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If you’re hoping to secure funding for your PhD, there are many options available. Visit phd.leeds.ac.uk to search our funding opportunities, project ideas, research areas and PhD supervisors. Scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic merit and are very competitive, so it’s important that you apply as early as possible. 

Sources of funding for our postgraduate researchers include:

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• China Scholarship Council - University of Leeds Scholarships 

Find up to date information on funding opportunities in the School of Chemistry .

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You could benefit from a funded PhD place along with enhanced training and development through our Centres for Doctoral Training .

Each year the University receives funding from the Research Councils for new postgraduate scholarships (Masters and research). You should check the relevant  Research Council website  for further information.

There are many trusts, charities and foundations that award partial funding for postgraduate study. There are huge numbers of applications for these sums of money, so you’ll need a strong case to make a successful application.

Postgraduate research fees are not regulated by the UK government so decisions on UK undergraduate fees do not apply to them. Our postgraduate research fees are set independently and reviewed on an annual basis. Where the research projects undertaken require a high expenditure on consumables, equipment or other resources an annual bench fee may be charged in addition to the academic fees. 

Fees are listed on the University of Leeds website .

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You may have queries about how to pay your tuition fees, your stipend or what funding is available to undertake fieldwork or take part in an international conference. Our funding pages for postgraduate researchers will direct you to the right person to talk to, whether you receive a scholarship or are self-funded.

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Academic fees are charged at the start of each academic year, or on the annual anniversary of your start date, and are paid as part of registration. 

If you hold a scholarship or studentship from the University, you may receive maintenance payments, also known as a stipend.

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To foster the research talents of gifted students from around the world, two of our institutes, the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine and the Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James’s have developed their own bespoke PhD programmes. Find our more about our International PhD Academies below.

International PhD Academy: Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease

Are you an International Student looking for a direct entry PhD programme in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease? Here at the University of Leeds, we have developed a new Academy based within the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine (LICAMM).

International PhD Academy: Medical Research at St James's

This 4-year PhD programme is tailored to train and equip you with the necessary knowledge and research skills to embark on your PhD project.

The programme is especially suitable for candidates who have limited research experience and for students wishing to update their skills or change research area.

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Funded phd programme (students worldwide).

Some or all of the PhD opportunities in this programme have funding attached. Applications for this programme are welcome from suitably qualified candidates worldwide. Funding may only be available to a limited set of nationalities and you should read the full programme details for further information.

Business Research Programme

Business Research Programmes present a range of research opportunities, shaped by a university’s particular expertise, facilities and resources. You will usually identify a suitable topic for your PhD and propose your own project. Additional training and development opportunities may also be offered as part of your programme.

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Self-funded phd students only.

The PhD opportunities on this programme do not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

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Arts Research Programmes present a range of research opportunities, shaped by a university’s particular expertise, facilities and resources. You will usually identify a suitable topic for your PhD and propose your own project. Additional training and development opportunities may also be offered as part of your programme.

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Understanding structure, function, localisation and molecular interactions of cardiovascular ion channels, phd research project.

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

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This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Postgraduate Research Opportunities in Global Development, Politics and International Relations & Security

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Social Sciences Research Programmes present a range of research opportunities, shaped by a university’s particular expertise, facilities and resources. You will usually identify a suitable topic for your PhD and propose your own project. Additional training and development opportunities may also be offered as part of your programme.

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Law Research Programmes present a range of research opportunities, shaped by a university’s particular expertise, facilities and resources. You will usually identify a suitable topic for your PhD and propose your own project. Additional training and development opportunities may also be offered as part of your programme.

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This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing at Leeds Beckett University is currently accepting applications for up to 3 funded Full-time PhD Research Studentships

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PhD Research Programmes describe the opportunities for postgraduate research within a University department. You may often be asked to submit your own research project proposal as part of your application, although predefined research projects may also be available.

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APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR OCTOBER 2024 START

The Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarships (LORS) are open to prospective postgraduate researchers from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups who are eligible for the Home rate of tuition fees and have received an offer to study on any non-funded research programme at the University of Leeds.

Three awards are available each year, covering the full cost of tuition fees as well as an annual stipend paid at the UKRI rate to help cover living expenses during your research programme.

