I am currently seeking grad students and post-docs to come join my lab at LJMU. I don’t currently have specifically funded positions, but if you want to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship, or self-fund a PhD I’m happy to chat with you about options.
Post-Docs
I’m not currently advertising any funded post-doc positions. However, I’m always happy to chat about potential fellowship applications, so feel free to get in touch. Possible funding sources are listed below.
PhD/MPhil
I do not currently have any funded post-grad positions. However, if you can secure your own funding/wish to self-fund, I would be happy to discuss taking you on for a project of your own design. This may involve securing funding from an external source, or self-funding, and perhaps undertaking your studies part-time (this is not ideal but is an option. If you want to pursue this avenue, you will need to demonstrate you will be able to balance studies and work).
The Commonwealth scholarships are a great source of funding for students from Commonwealth countries: http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply/phd-scholarships-high-income-countries/
The UK government now offers Doctoral loans, which are paid back directly out of salary only when earning above a certain threshold. Follow this link to find out more: https://www.gov.uk/doctoral-loan.
Post-doc funding sources.
Dieter Lukas has put together a comprehensive list of global post-doc fellowship sources, which you can view at this link. Below are some of the UK fellowships I’m more familiar with:
- Marie Curie fellowships (I had one of these – it was excellent!)
- Human Frontiers Science Programme
- Newton International fellowships
- NERC Fellowships
- Royal Society Fellowships
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
- BBSRC Discovery Fellowship
- BBSRC Returners to Research Fellowship (If you’ve been out of research for 2+ years for family/caring reasons)
- 1851 Fellowship – more engineering oriented, but can be applicable to many of the methods used in my lab.
Prof. Peter L. Falkingham 