PhD Opportunities in Sports Science in New Zealand

[Funded through the CENTA3 DLA and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Covers an annual stipend, tuition fees at home-fee level, and a Research Training Support Grant.] This PhD studentship investigates how the jaws of sharks have evolved and how different jaw forms affect feeding function across both living and fossil elasmobranchs. The project is framed around the remarkable diversity of shark ecologies, from suction feeding and filter feeding to shell-crunching, and asks how the ...

Research focus: This PhD project develops generative computational methods for designing protein- and peptide-based biomaterials as sustainable alternatives to fluorinated PFAS polymers. The first application is solid-state battery components, where the project will target materials with adhesion, cohesion, ion conduction, and controlled degradability. The researcher will combine molecular foundation models with iterative laboratory feedback to generate de novo protein and peptide designs. The w...

The University of Oslo’s Section of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology is recruiting a PhD fellow for a three- to four-year project in clinical child and adolescent psychology focused on autism. The research will examine autism profiles among girls, the effects of autism-related symptoms on parents and siblings, and gender-specific treatment outcomes. The project addresses which symptom profiles predict an autism diagnosis in girls referred to child and adolescent mental health ...

This PhD project at Erasmus MC is focused on the retention and wellbeing of motivated healthcare professionals. The advertised position sits within the broader effort to understand how to support care workers in a rapidly changing healthcare sector, where rising demand, innovation, new technologies, and high workload all place increasing pressure on staff. The project asks how a learning system can be created for healthcare professionals, teams, policy makers, and hospital leaders in (academic) ...

Newcastle University, in collaboration with Newcastle Red Bulls, is offering a fully funded PhD studentship investigating contact training load and its effects in professional rugby union . The doctoral project is based in the Faculty of Medical Sciences and focuses on a major performance challenge in collision-based team sport. The successful researcher will be embedded within the Newcastle Red Bulls Senior Athletic Performance Department and will work day to day alongside professional players,...

This fully funded four-year PhD project is based in the Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory of the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain. The research focuses on chemically induced proximity for the development of targeted therapies against cancer and progeria. The doctoral researcher will investigate chemical mechanisms that bring proteins into proximity to produce therapeutic effects, combining chemical proteomics, E3 ligase validation, and PROTAC develop...

This F.R.S.-FNRS fellowship supports a clinical doctor who is beginning a PhD while continuing part-time specialist work in a university hospital. The award is designed for applicants in the French-speaking part of Belgium and is tied to a research appointment at a university with a medical school. The project sits at the intersection of clinical practice and academic research. During the fellowship, the candidate carries out hospital-based clinical duties and pursues doctoral research in a heal...

This F.R.S.-FNRS fellowship supports a medical doctor in combining clinical work with research time for an Advanced Master and a PhD at a university of the French-speaking Community of Belgium. The award is designed for doctors who remain employed full-time in a Belgian hospital while carrying out research activity alongside specialist training. The fellowship reimburses the hospital for part of the cost of the doctor’s post, helping create protected time for doctoral research and advanced study...

This PhD studentship investigates how embodied intelligence can emerge through interactions between soft materials, a robotic body and the environment. Led by Dr Yoshikatsu Hayashi at the University of Reading, the project focuses on a soft brain-body system in which hydrogel networks, ionic communication, rhythmic movement and sensory feedback may collectively generate adaptive behaviour. The research builds on evidence that electroactive gels can improve their performance in a computer game th...