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• Please identify a project that is of interest to you on our Studentship projects page.
• Once you have identified a project you can contact the named supervisor to discuss this project further before you apply. Please find further details on how to apply at the bottom of this page.
• Alternatively, you can outline your own research idea. We strongly recommend that you make contact with a ONEPlanet supervisor  or any academic colleague at either institution to discuss this idea before you apply. Please use the studentship code: OP9000 and provide the name of a suggested academic supervisor in your applcation form.
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Physics MPhil, PhD

Newcastle university.

We offer postgraduate research degrees in Physics at the MPhil and PhD level in all our major research areas. Including Emerging Technology Read more...

• 36 months Full time degree: £4,712 per year (UK)
• 72 months Part time degree: £2,356 per year (UK)

Chemistry MPhil, PhD

We have an international reputation in a wide range of fields from catalysis to anticancer drug design and molecular photonics to Read more...

Chemical Engineering MPhil, PhD

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Civil Engineering (Geotechnical and Engineering Geology) MPhil, PhD

At Newcastle University you'll work with academics who are leaders in their field so that your research has a real impact on civil Read more...

Engineering and Science in the Marine Environment Integrated PhD

Join us for an Integrated PhD in Engineering and Science in the Marine Environment. The Integrated PhD involves the study of 100 credits Read more...

• 48 months Full time degree: £4,712 per year (UK)

The range of research topics for our Ageing MPhil, PhD and MD programmes is diverse. They include biology of ageing; age-related diseases; Read more...

Nanoscale Science and Technology PhD

Nanoscale Science and Technology research students in nanoLAB cross the traditional disciplinary boundaries of medicine, engineering and Read more...

Civil Engineering (Water Resources) MPhil, PhD

Newcastle University have a broad range of civil engineering water resource research. It has global consequences and our academics are Read more...

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In Pure Mathematics our two main fields are functional analysis and geometric algebra. In Applied Mathematics our research is predominantly Read more...

Neuroscience PhD

With this course, you'll explore how the mind, brain and body work together. You can then translate this knowledge into clinical Read more...

English Literature MPhil, PhD

The research-led English Literature MPhil and PhD enable you to study a specialist area of literature. Join our thriving School with an Read more...

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Marine Technology MPhil, PhD

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Northern Bridge Consortium offers up to 67 funded doctoral studentships to outstanding applicants across a full range of arts and humanities subjects, including Creative Practice disciplines, and interdisciplinary studies.

We run an annual competition to select the best doctoral candidates and provide a comprehensive package of financial support over the duration of study, which includes:

• Payment of tuition fees at the  UK Research Councils'  Home rate;
• A maintanence award at the UK Research Councils' national rate (currently £17,668 per annum);
• A research training support grant to fund the costs of study abroad, conference attendance and fieldwork; 
• Financial support to participate in the consortium's annual conferences, as well a chance to participate in a comprehensive suite of training activities .
• Financial support for placements and the acquisition of the skills necessary for you to complete your PhD to the highest standards. ‌

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Postgraduate Teaching Assistant

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Salary: You will be paid a stipend of £5,689 per annum as well as your annual salary of £12,933 

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent   benefits . We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date: 09 June 2024  

The Role   We are delighted to open applications for our School of Engineering 2024 Postgraduate Teaching Assistant campaign. This role will open the door to enthusiastic and inspiring individuals who are passionate about an academic career with us. This opportunity brings together experience of teaching whilst working towards a PhD.  Our close ties with industry and government provide us with a real-world focus. Our collaborations with academic experts around the world provide in-depth knowledge and understanding in engineering research.  Our visionary engineering research provides sustainable solutions to global challenges. We explore how to deliver a resilient future that works for everyone.  We are home to 16 research groups. Our research groups align with our five subject specialisms.  We have 4 opportunities across a mix of these specialisms.

This opportunity offers the unique opportunity to undertake PhD studies under the supervision of an academic colleague in the school whilst also gaining teaching experience in a research-intensive school. 

As a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, you will carry out a teaching activity within our programmes and potentially provide support for CPD (Continuing Professional Development), with guidance and support. You will be delivering teaching activities as well as marking coursework and exams, providing timely and effective feedback to students, with a focus on providing a high-quality learning and teaching experience. 

You will be supported to develop your own professional practice.  To view the full job descriptions, please click the following links depending on your specialism:

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We encourage applications from candidates from outside of the UK and can provide an interest-free loan scheme to support you with your UK visa-related costs. You will be eligible to make an application for this loan once you commence employment.

This role is offered on a part time, fixed term basis for a period of 5 years alongside your Postgraduate Research studies.  To support you with your studies, you will be paid a stipend of £5,689 per annum as well as your annual salary of £12,933.

