Employment opportunities
Additional employment opportunities within the University are available to view through the central online job search pages.
ASPIRE - Accrediting Staff Professionalism in Research-Led Education
Staff within the college are actively encouraged to gain fellowships through the ASPIRE scheme. It is a framework for developing and accrediting staff who teach and support students’ learning in our research-led environment. Accredited by the Higher Education Academy it offers you the opportunity to gain both a University of Exeter ASPIRE Fellowship and the correlating HEA Fellowship at one of four levels: Associate: Fellow; Senior Fellow or Principal Fellow.
For further information about the scheme, please see the University's ASPIRE web pages.
Postgraduate research studentships
Postgraduate research funding opportunities are highlighted below. Each award title links through to further information on the research project, eligibility criteria and how to apply.
| Award | Value | Application deadline | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBSRC PhD studentship: When the drugs don’t work: slowing the evolution of drug-resistance in fungal killers | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Thu 27th Jun 2013 | We are looking to recruit a highly-motivated and dedicated student with a real interest in applying evolutionary biology to antimicrobial resistance and we are inviting applications for this BBSRC-funded PhD studentship to commence September 2013. |
| Anning Morgan Bursary | £1000 | Fri 28th Jun 2013 | An award of £1000 which may be renewed for a second year subject to satisfactory progress. The award is restricted to any person or dependant resident in the Duchy of Cornwall prior to or during their graduate studies. |
| Cornwall Heritage Trust Bursary | £1000 | Fri 28th Jun 2013 | A one year award of up to £1000 for one or more graduate students producing dissertations/theses centred on any aspect of Cornwall's heritage and who will be registered from October of the coming academic year. |
| Engineering PhD Studentship in Water Management: Urban Water Management | Three-year studentship: Tuition fees (UK/EU) and annual maintenance allowance at current research council rate. International students can apply and pay the difference | Sun 30th Jun 2013 | ThIS exciting project focuses on the general area of Water Engineering including, but not limited to, water infrastructure, water distribution systems, water resources management / asset management and application of optimisation in water engineering |
| Mathematics PhD Studentship in weather and climate science: Efficient data assimilation to correct non-Gaussian forecast errors in numerical weather prediction | Three-and-a-half Year Studentship: Tuition fees (UK/EU) and an annual maintenance allowance at current research council rate. | Mon 1st Jul 2013 | This project aims to investigate how non-Gaussian forecast errors can be better handled in variational data assimilation. More specifically, it aims to improve the assimilation of visibility data in numerical weather prediction and help implement better t |
| Physics/Engineering PhD Studentship in Functional Materials/Photonics: Photonic structures using renewable nanomaterials | Three year studentship: Tuition fees UK/EU and/or International and an annual maintenance allowance at current research council rate | Mon 1st Jul 2013 | This exciting project investigates the use of polysaccharide-based nanofibres for the generation of photonic structures that mimic materials seen in biology. |
| Applied Mathematics PhD Studentship in Climate-Carbon Cycle Research: Constraining future land carbon cycle feedbacks with in situ and EO observations using ADJULES | 3.5-year studentship: University fees and an annual stipend of £13726 (for academic year 2013/14). International students can apply and pay the difference | Fri 19th Jul 2013 | This exciting PhD aims to utilise objective calibration of the JULES land-surface scheme against in situ and Earth Observation data using the adjoint of JULES (ADJULES) - as developed within the NCEO programme at the University of Exeter. |
| Engineering PhD Studentship in Vibration Control of Civil Structures: Vibration Control of Civil Engineering Structures Under Human Loading | Three-year studentship: Tuition fees (UK/EU) and an annual maintenance allowance at current research council rate | Fri 19th Jul 2013 | This studentship is part of a wider programme of research into advanced technologies for mitigation of human-induced vibrations, including active, semi-active and hybrid vibration control. |
| Mathematics PhD Studentship in Dynamical Systems: Early-warning signals for tipping points | Three-year studentship: Tuition fees and an annual maintenance allowance at current research council rate. | Deadline passed (Thu 15th Nov 2012) |
