Fully Funded PhD in Mosquito-Borne Disease Risk Associated with Avian Hosts Queen's University Belfast in United Kingdom

Competitively funded PhD opportunity at the University of Salford on the ecology and evolution of antimicrobial resistance in urban wildlife , with a specific focus on wild gulls and bacterial pathogens. The project will investigate how normally harmless bacterial strains in urban wildlife evolve pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance . The student will have opportunities for gull fieldwork, but the project will primarily involve lab work , sequencing , and bioinformatics , so experience in the...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at Newcastle University in the TROPS lab / TIF-CER project on wildlife connectivity in tree-based agricultural systems (TIFs). The project asks how trees retained or planted within farms can support biodiversity, movement pathways, and landscape connectivity across fragmented agricultural landscapes. Research themes include habitat fragmentation, ecological networks, wildlife movement, landscape ecology, conservation biology, spatial ecology, agroforestry, remote sen...

PhD opportunity at the University of Bath in the Centre of Excellence in Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection on linking air pollution and population health through water-based epidemiology and environmental data integration . This project sits at the intersection of analytical chemistry , environmental chemistry , environmental science , water-based epidemiology , statistics , and public health . The research will use advanced LC-MS/MS and high-resolution mass spectrometry (H...

Funded PhD project at the University of Bristol within the GW4 BioMed3 MRC Doctoral Training Partnership : Hidden codes: Genetic Determinants of HIV-1 Fitness and Immune Recognition . This project investigates how viral genetic sequences influence HIV-1 transmission efficiency , replicative fitness , and immune recognition , with a particular focus on Subtype C HIV and other non-subtype B viruses. The work combines viral genomics , bioinformatics , sequence analysis , evolution , immunology , mi...

Edge Hill University Research Office is sharing fully funded PhD opportunities through the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC), in partnership with five leading universities across the North West Coast. These doctoral projects are focused on applied health and care research , with themes that connect to health research, social care research, and public health . Successful candidates will join NIHR-funded research environments and work on projects designed to address re...