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 Geological Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will explore how excavation disturbance might impact the properties of potential host rocks for the UK’s facility, to better understand how these fractures will develop and change over time and, how this will impact the flow of water and gas. We will use similar ‘analogue’ scenarios, such as road cuttings and railway tunnel walls to investigate the effect of disturbance on the rock, as well as developing new laboratory capability and undertaking novel flow-through experiments on rock samples to explore this at a smaller scale. We will develop a conceptual model to explain the mechanisms of excavation disturbance to allow it to be accounted for in safety assessments.
Application Deadline: 24 March 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position 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 Role of regional sediment connectivity in coastal resilience
Summary of PhD Program:
We are offering a fully funded 3.5-year PhD position associated with the ‘Building Community Resilience on a Dynamic Coast by Making Space for Sand (MS4S)’ project, awarded to Cornwall Council (CC) under the £150M Environment Agency Resilience fund. The project recognises that allowing coastal sedimentary systems to adapt naturally to sea-level rise can improve coastal resilience. Therefore, instead of trying to adapt and manage natural systems, nature can be allowed to take its course and infrastructure and communities can be adapted to make space for sand. Coastal resilience is often considered synonymous with sediment abundance, as it is the presence of coastal sediment stores that controls the natural ability of the coast to adapt to storms and sea-level rise forcing.
Application Deadline: 7 April 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Impact of sea-level rise on atoll islands
Summary of PhD Program:
We are offering up to three fully funded 3.5-year PhD positions associated with the research project ‘Natural adaptation of coral reef islands to sea-level rise offering opportunities for ongoing human occupation’. This UKRI-funded project, referred to as ARISE, involves a large research team comprising several academics, post-doc researchers, PhD students and project partners. The PhDs will contribute to the ARISE project by focussing on any of the following broad topics: (1) sediment production, delivery and pathways associated with the forereef – reef platform – atoll island system (sediment PhD); (2) impact of overwash processes on atoll island dynamics (overwash PhD); (3) numerical modelling atoll island hydro- and morphodynamics (modelling PhD); (4) dynamics of the atoll island groundwater table (groundwater PhD).
Application Deadline: 31 March 2023
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
Currently the molecular cause of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is not completely understood and no therapy is available to stop the disease progression. Accumulation of misfolded α-synuclein has been observed in many PD patients and can lead to severe midbrain dopaminergic neuron death. NEDD4-1 and NEDD4-2 are two related E3 ubiquitin protein ligases present in dopaminergic neurons that seem to be important to promote α-synuclein degradation and dopaminergic neuron maintenance.
Application Deadline: 31st May 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
Current cancer therapies are not efficient in targeting brain Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs), which can (re)-initiate and explain the frequent relapse of brain tumours. Brain tumours kill more children and adults under 40 than any other cancer. This project is dedicated to the identification and characterisation of mechanisms underlying brain tumourigenesis. It will focus on exposing genes and molecular programmes controlling the fate of brains CSCs that may drive these into differentiation, preventing tumour growth. Drosophila will be used to examine candidate gene function in brain tumour development, providing a unique opportunity to unravel their role in live brains. Translation of findings will be performed using patient-derived glioblastoma stem cells and glioma samples.
Application Deadline: 3 May 2023
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Studies
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, transitional cellular states, and extensive infiltrative behaviour. Such clinically relevant properties are not 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, is one of the most promising advances providing a physiological 3D substrate for glioma stem cells (GSC) to generate tumours that closely mirror patient’s GBMs. This PhD project aims to develop and characterize human cerebral organoids from iPSCs and use these as platform to generate infiltrative tumours with existent patient-derived GSCs. The model will be validated as a more clinically relevant system to study mechanisms of tumour formation and therapeutic resistance.
Application Deadline: 9 April 2023
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
The proposed project will draw on a dataset of routine investigations undertaken in patients who subsequently developed a stroke and matched controls. It comprises MRI and CT brain, ambulatory ECG and echocardiogram data. The aim of the project will be, using this unique dataset comprising some 10,000 stroke cases and 30,000 controls, to build and optimise a machine learning model to predict future stroke risk based on investigations undertaken prior to the stroke occurring.
Application Deadline: 27 March 2023
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9. Multiple Fully Funded PhD Position in Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business
Summary of PhD Program:
Building on our recent success in REF 2021, the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business at the University of Plymouth is making a strategic investment in eight funded PhD Studentships and invites talented applicants to submit outstanding PhD research proposals and applications connecting with all our disciplines across the arts, humanities, social sciences and practice as research. We are particularly interested in projects that fit within the remit of our research excellence within our four schools (Art, Design and Architecture; Society and Culture; Plymouth Institute of Education; and Plymouth Business School).
