These are co-funded studentships, normally 50% funded by ISIS and 50% by a university, which contain an element of facility development. For example, the development of equipment, software or experimental processes. Studentships have an ISIS supervisor and a university supervisor who work in partnership throughout the student's project. Over recent years, ISIS has funded around 40 of these studentships across a wide range of topics and university partners. A full list of the studentships supported to-date can be found here.
Applications are now open through the relevant university websites.
2019 ISIS PhD Studentship Opportunities
Title: Flexibility under pressure: a new pressure cell for understanding excitations in barocaloric framework materials (Position Filled)
ISIS Supervisor: Dr Helen Walker
University Supervisor: Dr Anthony Phillips
University: Queen Mary, University of London
Title: Negative muons as a new local probe of novel magnetic oxides (Position Filled)
ISIS Supervisor: Dr Francis Pratt
University Supervisor: Professor Stephen Blundell
University: University of Oxford
Title: Opto-Electronic Control of Magnetism
ISIS Supervisors: Professor Sean Langridge and Dr Andrew Caruana
University Supervisor: Dr Oscar Cespedes
University: University of Leeds
Title: A Solvothermal Reaction Cell for in situ Neutron Scattering of Crystallisation (Position Filled)
ISIS Supervisors: Dr Ron Smith and Helen Playford
University Supervisor: Professor RIchard Walton
University: University of Warwick
Title: Reactions in Deep Eutectic Solvents: Time-resolved studies of structure control via solvent bonding (Position Filled)
ISIS Supervisor: Dr Daniel Bowron
University Supervisor: Professor Karen Edler
University: University of Bath
Title: Graphite and MAX Phases: Examination of Nuclear Materials with Two-dimensional Nanostructures
ISIS Supervisor: Dr Joe Kelleher
University Supervisor: Dr Dong Liu
University: University of Bristol
Title: Understanding chromotropic and spin-crossover materials with combined in-situ Neutron Diffraction and Raman Spectroscopy
ISIS Supervisor: Dr Silvia Capelli
University Supervisor: Dr Richard Jones
University: University of Keele
2019 ISIS-Diamond PhD Studentship Opportunities
Title: Combined modulation excitation neutron and X-ray methods to understand catalytic systems
Diamond Supervisor: Sofia Diaz-Moreno
ISIS Supervisor: Daniel Bowron
University Supervisor: Christopher Hardacre
University: University of Manchester
Title: Revealing the interface structure and chemistry of working battery electrodes
Diamond Supervisors: Dave Grinter, Georg Held
ISIS Supervisor: Jos Cooper
University Supervisor: Robert Weatherup
University: University of Manchester
Title: Soft-templated 3D nanostructured semiconductors
Diamond Supervisors: Nick Terrill, Chris Nicklin
ISIS Supervisor: Diego Alba Venero
University Supervisor: Iris Nandhakumar
University: University of Southampton
ISIS-Faraday Institution Studentship Opportunity
The Faraday Institution and ISIS Neutron & Muon Source will offer a joint studentship at the University of Southampton, on the subject of "In-situ reaction mechanism and material speciation determination in operational batteries". More information will be available when the post is advertised on the Faraday Institution PhD webpage.
ISIS-UK Catalysis Hub Studentship Opportunities
Current studentship opportunities at the UK Catalysis Hub, also on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, can be found on
their studentships webpage.