This exciting project studies what happens to early-warning indicators for tipping, which is an obstacle to long-term predictions, when the drifting is faster, violating the quasi-equilibrium assumption. |
| PhD Studentship in Mathematical Biology: Development of mathematical and/or computational aspects of the autowave theory | Three-year studentship: Tuition fees and an annual maintenance allowance at current research council rate. | Deadline passed (Thu 15th Nov 2012) |
This exciting project relates to the development of mathematical and/or computational aspects of the autowave theory, with a view to applications in mathematical biology. |
| Leverhulme Trust PhD studentship: How Insects Learn: The Fixed and Variable Components of Bumblebee Learning Flights | £13,590 plus Home tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Mon 3rd Dec 2012) |
We are inviting applications for this Leverhulme Trust funded PhD studentship to start in January 2013 or soon after. |
| PhD Studentship in Clean Technologies: Investigation into clean technologies to develop methods of integration and management of multiple linked systems in the built environment | Three year studentship: Tuition fees [UK/EU] and an annual maintenance allowance at rate of £15,000 per annum | Deadline passed (Wed 5th Dec 2012) |
This exciting collaborative project aims to implement study on social-economic integration of clean technology into the South Devon region. |
| Mathematics PhD studentship in Plant Systems Biology | Four year studentship: Tuition fees UK/EU and an annual maintenance allowance at current research council rate | Deadline passed (Mon 14th Jan 2013) |
This exciting new research project will simplify existing ordinary differential equation models of seasonal sensing systems in plants into Boolean formulations |
| Funded PhD opportunities in Astrophysics | £13,500 | Deadline passed (Fri 18th Jan 2013) |
There are up to six fully funded PhD studentships available through a wide range of projects within Astrophysics research, studying star formation and extra-solar planets. |
| EPSRC funded PhD studentships in Mathematics | 3.5 year studentship: Tuition fees (UK/EU students only) and an annual maintenance allowance of £13,590 (UK students only). | Deadline passed (Fri 1st Feb 2013) |
This exciting new research project can be in any area of applied mathematics, pure mathematics or statistics that is a topic of research at the University of Exeter. |
| NERC PhD studentship: Accounting for major nutrient limitations when simulating Amazon rainforest dynamics | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Thu 21st Feb 2013) |
This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding. Supervisors: Dr Lina Mercado and Dr Iain Hartley |
| NERC PhD studentship: Developing new methodologies to assess carbonate production rates in Indo-Pacific reef and lagoon environments | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Thu 21st Feb 2013) |
This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding. Supervisor: Professor Chris Perry. |
| NERC PhD studentship: Fire, Atmospheric Oxygen and Ocean Anoxia | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Thu 21st Feb 2013) |
This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding. Supervisors: Dr Claire M. Belcher, Prof. Timothy M. Lenton, Prof. Stephen P. Hesselbo (external) |
| NERC PhD studentship: Glacial Lake Outburst Floods and climate change | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Thu 21st Feb 2013) |
This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding. Supervisors: Stephan Harrison and Richard Betts. |
| NERC PhD studentship: Large-scale dynamics of black carbon in tropical river basins in South America | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Thu 21st Feb 2013) |
This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding. Supervisors: Timothy Quine, Stephen Sitch and Luiz Aragao |
| NERC PhD studentship: Reconstruction of an Eemian landscape in Southern Spain: a palaeo-environmental and geomorphological perspective. | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Thu 21st Feb 2013) |
This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding. Supervisors: Dr Liam Reinhardt, Dr Richard Jones and Professor Chris Turney. |
| NERC PhD studentship: STELAR Mekong River Project with International Impact | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Thu 21st Feb 2013) |
This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding. Supervisors: Rolf Aalto and Andrew Nicholas |
| NERC PhD studentship: Understanding river responses to environmental change | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Thu 21st Feb 2013) |
This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding. Supervisors: Andrew Nicholas and Rolf Aalto |
| BBSRC SWDTP studentship: Increasing food security through re-engineering gene regulatory networks in the wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola. | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Tue 2nd Apr 2013) |
