To celebrate the University's research successes, the University of Hull is offering UK/EU PhD Scholarships and International PhD Fee Bursaries in the following broad academic areas of the Business School:

• Accounting & Accountability
• Empirical Finance & Banking
• Innovations in Business & Management Education
• Logistics, Project Management, Supply Chains & Operations Management
• Marketing Innovations & Applications
• Organisational Futures and Studies of Organising
• Economics
• Regional and International Business
• Systems Thinking, Cybernetics, Problem Structuring & Information Systems

Applications are sought from suitably-qualified people wishing to pursue research leading to PhD status under the supervision of leading researchers.

Closing date 2nd March 2012; Studentships will start in September 2012

Visit  www.hull.ac.uk/phd for further information and to download a copy of the application form.

Applicants will be expected to hold a minimum of a UK upper second class Honours degree, or equivalent, in an appropriate discipline.

Each full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarship will include fees at the ‘home/EU' student rate and maintenance (£13,590 in 2012/13) for three years, depending  on satisfactory progress.

The International PhD Fee bursaries will cover full tuition fees for full-time overseas students for three years, depending on satisfactory progress.

PhD students at the University of Hull follow modules for research and transferable skills development and gain a Masters level Certificate, or Diploma, in Research Training, in addition to their research degree.

Successful applicants will be informed of the award by 8^th May.

The Faculty seeks to build on existing areas of research strength by inviting applications for Postgraduate Research Students in the following thematic areas. For more details about each proposal please visit the relevant departmental website.

Creative Writing

• Poetry

Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies

• History and Theory of Theatre (Popular Theatre; Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama; Modern British Theatre)
  
• World and Intercultural Theatres (Diasporic and National Theatres; Intercultural Performance Practices)
• Processes of Performance and Production (Playwriting; Scenography; Acting and Directing)
  
  

English

• Literary Manuscripts (especially at the History Centre)
• Author-centred studies
• Literature and place/time
• Literature and politics/law

History

• Cultural history
• European history since 1500
• Environmental history
• States, diplomacy, empire and warfare
• Economic development, networks and social capital
• Intellectual history

The Law School:

• Civil liberties and human rights
• European Law
• Experts and the Law
• International Law
• Law of the Sea
• Mediation and conflict Resolution
• The Law of Mortgage
• Trade and Commercial Law

Media and Film

• New Media Political Communication
• Animated Film and Television
• American Animation
• Disney Studies

Modern Languages

• Gender, Sexuality and society
• Translation Studies
• Film and Visual Cultures
• Popular Cultures
• Translation cultures

Music

• Musicology ( British Music, Shakespeare,  Opera, Film, Jazz/Popular Music)
• Composition(sonic arts, acoustic)
• Music and Science (psychology, cognition, health, pedagogy)

Philosophy

• The Ethics Of Climate Change
• Philosophy and Criminal Law
• The Philosophy of Medicine
• Ancient philosophy
• Authority and expertise
• Philosophy of medicine
• Feminist philosophy
• Embodiment and subjectivity
• Philosophy of mind and action
• Wittgenstein
• Aesthetics and philosophy of the image
• Phenomenology
• Theoretical and practical ethics

Politics

• Military Ethics
• Coalition Government and the Politics of Austerity
• Trust in Politics and Parliament
• Political and Democratic Theory
• European Union and Disunion
• Political Economy and the democratic governance of markets

School of Arts and New Media (Scarborough campus)

• Creative Speech Technology
• Creative Technologies and Digital Platforms
• Digital Media with Archiving and Heritage
• Discourse Analysis
• English Literature (18th and early 19th Century, 20th Century, and Gothic)
• Live Art, Digital Performance, Applied and Socially Engaged Performance Practices
• Music and Technology, Sonic Arts

Social Sciences

• Criminology and penology: punishment, pain and human rights.
• New Technologies: Crime, Surveillance & Social Control
• Religion and Spirituality in Culture and Practice
• Family, Gender and Sexuality
• Health, Welfare and Social Inclusion
• Globalisation and Social Justice

Wilberforce Institute

The Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) is one of the few research centres in the world that offers expertise on both historical and contemporary slavery. The Institute is particularly keen to encourage applications for scholarships in the following areas:

• Historical Slavery in the Americas
• The Abolition of Slavery and the Transition to Freedom
• Memories, Legacies and Representations of Slavery and Abolition
• Modern Slavery, Human Rights and Social Justice

A formal research proposal should be submitted with your application (1-2 sides of A4), outlining the scope of your proposed topic, underlying research questions, and rough chapter outlines.

The Faculty of Health and Social Care has four UK/EU/International Studentships available for candidates applying for the projects below...

The successful candidates will work within current areas of research priority in the Faculty. Applications are invited in any of the following areas or in areas that combine more than one of these:

Wellbeing in Long Term Conditions

• Self management/care
• Skin health and integrity
• Older people and long term conditions

Reproductive and Sexual Health

• Teenage sexual health/pregnancy
• Obesity and reproduction
• Psychological aspects of reproductive/sexual health

Health Technologies and Innovation

• Technological interventions e.g. telehealth/telemedicine
• Educational technologies and interventions for Nursing, Midwifery and  Allied Health

We are keen to receive applications from candidates with a social science background as well as from candidates within health professions. Applicants will be expected to hold either a first or upper second  class Honours degree, or distinction at Masters in an appropriate discipline. A brief outline of the proposed area of study (including aim/research question(s), background and proposed method) should be submitted with the application. This should be a maximum of 500 words.

Studentships can only be awarded in areas where the University’s academic staff members have the expertise to supervise your proposed project.

Direct your application here to the Hull York Medical School/PGMI studentships.

You will need to submit a research proposal with your application form.

• The role of breathlessness in unscheduled hospital admissions.

• Cancer survivorship in the context of social disadvantage.

• Reducing inequalities related to early mortality from cancer.

• Understanding the role of glucose variability in platelet hyperactivity in subject with type 2 diabetes.

• Modelling endothelial function with hypoxia and low humidity (simulated flight environment) in healthy volunteers and patients with type 2 diabetes:

• Cranial Biomechanics: extreme adaptations of the masticatory system.

• Identification of novel molecular anti-thrombotic targets for protein kinase A signalling in blood platelets.

The Faculty of Education has four UK/EU/International Studentships available for candidates applying for the project below.

You will need to submit a research proposal with your application form.

• Linking Research with Teaching and Learning in Schools.

• Giving disabled students a voice in schools.

• Technology enhanced learning and issues of teachers’ professional identity and practice in English schools.

• The impact of CPD on school leaders’ understandings and practice in an Education for Sustainable Development.

To celebrate the University's research successes, the University of Hull is offering 25 PhD Studentships in the following thematic areas of the Faculty of Science:

Biological Sciences                                                       

Biomedical Sciences                                                                  

Evolutionary Biology                                                                

Functional Ecology                                                                    

Hull International Fisheries Institute

Chemistry

Nanoscience and Materials

Molecules for health

Process Miniaturisation and Measurement

Computer Science

Distributed, Reliable & Intelligent Systems

Simulation and Visualization Engineering

Engineering

Energy, Environment and Sustainable Engineering

Medical and Biological Engineering

Geography                                                                         

Environment and spaces of governance                              

Knowledges, cultures and space                                            

Sediment and flow dynamics                                                

System response to environmental change

Aquatic systems and resources

Physics

Lasers and Microfabrication

Organophotonics

Theory and Modelling                                                              

Psychology

Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience

Cognition and Perception

Applied and Clinical Psychology

Sport, Health and Exercise

Musculoskeletal Health across the Lifespan

Sport and Coaching Pedagogy

Stress and Exercise Tolerance

Psychological Assessment and Development across the Lifespan

Applications are sought from suitably qualified people wishing to pursue research leading to PhD status under the supervision of leading researchers.

Studentships will start in September 2012

Visit  www.hull.ac.uk/phd for further information and to download a copy of the application form.

For more details about each area please visit the relevant departmental website.

Applicants will be expected to hold a minimum of a UK upper second class Honours degree, or equivalent, in an appropriate discipline.

Each full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarship will include fees at the ‘home/EU' student rate and maintenance (£13,590 in 2012/13) for three years, depending  on satisfactory progress.

The International PhD Fee bursaries will cover full tuition fees for full-time overseas students for three years, depending on satisfactory progress.

Successful applicants will be informed of the award by 8^th May.

Postgraduate Medical Institute has up to 7 UK/EU and International Studentships available for candidates applying for the projects below...

Studentships can only be awarded in areas where the University’s academic staff members have the expertise to supervise your proposed project.

First Contact the PGMI Administrator, Mrs Jane Kitson j.kitson@hull.ac.uk

Tel: 01482 464213.

You will need to submit a research proposal with your application form.

Direct your application here to the PGMI/Hull York Medical School studentships.

• Lung Fribosis

• Radiolabelled Duramycin as a Prognostic Indicator in Pancreatic Cancer

• Imaging EGFR Over-expression in Tumours

• Mechanisms of Airway Sensation

• Can the Radiotherapeutic Response of Early Laryngeal Tumours be Predicted using a Micro Fluidic-Based Metabolomic Approach?

• Angiogenic factors and their role in the metastatic process

• EGFR and related therapeutic targets in mesothelioma