PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships in Bangor

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Encouraging positive connections with healthy food in a child’s early years and fostering a whole-family approach to improving diet has been well explored in nutritional psychology research.

KESS 2 Scholarship: Exploring the development of a new Community Care Hub and implementation of this social model into primary care delivery in Wales.

Bangor University
School of Health Sciences

Dr M Lynch

Application Deadline: 14 March 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Community Care Collaborative CIC (CCC) is a social enterprise health delivery organisation.

KESS2 Scholarship: Investigating stress specific functions of Mec1, the budding yeast functional homolog of the mammalian ATM/ATR

Bangor University
School of Medical Sciences

Dr R Cha

Application Deadline: 28 February 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

ATM and ATR are conserved signal transduction proteins involved in a range of fundamental processes including genome duplication, the DNA damage response (DDR), protein homeostasis, cellular metabolism, and meiosis.

KESS2 Scholarship: Development of sustainable magnetic materials for use in electric vehicles (Research Masters)

Dr M Rushton

Application Deadline: 1 March 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Decarbonising transport is crucial in addressing the looming climate emergency. Through this Project you will develop the technology required to enable the clean and efficient electric vehicles needed for this transition.

KESS2 Scholarship: Electricity from heat: energy reclamation for automotive applications (Research Masters)

Dr M Rushton

Application Deadline: 1 March 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Decarbonising transport is crucial in addressing the looming climate emergency. Through this Project you will develop the technology required to enable the clean and efficient electrohydraulic powered vehicles needed for this transition.

KESS2 Scholarship: Improving the performance of low emission vehicles: reducing viscous losses in an electrohydraulic system (Research Masters)

Dr M Rushton

Application Deadline: 1 March 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Decarbonising transport is crucial in addressing the looming climate emergency. Through this Project you will develop the technology required to enable the clean and efficient electrohydraulic powered vehicles needed for this transition.

Supporting the impact of dementia in rural Wales

Bangor University
School of Psychology

Dr R Sharp

Application Deadline: 1 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Project. The studentship is part of an ESRC-NIHR programme of research (‘The Rare Dementia Support Impact project’), a collaboration between Bangor University, University College London (project lead) and Nipissing University, Canada.

KESS2 Scholarship: Fusion Fuel Cycle (Research Masters)

Dr S Middleburgh

Application Deadline: 1 April 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Energy from nuclear fusion is the result of the fusion of light atoms such as the isotopes of hydrogen - deuterium (2H) and tritium (3H).

KESS2 Scholarship: Materials discovery for neutron shielding (Research Masters)

Dr S Middleburgh

Application Deadline: 1 April 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Within a toroidal fusion reactor, the plasma is held in shape through magnetic confinement enabling fusion processes to take place.

KESS2 Scholarship: Minimising nuclear fusion waste (Research Masters)

Dr S Middleburgh

Application Deadline: 1 April 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Nuclear fusion produces high energy neutrons that have the potential to cause damage to the fusion chamber vacuum vessel and supporting structures.