Applications for the LORS open in early November, with application workshops run throughout January. LORS funding is awarded on the basis of academic merit, financial need and a personal statement outlining how you plan to make the most of your time at the University of Leeds.

Closing Date for Application forms 17:00 (UK time) Monday 8 April 2024

Duration and Value of the Award

• The award provides full academic fees and a maintenance grant (£18,622 in Session 2023/24) for full-time study, part-time will be pro-rata at 60%.  This amount increases per annum in line with the UKRI rate.  Full-time awards provide full fees for 3 years and a maintenance award for 3.5 years (Part-time awards are pro-rata).

Full eligibility criteria as well as guidance for applicants and supervisors can be found here: https://phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/234-leeds-opportunity-research-scholarship-2024

If you have any questions about the Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarship, please contact the PGR Diversity Team ( [email protected] )

WRoCAH Arts and Humanities Research Council Open Competition and Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentships 2024

The White Rose College of Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH) is a Doctoral Training Partnership of the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. WRoCAH will be offering at least 45 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) PhD studentships starting in October 2024. The awards will be awarded through open competition across the three institutions and will be for student-led project applications. Collaborative Doctoral Awards, where a researcher works closely with a non-academic partner organisation, will also be available and these will be advertised in early 2024.

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Closing date for open competition applications 17:00 GMT Wednesday 24 January 2024 .

Leeds University Faculty of Social Sciences Doctoral Scholarships for researchers from UK Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups

The Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leeds, is inviting applications for the next round of its doctoral scholarship scheme for UK Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups to undertake postgraduate/PhD research within the Faculty. Three scholarships are available this year.

The Faculty is inviting applications from candidates from UK Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups currently underrepresented within postgraduate research.

Scholarship holders will have access to world leading facilities and supervision, and to research centres which shape the research and innovation agenda within and beyond the social sciences. All postgraduate researchers in the Faculty are members of the  Social Sciences Graduate School , bringing together a socially, culturally and intellectually diverse community of doctoral researchers, in an interdisciplinary research environment geared to addressing global challenges. Our doctoral researchers also have access to bespoke training and support via the  White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership.

These scholarships are available on either a 1+3 (Masters and 3-year PhD) or a +3 (3-year PhD) (or part-time equivalent) basis. Depending on the level of research training already achieved, and where applicants do not yet meet our entry requirements for PhD study, we can also support applications via the 1+3 scheme. This would include funding to undertake an appropriate Masters degree (MA, MSc, LLM) in the  Faculty of Social Sciences  in the first instance followed by the PhD. 

Each scholarship will cover full UK research degree fees and a maintenance grant at current UKRI rates.   

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Deadline: Monday 8 April 2024

Funding start date: Tuesday 1 October 2024

Number of funding places: 3

Country eligibility: UK only

Source of funding: University of Leeds

Schools: School of Education, School of Law, School of Politics and International Studies, School of Sociology and Social Policy

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Doctoral scholarships for researchers from UK Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities

Equality, diversity and inclusion  are central to the core values and ambitions of the University of Leeds and the Faculty of Social Sciences. We are committed to addressing different forms of intersecting inequalities in relation to our teaching, learning, research and broader engagement with society.

As part of our work in this area, we hope to help address the significant underrepresentation of ethnic minority students in postgraduate research and throughout academia with a funding opportunity for Faculty of Social Sciences postgraduate research applicants from UK Black, Asian and underrepresented ethnic minority communities.

For a period of up to five years beginning in 2022, we will be inviting applications for two new doctoral scholarship awards each year across the Faculty, covering full UK fees and maintenance at UKRI rates. There will be a total of 10 scholarships available over the course of the scheme.

This initiative aims to encourage a diverse postgraduate research community and help to develop a more inclusive pipeline for future academics and university leaders. 

This scholarship is now closed for 2024/25 entry. Applications will open again in autumn for 2025/26 entry. 

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Our academic staff and current postgraduate researchers discuss the importance of representation and diversity in academia and what we hope to achieve with our new doctoral scholarship scheme for applicants from UK Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities.

