Postgraduate Research Scholarships

More women are living with and beyond breast cancer than ever before. However, returning to work post breast cancer treatment is an important but potentially challenging event. As such, there must be strategies in place supporting working individuals to promote their physical and mental health, alongside quality of life. Physical activity is universally recommended to reduce sedentary behaviour, improve body composition and modulate stress. However, people often find starting an exercise programme a daunting experience and there are many barriers that prevent women from getting lifestyle support.

This project will investigate if a new home-based exercise programme can improve the quality of life of women returning to work after breast cancer. The programme will be co-designed with women who have had treatment for breast cancer and aims to improve quality of life, reduce sedentary behaviours and improve body composition through ‘Exercise as Medicine’. The project will be a mixed-methods, randomised controlled feasibility trial to examine the feasibility and acceptability of the programme, collecting both quantitative and qualitative outcome measures.

Closing date: 11 July 2025
Start date: 15 September 2025


Supervisors
Dr Rebecca Vince (Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences)
Dr Maureen Twiddy (Hull York Medical School)


Funding
The successful applicant will receive a fee waiver and a maintenance grant for three years which covers the research period of the PhD. The fee waiver for 25/26 is £5,006 (Home fee) and the maintenance grant is £20,780 per annum. The start date for the PhD is the 15^th September 2025.


Eligibility and entry requirements
Applicants should have a minimum 2:1 degree in a health, physiology and exercise related subject. A taught MSc or Masters by Research in a health-related subject would be an advantage, as would experience in exercise prescription.

For more details on our entry requirements please visit the postgraduate admissions webpage.


International applicants
This opportunity comes with a Home fee waiver only, which will not cover the full International fee. You will therefore need to pay the difference between the Home fee and the International fee and will need to provide evidence that you have sufficient funds to cover this.


How to apply
You will need to supply a CV demonstrating your academic background as well as a personal statement to demonstrate your skills, knowledge/qualifications and attributes applicable to this project when applying for this scholarship position. Find out more about writing a personal statement.

PLEASE APPLY FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP FULL TIME HERE

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Rebecca Vince.

Apply now!

We need the brightest minds to join us in developing solutions to the environmental and engineering challenges facing the offshore wind industry. The offshore wind industry is vital to UK and global net zero ambitions. In 2024, it provided 25% of the UK’s electricity. By 2030, if the UK government clean power target is met, offshore wind would form the backbone of the national electricity supply, accounting for over half of UK electricity generation. With this growth of the offshore wind industry comes opportunities for career progression for graduates from broad STEM backgrounds.

The ESPRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience is an exciting partnership, drawing on the specialisms of its academic partners, the universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield, and over 40 international industry partners. The Offshore Wind CDT invites applications from Home (UK) students for 4-year taught and research doctoral scholarships. These funded PhD opportunities are for exceptional graduates from a range of STEM backgrounds and could unlock a career in this new and innovative industry.

There are currently 17 scholarships with September 2025 entry open to applicants. More information on the Offshore Wind CDT may be found on their website.

Closing date 9 May 2025:

Offshore Wind CDT projects hosted by the University of Hull:

Conservation Economics: Evaluating Trade-offs in Offshore Wind Farm Development

Efficient and Sustainable Offshore Wind Turbine-driven Green Hydrogen production

Miniaturising gross proximate composition analysis techniques to develop accurate ecological models of marine species interactions at the scale of offshore windfarms

SafeML-based Confidence Generation and Explainability for UAV-based Anomality Detection of Blades Surface in Offshore Wind Turbines

Transforming Non-Recyclable Waste into Sustainable Solutions: Novel Anti-corrosion Coatings for Offshore Wind Turbines

Understanding the effects of offshore wind development on marine benthic communities

Understanding the impacts and benefits of offshore wind on fish in the Greater North Sea

Offshore Wind CDT projects hosted by partner institutions:

A socio-economic impact evaluation on wellbeing and community dynamics of Offshore Wind Farms in the United Kingdom

Building psychosocial and physical resilience using self-management skills for offshore workers

Data assimilation for wake-wake interactions

Digital twins for health monitoring and fault

Human-in-the-loop machine learning for drone-assisted Structural Health Monitoring

Impact of “blue space” as a working condition on the health and wellbeing of offshore windfarm workers

Left in the wake: assessing the impact of sediment mobility in the wake of offshore wind infrastructure

Low maintenance reliable transmissions for large wind turbines

Parameterising wakes for oceanographic models

Single-turbine scale quantification of wake turbulence

Help us address some of society’s most pressing global challenges by devising your own Social Sciences research project. We are looking for talented postgraduate researchers to join us for a world-class start to their careers by undertaking a social science research degree at Hull, as part of the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP).

Closing date: 22 January 2025.

Find out more.

The ESRC WRDTP Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme is aimed at those in the immediate postdoctoral stage of their career, to provide an opportunity to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, their networks, their research and professional skills.

Find out more about this fellowship.

Contact whiterosedtp@hull.ac.uk.

The University of Hull Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Centre for Water Cultures is an interdisciplinary research centre exploring humanity’s relationships with water in the green-blue regions of the world, past, present and future.

It pioneers a new, humanities-led, interdisciplinary and transhistorical research area – the green-blue humanities – and equips a new generation of PhD students to take this agenda forward and transform our understanding of humanity's relationships with water.

Recruitment will open shortly for PhD scholarships with September 2025 entry. Please check this page for updates.

Find out more about the centre.

The University of Hull has a long history of welcoming high quality scholars through the Commonwealth Scholarships PhD and Taught Masters schemes. We have a number of exceptional Commonwealth scholars undertaking ground-breaking research with us currently.

Many also choose to study through the Taught Masters scholarship programme and then return to take up a Commonwealth PhD scholarship.

Learn more about the Commonwealth Scholarships Scheme here.

The University of Hull has a long history of participating in the China Scholarship Council (CSC) scheme, which provides funding to Chinese nationals for a range of PhD programmes. We are also an official CSC partner.

The CSC PhD scholarship programme enables talented Chinese students to undertake a PhD programme at the University of Hull, building on Hull’s strong relationship with China. There are 10 full scholarships per year available for students to start a PhD. Students can apply for a PhD in any subject area.

The University of Hull is a partner in the NERC Panorama Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP), along with the University of Leeds and University of York.

The Panorama DTP encompasses three broad theme ins: Atmosphere and Climate, Earth Processes and the Living World. Panorama prepares the next generation of environmental science leaders for industrial, governmental, NGO and academic careers and provides exceptional training across the range of environmental science in world-class research teams through an innovative, exciting and multi-disciplinary programme. The programme will equip students with the skills necessary to understand the complex interactions within the Earth system, so they can contribute to the development of scientific, policy and industrial solutions for the national and global scale problems we face in coming decades.

Recruitment has now closed.

The Hull Centre for Sustainability and Olympic Legacy (HCSOL) is recognised by the International Olympic Committee as an official Olympic Studies and Research Centre. The HCSOL investigates how the Olympics can be more environmentally and socially sustainable, and is exploring how the Olympics can leave a lasting legacy and contribute to a positive future for people, society and the environment.

Find out more about the Hull Centre for Sustainability and Olympic Legacy.