19 fully funded PhD studentships available for 2015

Most of the studentships are worth over £60,000 and will support full-time doctoral study over three or four years. We invite applications from world-class research students, to contribute towards our mission to stimulate innovation and test conventional wisdom in the interests of a better and fairer world.

The studentships on offer are outlined below.

Arts and Humanities

• Methods and tools for integrating and exploiting 3D and historic documentation in heterogeneous digital humanities repositories
• Representing the graphic design profession on the world stage: Icograda 1963–2013

Life, Health and Physical Sciences

• Engineering a bioartificial liver prototype using cell loaded macroporous hydrogel scaffolds
• Experimental and numerical analysis of an oscillating slug flow
• Text-based measures of information quality in online health information
• Mixed methods study of the academic resilience implementation: a whole systems perspective
• Regulating exercise behaviour through interoceptive and exteroceptive feedback
• Heat waves in the elderly and the impact of acute and chronic heat-alleviating strategies on health
• Investigating the genetic basis of osteosarcoma in children and domestic dogs
• Nanostructured scaffolds for remediation of environmental and biological tissue contaminants
• Infection-responsive biomaterials: bacteriophage-tethered wound dressings and dermal substitutes for a targeted therapy
• Methods and tools for integrating and exploiting 3D and historic documentation in heterogeneous digital humanities repositories
• Dynamic security for the Internet of Things
• The physics of droplet impact on complex surfaces
• Assessing the ecological role of white rhinos in South Africa
• 2 x automotive engineering EngD studentships:
  • Advanced combustion models for emission prediction in diesel engines
  • Low emission combustion in gas engines
• Switchable surfactants in drug and gene delivery

Social Sciences

• Mixed methods study of the academic resilience implementation: a whole systems perspective
• Mad or bad? Women with personality disorders in crisis and the role of emergency services
• Justice Plc: what business models do those associated with the delivery of justice follow, and with what impact?
• Regulating exercise behaviour through interoceptive and exteroceptive feedback
• Heat waves in the elderly and the impact of acute and chronic heat-alleviating strategies on health
• Methods and tools for integrating and exploiting 3D and historic documentation in heterogeneous digital humanities repositories

The deadline for application was 26 February 2015, 4pm.