If you are interested in working with us, we would like to invite you to our information event to be held online on   28th May 2024 at 12 noon . Should you wish to register, please email   [email protected] . This event will give you the opportunity to hear more about us and ask any questions. For informal enquiries about the role please contact   [email protected] .

How to apply?

Your first step is to contact a potential supervisor at Newcastle University who can support your research proposal prior to your application. You can find these by clicking   here , by attending our online event or by contacting   [email protected] . If you need any support getting in touch with a potential supervisor, please let us know at   [email protected] .

Once you have done this, please apply for the role online and upload the following documents combined as one in the letter of application field:

• A CV showing your work and education to date.
• A teaching statement describing your teaching experience and how you can apply this experience in the School of Engineering   (Maximum 1 page of A4)
• A research statement describing the research project that you will complete and its anticipated impact   (Maximum 1 page of A4)
• A letter of support from your potential supervisor in the School of Engineering

You will also need to apply for the PhD degree programme separately and we will let you know how to do this if you are selected at the shortlisting stage. Your student fee for this will be waived.

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If you application is selected at the shortlisting stage, we will be inviting you to deliver a teaching presentation, ahead of the interviews.

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At Newcastle University we hold a silver   Athena Swan   award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality.  We also hold a   Race Equality Charter   Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC.  We are a   Disability Confident   employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.

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N.J. Quintuplets Make History as They Graduate from Montclair State University

Graduate Spotlight Times Five: The Povolo quints follow their own paths yet all earn their degrees in four years

Posted in: Business , Education , Homepage News , Humanities and Social Sciences , Science and Technology , University

Update: Since Montclair shared their story on May 6, 2024 the Povolos’ achievements have been shared by media outlets throughout the country. Read more about them in NJ Monthly and People and watch them on ABC News 7 , News 12 New Jersey  and CBS New York.

Being a quintuplet is exceptionally rare. Rarer still is all five attending the same college and graduating on the same day. But that’s what the Povolo quintuplets – Victoria, Ludovico, Ashley, Michael and Marcus – have accomplished at Montclair State University. On Monday, May 13, they will make history at the University’s Commencement when they walk across the platform to receive their degrees one after the other.

The milestone at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, is believed to be the first time quints have simultaneously graduated from a New Jersey higher ed institution, with the Povolos joining just a handful of other multiple siblings in the nation who celebrated their “quintessential” college experience by graduating from the same college in the same academic year.

From Montclair, the Povolos will earn degrees in five different majors:

• Victoria Povolo, Biochemistry; minor Italian
• Ludovico Povolo, Political Science, minor Pre-Law, Business
• Ashley Povolo, English, Teacher Education Program, certification in P-12
• Michael Povolo, Nutrition and Food Science, concentration Dietetics
• Marcus Povolo, Business Administration, concentration International Business

“Montclair helped us be together, but also helped us to become our own people, with our own majors, our own interests, our own friend groups,” Victoria says. “We customized our own paths, but we got to the finish line together.”

The siblings credit their parents, Paolo Povolo, a building engineer for Cushman & Wakefield, and Silvia Povolo, assistant housekeeping supervisor for the University, for encouraging them to follow their dreams and instilling both a strong work ethic and the importance of education.

“The support that they have for us, obviously, there’s a reason why we made it this far,” Victoria says. “Our parents always encourage us to do our best, and the best doesn’t look the same for everyone, which I think is also something we learned growing up and explains why we’re all doing different things.”

Marcus Povolo has landed a job with the financial giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. He’s the only sibling to live on campus, a move he made so that he could easily access the campus train station to commute to Jersey City for work and have a quiet place to study. To stay on track to graduate in four years, he took courses during the summer and winter breaks, asynchronous classes and expedited classes.

“This definitely wasn’t easy, managing full-time school and work,” Marcus says. “There were times where I figured doing one would be a lot easier. I just had to push myself through.”

Victoria plans to take a year off to work and save money for medical school to study forensic medicine. She’s held several undergraduate research positions in Montclair’s science labs , opportunities she shared in the Amazon-series The College Tour . She’s currently researching personality disorders and interning in a morgue.

Michael Povolo, a student athlete, will continue at Montclair next fall to complete a 4+1 program, meaning after five years he will have earned both a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Nutrition. He’s a defensive midfielder on the Red Hawks lacrosse team, interns at an assisted living community, and coaches youth lacrosse.

Ludovico Povolo, a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, is known by his college friends and at the restaurant where he works by his nickname, Vico. Before college he went by his middle name, Masha. His academic interests have also seen changes. While he once saw himself headed to a career in law, a professor pointed out that with his gregarious nature he might want to consider business. He found it a better fit with his evolving interests. He’ll shortly begin work as a sales and marketing representative for Techtronic Industries in northern New Jersey.

