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Postgraduate research

• BBSRC MIBTP
• CENTA PhD Studentships
• ESRC Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
• China Scholarship Council and University of Leicester joint PhD scholarships
• EPSRC CDT in Digital Transformation of Metals Industry (DigitalMetal CDT)
• Leicestershire Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Doctoral Training Programme (LHIIP)
• MRC AIM DTP Studentships
• STFC
• Target studentship
• BHF Research Centre
• University of Leicester and Centre for Digital Health and Precision Medicine PhD Studentships
• The co-design of an educational toolkit to support behaviour change and CGM engagement in adults living with type 2 diabetes
• Better Together: Co-creating and evaluating a partner support intervention for women experiencing menopause
• Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions for Multiple Long‑Term Conditions Using Network and Component Network Meta‑Analysis
• Reducing cardiovascular mortality in vascular surgical patients with PAD
• Space Stories at the National Archives
• Magnetically Engineered Austenitic Steels for Low Thermal Expansion and High-Temperature Strength
• PKN2's Role in Airway Remodelling Mechanisms in Severe Asthma
• Human Performance and Wellbeing in Space Explorations
• Innovation, Geopolitics and the Future of Europe in Space
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• Postgraduate research
• Funded opportunities BBSRC MIBTP CENTA PhD Studentships ESRC Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership China Scholarship Council and University of Leicester joint PhD scholarships EPSRC CDT in Digital Transformation of Metals Industry (DigitalMetal CDT) Leicestershire Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Doctoral Training Programme (LHIIP) MRC AIM DTP Studentships STFC Target studentship BHF Research Centre University of Leicester and Centre for Digital Health and Precision Medicine PhD Studentships The co-design of an educational toolkit to support behaviour change and CGM engagement in adults living with type 2 diabetes Better Together: Co-creating and evaluating a partner support intervention for women experiencing menopause Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions for Multiple Long‑Term Conditions Using Network and Component Network Meta‑Analysis Reducing cardiovascular mortality in vascular surgical patients with PAD Space Stories at the National Archives Magnetically Engineered Austenitic Steels for Low Thermal Expansion and High-Temperature Strength PKN2's Role in Airway Remodelling Mechanisms in Severe Asthma Human Performance and Wellbeing in Space Explorations Innovation, Geopolitics and the Future of Europe in Space
• BBSRC MIBTP
• CENTA PhD Studentships
• ESRC Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
• China Scholarship Council and University of Leicester joint PhD scholarships
• EPSRC CDT in Digital Transformation of Metals Industry (DigitalMetal CDT)
• Leicestershire Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Doctoral Training Programme (LHIIP)
• MRC AIM DTP Studentships
• STFC
• Target studentship
• BHF Research Centre
• University of Leicester and Centre for Digital Health and Precision Medicine PhD Studentships
• The co-design of an educational toolkit to support behaviour change and CGM engagement in adults living with type 2 diabetes
• Better Together: Co-creating and evaluating a partner support intervention for women experiencing menopause
• Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions for Multiple Long‑Term Conditions Using Network and Component Network Meta‑Analysis
• Reducing cardiovascular mortality in vascular surgical patients with PAD
• Space Stories at the National Archives
• Magnetically Engineered Austenitic Steels for Low Thermal Expansion and High-Temperature Strength
• PKN2's Role in Airway Remodelling Mechanisms in Severe Asthma
• Human Performance and Wellbeing in Space Explorations
• Innovation, Geopolitics and the Future of Europe in Space

Funded opportunities

Listed below are the funded studentship opportunities which are currently accepting research student applications.

College of Life Sciences

Please read the studentship adverts for eligibility criteria, funding and application process.

Health Sciences - Better Together: Co-creating and evaluating a partner support intervention for women experiencing menopause

Respiratory Sciences - PKN2's Role in Airway Remodelling Mechanisms in Severe Asthma

Population Health Sciences - Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions for Multiple Long‑Term Conditions Using Network and Component Network Meta‑Analysis

Self-funded projects

Open to overseas applicants who can fund their own study or hold their own external sponsorship. For further information about the available projects please click on the subject page links. Projects open until filled unless stated.

