• Skip to content
  • Skip to footer
  • Accessibility options
University of Brighton
  • About us
  • Business and
    employers
  • Alumni and
    supporters
  • For
    students
  • For
    staff
  • Accessibility
    options
Open menu
Home
Home
  • Close
  • Study
    • Courses and subjects
    • Find a course
    • A-Z course list
    • Explore our subjects
    • Academic departments
    • Visiting the university
    • Explore online
    • Online events
    • Virtual tours
    • Chat to our students and staff
    • Open days
    • Applicant days
    • Order a prospectus
    • Ask a question
    • Studying here
    • Clearing 2021
    • Accommodation and locations
    • Applying
    • Undergraduate
    • Postgraduate
    • Transferring from another university
    • The Student Contract
    • International students
    • Fees and finance
    • Advice and help
    • Advice for students
    • Advice for parents and carers
    • Advice for schools and teachers
    • Managing your application
    • Undergraduate
    • Postgraduate
  • Research and enterprise
    • Research and enterprise
    • Research and enterprise organisation
    • Brighton Futures – our themes
    • Centres of Research and Enterprise Excellence (COREs)
    • Research and Enterprise Groups (REGs)
    • Our research database
    • Information for business
    • Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP)
    • Postgraduate research degrees
    • PhD research disciplines and programmes
    • PhD funding opportunities and studentships
    • How to apply for your PhD
    • Research environment
    • Investing in research careers
    • Strategic plan
    • Research concordat
    • News, events, publications and films
    • Research and enterprise news
    • Research and enterprise public events
    • Inaugural lectures
    • Research publications and films
    • Academic staff search
  • About us
  • Business and employers
  • Alumni, supporters and giving
  • Current students
  • Staff
  • Accessibility
Search our site
Research Journals
Research and enterprise
  • Research organisation
  • Postgraduate research degrees
  • News and events
  • Research environment
  • Postgraduate research degrees
    • Postgraduate research degrees
    • PhD-films
    • Our postgraduate research disciplines
    • Funding and studentships
    • Apply for a PhD
    • Support and training
    • Research Masters
    • Postgraduate virtual events
    • Contact us
  • Meet our postgraduate research students

Meet our postgraduate research students

The videos and case studies below will give you an insight into the postgraduate research student experience at the University of Brighton.

Nikolay Burlutskiy

Please enable targeting cookies in order to view this video content on our website, or you can watch the video on YouTube.

PhD student Nikolay studied Visual Modelling for the Formal Specification and Interpretation of Temporal Reasoning and Argumentation.

Nikolay's passion for robotics led him to university and then into business but, although the money was good, he knew his heart lay in research. He knew he would have to get a PhD if he was going to realise his full potential.

The University of Brighton provided him with a studentship covering tuition fees and some living expenses.

 

I am not sure what the future holds for me, maybe academia maybe research and development, but what I do know is that at the University of Brighton I am getting the right training to take me wherever I want to go.

Nikolay Burlutskiy

Alice Hagan

I am a PhD student in the university’s School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences. I developed a delivery system capable of blocking blood flow to cancerous liver tumours and releasing drugs directly into the targeted area. The system could improve treatment and reduce damage to surrounding cells and the debilitating side effects of chemotherapy.

My research studies focused on liver tumours. Mortality rates for many cancer types are falling but deaths from liver cancer are expected to rise by nearly 40 per cent by 2030 due to rising alcohol consumption and other risk factors.

Specifically my research involved microscopic ‘beads’ which are injected through a catheter into the specific blood vessels supplying liver tumours. Blood vessels feeding the tumour are blocked, depriving it of oxygen and nutrients, whereas the rest of the liver tissue remains unaffected. The beads then slowly release the drug into the tumour site, giving a sustained dose of chemotherapy to the cancerous region. When the drugs are delivered this way, the amount of drug that reaches the rest of the body is greatly reduced, meaning fewer side effects for the patient.

My research investigated the efficacy of beads loaded with novel, targeted drugs that could disrupt the mechanisms by which liver tumours sometimes escape destruction. The novel part of my research was the local delivery of these types of drugs.

I was thrilled to have been awarded £80,000 funding from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to pursue my research. I worked with Biocompatibles UK Ltd, a healthcare company specialising in drug delivery methods and a BTG International group company. The university has a long-standing relationship with BTG that I am happy to be able to continue with this collaboration.

Alice Hagan
The support I have received from the University of Brighton and my supervisors has been tremendous and now this extra funding will allow me to work in a university-industry partnership to develop life-changing solutions for cancer treatment.

Alice Hagan

Louisa Buck

Please enable targeting cookies in order to view this video content on our website, or you can watch the video on YouTube.

Part-time PhD student Louisa Buck's research subject was 'Why do British political cartoonists use images of Greek mythology?'

Louisa returned to study after taking time out to have a family and work in the print industry. She gained an MA and then went on to develop her idea for a doctorate with the help of her tutor.

She honed her ideas for her research PhD and finally presented them to the university research committee which agreed and she became a doctoral student. 

It's hard work and I spend a lot of time in the company of books but I've never loved something so much.

Louisa Buck

Stephanie Davis

Please enable targeting cookies in order to view this video content on our website, or you can watch the video on YouTube.

Stephanie was a PhD student in psychology in the school of applied social sciences. She researched how queer and trans people of colour use activism to negotiate their identities and to navigate racism, queer phobia and trans phobia.

After a break from study, Stephanie finally managed to achieve her dream of doing a PhD at Brighton.

Her goal is to be a scholar activist, merging the personal, political, creative and academic together.

I vividly remember the moment when I was accepted to do a PhD at Brighton. I was so happy. It was something I had been waiting so long to do. Although the move to here from Manchester was initially overwhelming, I soon got into the swing of PhD life.

Stephanie Davis

Back to top
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn icon

Contact us

University of Brighton
Mithras House
Lewes Road
Brighton
BN2 4AT

Main switchboard 01273 600900

Course enquiries

Sign up for updates

University contacts

Report a problem with this page

Quick links

  • Courses
  • Open days
  • Order a prospectus
  • Academic departments
  • Academic staff
  • Professional services departments
  • Jobs
  • Privacy and cookie policy
  • Accessibility statement
  • Libraries
  • Term dates
  • Maps
  • Graduation
  • Site information
  • Online shop
  • COVID-19

Information for

  • Current students
  • International students
  • Media/press
  • Careers advisers/teachers
  • Parents/carers
  • Business/employers
  • Alumni/supporters
  • Suppliers
  • Local residents