Postgraduate Research Scholarships 2023-24, Deadline February, University of Hull, UK
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Our PhD scholarships span a variety of disciplines and are listed below. Remember, applying for a scholarship is a bit like applying for a job: once you have applied to Hull your application will be assessed against specific criteria and, if you are shortlisted, you will be invited to an interview. Ensure you read the project description and eligibility criteria very carefully before you apply to see whether you have the skills, knowledge and experience required. We strongly encourage you to contact the academics listed on the project pages if you have any questions. Applications to Hull are via our online application portal and links to apply are on the individual project webpages. You can apply for more than one scholarship opportunity.
Important dates – please see more detail further down the page
| 4 January | Application deadline for the NERC Panorama DTP in Environmental Science and EPSRC/NERC Aura CDT in Offshore Wind Energy and the Environment |
| 11 January | Free webinar for The Leverhulme DSC for Water Cultures |
| 12 January | Free webinar for PhD studentships in the Hull Centre for Sustainability & Olympic Legacy (HCSOL) |
| 25 January | Application deadline for the ESRC White Rose DTP |
| 30 January | Application deadline for the Leverhulme DSC for Water Cultures and the Sustainability and Olympic Legacy: Olympic Studies and Research Centre |
| 10 February | Application deadline for all other open PhD Scholarships listed below |
Addressing Health Inequalities in Advanced Illness
This exciting PhD cluster comprises four cross-Faculty inter-linked PhD scholarships to address health inequalities in advanced illness at regional, national, and international levels. In the United Kingdom, demographic changes mean the number of older people is rapidly increasing, with many living with advanced illnesses, complex multi-morbidities, and frailty. Inequalities including ethnic and social differences in access to and provision of care, variable community participation in care and support all markedly impact experiences and outcomes of care. While different conditions are present globally, the end results are similar. Integrated approaches to care are essential if effective and efficient solutions to these challenges are to be found.
Application deadline 10 February 2023.
Scholarships
Learn more about the individual scholarships:
- The development of cancer pain education resources for patients from ethnically diverse communities in Humber and North Yorkshire and the health professionals caring for them
- Developing and evaluating a serious game to enable voluntary, community & social enterprises to engage and work with communities about advanced illness
- Integrated care systems: can they reduce health inequalities for patients with advanced disease?
- Roles and experiences of informal carers providing care to people with advanced illness in sub-Saharan Africa
Development of innovative hydrogen production and storage technologies for a net-zero emission society
Advancing the hydrogen economy is currently recognised as a critical element for decarbonisation. To move both industry and society towards a net zero emission path, there is an urgent need to use hydrogen as feedstock for energy to fuel industrial processes, domestic heating and for transport. In the long term, hydrogen must be produced from renewable and/or low-carbon resources, towards a low-carbon or ‘green’ hydrogen economy. This doctoral training research cluster addresses some of the technical challenges through in-depth research in a number of key areas.
Application deadline 10 February 2023.
Scholarships
Learn more about the individual scholarships:
- Modelling and data-driven optimisation for developing hydrogen production and storage materials and technologies
- Selection of hydrogen production and storage options according to industrial application
- Hydrogen production for a net zero society
- Hydrogen storage for a net zero society
Diabetes and its comorbidities: a multidisciplinary approach
Diabetes is a multifaceted disease that reduces life quality and expectancy through a plethora of health complications. As the number of people living with diabetes is increasing, the societal impact of this disease is predicted to rise significantly in the next decades.
Diabetes is a multifaceted disease that reduces life quality and expectancy through a multitude of health complications and comorbidities. The complexity of diabetes requires a multidisciplinary research approach to understand its mechanisms and deliver novel therapeutic tools. This PhD cluster will bring together a multidisciplinary team from five different Schools within the University of Hull to investigate the fundamental aspects of diabetes.
Application deadline 10 February 2023.
