Calling the world’s best engineers and scientists
09 Mar 2011
The University of Manchester is offering 10 fully funded PhD Studentships to the most outstanding engineers and physical scientists.
Starting in September this year, the courses offer students the chance to study at one of the leading research universities in the United Kingdom.
The PhD Studentships are within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS) – one of the largest research faculties in the country.
The Faculty expects to recruit around 550 research students this year and will be awarding these studentships to the 10 most outstanding applicants.
Each studentship is open to UK, EU and international students, and covers full fees as well as living expenses of £14,000 per annum.
The University of Manchester is ranked third in the UK for research power in the Government's Research Assessment exercise.
The Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities – considered the most accurate for research by the university sector – ranks the University as 5th in the UK and 44th in the world.
A total of 25 Nobel Prize winners have worked with the University, most recently Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010.
EPS Associate Dean for Graduate Education, Professor Jim Miles, said: “The Faculty offers an outstanding environment for research.
“PhD students work with world-leading researchers tackling fundamental problems from biofuels to the structure of the universe.
“These studentships offer an unrivalled opportunity for excellent students to be part of a world-leading research environment with a wide range of research skills training, as well as cutting-edge technical and theoretical expertise.”
Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research is strongly encouraged by the Faculty, with Centres for Doctoral Training in Advanced Metallic Systems, Nanoscience, Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Fission, and Sustainable Consumption and Systems Biology.
The Faculty has nine schools – Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials, Mathematics, Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy.
The studentships, which have been made possible as a result of the Faculty’s research success, are open to any area of research for PhD programmes starting in September 2011.
The deadline for full applications will be Friday 1st April 2011.
To contact us or find out how to apply, visit www.eps.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/studentships/.
For information about other studentships, scholarships and bursaries see our funding pages.