula McClurg
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide