Alternative Ways to Fund Your Studies
In today’s climate, it is increasingly difficult to achieve funding for postgraduate research. Many excellent applicants fail to secure funding every year, so if you don’t get funding, it does not invalidate your proposed research. But what can you do to pursue it?
At Warwick, we offer a supportive, flexible environment for postgraduate research, to ensure that as many excellent students as possible can study here whether they have achieved funding or not. If you hold a place here, we would like you to take it up and we hope that the following possibilities might enable you to fund it ‘without full funding’.
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Please also refer to individual department webpages for further subject-specific opportunities.
Department of Physics Funded Studentships
Department: Physics
Project: various, covering 6 broad areas of Condensed Matter Physics, Theoretical and Computational Physics, Medical and Biophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics and Elementary Particle Physics.
Value: Full payment of tuition fees at the Home rate, a UKRI-rate stipend for 3.5 to 4 years plus additional research costs
Deadline: ongoing
School of Engineering Funded Studentships
Department: School of Engineering
Project: various projects in the key themes of Energy, Biomedical Engineering and Cities
Value: Full payment of tuition fees at the Home rate, a UKRI-rate stipend for 3.5 to 4 years plus additional research costs
Deadline: ongoing
Warwick Manufacturing Group Funded Studentships
Department: Warwick Manufacturing Group
Project: various projects driving innovation in applied science, technology and engineering
Value: Full payment of tuition fees at the Home rate, a UKRI-rate stipend for 3.5 to 4 years plus additional research costs.
Deadline: ongoing
School of Engineering - Project Specific Funded Studentship
Department: School of Engineering
Title: Developing next generation wet processing for Silicon Carbide power electronic devices
Project: In this studentship, the student will develop wet chemical processes for i) cleaning, ii) planarization, iii) functionalisation and iv) porosification of SiC in the power electronics industry. This studentship will expand on work being performed on a £100k grant won from the Henry Royce Institute, with RENA as partners. The student will learn and implement new wet chemistry with physical characterisation (e.g. X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy), Raman Spectroscopy or Secondary Ion Mass spectroscopy (SIMS)). Then they will evaluate these processes in electrical characterisation of test devices and potentially in a full MOSFET device, where they will learn semiconductor device fabrication in our state of the art dedicated SiC cleanroom.
Value: Full payment of tuition fees at the UK/Home rate plus a stipend
Deadline: open until filled
School of Engineering - Project Specific Funded Studentship
Department: School of Engineering
Title: Photoelectrochemical Generation of Green Hydrogen using Silicon Carbide
Project: This studentship will expand on work being performed on a £100k grant won from the Henry Royce Institute. The successful student will both 1) develop 3C-SiC materials through nanostructuring the materials via conversion (e.g., SiC nanoparticles, SiC nanowires, SiC nanopores, trenching etc.) and 2) developing the overall SiC PEC system for hydrogen evolution and water-splitting through optimisation of a multi-material system with catalysts.
Value: Full payment of tuition fees at the UK/Home rate plus a stipend
Deadline: open until filled
Warwick Medical School - Project Specific Funded Studentship
Department: Warwick Medical School
Title: Funded PhD project on coronavirus replication
Project: This is a fully funded 3.5 year PhD studentship opportunity in Virology, under the supervision of Nicole Robb (Warwick Medical School) and Helena Maier (Pirbright Institute). The project will make use of recently developed fluorescent coronaviruses and advanced microscopy techniques to visualise the sites and dynamics of coronavirus replication in infected cells.
Value: Eligible students will receive a UKRI-aligned stipend (£18,622 for 2023/24) and cost of living allowance (£2,200 pa). Home rated university tuition fees will be paid.
Deadline: 15 April 2024
Computer Science - Project Specific Funded Studentship
Department: Computer Science
Title: PhD Studentship in WiFi-Vision Cross-modality learning for Human Activity Recognition
Project: The project will develop a WiFi-based human activity recognition system. Physical models (e.g., multipath propagation) and data-driven approaches (WiFi-video cross-modality learning) will be explored. Public datasets will be used and collection of own dataset required. Contact: Dr. Yu Guan Yu.Guan@warwick.ac.uk
Value: Eligible students will receive full payment of fees at the Home rate and an annual stipend at the UKRI rate (£18,622 for 2023/24) for 3.5 years. EU/International applicants are welcome to apply but will be required to cover the difference between home and EU/international fees.
Deadline: 1 August 2024
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