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PhD opportunities: Physiology

Compare 4 doctoral research opportunities connected with Physiology, including project summaries, funding and application deadlines.

Physiology

Assessing human carotid body, cardiovascular and respiratory function in diabetic patients with and without obstructive sleep apnoea

University of Birmingham

About the Project Patients with diabetes have impaired cardiovascular and respiratory responses to multiple stimuli including a fall in blood oxygen (hypoxia), a rise in blood carbon dioxide (hypercapnia) and a decrease in blood glucose (hypoglycaemia). Diabetic patients also have reduced exercise tolerance. The mechanisms accounting for these dysfunctional reflex responses remain unresolved.

Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline: Year-round applications
Funding: Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Physiology

Attentional processes and differences in psychobiological stress reactivity

University of Nottingham

About the Project This interdisciplinary PhD project explores the attentional mechanisms underlying dysfunctional psychobiological responses to acute psychological stress.

Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline: Year-round applications
Funding: Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Physiology

Identifying the importance of age, sex, ethnicity and obesity in establishing cardiovascular-respiratory reflex responses to heat exposure

University of Birmingham

About the Project One of the major threats to human health is climate change and its association with increased exposure to extreme heat. An important effect is an increase in the frequency, duration and intensity of heatwave exposure. People now experience more than double the number of heatwave days compared with 1986-2005, and this will increase in the foreseeable future.

Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline: Year-round applications
Funding: Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Physiology

The effectiveness of behavioural interventions in reducing post-exercise compensatory behaviours

University of Nottingham

About the Project Are you passionate about health psychology, exercise science, and behavioural interventions? This exciting interdisciplinary PhD project explores the psychological mechanisms that undermine weight loss following exercise, focusing on compensatory behaviours such as increased food intake and reduced non-exercise activity.

Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline: Year-round applications
Funding: Self-Funded PhD Students Only