Ashley Povolo, a future teacher, is completing her clinical experience as a high school advanced placement English teacher. She works as a University Fellow and studied abroad in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, which she says took her outside the comfort zone of being part of a big family as she navigated the experience on her own. Ashley wrote a poem about how their birth order (Victoria, the oldest, Vico, Ashley, Michael and Marcus, the youngest by minutes) has shaped their lives.

“They’re my best friends,” Ashley says. “We’ve grown up together and literally know everything about each other. So it did hit me the other day that graduation is the last big thing that I’m going to experience with them at the same time.”

The siblings frequently meet on campus for coffee and meals, and share rides to and from school. “I do need that closeness and seeing them all the time and being around them all the time,” Victoria says. “It completes what I need, and the others for sure think the same. We always regroup, no matter how far we’ve been, no matter where we’ve gone, we always come back and regroup.”

The Povolo quintuplets captured the public’s attention when they were born on the Fourth of July, 2002, and dubbed by a local newspaper “Five Little Firecrackers” on their first birthday.

As they’ve grown, the siblings, now 21, say they’ve enjoyed the curiosity that comes with the rarity of being a quint.

“Personally, I love the attention,” says Vico. “I love talking about it. It’s unique and refreshing.”

College graduation promises to put them in the spotlight again. The University, which will hold two Commencements for students based on their college or school, has made accommodations so the Povolos can receive their diplomas together at the morning ceremony on May 13.

“We’ll need a tissue box for my mom,” Michael says. “She’s definitely going to cry.”

Graduation for five, let alone college for five wasn’t a given for the Povolo quintuplets. “I remember our senior year [at Passaic Valley High School],” says Michael. “We were sitting down and asking, ‘What are we going to do for school?’ We talked about community college, jobs and training programs. Each of us wanted very different things in terms of majors. But the one thing we shared was applying to Montclair.”

The University was close enough to their home in Totowa, New Jersey, that the money they saved by commuting might just make college accessible. All five were accepted and Victoria reached out to the University’s financial aid office to ask about scholarships or loans they might qualify for.

“I was very aware of the financial situation of my family,” Victoria says. “If it had been too much, I would have bowed out and just not gone to college because I didn’t want to put that on my parents, and I didn’t want to put that on myself financially.”

But, as Victoria would learn, each of the Povolos qualified for Presidential Scholarships for high-achieving students, and also qualified for need-based grants and small merit scholarships that in total amounted to a tuition-free four years for the family.

At a meeting with high school guidance counselors in February 2020 – supposedly to “explore ways to pay for college” – Montclair staff presented the family with a giant replica check made payable for five higher educations.

Just the week prior, their parents had looked into refinancing their home. “ And then Montclair pulls up and gives us a great deal,” Michael recalls. Times five, the scholarships and financial assistance made what seemed impossible, possible.

“It’s so big we can’t even put words to it,” says their mother, Silvia Povolo, recalling that moment and what it has since meant to the family. “I always sit down with them and say, ‘You had four years of college that came to your table and you had the chance to take it with no cost. Whatever you learned in these four years, it’s a blessing… it’s a key to open a golden door.’”

A few weeks before graduation, they were still deciding how to celebrate but leaning toward a backyard party.

“It’s a gigantic moment for them and for us,” says their father, Paolo. “So basically, we’ve been saying, ‘when one door closes another one opens.’ In the sense that college is coming to an end, we have to think of the future, we have to think of what’s next … and that is in the making.”

Story by Staff Writer Marilyn Joyce Lehren . Photos by University Photographer Mike Peters.

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NEWS • 22 May 2024

Hull confirms importance of Graduate Visa route to Prime Minister

Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dave Petley has signed a letter asking the Prime Minister to accept the findings of the Migration Advisory Committee, leading the way to reaffirm the UK’s position as a leading destination for international students.

The letter has been signed by more than 25 other vice-chancellors from universities in the north of England.

A full copy of the letter and signatories can be found below:

Dear Prime Minister

We write as the Vice-Chancellors of a range of northern universities to urge you to accept the findings of the Migration Advisory Committee which has, in its review of the Graduate Visa Route, recommended that this visa arrangement should be retained in its entirety.

Our universities are integral to the economic resilience of cities and towns who are already grappling with the significant economic disparities between the North and South of England. That North/South structural economic inequality is mitigated by the world class research, tailored support for innovation in local businesses, and valuable routes for local young people, particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds, that our universities across the North provide.

The government’s own International Education Strategy’s vision was explicit in its strategic aim to bolster one of our world-leading export industries - an industry that is larger than the pharmaceutical sector.

Universities from Sunderland to Sheffield, Leeds to Lancaster, Liverpool to Teesside, Bradford to Huddersfield, and York to Newcastle will all be harmed by the removal or reduction of the GR visa. It is an intrinsic part of the educational offer that has made the UK so attractive to brilliant students from all around the world.