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• Areas of expertise: Christian theology; analytic theology; panpsychism; autism; science-engaged theology.
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After leaving school, I did a foundation year in Fine Art from the University of the Creative Arts, and I still like to paint with oils in my freetime. However, I realized that I was passionate about the ideas that mould soceities and shape lives, and so decided to go to university. I originally intended on studying English Literature, but during undergraduate at the University of St Andrews (2009–2013) I discovered theology for the first time – the exploration of ideas about God and everything in relation to God from within a particular religious tradition. I paired this with modern history, as a way to understand how philosophical ideas, the scientific revolution, and Christian theology are interwoven in modern Western soceity to inform our beliefs about how we are, what matters in life, and how we should act. These questions continue to animate me. 

I went to Princeton Theological Seminary (2013–14) for a taught master’s programme where I was enriched by reading and discussing some of the most important theologians in Western history – Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, Hans von Balthasar, and Karl Barth. After a year off, I started a PhD with Prof David A.S. Fergusson at the University of Edinburgh (2015–2019). I discovered a recent work in analytic philosophy of mind regarding the idea of panpsychism, and I decided to explore its implications for the doctrine of creation; how Christianity views God’s relationship to the world and how human should interact with the natural environment. 

After compelting my PhD, I got my first job as a postdoctoral research fellow, and then a lecture, in science-engaged theology at the University of St Andrews (2018–2021). I worked on two large grants from the John Templeton Foundation, the St Andrews Fellows in Science & Religion and the New Visions in Theological Anthropology  . At St Andrews, I developed and taught undergraduate modules on “Science, Religion and the Mind”, “The Problem of Evil,” “Holy Scripture, Sacred Earth: The Bible and The Environoment”, and “Saints and Cyborgs: The Imagination in Theology and Science”, as well as assisted in teaching on the taught postgraduate masters programme in Analytic and Exegetical Theology. 

I was thrilled to join the School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at the University of Leeds in 2021. Since coming to Leeds I have mostly taught on the BA in Liberal Arts. 

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Research interests

I am a Christian theologian interested in interdisciplinary engagment with analytic philosophy and with the natural and psychological sciences. 

My doctoral research and first book developed a vision of theological panpsychism , which pairs classical Christian doctrine (i.e. doctrine of creation ex nihilo, the incarnation, the resurrection of the body, etc.) with the metaphysics of panpsychism. Panpsychism is the idea that consciousness is not unique to human beings or even animals, but comes in gradients as a fundamental and ubiqutious feature of reality. I argue that this recent revival in panpsychism is something Christian theologians should welcome as way to articulate creation’s value and praise of the unique Creator. I have also published a short popular level book called Creation and Ecology   introducing readers to the Christian doctrine of creation with Grove Books. 

I then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in science-engaged theology at the University of St Andrews for three years. With Dr John Perry, I co-wrote a book on  Science-Engaged Theology , exploring how this idea differs from previous trends in the field of science-and-religion, considering what it means for the standing of theology in modern research universities, and offering some guidelines for theologians wanting to use empirical studies as a resource within their work. You can find a special issue I co-edited in the journal  Modern Theology on this topic, which gives concrete examples of scientifically engaged theological research. 

My current research project is a monograph on exploring what neurodiversity, and autistic people in particular, can teach theologians and the church about what it means to be human, a child of God, and members of the body of Christ. I have published three articles on autism and theology to date: 

• ‘The Challenge of Autism for Contemporary Theological Anthropology,’ International Journal of Systematic Theology (2020)
• ‘Autism, Doxology, and the Nature of Christian Worship,’ Journal of Disability & Religion (2021) 
• ‘Accountability, Autism and Friendship with God,’ Studies in Christian Ethics, Vol. 34, Is. 3 (2021). 

I have also published on other topics, many of them beginning with “p”: pantheism, panentheism, participation, pnematology, and pica (ok, the last one really refers to an article looking at eating disorders more widely, not just pica). If you want to read more about these publications you can find my CV and many pre-publication drafts on my academia.edu cite. 

• God, Language and Diversity: Spiritual Flourishing in Neurodiverse and Multilingual Communities

Qualifications

• PhD in Systematic Theology, University of Edinburgh
• M.A. Theological Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary
• M.A. Modern History and Theology, University of St Andrews
• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Professional memberships

• American Academy of Religion
• Society for the Study of Theology
• European Society for the Study of Science and Theology
• Centre for Theology and Public Issues
• International Society for Science and Religion

Student education

I teach core modules on the Liberal Arts BA.

