Postgraduate Research Scholarships

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

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• 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
  
  

Webinar

For more information, why not watch a recording of the webinar we held on 28 November? You can hear more about each project and watch the question and answer after the presentations.

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

Webinar

For more information, why not watch a recording of the webinar we held on the 8 December? You can hear more about each project and watch the question and answer after the presentations.

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

Webinar

For more information, why not watch a recording of the webinar we held on 5 December? You can hear more about each project and watch the question and answer after the presentations.

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

Webinar

For more information, why not watch a recording of the webinar we held on 6 December? You can find out more about each project and watch the question and answer after the presentations.

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

Webinar

For more information, why not watch a recording of the webinar we held on 1 December? You can hear more about each project and watch the question and answer after the presentations.

Applications 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

The University of Hull has a long history of participating in the China Scholarship Council (CSC) schemes and we have a number of exceptional Chinese scholars undertaking ground-breaking research with us currently.

This scholarship is for candidates who are Chinese nationals and is available for PhD programmes in a variety of subject areas at the University of Hull.

Applications to study a full-time PhD starting in September 2022 are now open to Chinese PhD students in all subject fields.

Application deadline 10 February 2023.

Learn more about the CSC PhD Scholarships here.

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 NERC Panorama Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) encompasses three broad themes: 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.

Applications are currently closed for 2023 entry.

We need the world’s brightest minds to join us in developing solutions to the environmental and engineering challenges the offshore wind industry is facing. The UK has committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and clean energy produced by offshore wind will be a cornerstone in reaching this target. Already providing over 10% of the UK’s electricity and growing at an unprecedented rate, by 2030 it is expected to provide over 30% of the UK’s energy needs.The Aura Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Offshore Wind and the Environment is led by the Energy and Environment Institute at the University of Hull with partners Durham, Newcastle and Sheffield Universities. Working closely with over 20 Industry partners, the Aura CDT invites high-quality applications for 4-year taught and research PhD 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.

Applications are currently closed for 2023 entry

The University of Hull is a member of the prestigious Economic and Social Research Council White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership. We are looking for talented students to join us for a world-class start to your research career by doing a funded social science research degree at Hull.

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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.

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.