Studentship Opportunities for 2024 Entry

The Bloomsbury Colleges Consortium are identifying and pursuing opportunities for academic and administrative collaboration.

Nine 3-year PhD studentships are available for intercollegiate research collaborations to start in October 2024. These studentships entail collaboration between at least two Bloomsbury Colleges, and each participating College will be the lead (i.e. principal supervisor and registration base for the students). 

For all colleges, the studentships will cover fees at the home rate and maintenance at the level recommended by the Research Councils. International applicants should contact the supervisor and administrative contact for the lead institution, for further information on their institutional policy.  All studentships will be managed in line with the current good practices of all member Colleges.

Individual submission deadline for projects vary. Further details of this cycle’s timeline are available here.

Follow the links below for details of the proposals, supervisory arrangements and how to apply. The proposals are arranged by lead institution.

• Difference and Universality: Cultural Appropriateness and Food Security in the London Borough of Wandsworth (Birkbeck/IOE)
• Nurturing Empathy: how do we learn to care for others? (Birkbeck/IOE)
• Associations between mental health, sleep, behaviour and academic development in children with Down Syndrome (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society/Birkbeck)
• Family-Staff Communication in the ICU (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society/Birkbeck)
• The health and environmental co-benefits of linking sustainable diets with sustainable production systems in the UK (LSHTM/RVC)
• Understanding the complex interrelationships between crises and corrupt practices in the health systems(LSHTM/SOAS)
• What is the role of pathogen genetic diversity in bovine tuberculosis?  (RVC/LSHTM)
• WASH, AMR and Environmental Justice: Addressing the Challenges in the Global South (SOAS/LSHTM)
• Land grabbing in South-East Asia: the effects of the EU market and biodiversity and forest strategies (SOAS/Birkbeck)