Scholarships
Learn more about the individual scholarships:
- Diabetes and thrombosis: mechanistic links and novel interventional opportunities
- Development and characterisation of novel antioxidant H2S-releasing compounds to prevent diabetic kidney disease
- The underlying causes of the diabetic foot: revascularisation deficit and novel strategies to boost healing
- Dementia and diabetes: the challenges posed by comorbidity
Sustainable Terrestrial and Maritime Food Systems: Environmental Technologies and their Implications
Our food and energy production systems contribute significantly to environmental problems, including climate change, and technological solutions are often proposed as ways of reducing their carbon footprints. Yet these can be challenging to implement and can have unanticipated effects on the practices of those engaged in farming and fishing. This cluster of projects involves a combination of scientific projects aiming to develop and test different environmental technologies, and social science projects aiming to look at the effects on the practices of primary food producers as society aims for a low carbon world.
Specifically, the cluster will:
1. Advance the development of two technologies for use in terrestrial food production and examine the implications of these for farmers.
2. Examine the effects on the small-scale fishing industry of high energy prices and large scale offshore wind deployment.
Being in a cluster means that while PhD students will become specialists in their disciplines, they will also take part in regular inter-disciplinary cluster activities and work with stakeholders in the sectors they are investigating.
Application deadline 10 February 2023.
Scholarships
Learn more about the individual scholarships:
- Smart sensors for agricultural sustainability: ‘Federated Learning’ for improving farming efficiencies
- Using on-farm technologies to manage soil carbon and crops: understanding farming knowledges and practices in the deployment of sustainability technologies
- Decarbonising the fishing fleet: social, cultural and behavioural responses
- Fishing for Net Zero Solutions: Using lessons from historical interactions of fisheries, technology and society to identify possible sustainable futures
- Fishing and very large offshore wind development
- Nanophotonics for optimised food growth and lower energy consumption in greenhouses
Hull University Theragnostics
Theragnostics combines therapy and diagnosis into a single, unified strategy for the management and treatment of disease. The Hull Molecular Imaging Centres (HuMIC) is currently implementing the latest clinically approved theragnostic technology into routine practice at Castle Hill Hospital and planning clinical trials for the benefit of patients in Hull, East Yorkshire and the surrounding area.
To progress our own research in this area and capitalise on our world-class expertise and scientific/clinical infrastructure, we recently formed the Hull University Theragnostics (HUT) cluster, to assemble four PhD studentships pioneering new theragnostic technology and its application to disease. HUT combines two of the most successful scientific research groups in the Faculty of Health Sciences: Molecular Imaging (led by Prof Steve Archibald & Dr Louis Allott) and the Wound Healing research group (led by Prof Mat Hardman & Dr Holly Wilkinson). Together, with the four excellent PhD candidates we seek to recruit, we will explore new and unique scientific ground in the burgeoning field of theragnostics so that we can improve patient health in the region and beyond.
Application deadline 10 February 2023.
Scholarships
Learn more about the individual scholarships:
- New strategies for the modular design of theragnostic radiopharmaceuticals
- Development and translation of theragnostic agents
- Identifying the next generation of theragnostic targets in cancer
- Molecular Imaging and Theragnostics for Wound Healing
Translational nanoconstructs for targeted tissue accumulation and guided surgery in cancer
pplications are invited for two PhD scholarships, one in synthetic chemistry (PhD Chemistry) and one in medical imaging (PhD Medical Sciences), to support a major Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded research project. This project aims to deliver transformative advances in the development of nanoparticle constructs for use in precision surgery and beyond (such as therapeutic drug delivery).
The project is part of a collaboration between the University of Hull, Imperial College London and King’s College London. The appointed postgraduate researchers will have the opportunity to work with a range of scientists at these institutions.
Application deadline: 10 February 2023
Scholarships
Learn more about the individual scholarships:
- Functionalization of a macrocyclic scaffold for cancer cell targeting
- Supramolecular nanoconstructs for positron emission tomography imaging and radioguided surgery
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