Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine

PhD studentships

If you are interested in applying for any of these PhD positions we strongly encourage you to contact the identified project supervisor before or simultaneously with submitting a formal application, so that we can look out for, and if necessary help you with the submission of your application.


Listed are the current studentships available, which are also available via the FindAPhd.com website. Please click on each of the links for further information and how to apply -

BBSRC Scholarships - link via our MVLS Graduate School

  • You are what you eat: Investigating the Interlinked Cycle of Relationships between Host Gut Microbiome, Immune System and Systemic Infection
    Supervisors: Dr Annette MacLeod/Prof Paul Garside/Dr Gill Douce
  • Predicting the ecological determinants of the emergence of zoonotic malaria
    Supervisor: Dr Heather Ferguson/Prof Rowland Kao
  • Effect of early stress on patterns of ageing and senescence in vertebrates
    Supervisor: Prof Neil Metcalfe
  • Emerging Zoonotic Disease Risk in Informal Urban Settlements in Tanzania
    Supervisors: Prof Sarah Cleaveland/Prof Joanne Sharp
  • Development of a novel, non-invasive tool to assess welfare in birds
    Supervisors: Dr Ruedi Nager/Dr Dorothy McKeegan/Dominic Macafferty

Wellcome Trust

A full list of PhD and MRes Scholarships is available through our MVLS Graduate School pages - http://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvls/graduateschool/informationforprospectivestudents/phdandmresscholarships/


Recent Projects - now ended

Ph.D. Research Projects