Supervisors: Prof Ken Haynes & Prof Declan Bates. This project has been shortlisted for funding by the BBSRC South West Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP), a collaboration between the Universities of Exeter, Bristol, Bath and Rothamsted Research institut |
| Mathematics PhD Studentship: Mathematical modelling of cardiac rhythms in health and disease | Three-year studentship: Tuition fees (UK/EU) and an annual maintenance allowance at current research council rate. This funding is only open to EU Nationals; however international students may apply and pay the difference. | Deadline passed (Fri 5th Apr 2013) |
This project will work at the interface between mathematics and medicine to develop mathematical models which identify how the electrical waveforms of the heart become disrupted as a result of cardiac disease |
| Systems Medicine PhD competition: A systems medicine approach to understand the process of insulitis in human type 1 diabetes | Tuition fees [UK/EU] and an annual maintenance allowance at current research council rate for this three year studentship. This funding is only open to EU Nationals; however international students may apply and pay the difference. | Deadline passed (Mon 8th Apr 2013) |
This exciting project offers training in an interesting combination of fields in systems biology and translational medicine relevant to the process of insulitis in human type 1 diabetes. |
| Systems Medicine PhD competition: A systems-level physiological investigation of electro-plasticity in hypothalamic neurones regulating salt and water balance | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Mon 8th Apr 2013) |
Applications are invited for three funded PhD studentships to commence September 2013. These PhDs are being funded to strengthen the rapidly growing area of Systems Medicine at the University of Exeter. This project is one of nine projects that are in com |
| Systems Medicine PhD competition: Developing a systematic understanding of tissue oxygenation using mathematical modelling and computer simulation | Tuition fees [UK/EU] and an annual maintenance allowance at current research council rate for this three year studentship. This funding is only open to EU Nationals; however international students may apply and pay the difference. | Deadline passed (Mon 8th Apr 2013) |
Outstanding candidates encouraged to apply to join this exciting and rapidly expanding programme of internationally rated research, developing a systematic understanding of tissue oxygenation using mathematical modelling and computer simulation. |
| Systems Medicine PhD competition: Development of an integrated model of dementia using a systems approach | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Mon 8th Apr 2013) |
Applications are invited for three funded PhDs in Systems Medicine to commence in September 2013. This project is one of nine that are in competition for funding. Supervisors: Dr David Llewellyn and Professor Declan Bates |
| Systems Medicine PhD competition: Dynamic regulation of the fear response | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Mon 8th Apr 2013) |
Applications are invited for three funded PhD studentships to commence September 2013. This project is one of nine projects that is in competition for funding. Main supervisors Professors Robert Pawlak and John Terry |
| Systems Medicine PhD competition: Seizure generation: The role of nodes and networks | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible candidates | Deadline passed (Mon 8th Apr 2013) |
Applications are invited for three funded PhD studentships to commence September 2013. This project is one of nine projects that are in competition for funding. Main supervisors: Dr Jon Brown and Prof John Terry |
| Systems Medicine PhD competition: Systems Genomics of Human Ageing and related diseases | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Mon 8th Apr 2013) |
Applications are invited for three funded PhD studentships to commence in September 2013. This project is one of nine projects that is in competition for funding. These PhDs are being funded to strengthen the rapidly growing area of Systems Medicine |
| Systems Medicine PhD studentship: Host xenobiotic metabolism effects antibiotic efficacy in an MRSA infection | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Mon 8th Apr 2013) |
We are inviting applications for three funded PhD studentships to commence September 2013. These PhDs are being funded to strengthen the rapidly growing area of Systems Medicine at the University of Exeter. |
| Systems Medicine PhD studentship: Mathematical modeling of human ageing and disease | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees for eligible students | Deadline passed (Mon 8th Apr 2013) |
We are inviting applications for three funded PhD studentships to commence September 2013. These PhDs are being funded to strengthen the rapidly growing area of Systems Medicine at the University of Exeter. |
