Available funded PhD studentships

Details of the currently funded PhD studentships open to applications.

The following studentship is funded by OneZoo CDT

Project: Development of an innovative lure and kill strategy for the control of mosquito adults and juveniles
Supervisor: Professor  Colin Berry, Professor J Pickett (Chemistry), Professor Jaimie T.A. Dick (Queen's University, Belfast), Professor Tariq Butt (Swansea University) and  Dr Islam Sobhy
Start date: 1 October 2024
Deadline for applications: 25 March 2024
Funders: OneZoo CDT

Project: Ancient Zoo - Parasite diversity and zoonotic events in ancient Britain
Supervisor: Dr David Stanton, Dr Richard Madgwick (SHARE), Dr Sarah Perkins,  Dr Iain Chalmers (Aberystwyth University)  and Dr Selina Brace (Natural History Museum, London)
Start date: 1 October 2024
Deadline for applications: 25 March 2024
Funders: OneZoo CDT

Project: The switch from avirulence to virulence: Exploiting Microsporidian to provide insight into mechanism, host interaction, co-infection, and pollution triggers
Supervisor: Professor Peter Kille and  Dr Rupert Perkins
Start date: 1 October 2024
Deadline for applications: 25 March 2024
Funders: OneZoo CDT

Project: Detecting schistosoma in Bornean water buffalo and implications of environmental variables for zoonotic transmission in the context of climate change
Supervisor: Dr Pablo Orozco-terWengel and Dr Benoit Goossens
Start date: 1 October 2024
Deadline for applications: 25 March 2024
Funders: OneZoo CDT

The following studentship is funded by NERC - RED ALERT CDT

Project:  Stream: Study of two rivers' eDNA and anthropogenic pollutant monitoring
Supervisor: Dr Pablo Orozco-terWengel
Start date: 1 October 2024
Deadline for applications: 13 March 2024
Funders: NERC - RED ALERT CDT

The following studentship is funded by School of  Biosciences

Project: Investigating the role of dysregulated RNA processing in neurodegeneration
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Langley, Dr Tomasz Jurkowski and Professor Peter Kille
Start date: 1 October 2024
Deadline for applications: 26 February 2024
Funders: School of Biosciences

Project: Integrated photonics technology for sensing and point-of-care diagnostics
Supervisor: Dr Francesco Masia, Professor Wolfgang Langbein and Professor Paola Borri
Start date: 1 October 2024
Deadline for applications: 29 February 2024
Funders: School of Biosciences

Project: Understanding the conservation and function of regulatory elements using data-driven approaches
Supervisor: Dr Nathan Harmston
Start date: 1 October 2024
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2024
Funders: School of Biosciences