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  Gender, business and human rights
RMIT University School of Management
  Ms K Grosser
Applications accepted all year round
A unique opportunity to join a vibrant research community developing guidance for states and businesses on how to integrate gender issues in their implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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  Hot stuff? Evaluating the human exposure hazard presented by land contaminated with organic flame retardants
University of Birmingham School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
  Prof S J Harrad, Dr M Abdallah
Applications accepted all year round
Chemical flame retardants (FRs) such as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and chlorinated organophosphates (e.g. tris (2-chloroisopropyl)phosphate – TCIPP) have been used extensively in a wide range of applications worldwide.
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  Pervasive Technology for Multimodal Human Memory Augmentation
University of Manchester School of Computer Science
  Dr S Clinch
Applications accepted all year round
This project aims to investigate the use of technology in supporting human multi-sensory memory augmentation. Technology has long had an important role in supporting human memory.
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  Clinical Genetics: De Novo Mutations, Selfish Selection, Mosaicism and Human Disease - developing methods for identification of new genes/molecular pathways subject to selfish selection within the human testis
University of Oxford Radcliffe Department of Medicine
  Prof A Goriely, Prof A Wilkie
Application Deadline: 11 January 2019
De novo mutations (DNMs) are a significant contributor to human disease, affecting ~1:300 new births. We study the mechanisms by which these spontaneous mutations arise in the first instance, concentrating on the tissue where most of them originate, the human testis.
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  Modelling brain development using human induced pluripotent stem cells
University of Oxford BBSRC Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP
  Dr E Becker
Application Deadline: 11 January 2019
The human brain is arguably the most complex structure among living organisms. Its development from single cells into a highly elaborate and unique organ has intrigued scientists for generations, yet remains incompletely understood.
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  Human Capital Investment and Public Policy - Investigating investment in human capital in the presence of government intervention
Aberdeen University Business School
  Dr J Skatun, Prof C Montagna
Application Deadline: 29 March 2019
Purpose. The purpose of this PhD proposal is to investigate investment in human capital in the presence of government intervention.
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  ESRC Collaborative Studentship - Minimum Core Obligations: Using a sociology of human rights to examine the potential for human rights budgeting in Scotland.
University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences
  Dr J Ferrie
Application Deadline: 15 March 2019
In collaboration with the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) this project seeks to synthesise existing concepts of what constitutes a minimum core in the realisation of economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights as they potentially apply to Scotland, drawing on sociological, legal, and philosophical literatures.
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  Understanding the Temporal and Cognitive-Emotional Context of Human-Nature Interactions (based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge)
The James Hutton Institute Postgraduate Training
  Dr T Craig, Dr M Currie, Dr D Pearson
Application Deadline: 4 January 2019
Background. There is a growing body of evidence to support physical and mental health benefits that derive from human-nature interactions.
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  Regulation of autophagy in human embryonic stem cells and its therapeutic application in induced pluripotent stem cell-based disease models
University of Birmingham Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
  Dr S Sarkar
Applications accepted all year round
Project background. Regulation of proteostasis is critical for maintaining tissue homeostasis. Autophagy, a major intracellular degradation pathway essential for cellular and energy homeostasis, functions in the clearance of aggregation-prone proteins and damaged organelles.
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  MRC Precision Medicine DTP: Defining Therapeutic Targets for Human Liver Fibrosis using Single-cell Transcriptomics
University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
  Research Group: MRC Centre for Inflammation Research
  Dr P Ramachandran, Prof N Henderson, Prof T Freeman
Application Deadline: 7 January 2019
Background. Chronic liver disease is estimated to affect 844 million people worldwide, with over 2 million deaths per year. Liver fibrosis (or scarring) is a feature of advanced chronic liver disease of any aetiology and predicts adverse patient outcomes.
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