Studentship Opportunities for 2026 Entry

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

• Taking a Developmental Approach to Interoception: Measurement and Psychological Correlates Across Early Childhood (Birkbeck/IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society)
• Pandemic Afterlives: Creative Intervention And Cultural Preparedness (Birkbeck/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
• Using Machine Learning to Understand Coercive Control (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/Birkbeck)
• Mapping The Ultrastructural Topology of Septin Cage Entrapment (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/Birkbeck)
• When Should Pets Die? Mapping changing expectations around end-of-life care in UK veterinary practice (Royal Veterinary College/Birkbeck)
• Investigating the impact of heterogeneity in contact rates and lifespan on virus transmission and persistence in natural populations (Royal Veterinary College/LSHTM/ICL)
• Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives (SOAS/Birkbeck)
• Impact of Corporate Concentration on Poultry Smallholder Farmer Livelihoods (SOAS/Royal Veterinary College)
• Untangling genetic and environmental pathways to language and reading development: Integrating social and genetic data from longitudinal cohort studies (UCL/Birkbeck)
• Drugs, Civil Rights and the Alternative Society: A History of Release – The Bloomsbury Colleges (UCL/LSHTM)