Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Plymouth, England invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Determining the dietary accumulation and toxicity of nanoplastics and nanomaterials in fish
Summary of PhD Program:
Pollution such as NPs do not occur alone in the environment, but rather in the presence of other pollutants (or co-contaminants). These other pollutants may have effects on how the NPs enter animals, and the subsequent effects they may have. Other common pollutants include engineered nanomaterial (such as zinc oxide), as their manufacturing is increasing due to their use in electronic devices. However, the effect of combined NP and ENM exposure on animal physiology remains poorly understood.
Application Deadline: 17 July 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Joint Education of the Innovative Student in Marine Renewable Energy
Summary of PhD Program:
We have signed an agreement with the Ocean University of China (OUC) which gives PhD students the opportunity to engage in research in marine and offshore renewable energy at OUC and vice versa. Students will have co-supervisors from each institution. The scheme is funded by China Scholarship Council funding, CSC, supporting PhD students to study abroad.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Recreating brain tumours using patient-derived glioma stem cells hosted by normal brain cells to gain novel insights into tumourigenesis
Summary of PhD Program:
Glioblastoma remains as an incurable brain tumour, with a median survival of 15 months. Major reasons for treatment failure include tumour heterogeneity, extensive infiltrative behaviour and the glioma stem cells (GSC), a subpopupation of tumours able to reform all tumour masses. These clinically relevant properties are not always recapitulated with traditional in vitro models, likely contributing to low success of clinical trials and highlighting the need for more translatable systems. Cerebral organoids, or mini-brains, are one of the most promising advances providing a physiological 3D substrate for glioma stem cells (GSC) to generate tumours that more closely mirror patient ́s GBMs.
Application Deadline: 12 August 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Facilitator competencies for the effective facilitation of patient groups in weight management settings
Summary of PhD Program:
Healthcare providers increasingly utilise group formats to deliver behaviour change interventions but there is little guidance on how such interventions should be designed or delivered in order to produce change in the recipients. Recent research, drawing on the social identity approach to health (SIAH) and the social identity model of behaviour change (SIM:BC), has started to document the key group processes that emerge when patients come together in group settings, and which relate to behavioural outcomes of intervention. This work suggests a critical role for group facilitators in creating group environments conducive to the development of shared social identity amongst members of patient groups, and signals a need for a systematic focus on developing facilitation skills for effective group management.
