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Opportunities

Birmingham Chemistry Scholarships 2025

Applications are now open for the Birmingham Chemistry Scholarships 2025.

Each fully funded scholarship is for 3.5 years full-time study and covers academic fees and a maintenance grant in line with the UK Research Innovation rate. These scholarships are primarily for students eligible to pay Home/UK tuition fees. However, exceptional overseas students may be supported.

  1. Applicants should send Hamish their CV and a cover letter, including a “Person and Preparedness statement” (max 2000 characters), by 12:00 Friday 31 January. In this statement, you may wish to consider your academic history, skills and expertise, professional experience and awards or publications. Additionally, you should indicate in this statement that you wish to work with Dr Hamish Yeung within the School of Chemistry and why. Specific details around a research project is not to be included.
  2. Applicants should also apply for the PhD School of Chemistry programme through the Course Finder section of the University of Birmingham website. Please ensure that your referees have submitted their references by midnight 3rd February.

Awards will be allocated based on academic excellence; normally students will expect to have (or hold) a first-class honors degree (or equivalent). Candidates will be shortlisted based on the information provided in the application process (see below) and invited for interview. Successful candidates will be expected to start by 1 October 2025.

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PhD studentship available Oct 2022

We are excited to offer a PhD studentship to start in October 2022, on a project joint with scientists at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility. Please note that funding for fees is available for home (UK) students only and this re-advertised position will close as soon as a suitable candidate is found.

Recently, MOFs with hierarchical structure–on multiple length scales–have been created that give rise to unprecedented properties and emergent phenomena, such as structural colour. This project will develop the necessary protocols and expertise to perform and analyse tandem in-situ X-ray scattering experiments across beamlines I22 and I15-1 at Diamond, to probe the key length scales and timescales involved in hierarchical MOF formation. 

The student will spend time at Birmingham and Diamond, co-supervised by leading experts in small-angle scattering and total scattering measurements, Dr Andy Smith and Dr Phil Chater, respectively. They will have an allowance up to £3000 per year for conferences, training and travel, and will receive additional training in transferable skills such as Python, scientific writing and presentations.

For more details and to apply see FindAPhD.