You can read more about the BA in Liberal Arts at Leeds online .

Research groups and institutes

• Centre for Philosophy of Religion and Theology

Current postgraduate researchers

• Keiran Bateman

Publications:

My five most recent selected publications, my other selected publications, journal articles, conference papers, presentation (conference/workshop etc), conference presentations, internet publications, performances, compositions, exhibitions, scholarly editions, software / code, thesis / dissertations, working papers.

School of Nursing & Midwifery

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• PhD Candidates Receive the TCD-CSC Scholarship

PhD Candidates Receive the CSC-TCD Scholarship

Two PhD candidates at the School of Nursing & Midwifery have received scholarships as part of the China Scholarship Council (CSC) – Trinity College Dublin Joint Scholarship Programme , an opportunity which is open to Chinese students who wish to pursue a PhD at Trinity.

For the recipients, Junyang Song and Fen Xie, this scholarship comes as a valuable opportunity at this early stage in their research careers.

Discover more about their planned research and why they wanted to complete their PhD in Nursing and Midwifery here at Trinity.

Junyang Song, PhD Candidate

"My PhD study (Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing and Midwifery (Full-Time)) will focus on exploring the impact of lifestyle patterns on the cognitive health of older adults with cardiometabolic multimorbidity (CMM). The objective is to identify the risk factors associated with cognitive impairment, as well as the barriers and facilitators of behavioural changes. This research aims to contribute to the development of evidence-based lifestyle interventions in the future. I aim to establish a comprehensive theoretical framework to guide caregiving practices and self-care strategies specifically tailored to address both cardiometabolic multimorbidity and cognitive health. This study area has always intrigued me, and I am deeply passionate about delving deeper into it.

For several reasons, I decided to pursue my PhD studies at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. The school has a strong international reputation and offers a rigorous academic environment. It also provides world-class teaching, resources, and opportunities for interdisciplinary cooperation.

My supervisors, Dr Sharon O'Donnell and Dr Frances O'Brien, are highly accomplished researchers in cardiovascular care, and value the integration of academic research with practical applications. My research aligns closely with the overall research strategy of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, particularly in the areas of innovation, ageing, and chronic diseases. I am looking forward to conducting independent research in the School, to explore cutting-edge problems in ageing and cardiovascular health.

  Additionally, Trinity conducts important research projects, including the TILDA and IDS-TILDA cohort studies. Doctoral students can participate in these large-scale projects to gain a deep understanding of health issues in older adults. The international partnerships provide opportunities for collaboration and research exchanges with other top universities and medical institutions, exposing them to different views and best practices in nursing and healthcare.

This scholarship represents a pivotal achievement in my academic and professional advancement. It not only offers financial support and recognition for my research but also provides an invaluable opportunity to make meaningful contributions to the fields of nursing and health."

"My PhD in Nursing and Midwifery will focus on ageing, which is an important challenge globally, especially for countries with large populations such as China. While increases in longevity are to be celebrated, the increase in the older population is leading to a higher demand for health care and social care, as well as increased pressure on care resources and services internationally. China is seeking to learn from international experiences, to respond to challenges associated with an ageing society, an aspect of which is an increasing risk of unmet healthcare needs. Trinity is the host of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) , which is a large-scale, nationally representative, longitudinal study on ageing in Ireland. The Trinity Centre for Practice & Healthcare Innovation (TCPHI) also has provenance in age related nursing and interdisciplinary research aimed at improving the quality and efficiency of health care services.

My supervisors are Professor Anne-Marie Brady and Dr Louise Daly. Professor Brady has over 30 years of clinical practice, education and research experience in innovation, mixed method research, chronic illness, health care management, and has gained significant understanding of health service delivery issues in both the Irish and international context. Dr Daly is an Associate Professor in Ageing and Community Nursing and her clinical, education and research interests are in care of the older adult, with experience in interpretive and review methodology. I have worked closely with my supervisors to develop my PhD proposal. This PhD proposal is aligned with the mission of the TCPHI and with Chinese health policy which seeks to re-configure services, to inform the development and optimisation of the delivery of care resources for older people to enable effective and integrated clinical care pathways.

