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The experiences, needs and perspectives of staff in learning disability services when someone they support needs palliative or end of life care
This PhD project will be a unique sub-study of the DAPPLE project, a 3-year NIHR-funded study aimed at developing effective service models for providing palliative and end of life care (PEOLC) for people with a learning disability (see www.dappleproject.com). . Read more
PhD studentship - ‘Staying in business? The aftermath of acquired disability for the entrepreneur’.
Award Summary. The studentship will cover full PhD fees (home and international) for 3 years and, as such, are aimed at exceptional PhD candidates (we reserve the right to make no awards). Read more
Defying Disability in Victorian Jewish Manchester: The Diaries of David Isaacs and Social Marginality in a Minority Community
This project promises a unique window onto late nineteenth-century Jewish life in England, with implications for how disability has been and continues to be viewed within some minority communities. Read more
Measuring cognitive outcomes in people with intellectual disability
Summary. Applications are invited for one of three fully-funded (fees + stipend) PhDs to begin in October 2025 on a large scale research programme developing measures of cognition for children with intellectual disability associated with rare syndromes. Read more
Co-sleeping in children with intellectual disability and their caregivers: a mixed-methods exploration of prevalence, profile and experiences (Aston University)
This is an opportunity to study a fully-funded PhD in both Australia and the UK, and to work with internationally recognised researchers in child health and neurodevelopment. The studentship includes a monthly stipend for the duration of the programme. Read more
Critical, Decolonial and Neurodiversity Affirming Appproaches in Studying Communication and Disability
This project focuses on examining language, communication and disability from a critical and decolonial perspective. Specifically, the project uses an intersectionality approach in understanding the construction of disability and the impact of such construction on labelled children. Read more
Representations of illness and/or disability and/or the National Health Service in British film and television
This PhD will explore wide-ranging representations, across British film and television history, and across genres, of illness and/or disability and/or the National Health Service. Read more
Inclusive design with children with spoken language difficulties
In some areas of the UK, up to 50% of children start school with delayed language development, leading to challenges in literacy, attention, socialisation, and self-confidence. Read more
Digital technology and health/wellbeing (including technology-assisted gender-based violence, digital technologies and disability, digital technologies and ageing)
Supervisors. Associate Professor Emma Baulch (Main) https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/emma-baulch. Dr Stefan Bächtold (Co-supervisor) https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/stefan-b%C3%A4chtold. Read more
An intervention to facilitate deprescribing for people with intellectual disability
Intellectual disability (ID) affects approximately 1% of the population and is characterised by problems in intellectual and adaptive functioning with onset occurring during the developmental period(1). Read more
EPSRC IDLA project: Understanding the Combustion of Advanced Sustainable Fuels and Additives in Engines Operating at High Speeds
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is inviting applications for the following fully funded 4 year PhD at the University of Bath, funded by EPSRC and Shell (subject to contract). Read more
Enhancing 3D Control of Robotic Limbs Using Brain-Computer Interfaces with Reinforcement Learning
About the Project. The Institute for the Augmented Human at the University of Bath is inviting applications for the following fully funded PhD project, which will commence 29 September 2025. Read more
Digital hydraulic fluid power technologies
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath is inviting applications for the following fully funded PhD project to commence in September 2025 or earlier. Read more
Deciphering molecular mechanisms that underlie the cross-colonisation of anatomical niches by Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoea
The project will be supervised by Drs Gail Whiting, Caroline Vipond and Sunil Maharjan at MHRA and Professor Christoph Tang at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, The University of Oxford. Read more
Mapping molecular interactions of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells-Extracellular Vesicles and their target cells
A 4-year full-time PhD studentship is available from October 2025 in Biotherapeutics and Advanced Therapies Division within the Science, Research and Innovation… Read more
