Vice-Chancellor's PhD Scholarships, Science and Technology, PhD

As part of our commitment to investing in research that shapes lives and society, we are awarding 12 fully-funded Vice-Chancellor's PhD Scholarships for 2014.

The School of Science and Technology invites applications from well qualified candidates, who have or expect to graduate with good first degrees or masters level qualifications, to undertake doctoral studies in a range of the School's subject areas.

The projects being considered for the Vice-Chancellor's scholarships include:

• Role of nutrients on cell cycle epigenetics. Assessment in normal, diabetic and cancer models
• Elucidating the unknown ecology of bacterial pathogens from phylogenetic data
• Alignment of Input / Output Connectivity along Cerebral Cortical Pathways in the rat: visual cortex to association cortex
• Randomness in Quantum Information Processing
• An integrative approach to a cancer biomarker discovery and validation pipeline
• Boundary integral modelling of interfaces driven by fluid flow
• Investigation of laser processing of thin films for potential plasmonic devices
• Novel biomarkers in prostate cancer
• Intelligent Social Robots in Human Behavioural Analysis
• Controllability and Observability in Complex Brain Networks
• Protecting pancreatic b-cell function in Type 2 diabetes.

The scholarships will pay UK / EU fees and provide a maintenance stipend linked to the RCUK rate (currently £13,726 per annum) for up to three years. Applications from non-EU students are welcome, but a successful candidate would be responsible for paying the difference between non-EU and UK / EU fees.

Download application pack

For more information about the projects and to download an application pack, click Order literature.

The closing date for applications is 09:00 Friday 24 January 2014.

Research in the School of Science and Technology is extensive with over 120 academic staff and over 40 research fellows / assistants. The School supports a thriving postgraduate community of around 120 students, many funded by external sponsors, which benefits from the support of the NTU Graduate School in addition to the subject specialist support from within the School.

In 2008, The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), a national exercise which assesses the quality of research across all UK higher education institutions, rated research in Biomedical Sciences (UoA12) and in Applied Sciences / Engineering (UoA25) as world-leading and both were placed in the top-quartile of all submissions in the UK. Themes of particular strength include:

• Enabling and Cross-cutting Technologies for Biomedical Sciences
• Health and Disease
• Imaging Science and Engineering Applications
• Intelligent Simulation and Networks
• Materials Engineering and Bio-Inspired Materials.

Support and supervision
During your research you will be supported by a dedicated supervision team with specialist knowledge in your field of activity. You will also have full access to student support centres, financial advice, careers advice, disability support, counselling and an accommodation service.