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University of York
Global reputation and research excellence
- The University of York is a prestigious Russell Group university with a global reputation for inspirational and life-changing research.
- We are ranked in the world top 100 for Arts and Humanities (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022).
- York was ranked joint 10th of UK universities for research quality based on the most recent UK Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021)*.
- Four of the University’s academic departments were ranked in the top five for their subject while a further eight Departments were in the top 10*.
- We're proud to announce that we've been shortlisted for two prestigious University of the Year awards: Times Higher Education Awards 2021, and The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022
- We hold 23 Athena Swan awards for our commitment to gender equality, including three Gold awards for our Biology, Chemistry and Psychology departments.
- York Graduate Research School (YGRS) PhD Scholarships: we're pleased to offer up to six fully-funded PhD scholarships for UK candidates who self-identify as being from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background.
*Times Higher Education 2021 - excluding specialist institutions which submitted fewer than four units of assessment
Graduate life at York
- Our beautiful campus is located just outside York city centre and offers world-class teaching and learning spaces and an excellent environment to live and learn.
- York is regularly named one of the best places to live in the UK, and is the city with the lowest rates of crime mostly likely to affect students in the areas that they live during term time in England and Wales, according to the The Complete University Guide 2022.
- We offer an excellent range of accommodation on or close to campus.
- York is one of only a few UK universities to have a collegiate system, offering students the benefits of belonging to both the University as a whole and to a smaller college community.
- Postgraduate students can become members of the postgraduate-only Wentworth College, a hub for postgraduate activity.
- Our network of support services, such as the Student Hub provides easy access to help and support.
- The Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) offers confidential, specialist advice to all postgraduate students. It runs regular social and sporting events and a number of postgraduate networks.
Study at York
- York offers postgraduate taught and research degrees across sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences.
- We are home to a large number of world-renowned research institutes, centres and facilities, so you’ll work with leading academics carrying out pioneering, interdisciplinary research.
- Our extensive University Library offers dedicated postgraduate study spaces and facilities.
- York Graduate Research School supports a community of more than 2,000 research students, working across departments and support services ensuring consistently high-quality supervision and training.
- Our online and distance learning courses allow you to study flexibly, anywhere in the world.
Your career
- Our research students are supported by the Research Excellence Training Team, providing a range of courses and workshops to develop skills and support your career planning.
- 94.6 percent of York research students reported being in work and/or further study six months after completing their course (HESA, Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Survey 2016/17. UK/EU Graduates).
York postgraduate virtual or on-campus events
Have all your questions answered in one place at our Postgraduate Open Days.
- Chat online or in person with our students, academic staff, accommodation, admissions and student support teams.
- Find out about financing your studies and possible funding opportunities.
- Speak to staff about the postgraduate support offered at York.
- Talk to current students and applicants about PhD student life.
Funding
- There are a range of postgraduate awards and research funding opportunities available.
- The UK government offer Postgraduate Doctoral Loans to help with course fees and living cost
- The central government research councils are offering scholarships
- York offers flagship doctoral training programmes and funding opportunities through its Centres for Doctoral Training (also known as DTC or CDT)
- We also offer scholarships supported through generous donations from Alumni as well as several departmental scholarships.
Events
Choosing where to study for your postgraduate qualification is a big decision. To help you decide whether York is for you, we recommend that you come and meet us.Thinking of studying at York?
We hold a range of events throughout the year both on campus and online. Our Virtual Open Days are a great way to find out more about Masters and PhD study at York. They are open to those considering applying as well as those already holding an offer to study with us.
Apply to the University of York
Applying for a research degree at York couldn’t be simpler.
Contact details:
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+44 (0) 1904 324 000
Email: postgrad-events@york.ac.uk
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof Daniel Ungar)Fully-funded EPSRC/FDBK studentship: Unravelling the rules of therapeutic antibody glycosylation
he Department of Chemistry is a large and successful department in an attractive University with an excellent reputation for teaching and research.
We have about 60 full-time members of academic staff including many winners of international prizes, over 620 undergraduate students, approximately 200 graduates (mainly studying for PhD degrees) and more than 70 research fellows. We have a group of coherent laboratories, recently extended and modernised to provide an excellent environment for teaching and research.
