PhD Studentships

Dementia affects 750.000 people in UK and this number is expected to reach a million by 2021. Dementia patients value their freedom being at home; and living costs in care homes are excessively high for both public and personal finances. Thus, a strategy to ensure independent life and reduce the costs is to support people with dementia in completing...

An opportunity has arisen to join the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering for a three year research studentship in the field of geotechnical engineering, leading to the award of a PhD degree. About the project Start date: Ideally October 2013, will consider January/April 2014 Funding: Home/EU fees Stipend of £13,590 (correct for...

(Fixed Term)  Reference: RH01192 Closing date: 31 May 2013 3-year PhD studentship in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the Pfizer-Cambridge University Translational Centre for Cardiovascular Research Exciting new project based in one of Europe's leading academic departments of population health sciences and one of the world's leading...

Supervisors: University of Sheffield – Prof I. Todd & Dr R.Goodall Culham Centre for Fusion Energy – Dr M. Porton & C. Waldon European fusion laboratories, closely collaborating with industry, are developing a demonstration fusion power plant (DEMO) for construction in the 2030s. The delivery of viable designs...

Department of Public Law, Section European Law The section European Law of the Public Law Institute offers courses in the Bachelor’s Law Programme, the LL.M. Programme in European Law and the Advanced LL.M. Programme in European and International Business Law. The section European Law has a vacancy for a: Teaching & Research Staff Member/...

Haptic/Active Stick Tele-operation for UAVs in collaboration with BAE Systems Full EPSRC studentship for 3.5 years including Industrial Placement Duration: from September 2013 to August 2016 With our esteemed industrial partner, we are looking for a well qualified and motivated PhD student to conduct the following fascinating research project:...

Two 4-year PhD studentships starting in October 2013 or earlier are available in connection with the ERC grant "Extremal Combinatorics" at the University of Warwick. What is Extremal Combinatorics? A typical problem of Extremal Combinatorics is to maximise or minimise a certain parameter given some combinatorial restrictions. The structures that we...

Our industry-based PhD programme has now been further expanded. Starting from October 2013 we can now offer up to a total of 13 PhD studentships. Studentships are of 3.5 years in duration and are available in :- Medicinal and process chemistry - focused on synthetic organic chemistry, drug design and drug development Computational...

Closing Date : 17 May 2013 The Studentship will commence shortly after notification of successful outcome. Informal enquiries: Contact:    Professor Sean Carroll, Head, Department of Sport, Health and Exercise Science   Email:      s.carroll@hull.ac.uk...

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship (3 years) in the Research Division of Energy and Sustainability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team on a UK-India renewable energy project. The project is funded by the Research Council UK and is based in the Faculty of Engineering, in collaboration with other UK and Indian...