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PhD Studentship: Small RNA, Big Impact: The role of SNORD116 in the metabolic development of adipocytes
Investigating the Molecular Basis of Adipocyte Metabolic Development Understanding how fat cells (adipocytes) develop is fundamental to population-level metabolic health. This project…
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PhD Studentship: Unlocking healthy ageing: harnessing proteostasis pathways to promote extracellular matrix function
Background Ageing causes increased frailty and higher rates of disease. As societies age, this presents an enormous public health challenge, making understanding the ageing process…
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PhD Studentship: Engineering Fitness in Disease-Resistant Crops
Engineering crop disease resistance to overcome the growth-defence trade-off Developing crops that are both productive and resillient is one of the major challenges facing agriculture.…
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PhD Studentship: How does NRP2 keep blood vessels sealed and calm under stress?
Blood vessels are lined by endothelial cells, which form a living barrier between blood and tissues. These cells must stay tightly connected, sense blood flow, respond to nutrients and…
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PhD Studentship: Functional Genomics of Sexually Antagonistic Selection
Why do harmful genes persist in populations instead of being removed by natural selection? One answer lies in sexual antagonism: when a genetic variant benefits males but harms females, or…
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PhD Studentship: Running on Empty: Metabolic Ageing in Blood Stem Cells
Every blood cell in your body, from oxygen-carrying red cells to virus-fighting white cells, begins life in a rare population of blood stem cells that must stay active for an entire…
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PhD Studentship: The Cardiac Positioning System – How Do Heart Progenitors Find Their Way?
Primary Supervisor - Professor Andrea Munsterberg The first organ to develop in vertebrate embryos is the heart, when two streams of cardiac progenitor cells undertake an epic migration…
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PhD Studentship: Cracking the carbohydrate code: how carbohydrate-binding modules control starch digestion
Why this matters: Starch is the principal source of dietary glucose, and the rate at which it is digested has major consequences for metabolic health. Food science still lacks the…
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PhD Studentship: Watching a fungus fight back: mapping antimicrobial resistance in 3-D as it happens
Primary Supervisor - Dr Trey Koev The chemicals that protect our crops and the drugs that treat fungal infections come from the same family. Fungi in the field meet them first — and are…
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PhD Studentship: Incentives and Barriers: Patent Law in the Age of the 3Rs
Biological research stands at a juncture: technologies exist and are constantly emerging that could reduce and even replace the use of animal testing. Yet patent law, which is designed to…
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PhD Studentship: Dickson Poon School of Law School Studentship
Value of the award: This is a fully funded studentship that includes 3 years of fees + a maintenance stipend at the UKRI level (2026-2027 rate is £23,805) for three years with small, annual…
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PhD Studentship project: Rethinking Corporate Governance in Modern Capital Markets: Law, Regulation and Practice
Corporate governance and capital markets are being reshaped by changes in ownership structures, the growth of institutional and passive investment, the expansion of private markets,…
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PhD Studentship: MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience Studentships
MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience Studentships available to start in October 2027 We are pleased to invite applications for the MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience Course…
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PhD Studentship: Data-driven Control Engineering for Large-scale Uncertain Systems
Research Studentship in Control Theory, Optimization and Learning 3.5-year D.Phil. studentship Project: Data-driven control engineering for large-scale uncertain systems. Supervisors: Prof…
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PhD Studentship in Geotechnical Engineering
3.5-year D.Phil. studentship Project: Nature-based and biomimetic foundation systems Supervisors: Professor Jonathan Knappett and Professor Chris Martin The root systems of trees provide…
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PhD Studentship: Antarctic Glacial Meltwater and its Importance for Ocean Circulation and Climate
Scientific background: West Antarctica’s fast-melting ice shelves release fresh water into the shelf seas that surround the continent (Sheehan et al., 2023). This alters circumpolar and…
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PhD Studentship: From climate information to climate action: Evaluating how climate information use shapes local adaptation decision making in English Local Authorities and opportunities for improvement
The Climate Change Committee’s Well Adapted UK report highlights a critical need for practical adaptation solutions to build a resilient UK by 2050. Although information and data to inform…
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PhD Studentship: From Spectra to Marine Litter: Multispectral Imaging and AI for Aerial Detection and Monitoring
Scientific Background Marine litter threatens ocean health and the coastal livelihoods that depend on it. Scalable automated methods to detect, classify and quantify litter are needed to…
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PhD Studentship: Winds and Waves in the Alpine Mountains
Scientific background: Mountains (or "orography") have a substantial effect on the atmospheric circulation. This includes atmospheric disturbances known as orographic gravity waves,…
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PhD Studentship: Towards Near Real-time Quantification of Fossil Fuel Emissions
Scientific background: Successful implementation of the Paris agreement relies on countries’ emissions being accurately known and readily available, but our ability to evaluate fossil fuel…