Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) Funded PhD Studentships

The Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP), funded by the BBSRC Doctoral Landscape Award, unites six leading universities in an ambitious mission to drive innovative, world-class research in life sciences and bolster the UK’s growing bioeconomy.

At MIBTP, we are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion and are dedicated to cultivating a diverse cohort of passionate PhD researchers from various academic backgrounds. Our studentship research projects target critical areas within distinct bioscience themes:

Sustainable Agriculture and Food, Understanding the Rules of Life, Renewable Resources and Clean Growth, and Integrated Understanding of Health.

Using interdisciplinary and quantitative approaches, MIBTP doctoral researchers are dedicated to advancing solutions for today’s most significant challenges and contributing to research that benefits the wider society.

Our studentships offer a comprehensive support package, including fees (the cost of the UK fee rate), a tax-free annual stipend, a travel and conference budget, a generous consumables budget, and the use of a MacBook for the duration of the programme.

We welcome students from diverse pathways, whether recent graduates or professionals returning to academia. Our vibrant international student body thrives in an environment that values creativity and expertise across theoretical disciplines, such as mathematics, computer science, and statistics, as well as experimental sciences, such as biology, biomedicine, and chemistry!

Discover how MIBTP is transforming the future of bioscience through cutting-edge research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and a commitment to inclusive excellence.

About MIBTP

MIBTP is a BBSRC funded Doctoral Landscape Award between the University of Warwick, the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester, Aston University, Harper Adams University, and Coventry University.

Our Vision

Our vision is to deliver innovative, world class research across the Life Sciences to boost the growing Bioeconomy in the Midlands and across the UK. A key aspect is a commitment to PhD training. We are research-intensive Universities with aspirations to increase the volume and excellence of our research and MIBTP is conceived as both a training partnership and an opportunity to catalyse new interdisciplinary collaborations. MIBTP recognises that success will require all trainees to be fully conversant with a wide range of technologies, with quantitative methods and with the skills needed to investigate advanced ideas across discipline boundaries. Our training will be based on face to face tuition from experts in both dry and wet experimentation and will produce research-skilled, rounded graduates primed to make an impact in their careers.

Our Supervisors

We have hundreds of academics across several Departments, Schools, and Faculties at each of our partner universities looking to support new students. Our supervisors have their own MIBTP profiles, which you can find links to from their projects.

If you would like to know more, please email us at MIBTP@warwick.ac.uk and we will answer any questions you may have.