These co-funded studentships, normally 50% funded by ISIS and 50% by a university, contain an element of facility development - for example 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 50 of these studentships across a wide range of topics and university partners. A full list of the studentships supported to-date can be found below.
ISIS Facility Development Studentships Awarded to 2022.pdf
Applications are now open through the relevant university websites.
Case studies of previous and current ISIS facility development students and their work are available by clicking the names below:
Harry Lane, Anna Herlihy, Matilda Rhodes, Richard Waite, Ranggi Ramadhan, Ralf Ziesche
ISIS PhD Studentship Opportunities
Laying deep foundations for operando muon spectroscopy experiments of ionic diffusion at ISIS
ISIS Supervisor: Peter Baker
External Supervisors: Professor Serena Cussen and Dr Innes McClelland, University of Sheffield
Apply on the Find a PhD website.
Investigating the structure of extracellular vesicles and budded virus in baculovirus replication
ISIS Supervisor: Najet Mahmoudi
External Supervisor: Prof Linda King, Brookes University and Dr Adam Chambers, OET Ltd
Apply on the Investigating the structure of extracellular vesicles and budded virus in baculovirus replication at Oxford Brookes University on FindAPhD.com
Measuring the elastic properties of single-crystal and composite materials
ISIS Supervisor: Dominic Fortes
External Supervisor: Dr Simon Hunt, Unievrsity of Manchester
Apply on the Find a PhD website.
Art, soft matter and SANS: combining optical coherence tomography and scattering methods for art conservation applications
ISIS Supervisors: Antonella Scherillo and Najet Mahmoudi
External Supervisors: Associate Professor Lucas Goehring and Professor Haida Liang (Nottingham Trent University)
Apply on the Find a PhD website.
Online Structural Investigations of Advanced Porous Materials for A Net Zero Future
ISIS Supervisor: Pascal Manuel
External Supervisors: Professors Sihai Yang and Martin Schroder, University of Manchester
Apply on the Find a PhD website
Simultaneous wide and small angle operando neutron total scattering to probe electrolyte ordering in supercapcitors
ISIS Supervisor: Tom Headen
External Supervisor: Dr Chris Howard, University College London, as part of the CDT in Advanced Characterisation of Materials
Apply on the CDT-ACM website.