The latest analysis from Universities UK (UUK) demonstrates that, since the International Education Strategy launched, “growth in international student recruitment to the UK has delivered a boost of more than £60 billion to the UK’s economy”.

On top of their visa fees, international students who find work and start businesses contribute billions of pounds in income tax, national insurance and VAT annually. They are also usually net contributors to the NHS through the NHS surcharge.

The changes that the government have already introduced - removal of student dependents’ visas and the rising costs of visas - have already had an enormous adverse impact on the numbers of students coming to the UK.

The announcement of the MAC review caused further significant reductions in international students applying for places at UK universities, with students also reporting that they do not feel welcome to study in the UK. This sentiment analysis is reflected in a national downturn in postgraduate international enrolments in January 2024- by more than 40%.

The Graduate Visa Route is regarded by students in key markets like India as an integral part of their educational experience. The MAC review made clear that the removal of this route would make the UK less attractive and thus would cause considerable financial detriment to universities around the country. International student tuition fee income has long cross-subsidised underfunded research and has increasingly become critical to cross-subsidise the teaching of UK undergraduate students because of the frozen tuition fee. Universities cannot continue to absorb the costs of teaching UK undergraduates without some form of alternative funding source.

In the North of England, the international student cohort from the first academic year in this decade (2020/21) alone was worth £7.2billion. Universities are now reporting reductions in applications of as much as 80% in some areas and that reduction in income will have a catastrophic impact on the region’s economy.

That sudden and adverse financial contraction will lead to an inevitable reduction in the capacity of our brilliant Northern Universities in terms of both teaching and research. In turn, this will adversely impact all of our regional economies, stifling skills, innovation and productivity, and choking off the life chances of thousands of young people.

And it is not just innovation in science and technology - STEM subjects - that will be adversely impacted. It will impact badly on social science and the arts and humanities; disciplines that underpin our imagination and analysis of what humans are capable of- enabling us to pursue our greatest ambitions while avoiding potential pitfalls.

Major new opportunities like the advancement of artificial intelligence need anchoring in ethics; our creative industries rely on a powerful mix of new technologies and artistic creativity; the potential of genetic biotechnologies needs balancing with an understanding of what ordinary people think is right and acceptable; and so on..

Access to all of the potential this innovation can bring needs to be available to all parts of our society. Universities of all types - ancient, modern and in-between - open up opportunities to benefit from the innovation we generate. They work hard to offer choices to young people from our more disadvantaged communities, choices that would otherwise not exist.

There is an increasing need for high value skills integral to support the advancement of science, technology and engineering disciplines. Major economic harm to our universities would mean that the UK cannot keep pace with our competitors in providing world class education, putting our economy and prosperity at risk.

Put simply: The UK and the North - including your own constituency - needs these skills and needs international students because of the benefits they bring to the UK economy and to our towns and cities.

Yours sincerely,

Professor Graham Baldwin, Vice-Chancellor, University of Central Lancashire Professor Nic Beech, Vice-Chancellor, University of Salford Professor Sir David Bell, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sunderland Professor Karen Bryan OBE, Vice-Chancellor, York St John University Professor John Cater, Vice-Chancellor, Edge Hill University Professor Shirley Congdon, Vice-Chancellor, University of Bradford Professor Bob Cryan, Vice-Chancellor, University of Huddersfield Professor Paul Croney, OBE, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, Teesside University Professor Chris Day, Vice-Chancellor, University of Newcastle Professor Charles Egbu, Vice-Chancellor, Leeds Trinity University Professor Tim Jones, Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool Professor Charlie Jeffery CBE, Vice-Chancellor, University of York Professor Koen Lamberts, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sheffield Professor Andy Long, Vice-Chancellor & Chief Executive Officer, Northumbria University Professor Sean McNamara FRSA, Principal/Chief Executive Officer, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) Professor Liz Mossop, Vice-Chancellor, Sheffield Hallam University Professor Karen O’Brien, Vice-Chancellor, Durham University Professor Dave Petley, Vice-Chancellor, University of Hull Professor Malcolm Press, CBE, Vice-Chancellor, Manchester Metropolitan University Sara Prowse, Chief Executive, UA92 Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, Vice-Chancellor, University of Manchester Professor Andy Schofield, Vice-Chancellor, University of Lancaster Professor Eunice Simmons, Vice Chancellor, University of Chester Professor Peter Slee, Vice-Chancellor, Leeds Beckett University Professor Tim Stewart, Vice-Chancellor, BPP University Professor Joe Wilson, Vice-Chancellor, Leeds Conservatoire Professor Simone Wonnacott, Vice-Chancellor, Leeds Arts University Professor Hai-Sui Yu FREng, Vice-Chancellor, University of Leeds

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