Studentships

Current studentship vacancies

E5 Doctoral Training Partnership

Project titleSupervisorClosing date
Exploring Changing Food Environments in Southwest GreenlandDr Rowan Jackson14 December 2025
Elucidating disease ecology in grey squirrels to inform red squirrel conservation in the UKDr Katie Beckmann14 December 2025
Genome-wide investigation into the ecological success of the environmental pathogen Legionella pneumophilaProfessor Ross Fitzgerald14 December 2025
MegaPhase: Pedigree phasing and imputation for mega-scale whole genome sequence data
Professor Gregor Gorjanc
14 December 2025
Phenotype-to-fouling: image-based prediction of mussel biofouling across Scottish environmental gradientsDr Tim Regan14 December 2025

 

BBSRC EastBio DTP studentships

Project titleSupervisorClosing date
Antimicrobial use in UK game birds: its behavioural drivers and impact on resistanceDr Laura Glendinning 15 December 2025
Behavioural and neural correlates of positive emotions in animalsDr Sarah Brown 15 December 2025
Community engagement, food environments, and environmental impacts of aquaculture in marine protected areas - a comparative study of Scotland and Patagonia Dr Fernando Mardones 15 December 2025
Developing preterm porcine air-liquid interface cultures: a model of preterm pulmonary inflammationDr Sara Clohisey Hendry 15 December 2025
Does vaccine efficacy depend on the time of day of delivery?Professor Alexander Corbishley 15 December 2025
Economic analysis taenia solium control in Uganda: developing and implementing a One Health cost-benefit analysis frameworkDr Lian Thomas 15 December 2025
How do transporters promote the fitness of Staphylococcus aureus in different host-species?Professor Ross Fitzgerald 15 December 2025
Improving guineafowl for a changing world: genetic tools for sustainable livestock developmentDr Jacqueline Smith 15 December 2025
Loch and key: portable diagnostics to prevent the spread of shellfish diseaseDr Tim Bean 15 December 2025
MegaPhase: pedigree phasing and imputation for mega-scale whole genome sequence dataProfessor Gregor Gorjanc 15 December 2025
Phage therapy for control of salmon aquaculture pathogensDr Gavin Paterson 15 December 2025
The role of macrophages in the development and function of the splenic marginal zoneProfessor Neil Mabbott 15 December 2025
The role of WNT signalling in developmental tissue fusionDr Joe Rainger 15 December 2025
Understanding how neutrophils fine-tune the immune response to S.aureus infection  Dr Clare Muir 15 December 2025

 

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