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Postgraduate Research Opportunities in Life & Health Sciences

The School of Life & Health Sciences offers an extensive range of exciting research opportunities and our strong research environment ensures PhD students develop expertise in fields that are relevant to today's science practices.

World-leading facilities
Research students are supported by our excellent research laboratories and equipment - these laboratories have been undergoing a multi million pound refurbishment programme since 2006.

Excellent RAE results
The exceptional quality of our research was confirmed in the latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) results – with research in Allied Health Professions and Studies ranked 3rd out of 63 UK higher education institutions, based on quality and quantity of research output.

PhD scholarships for overseas (non-UK/EU) students only

  • Twelve available (six reserved for applicants from India)
  • Not fully funded
  • For full details and entry requirements, click here.

PhD scholarships for home (UK/EU) students only

Aston Research Centre For Healthy Ageing BBSRC Case Studentship

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Our three core areas of Research cover : Biomedical Sciences, Neurosciences and Health Sciences. Please see below for all currently available projects.  They either have £7,000 per year School Overseas Scholarships attached to the Research Projects (as stated in the above Advert) Or for those Home/EU/Overseas Students that are Self Funded or Externally Funded: 

 

  Covers: Chronic Diseases/Communicative Diseases/Molecular & Cell Biology

  Covers: Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience/Neurophysiology & Clinical Neuroimaging/Sensory & Perceptual Systems

  Covers: Health & Lifespan Psychology/ Medicines Research/Ophthalmic Research

  Applicants may also contact our researchers directly with their own relevant research proposals.