We are grateful to the experts from both countries for their initial recognition of our research. This strengthens our confidence in further in-depth investigation. This also provides valuable development opportunities for my future career development and international perspective expansion."

PhD studentships

The Bragg Centre is proud to offer up to five PhD studentships each year, which includes fees and a maintenance grant for 3.5 years.

Each year, a range of projects covering the breadth of our materials research portfolio will be available for applications. These will address fundamental and applied problems across design, characterisation, fabrication and modelling. 

The Centre comprises more than 320 members, including 120 student members, from over sixteen Schools within the University of Leeds and has had continued investment in excellent facilities and infrastructure, including a  new building  opened in 2021, to ensure that our staff and students benefit from state-of-the-art, high-quality equipment and laboratories.

We are a founding partner of the  Henry Royce Institute , the UK’s Institute for Advanced Materials.

To browse the available projects and to apply, please visit the University’s research opportunities website and use the term “Bragg” when searching for projects.

To explore other PhD studentship projects at the University of Leeds, search our  research opportunities directory .

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Dynamic risk prediction for patients with multiple myeloma.

One full scholarship is available in the Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research in the School of Medicine in 2024/25. <br /> <br /> This scholarship is open to UK applicants and covers fees plus &pound;19,237 maintenance. This fully funded PhD place provides an exciting opportunity to pursue postgraduate research in cancer clinical trials methodology within the Leeds Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit at the Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research. The Institute is an international leader in the field of clinical trials and the CRUK Unit is one of the largest in the UK being one of only 7 clinical trials units to receive a prestigious infrastructure award from Cancer Research UK. We conduct national and international early phase and late phase clinical trials specialising in blood cancers, treatment with radiotherapy, and colorectal cancer, and this PhD will integrate into these portfolios. <br /> <br /> We invite applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2024/25 for the CRUK Clinical Trials Unit Scholarship. The award is open to full-time or part-time candidates (UK only) who meet the eligibility for a place on a PhD degree at the School of Medicine.

<h5>Background</h5> <p>Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer of the bone marrow for which there is currently no cure. Standard treatment recommendations for newly diagnosed myeloma patients usually consist of continuous therapy for life. Teams treating MM and their patients require a clinical prediction model that provide personalised prediction of risk at key clinical milestones along the disease-treatment pathway to aid collaborative informed decision making.</p> <p>Current prediction models are mainly based on prognostic factors measured at baseline, generally at diagnosis or start of treatment [1,2]. Disease response, including minimal residue disease (MRD), is one of the strongest predictors of survival. Therefore, dynamic risk models which capture how risk evolves over the course of the disease may be informative for patients and clinicians. Dynamic prediction is a powerful approach to exploit the most recent information for obtaining more accurate predictions of further prognosis.</p> <p>There are several methods to estimate dynamic risk including simple methods such as conditional survival [3],&nbsp;to more complex methods such as landmark analysis, time to event methods incorporating time-varying and time-dependent effects, competing risk models, multi-state models and joint modelling of longitudinal and time to event data [4,5].&nbsp;More complex modelling allows both baseline and time-dependent characteristics such as repeatedly measured biomarkers to be incorporated in the risk model. This allows us to assess if risk factors retain their prognostic impact in those who have survived to a given time point or if accumulating information over time is more useful to improve prediction at specific time points.</p> <h5>Studentship</h5> <p>The overall aim of this project is to build and disseminate robust dynamic clinical prediction models based on multi-modal data assets generated as part of national UK academic clinical trials. These trials contain detailed patient level information on clinical, genetic and disease response variables including longitudinal repeatedly measured biomarkers.</p> <p>The project will conduct a scoping review of methods to model dynamic risk and applications to myeloma. Informed by methods from scoping review, clinical predictions models for myeloma will be developed and applied.&nbsp;This will involve assessing if dynamic risk models improve predictive performance from static models, identifying the key landmarks in the treatment pathway where dynamic models are needed, internal and external validation of models and other methodological considerations. Methods to display and communicate personalised risk estimates will be developed.</p> <h5>Supervision</h5> <p>Day-to-day support will be provided by Dr Lesley Smith and Professor David Cairns and of the Leeds Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit, with expertise in the development and implementation of statistical methods in clinical trials and clinical prediction models. Co-supervision to gain clinical context will be provided by Dr Christopher Parrish.</p> <h5>References</h5> <ol> <li>Cook G, Royle KL, Pawlyn C, Hockaday A, Shah V, Kaiser MF, et al. A clinical prediction model for outcome and therapy delivery in transplant-ineligible patients with myeloma (UK Myeloma Research Alliance Risk Profile): a development and validation study. Lancet Haematol 2019;6:e154&ndash;66. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3026(18)30220-5">https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3026(18)30220-5</a>.</li> <li>D&rsquo;Agostino M, Cairns DA, Jos&eacute; Lahuerta J, Wester R, Bertsch U, Waage A, et al. Second Revision of the International Staging System (R2-ISS) for Overall Survival in Multiple Myeloma: A European Myeloma Network (EMN) Report Within the HARMONY Project. vol. 40. 2022.</li> <li>Hieke S, Kleber M, K&ouml;nig C, Engelhardt M, Schumacher M. Conditional survival: A useful concept to provide information on how prognosis evolves over time. Clinical Cancer Research 2015;21:1530&ndash;6. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-14-2154">https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-14-2154</a>.</li> <li>Schumacher M, Hieke S, Ihorst G, ENgelhardt M. Dynamic prediction: A challenge for biostatisticians, but greatly needed by patients, physicians and the public. Biometric Journal 2020;62:822-35. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.201800248">https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.201800248</a></li> <li>Van Houwelingen HC. Dynamic prediction by landmarking in event history analysis. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 2007;34:70&ndash;85. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9469.2006.00529.x">https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9469.2006.00529.x</a>.</li> </ol>

