Public Health & Epidemiology (antimicrobial) PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

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 does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Pin site infections are a major complication of external fixation of fractures, and bacterial biofilms are known to form on the pin surface.1 This project, in collaboration with Dr Shobana Dissanayeke (RHUL) and St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey, will investigate bacterial biofilms that have been obtained from percutaneous pins used in orthopaedic fixation frames.

Evaluation of natural plant based botanicals as alternative to therapeutic antibiotics

Queen’s University Belfast
Institute for Global Food Security

Dr C Situ

Applications accepted all year round

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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 does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

It has become widely recognised that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest health threats that mankind faces encompassing huge health and economic burdens on governments and societies in every region of the globe.

Developing an intervention to maximise nurse antibiotic prescribing for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections (URTI)

Glasgow Caledonian University
School of Health and Life Sciences

Dr L Price, Dr V Ness, Dr K McAloney-Kocaman

Applications accepted all year round

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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 project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Project reference number. SHLS19026. Antimicrobial resistance is a public health priority with human, financial and social costs.

Imperial MRC DTP PhD Studentships 2020-21

Imperial College London

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PhD Opportunities

PhD Opportunities highlight some of the specific PhD projects, programmes or other information currently available from a university.

Funded PhD Programme (European/UK Students Only)

Some or all of the PhD opportunities in this programme have funding attached. It is available to citizens of a number of European countries (including the UK). In most cases this will include all EU nationals. However full funding may not be available to all applicants and you should read the full programme details for further information.

Imperial College London is offering up to 10 fully funded PhD studentships to start in 2020-21. As part of this support, funding is provided at the end of three years for a six month writing up period.

(MRC DTP) Can we use techniques such as machine learning to improve the risk prediction of infection-related complications in order to optimise antibiotic prescribing?

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Prof T Van Staa, Dr V Palin, Dr D Wong

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

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Competition 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 is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health concern and overuse of antibiotics is a major factor in its development. One strategic aim of the Government’s approach to minimise this is to conserve and steward the effectiveness of existing treatments by optimising antibiotic prescribing practices.

Elucidating the emergence of multi-drug resistant Enterococcus faecium

University of Birmingham
Institute of Microbiology and Infection

Prof W Van Schaik, Dr A McNally

Applications accepted all year round

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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 project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The Gram-positive bacterium Enterococcus faecium is a commensal of the intestinal tract of humans and animals. However, over the last two decades a clone of E.

Cracking down bacterial infection in bone by new photo-responsive nanoparticles

University of Hong Kong
Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology

Dr K Yeung

Applications accepted all year round

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Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Bio-metals have been extensively used in orthopaedic implantations. However, bacterial infection and unsatisfactory integration at the bone-implant interface remain major post-operative complications.

PhD In ovo nutrition and embryonic gut development in chickens

University of Queensland
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Dr M Navarro-Gomez

Application Deadline: 6 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

We are a research institute of The University of Queensland, one of the world’s leading research providers in tropical and sub-tropical agriculture and food production.