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof P O'Brien)Fragment-Based Lead Generation of Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Nsp3 Macrodomain in SARS-CoV-2
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof P O'Brien)Modular Synthetic Platform for the Optimisation of Fragment Hits to 3-D Lead Compounds for Medicinal Chemistry
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof P O'Brien)Stereospecific Csp3-Csp2 Cross-Coupling of Saturated Heterocyclic Boronates: Application to a Modular Synthetic Platform for the Optimisation of Fragment Hits to 3-D Lead Compounds for Medicinal Chemistry
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr W Unsworth)Synthesis of macrocycles and medium-sized rings via new ring expansion approaches
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Paul McGonigal)Synthetic Approaches to Controlling Ruptured Aromaticity
Welcome to Computer Science at York
Our excellence in teaching and research, and our strong industrial links, make us one of the UK's leading departments in the field of Computer Science.
We have an established reputation for conducting research that has real impact in a wide range of sectors. As well as working with scientific communities nationally and internationally, we also collaborate with industry, charities and policy makers which enables us to respond to global challenges.
We understand the extensive reach of research in the field of computer science, and the interdisciplinary nature of many of the problems computer scientists tackle. Our research centres span several departments and reflect how we collaborate with researchers from different subject areas.
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr John Oyekan)A novel framework for engineering swarm agents and their controllers
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr John Oyekan)Deep learning of deformable object manipulation on manufacturing robots
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof A Cavalcanti)Design and Verification of Software for an Open-Ended Self-Adapting Robot for Fume Cupboards (ALBERT CDT)
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr John Oyekan)Digital Twins and Machine Learning for Flow Process Control
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr D Kolovos)Domain-Specific Languages for Collaborative Human-Robot Laboratory Experiments (ALBERT CDT)
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr John Oyekan)Human-inspired cognitive architectures for flexible task learning on manufacturing robots
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr R Alexander)Situation Coverage Testing in Simulation for Mobile Robots
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof R Calinescu)Synthesis of Chemical Reaction Networks Prioritising Sustainability (ALBERT CDT)
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Zamir Koshuriyan)Modelling the Large-Scale Structure of Turbulence in Jets
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Cade McCall)Modelling human supervision of autonomous systems for chemistry labs
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Darren Reed)An ethnographic study of the chemistry laboratory: Automation, robotics, and workplace practices
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Dan Hampshire)Association of von Willebrand factor genetic variation and levels with cardiovascular disease outcomes
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof D Grace)6G Wireless Communications for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in Challenging Environments
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof S Smith)AI and Machine Learning for the diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof Paul Mitchell)Application of Satellite Medium Access Control Principles to Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Xing Zhao)Artificial Intelligence based Electric Vehicle Motor Control
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Xing Zhao)Artificial Intelligence based Electric Vehicle Motor Design
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Xing Zhao)Artificial Intelligence based Electric Vehicle Motor Monitoring
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof D Grace)Artificial Intelligence enabled Distributed Edge-Centric Cellular Networks
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr G Kearney)Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr M A Post)Automated probabilistic programming and learning methods for robotic behaviours in an uncertain and changing world
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr M A Post)Autonomous cooperation of bio-inspired adaptable lightweight mobile robots
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof Suresh Perin)Autonomous Intelligent Transportation Systems and Data Science
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Chun Zhao)Building Baymax - Flexible Robot Skin: Smart sensors and algorithms
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof D Jenkins)Carbon burning in massive stars
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr D Halliday)Computational neuroscience: Statistical signal processing for multivariate neuronal data, Neural computing with Spiking neural networks.