<p>To apply for this scholarship opportunity applicants should complete an <a href="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/research-applying/doc/applying-research-degrees">online application form</a> and attach the following documentation to support their application.</p> <ul> <li>a full academic CV</li> <li>degree certificate and transcripts of marks</li> <li>Evidence that you meet the University&#39;s minimum English language requirements (if applicable)</li> </ul> <p>To help us identify that you are applying for this scholarship project please ensure you provide the following information on your application form;</p> <ul> <li>Select PhD in Medicine as your programme of study</li> <li>Give the full project title and name the supervisors listed in this advert</li> <li>For source of funding please state you are applying for a CRUK CTU Scholarship&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>If English is not your first language, you must provide evidence that you meet the University&#39;s minimum English language requirements (below).</p> <p><em>As an international research-intensive university, we welcome students from all walks of life and from across the world. We foster an inclusive environment where all can flourish and prosper, and we are proud of our strong commitment to student education. Across all Faculties we are dedicated to diversifying our community and we welcome the unique contributions that individuals can bring, and particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to Black, Asian, people who belong to a minority ethnic community, people who identify as LGBT+ and people with disabilities. Applicants will always be selected based on merit and ability.</em></p>

Applicants to this scholarship in the School of Medicine should normally have an Undergraduate degree of 2:1 or above (or international equivalent) in a relevant subject area. A Master&rsquo;s degree is desirable, but not essential.

The minimum English language entry requirement for postgraduate research study in the School of Medicine is an IELTS of 6.5 overall with at least 6.0 in each component (reading, writing, listening and speaking) or equivalent. The test must be dated within two years of the start date of the course in order to be valid.

<p>We are offering 2 full-time PhD scholarships in the Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research within the School of Medicine for two UK candidates, covering a maintenance grant matching UKRI maintenance stipend (&pound;19,237 in 2024/25) and UK tuition fees for three years, subject to satisfactory progress. The award will be made for one year in the first instance and renewable for a further period of up to two years, subject to satisfactory academic progress.</p> <p>Other Conditions:</p> <ul> <li>Applicants must not have already been awarded or be currently studying for a doctoral degree</li> <li>Awards must be taken up by 1^st&nbsp;November 2024</li> <li>Applicants must live within a reasonable distance of the University of Leeds whilst in receipt of this scholarship</li> </ul>

<p>For further information please contact the Faculty of Medicine and Health PGR Admissions team<br /> e: <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p>