Projects for Scholarship holders or students with their own funding
If you have a scholarship (or are applying for a scholarship), or if you have the finances to self-fund your PhD or MSc by research studies you have several options:
Apply for an available project from the list below
Complete an application form and list the project and supervisor on the form.
Contact an Academic Supervisor and ask to design a project with them or ask them if they will supervise your proposed research project (provide details)
When you have identified a supervisor willing to supervise you and agreed a project, complete an application form and highlight on the form which supervisor you have already made contact with.
Visit the ScholarshipsLink opens in a new window webpage to check funding options PhD/MSc by Research Projects |
Supervisor(s) |
Project available for PhD or MSc |
| Dr Andrew Nelson | PhD | |
| Use of in vivo gene editing tools to control plant development |
Dr Stephen Jackson | PhD |
| Mechanism of GPCR recruitment to clathrin-coated vesicles | Dr Corinne Smith | PhD |
| High resolution cryo-electron microscopy of clathrin cage networks | Dr Corinne Smith | PhD |
| Evolving molecular switches | Prof Richard Napier | PhD or MScR |
| Gathering cargo for endocytosis using TPLATEs | Prof Richard Napier | PhD or MScR |
| Live imaging and genetic testing of tissue integrity and dynamics during development | Dr Kristen Panfilio | PhD or MScR |
| Dr Daniel Hebenstreit | PhD | |
| Towards a quantitative understanding of plant endoplasmic reticulum dynamics | Dr Lorenzo Frigerio | |
| Selective autophagy during ageing and neurodegeneration | Dr Ioannis Nezis | |
| Synthetic reprogramming of autophagy during ageing and nuerodegeneration | Dr Ioannis Nezis / Prof Alfonso Jaramillo |
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| Calcium dynamics during bacterial biofilm formation | Dr Munehiro Asally | PhD or MScR |