Population Health Sciences

Respiratory Sciences

Healthcare

Cardiovascular Sciences

Dr Katy Roach: Developing Translational Models of Fibro-calcific Remodelling to Evaluate Novel Therapies in Aortic Stenosis

• Supervisors: Dr Riya Patel, Dr Patrick Highton
• Start date: 4 January 2027
• Closing date: 16 November 2026
• Supervisors: Dr Katy Roach, Professor Dominick Shaw
• Start date: 4 January 2027
• Closing date: 5 November 2026
• Supervisors: Dr Ellesha Smith and Professor Laura Gray
• Start date: 4 January 2027
• Closing date: 4 October 2026
• Dr Rupert Major: Patient support for decision making in relation to arterio-venous fistula formation before dialysis and ligation after a successful transplant: a mixed-methods study (open to UK and overseas
• Professor Pratik Choudhary: Evaluating the ethnic differences of physical activity on blood glucose
• Louise Hull: Identifying research priorities to advance the application of implementation science to lifestyle intervention research
• Dr Tim Lucas: To understand how women’s health during pregnancy is affected by heatwaves and how 24-hour behaviours and technological interventions can reduce these risks
• Dr Thomas Wilkinson: Optimising the measurement of muscle and physical function in clinical trials of people living with obesity
• Professor David Wright: PhD in Pharmacy Practice - Longitudinal Placements within the Undergraduate Pharmacy Degree: Defining the value
• Dr John E. Pearl: Survey of clinical non-tuberculous mycobacteria isolates for mycobacteriophages: their presence, diversity and potential role in disease
• Dr Natalie Garton: Rhodococcus equi lipid bodies: Targeting the pathogen’s fat reserves for infection control
• Professor Andrea Cooper: Stratification of TB risk by immunophenotyping and expression of key diagnostic markers
• Professor Galina Mukamolova: Development of novel therapeutic strategies to target Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence
• Professor Joseph Manning: Reducing pressure injury in critically Ill hospitalised infants, children and young people: An intervention bundle development and feasibility testing study
• Professor Joseph Manning: Paediatric to Adult intenSive care tranSition for chronicAlly critically ill younG pEople: The PASSAGE Study
• Professor David Wright: PhD in Pharmacy Practice - Longitudinal Placements within the Undergraduate Pharmacy Degree: Defining the value

College of Science and Engineering

Engineering: Magnetically Engineered Austenitic Steels for Low Thermal Expansion and High-Temperature Strength

TARGET Studentships

EPSRC DigitalMetal CDT studentships

• Supervisor: Dr Gebril El-Fallah
• Start date: 28 September 2027
• Closing date: 15 January 2027
• Start date: 1 October 2026
• Closing date: now closed
• Start date: January 2026 onwards
• Closing date: open for home students and limited places for outstanding international applicants.

College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities

Media and Communications: Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space (LCHS)

• Supervisors: Dr Ben Parsons, Keith Mitchell (National Archives)
• Start date: 21 September 2026
• Closing date: now closed

School of Business

School of Business - Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space (LCHS)

School of Business - Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space (LCHS)

• Supervisor: Dr Raúl González Muñoz
• Closing date: now closed
• Start date: 21 September 2026
• Supervisor: Professor Ana Cristina Costa
• Closing date: now closed
• Start date: 21 September 2026

PhD studentships funded by Research Councils open for September 2027 entry

BBSRC MIBTP

ESRC Midlands Graduate School

CENTA

TARGET CDT

STFC

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Landscape Awards

MRC PRISM DTP

• Range of projects
• Start date: 27 September 2027
• Closing date: 23 November 2026
• Start date: 27 September 2027
• Closing date: Tuesday 12 January 2027, 12.00 GMT
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