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RESET-RLS: Reviewing Safe and Effective (De)Prescribing Strategies in RLS

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship investigating the safe and effective use of medicines in Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), with a particular focus on prescribing and deprescribing in patients who experience treatment-related complications such as augmentation. . Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Rathbone
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Exploring the role of carers and family members in supporting better medicines use, asking the question what works, for whom, how, and in what circumstances?

Carers can help in all aspects of a person’s life, but they can be left out of the conversations about medicines despite often heavily aiding in medicines management. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Richardson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Advanced Non-Invasive Strategies: Cell-Penetrating Peptides as Smart Carriers for Theranostic Innovations

The brain contains trillions of glial cells that communicate with each other, respond to infections, and support learning and memory. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr O Al Musaimi, Dr C Tolley
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Shared decision making and antipsychotic medication: qualitative study exploring the experiences of people with serious mental illness in a specific population such as young adults or peri-menopausal women

Prescribing antipsychotics has increased steadily in England over the last decade. For serious mental health conditions like schizophrenia, they are usually prescribed with the view of keeping the patient on them indefinitely. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Lindsey, Dr C Richardson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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The development of new antiviral agents targeting HIV-1

Even before the current global COVID-19 pandemic, the threat posed to human health by viruses was extensive and although significant progress in targeting some viruses (e.g., HIV-1 and hepatitis C) has been made, challenges remain. . Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Ashton
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Developing and evaluating a co-designed complex intervention to support multidisciplinary decision-making and patient-centred care in gestational breast cancer (gBC)

  Research Group: Cancer Cancer/Digital health and Data
Gestional breast cancer (gBC), defined as breast cancer diagnosed during pregnancy, presents a rare and highly complex clinical challenge.1 Women and clinicians must make time-critical treatment decisions under uncertainty, balancing maternal and foetal outcomes across multiple specialties. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Harris, Dr J Armes
 12 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship in cardiac electrophysiology exploring human AV node dysfunction in heart failure

This PhD studentship is linked to a prestigious British Heart Foundation-funded Senior Fellowship programme led by Dr Alicia D’Souza at Imperial College London, focused on understanding why the heart’s electrical conduction system fails in heart failure and ageing. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A D'Souza
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Paraspeckle condensates in cell health, stress and disease – what can structural studies tell us?

About the project. Biomolecular condensates are crucial organisers of cellular biochemistry and hence physiology. The paraspeckle is a stress-responsive nuclear condensate dysregulated in human diseases such as cancer, neurodegeneration and infectious diseases. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Shelkovnikova, Dr I Lahiri, Prof A Whitehouse
 20 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors for Probing the Biophysics of Biomolecular Condensate Dynamics

Applications are invited for a 3.5-year PhD opportunity to join the Quantum Biophotonics group led by Dr Youngchan Kim at the University of Surrey, UK. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr YK Kim, Prof C Avignone Rossa
 3 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Human Performance and Wellbeing in Space Explorations

The Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space (LCHS) has been awarded up to £10m for 10 years to transform the academic landscape when it comes to our understanding… Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Costa
 2 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Optimising nutritional and physical recovery after pancreatic surgery

  Research Group: Nutrition, Exercise, Chronobiology & Sleep
Optimising nutritional and physical recovery after pancreatic surgery. Patients undergoing pancreatico-duodenectomy (PD) face a range of nutritional challenges with malabsorption, new diabetes, delayed gastric emptying, jaundice and cancer cachexia resulting in compromised nutritional status. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Hart, Dr RK Kerrison, Dr MP Phillips
 12 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Understanding and exploiting interactions between defects in diamond

Atomic-scale defects within diamond crystals offer remarkable opportunities for both fundamental physics and the development of next-generation quantum technologies. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M E Newton
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Discrete models of cellular materials

The mechanical properties of plant and animal tissues are strongly influenced by the arrangement of their constituent cells. Discrete models, in which cells are represented as polygons or polyhedra, provide a popular and powerful modelling framework for understanding tissue biomechanics. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof O Jensen
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Investigating epigenetic mechanisms in the regulation of fibroblast-myeloid cell interactions in IBD

Inflammatory bowel disease is an umbrella term for a group of debilitating, chronic, and difficult to treat diseases that affect millions worldwide. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Manresa
 8 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Modelling and experiment for degradation of solid oxide cells used for energy transition

This collaborative project between the University of Manchester and Aston University, embarks on the challenge of developing predictive modelling for solid oxide cells that are valuable tools for Energy Transition. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Babaei
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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