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr G Tempesti)Developmental dynamics for Network-on-Chip systems
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Jihong Zhu)Dexterous robotic manipulation in a human-centred environment
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof Paul Mitchell)Energy-harvesting based MAC protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof A M Tyrrell)Evolution and learning of grasping mechanisms for lab-based robots
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr G Tempesti)Evolutionary mapping of algorithms to arrays of processors
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr H Ahmadi)Explainable AI for 6G and future open networks
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof Suresh Perin)Explainable AI for Safety Critical Engineering Systems
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof Paul Mitchell)Exploitation of Full-Duplex Capability in Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks at the Medium Access Control Layer
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr H Ahmadi)Exploring the role of Digital Twins in resilience and reliability of 6G
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr K Cumanan)Game theory based secure transmission techniques for physical layer security
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Mahmoud Dhimish)Healing of cracks in organic–inorganic halide perovskite thin films
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof Suresh Perin)Human Interaction with Low-Speed Autonomous Vehicles
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof J A Robinson)Hybrid description methods for human faces
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Mohammad Nasr Esfahani)Hybrid Technologies for Battery Thermal Management Using Smart Materials
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr G Kearney)Improvements in headphone based 3-D audio using adaptive binaural signal processing and robust head-tracking
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr G Kearney)Influence of listener movement on tonality and spatial quality in adaptive immersive surround sound systems
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof D Grace)Integrated High Altitude Platform: LEO Satellite Mega-Constellations for Next Generation Non-Terrestrial Networks
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof Paul Mitchell)Intelligent Medium Access Control for Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Chun Zhao)Intelligent microsystems – Micro-sensors with in-sensor computing capabilities
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof D Murphy)Interactive spatial audio rendering
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Jihong Zhu)Intuitive imitation learning for robots
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof Suresh Perin)Large Language models for Maintenance Optimisation
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr M Trefzer)Liquid Transistors: Real-time Probabilistic Computing with Non-linear Analogue Components
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof S Smith)Machine Learning for classifying and characterising living cell cultures
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Mohammad Nasr Esfahani)Mathematical Tools for Analysing Binding Kinetics in Biosensors
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof Suresh Perin)Model-based Approach for Prognostics Health Management (PHM) for Fusion Reactors
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof D Jenkins)Nuclear data studies at the nToF facility in CERN
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof D Jenkins)Nuclear Data: A data science approach
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof J A Robinson)Optimisation surface characterisation
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Y Ko)Peer-sourcing AI agents for future network autonomy
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof Paul Mitchell)Realistic Underwater Acoustic Propagation Model for Medium Access Control Protocol Evaluation
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr G Kearney)Real-time Networked based Musical Interaction in virtual immersive environments
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Y Ko)Semantic random-access technology for future wireless ecosystems
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof D Murphy)Soundscape Research: Analysis, Auralisation, and Assessment
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr E Wagenaars)Tailoring plasma chemistry of cold atmospheric-pressure plasmas
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr H Daffern)The role of vibrato in the aesthetic of blended choral singing
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Mahmoud Dhimish)Toward a drone-based electroluminescence inspection for photovoltaic (PV) installations
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr K Cumanan)Transmitter optimization techniques for physical layer security
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Manish Chauhan)Bio-photonic and molecular characterization of gastric cancer tissue to improve early diagnosis
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Manish Chauhan)Bio-photonics analysis of biological tissues for in-vivo robot assisted gastric cancer diagnosis
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof Elizabeth Jefferies)Changing gradients: Predicting cognition and wellbeing following stroke using whole-brain intrinsic connectivity gradients and machine learning
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Jackson)Delineating the functional organisation of medial prefrontal cortex
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr C MacDonald)Identifying and validating novel drug targets related to metabolism in pathogenic fungi
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr AN Holding)Indentifying the regulators of the Estrogen Receptor in Breast Cancer
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr W Brackenbury)Ion channel signalling in cancer cells
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr C Spicer)New protein modification chemistries for studying protein structure and function
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr S Chawla)Role of the endosomal pathway in regulating sleep and circadian rhythms
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr William Grey)Studying protein homeostasis in healthy and malignant stem cell development
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof S Duckett)Studying the nitrogen cycle by advanced NMR methods
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof A-K Duhme-Klair)The development of metal-based antibiotics
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Marjan Van Der Woude)The emergence of bacterial persisters and the contribution to AMR in pathogen populations
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof P G Genever)Therapeutic potential of extracellular vesicles from different mesenchymal stem cell subtypes
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Andrew Mason)Tissue-specific roles of human endogenous retroviruses in urothelial carcinoma
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof P O'Brien)Towards New Antivirals for the Treatment of COVID-19: Fragment-Based Lead Generation of Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Nsp3 Macrodomain in SARS-CoV-2
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(PhD Supervisor: Prof D Lagos)Unlocking the non-coding secrets of the human immune system
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(PhD Supervisor: Dr Ines Hahn)Unravelling mechanisms of cytoskeletal regulation that control neuronal health and disease
