Do you have a Master’s degree and are looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland is now accepting applications for several funded PhD programs across a range of research areas.
1. Fully Funded PhD in Retrodirective antenna technology for fast tracking of supersonic platforms
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Ultrafast communications between mobile platforms is essential for a wide range of applications, with the users expectations for high speed, reliability and low latency are ever increasing. Establishing fast reliable comms links becomes even more challenging when required between platforms moving at high relative velocities. This PhD will look at how “retrodirective” antennas can be used to provide an ultrafast tracking and resilient comms link between airborne platforms, or from ground platforms to air platforms.
Application Deadline: 2 December 2024
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2. Fully Funded PhD in INTERNATIONAL DFE – What works to mobilise boys’ engagement in sex education and gender equality? A comparison of implementation in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Engaging adolescent boys in comprehensive sex education and the promotion of gender equality by early adolescence is a vital but neglected part of achieving the sustainable developmental goals of better health and gender equality. This study will investigate lessons learned from an implementation project of comprehensive sexuality education in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa in order to inform broader implementation globally.
Application Deadline: 1 November 2024
3. Fully Funded PhD in Nanophotonic Interfaces for Solid-State Qubits
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This PhD project aims to harness the capabilities of nanophotonic interfaces and optomechanical resonators to enhance spin-optic coupling and resist decoherence, with the potential to significantly advance quantum device performance. This work could profoundly impact quantum technology by improving spin qubit coherence, which is crucial for enhancing quantum communication networks and enabling more precise quantum sensing. The research’s interdisciplinary approach—integrating quantum optics, nanophotonics, and materials science—ensures a comprehensive exploration of spin qubit stability and photon-matter interactions at the nanoscale, positioning the project to overcome key challenges.
Application Deadline: 31 October 2024
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4. Fully Funded PhD in Investigating the role of novel and established plasma biomarkers in the evaluation of heart failure in children with heart disease
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This project will use plasma samples of children with congenital heart disease to evaluate the role of novel and established cardiac biomarkers in identifying and monitoring paediatric heart failure. It will include stored patient samples including those with single ventricle physiology, cardiomyopathy and other congenital heart disease aged 0-16 years. It will also involve the processing and analysis of new longitudinal samples on these same patients at a later time point.
Application Deadline: 28 October 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD in Investigating the impact of commonly occurring blood cancer mutations on innate immune signalling
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) are clonal haematological malignancies that can disrupt normal haematopoiesis of multiple myeloid lineages. MDS/AML are frequently diagnosed in the older population (onset ~65 years). They are characterised by molecular and/or cytogenetic abnormalities accompanied by peripheral blood cytopenias. Due to the age group affected, treatment can be difficult due to the fitness of the patient and the toxicity associated with therapies currently used. The successes of graft-vs-leukaemia observed following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) supports the value immunotherapy could have for MDS and AML patients.
Application Deadline: 28 October 2024
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6. Fully Funded PhD in Giving ‘Voice’ to Patients’ Voices in Simulation
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Queen’s University Belfast is offering an innovative PhD opportunity to advance healthcare education through enhanced simulation training. This project, under the guidance of esteemed academics at the Centre for Medical Education, seeks to develop simulation-based education (SBE) that integrates the ‘lived experiences’ of individuals who have experienced illness and healthcare. The PhD candidate will explore what aspects of lived experiences can enhance the realism and effectiveness of simulations, co-produce guidelines for their inclusion, and refine these guidelines through practical methodologies.
Application Deadline: 28 October 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD in FIND-BACT Study: Finding INnovative Diagnostics for BACTerial infections in children
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Detecting bacterial infection in children is very challenging, particularly in previously well children presenting to the Emergency department (ED) with fever as well as in children with chronic illnesses, such as those with cystic fibrosis (CF). Often this can mean clinicians prescribe antibiotics to children “just in case” because missing a bacterial infection in a child is very serious. This results in potential antibiotic overuse with the risk of antimicrobial resistance developing. New ways of detecting bacterial infection and type in children are therefore urgently needed.
