BBSRC LIDo DTP 4 year funded studentships in the Faculty of Science, Birkbeck

Three four-year funded studentships are available for new full-time MPhil/PhD students applying to the following programmes in Birkbeck’s Faculty of Science:

• MPhil/PhD Biology
• MPhil/PhD Psychology

These studentships will be part of the BBSRC LIDo DTP and start in September 2024.

Successful applicants will be part of the LIDo DTP and benefit from being part of a large and diverse student cohort, LIDo’s training courses and a funded professional internship during the PhD. The LIDo programme seeks students with a strong interest in interdisciplinary research from a wide range of scientific backgrounds who are interested to study for a PhD in an area within the research remit of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Birkbeck has particular research strengths in structural biology, developmental psychology, brain imaging, mechanisms of infectious diseases, modelling of cognitive processes and bioinformatics, and consequently seeks applicants with an interest in one or more of these areas. We are seeking applicants with interdisciplinary potential, not necessarily specific prior experience and successful LIDo applicants come from a wide range of previous subject backgrounds across biological, physical, computational, psychological and mathematical sciences.

Successful applicants will be based at Birkbeck, and, together with students based at the other LIDo Partners (UCL, KCL, QMUL, RVC, LSHTM, NRI, RHUL), will be a part of one of the largest PhD training cohorts in the United Kingdom. LIDo operates a programme based on taking two distinct rotation projects in Year 1, then towards the end of that year, choosing one of the rotations to continue as a PhD project for the remainder of the four years. The studentships offered are funded by Birkbeck, and students will take their rotation and PhD projects at Birkbeck. All LIDo projects have at least two supervisors from different research areas in order to provide the breadth of experience needed to pursue interdisciplinary projects. Most projects offered at Birkbeck have co-supervisors at other LIDo institutions bringing a wider experience of other research environments to the student.

How to apply

Applications should be made directly to Birkbeck. Prospective applicants should read the LIDo DTP studentship information on our website prior to submitting an application. As the PhD project is not determined until later, applicants should complete the ‘project proposal’ section with their Personal Statement, as per the application guidelines on our website.