A PhD is based on a single research project under the training and supervision of one of our Research Leaders. The School has strong links with research institutions, business, and industry, both in the UK and overseas, working to develop innovative and exciting areas of research and technology. Research is interdisciplinary and ranges from laboratory-based fundamental science to field-based applied agriculture.

1. Funded PhD opportunities - APPLY NOW FOR FUNDED PHD STUDENTSHIPS

2. Projects for Scholarship holders or finances to Self fund

Examples of PhD projects in the School of Life Sciences include:

• 3D Cryo-electron microscopy studies of Tat complexes
  
• Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry - Ambient Ionisation Techniques
• Interactions between river bed morphology, water chemistry and microbial diversity and its impact on pollutant
• Biogeochemical Cycling of climatically relevant oxygenated volitile organic compounds e.g.methanol.
• Exploring local adaptation to climatic variables in global accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana
• Investigations into mastitis in ewes: development of a prevention and treatment plan
• The function of extensive structured RNA in the evasion of host anti-virus responses
• Environmental Epigenetic Memory in Plants
• Analysis of the protein interaction network of the Arabidopsis circadian clock