We have 133 University of Warwick PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Project Highlights. Investigate coral symbiont communities from the world’s warmest reefs. This study will use an integrative approach, combining molecular, genomic, and physiological methodologies. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E Smith

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Evaluating role of microjet plasma interactions with slurry to mitigate ammonia volatilisation

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Research Group: CENTA - Central England NERC Training Alliance

Project Highlights. Microjet plasma will create a vortex in slurry to improve absorption of plasma species to liquid. pH of slurry will reduce leading to conservation of N, mitigating ammonia losses. Read more

Supervisor: Prof E Rebrov

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Investigating the environmental impact of the Athabasca oil sands industry using ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Research Group: CENTA - Central England NERC Training Alliance

Project Highlights. State-of-the-art mass spectrometry instrumentation (amongst world-leading). International environmental research. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Barrow

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Real time tracking & monitoring of microplastics in aquatic environments

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Research Group: CENTA - Central England NERC Training Alliance

Project Highlights. Hone novel methods to track (real-time) and analyse microplastics. Large scale flume studies to investigate the behaviour of microplastics in both the water column & sediment beds. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J M Pearson

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Environmental Digital Twins for Sustainable Water Management

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Research Group: CENTA - Central England NERC Training Alliance

Project Highlights. This project will develop digital twins for constructed wetlands (CWs) to model and assess the impacts of changing climate, hydrology, and biodiversity fluctuations on the overall performance and pollution removal efficiency of CWs. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Abolfathi

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Development of low cost, high accuracy, freshwater analytical sensors to enable “Citizen Science” monitoring of UK river systems.

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Research Group: CENTA - Central England NERC Training Alliance

Project Highlights. Development of new, low-cost, but improved accuracy sensors for use by the general public for citizen science monitoring of river water health in the UK. Read more

Supervisor: Prof J Macpherson

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Photocatalytic decomposition of nitrous oxide

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Research Group: CENTA - Central England NERC Training Alliance

Project Highlights. The project aims to address the remediation of greenhouse gases, specifically focusing on the decomposition of nitrous oxide (N2O). Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Chaplin

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Imaging atomic-level electrochemistry in real-time using 2D material devices

University of Warwick Department of Physics

Imaging atomic-level electrochemistry in real-time using 2D material devices. Funded project. You will construct and use a new 2D material heterostructure device to allow the atomic to nanoscale imaging of electrochemical reactions inside a transmission electron microscope (TEM). Read more

Supervisor: Dr AR Robertson

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Wildlife disease

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Mathematical and statistical models are important tools in wildlife biology. For wildlife disease, they are particularly useful in evaluating vaccination or population management strategies in endangered species (e.g. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E Gorsich

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Using single molecule super-resolution microscopy to reveal how bacteria remodel their cell wall

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Bacteria are surrounded by a mesh-like cell wall which protects them from bursting due to their high internal pressure of turgor pressure. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Holden

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Unravelling the role of copy number variation in host-microbe interactions

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

The microbiome is a fundamental mediator of organismal health and has been shown to play essential roles in biological processes ranging from metabolic activity to disease resistance. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E Smith

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Understanding the role of inhibition in the expiratory microcircuit

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Breathing is our first act upon birth, and the last action we complete before death. The first to last breath taken, is in fact, how we define someone's life. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Huckstepp

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Understanding early tissue formation in the embryo and outside mimicking developmental programmes

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Background and scientific rationale. Embryonic tissues and organs are shaped and patterned by complex genetic, molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate essential processes during development [1]. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Smutny

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Understanding bacterial cell wall synthesis and its linkage to cell division for next generation antibiotic drugs

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is now widely understood to be a global healthcare emergency, exacerbated by many socio-economic factors. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Roper

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Transcription: molecular mechanisms & dynamics

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Background/Questions. Transcription is central to all life, but many things remain unclear. In particular in eukaryotes, many contributing factors and mechanistic details have been identified for transcription of mRNAs by RNA polymerase II (Pol2), but a number of phenomena remain enigmatic, including. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D Hebenstreit

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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We have 133 University of Warwick PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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