Application Deadline: 28 October 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD in The potential value of risk based pricing for promoting innovation in biopharmaceuticals
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The prices of new pharmaceuticals have increased by orders of magnitude over the last two decades, and emerging gene therapies are expected to be priced a magnitude higher than the cellular therapies such as monoclonal antibodies. This study will develop, apply and test the risk based pricing framework described by Kirwin and colleagues, and characterise its impact on the incentives for innovation in the context of (a) a new therapy for a rare genetic disorder with very high unmet need, and (b) a more prevalent oncology indication with a substantial portfolio of effective current therapies.
Application Deadline: 28 October 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD in Understanding how high plasma soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) predicts poor outcome in patients with ARDS
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a common condition in critically ill patients requiring mechanical ventilation, and is often found in association with sepsis and other systemic illnesses. ARDS is associated with a high mortality, and there are no effective pharmacological interventions. This project will enhance the mechanistic understanding of the role of suPAR in ARDS with a view to identifying suPAR as a prognostic biomarker, and potentially a therapeutic target, in patients with ARDS. Plasma suPAR will be measured in stored samples from patients with ARDS recruited to the completed PHIND study.
Application Deadline: 28 October 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD in Novel investigation of innate airways defence in Severe Asthma and elucidation of potential therapeutic targets
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This project is a novel investigation of the innate immune system function in severe asthma, particularly of the balance between airways serine proteases and anti-proteases. The successful candidate will assess neutrophil elastase and cathepsin enzyme activity in different asthma cohorts, and then move on to investigate anti-protease activity (SLPI and cystatins) and anti-protease inhibition and compare the results of these investigations to clinical characteristics of the severe asthma cohorts from which the samples come.
Application Deadline: 28 October 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD in Metagenomics to guide precision medicine in ARDS
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a severe condition characterized by acute inflammation and diffuse alveolar damage, leading to respiratory failure. Despite advances in understanding its pathophysiology, the role of blood microbiome in ARDS has been largely overlooked. Only a small proportion of patients with ARDS have positive blood cultures by traditional culture methods, but recent retrospective data from a single small study suggest that bacterial taxa in blood of patients with ARDS may have prognostic significance, with higher E coli and Enterobacter burdens in those who are most highly inflamed and who have the worst outcomes.
Application Deadline: 28 October 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD in Data and Knowledge Dual-Driven Artificial Intelligence in Remote Sensing
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Remote sensing data analysis plays a crucial role in advancing sustainable agriculture, offering valuable insights and aiding informed decision-making. In the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, remote sensing introduces distinctive challenges. While the predominant approach relies on data-driven methods, employing powerful deep neural networks and ever-evolving models, these techniques excel in self-learning and adaptation within data-rich environments.
Application Deadline: 27 October 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD in SUSTAIN CDT: Flavour-centric Innovation for Cultivated Meat: Bridging the Sensory Gap in Cellular Agriculture
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The modern practices of industrial farming have faced scrutiny due to their adverse effects on health and the environment. As the global population rapidly increases, the quest for sustainable and nutritious alternatives to traditional animal products becomes crucial. Cellular agriculture, which involves growing animal cells in a controlled environment to produce food, offers a promising solution. Recent advancements in cellular agriculture have led to the development of cultivated meat, which closely resembles conventional meat at the cellular level.
Application Deadline: 27 October 2024
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14. Fully Funded PhD in SUSTAIN CDT: Harnessing Explainable AI to Identify Key Microbial Drivers of Reduced Ruminant Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Microbes form stable communities by each taking on unique roles based on their genes, a process known as niche specialization. These communities can significantly impact their hosts, influencing health, efficiency, and environmental emissions such as methane in ruminants. This project aims to leverage explainable AI to analyse metagenomic microbiome data from ruminants, like cows, to understand how specific microbial communities can lead to lower emissions.
Application Deadline: 27 October 2024
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