| Engineering PhD Studentship in Renewable Energy: Life cycle analysis model for bioenergy in the UK | Three-year studentship: Tuition fees (UK/EU/International) and an annual maintenance allowance at current research council rate. | Deadline passed (Fri 19th Apr 2013) |
This interdisciplinary project focuses on developing a spatially and temporally explicit Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) model for bioenergy in the UK. |
| BBSRC CASE PhD: Selection for antibiotic resistance in the aquatic environment: novel assays to determine effect concentrations of micropollutants | £13,726 with a CASE enhancement of approximately £4,000 plus UK/EU tuition fees | Deadline passed (Sat 20th Apr 2013) |
BBSRC CASE studentship with Astra Zeneca jointly supervised by Dr Will Gaze (Exeter) and Dr Jason Snape and Dr. Becky Brown (AstraZeneca). |
| PhD Studentship in Systems and Synthetic Biology: BBSRC sLoLa project on “Engineering synthetic microbial communities for biomethane production”. | Four year studentship: Tuition fees UK/EU and an annual maintenance allowance at current research council rate. This funding is only open to EU Nationals; however international students may apply and pay the difference. | Deadline passed (Fri 26th Apr 2013) |
This exciting new research project employs both top-down (directed evolution) and bottom-up (synthetic biology) engineering of biomethane producing microbial communities with improved functionality. |
| PhD Studentship in Water Management: Examining the role of water users in a Safe and SuRe water future | Three-year studentship: Tuition fees (UK/EU and International ) and an annual maintenance allowance at current research council rate. | Deadline passed (Tue 30th Apr 2013) |
This PhD will be focused on the interface of the social and technical aspects of the new Sustainable and Resilient urban water management paradigm in the ‘SuRe living’ work package |
| PhD studentship - Assessment of wellbeing in the general population and in individuals with chronic conditions | £13,726 plus UK/EU tuition fees | Deadline passed (Fri 24th May 2013) |
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in health economics research at the University of Exeter Medical School (UEMS). We are seeking a PhD candidate of outstanding ability to join the rapidly expanding Health Economics Group at UEMS |
| EngD Studentship in Water Engineering: Effective use of short range weather forecasting in sewer network operations | Four-year studentship: Tuition fees (UK/EU) and a a tax free enhanced stipend of £19,000 per year in the first two years and £20,000 per year in the last two years. | Deadline passed (Fri 31st May 2013) |
The project aims to develop an early warning and decision support tool for sewer flood management in the sewer network using the Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts (QPFs) provided by the Met Office. |
| EngD Studentship in Water Engineering: Real-time Discolouration Risk Management | Four-year studentship: Tuition fees and an enhanced tax-free stipend of approximately £19,000 p.a. in the first two years and approximately £20,000 p.a. in the last two years. | Deadline passed (Fri 31st May 2013) |
This exciting research project will develop data assimilation based methodology for improved real-time discolouration risk prediction in water distribution systems. |
| Mathematics PhD Studentship in Renewable Energy systems: Life cycle analysis models for Wave Energy Converters | Three-and-a-half year studentship: Tuition fees [UK/EU] and an annual maintenance allowance at current Research Council rate | Deadline passed (Fri 31st May 2013) |
This interdisciplinary project will present the opportunity to work with and develop new electro-mechanical models for different WEC technologies which, in combination with other factors, will form the basis for a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) model for the c |
| Physics PhD Studentship in Acoustic Metamaterials: Manipulating Sound with Acoustic Metamaterials. | Three year studentship: Tuition fees [UK/EU] and an annual maintenance allowance at current Research Council rate | Deadline passed (Fri 31st May 2013) |
This exciting project seeks to address how a metamaterial approach can be applied to the design of thin and lightweight acoustic attenuators, absorbers, imaging devices and other acoustic devices. |
| NERC CASE PhD studentship - Impact of sediment/water interactions on the microbiological quality of shellfish and bathing waters, a regulatory and public health perspective | £13,726 pa plus a CASE enhancement of £1000 pa plus UK/EU tuition fees | Deadline passed (Mon 3rd Jun 2013) |
This will be based at The European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, located at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro and the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the Tremough Campus (near Falmouth). The p |
