UCL Research Studentship

The University of St Andrews is inviting applications for PhD opportunities in Statistics starting in the 2027/28 academic year. Projects span statistical ecology , statistical medicine and molecular biology , and statistical methodology and machine learning . Students will join the School of Mathematics and Statistics in St Andrews, Scotland, and may work on statistical theory and methods or collaborate with biologists, medical researchers, and environmental scientists. The research environment...

PhD opportunity at Aston University in Birmingham, United Kingdom on medication optimisation, severe mental illness, peer support workers, realist research, qualitative interviewing, and co-design . This fully funded PhD (3 years, full-time) is part of the TIMELINESS project and will explore how peer support workers (PSWs) can use lived experience to help people with severe mental illness make informed decisions about medication and support recovery. The project is delivered in partnership with ...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Military mental health at King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR), King’s College London . The project is titled “Developing treatment guidance to support military personnel affected by deployment-related psychological distress” . The research will review evidence on treatments for psychological distress pre-, during-, and post-deployment to combat operations, work with clinicians from multiple specialties on clinical decision-making for mental health c...

[Funding of fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter on Dissecting Metabolic Heterogeneity in Severe Mental Illness Through Genetic Clustering and Single-Cell Functional Genomics . This project aims to understand why genetic liability to severe mental illness, especially schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is linked to different patterns of adiposity and metabolic health. While obesity and type 2 diabetes are more common in people with sev...

[Home tuition fees plus a Doctoral Stipend for up to 4 years.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter in From Variants to Placental Function: Using Cell-free DNA to Dissect the Functional Genomics of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes . This project explores how genetic variants influence placental biology and adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preeclampsia, foetal growth restriction, and pre-term delivery. The research uses cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from maternal blood as a minimally invasive way to i...