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China Scholarship Council

 

China Scholarship Council

Queen Mary University of London has partnered with the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to offer a joint scholarship programme to enable Chinese students to study for a PhD programme at Queen Mary.  Under the scheme, Queen Mary will provide scholarships to cover all tuition fees, whilst the CSC will provide living expenses and one return flight ticket to successful applicants.

The School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences is pleased to offer projects under this scheme to start in September 2025. Please see below for the available projects.

Eligibility and Applying

Applicants must:

  • Be applying for CSC funding.
  • Be a citizen and permanent resident of the People’s Republic of China and hold a Chinese passport.
  • Satisfy all eligibility criteria set out by the CSC and must refer to the CSC website for full details.
  • Apply to QMUL by 29th January 2025. Late applications will not be considered.
  • Submit ALL required documentation, including evidence of their English Language ability ahead of the CSC application deadline.

You must meet the IELTS requirements for your course and upload evidence before CSC’s application deadline, ideally by 1st March 2025. You are therefore strongly advised to sit an approved English Language test as soon as possible, where your IELTS test must still be valid when you enrol for the programme.

Please find further details on our English Language requirements page. 

CSC application rules differ slightly for domestic applicants (students applying from China) and overseas applicants (students applying from overseas). Therefore, ALL applicants are advised to see the CSC website for full details on eligibility and conditions on the scholarship. 

Shortlisted applicants will be invited for a formal interview by the supervisor. If you are successful in your QMUL application, then you will be issued an QMUL Offer Letter, conditional on securing a CSC scholarship along with academic conditions still required to meet our entry requirements.

Once applicants have obtained their QMUL Offer Letter, they should then apply to CSC for the scholarship with the support of the supervisor.

Admissions-related queries can be sent to sbbs-pgadmissions@qmul.ac.uk

For further information, please go to the QMUL China Scholarship Council webpage.

Projects

Project title Primary supervisor
Testing the epigenetic warfare beteween eukaryotes and giant viruses Dr Alexandre de Mendoza 
Molecular Mechanism for Initiation of DNA Replication in Bacteria Dr Aravindan Illangovan
Understanding ubiquitin conjugation in immunity and inflammation Dr Ben Stieglitz
Deciphering the function of mTOR-related genes in ageing, cytoarchitecture and metabolism Dr Charalampos Rallis
The evolution and development of the immune system in marine invertebrates through single-cell transcriptomics Dr Chema Martin
Single-cell profiling: Exploring individualism and group behaviour within bacterial populations Dr Christoph Engl
Machine Learning methods fro Astrobiology: Identifying Target Exo-Planets for Upcoming Biosignature Missions Dr Chris Duffy
Thylakoid membrane generation in cyanobacteria Prof Conrad Mullineaux
Chemical Biology and Structure-based approaches to study novel induced-proximity modalities  Dr Elena de Vita
The role of chromatin maintenance in oogenesis and tissue regeneration Dr Elisabeth Busch-Nentwich
Neurocognitive basis of gravity representation Dr Elisabetta Versace
Individual differences in artificial face perception Dr Emma Stewart
Impact of daily activity levels on student mental health: a longitudinal and neuroscience project Dr Frederike Beyer
Visual and auditory integration for spatial representation Dr Guifen Chen
Developing better tools for Biotechnology using photosynthetic bacteria Dr Guy Hanke
Decoding and mapping Earth's species interactions with artificial intelligence  Dr Ian McFadden
Deciphering morphogenesis of early human brain development in health and disease Dr Isabel Palacios
Proteolytic activation of calcium channels: uncovering promising target for channel-directed therapeutics in neuronal and cardiovascular disease Dr Ivan Kadurin
The population consequences of excess fine sediment for Atlantic salmon   Prof John Iwan Jones
Social Groups, Health & Well-being Dr Janelle Jones
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and functioning in older age Dr Jessica Agnew-Blais
Digital technology and adolescent mental health  Dr Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne
Cognition in Insects Prof Lars Chittka
Defensive symbiont dynamics in the biological control of agricultural pests Dr Lee Henry
Characterizing how Misinformation Influences Decision-making: choice heuristics and neural correlates Dr Lucie Charles
Investigating the origins of the co-occurrence of neurodevelopmental and disruptive behaviour disorders in youth Dr Margrherita Malanchini
New processes in a key ecosystem service Prof Mark Trimmer
Understanding the Impact of Artificial Social Agents on Human Behaviour and Society Dr Maria Bada
Developing efficient Bayesian samplers for evolutionary analysis in the Tree of Life Dr Mario dos Reis Barros
Neurpeptide evolution and function: finding the missing links Prof Maurice Elphick
Regulation of E-cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion by the microtubule cytoskeleton Dr Natalia Bulgakova
Dissecting the role of epigenetic mechanisms during honeybee development Dr Paul Hurd
Integrating Trophic Plasticity into Ecological Networks to Improve Climate Change Impact Predictions Dr Pavel Kratina
Sleeping soundly? The impact of white noise as a sleep aid for children's neurocognitive development Prof Rachael Bedford
Digging up the history of infection and symbiosis fossilised in genomic sequence Prof Richard Nichols
Evolution of Sensory Perception Dr Roman Arguello
People-biodiversity interactions: is the fabric of life unravelling?   Dr Samuel Pironon
Molecular adaptations underpinning innate immunity in bats  Prof Stephen Rossiter
Directed Evolution of Photosystem I encyme chimeras for light-driven biocatalysis Dr Tanai Cardona
Exploring persistence of ecological networks in anthropogencially modified landscapes Dr Tom Fayle
Electroencephalographic screening of the brain stimulation efficacy for the treatment of depression Dr Valdas Noreika
Resolving the role of seasonally fluctuating balancing selection in maintaing adaptive genetic diversity in wild butterfly populations Dr Vicencio Oostra
Dissecting the role of MCE proteins for thylakoid membrane lipid homeostasis Dr Vidya Darbari
Uncovering molecular drivers of Chromosomal Instability seen in aggressive cancers Prof Viji Draviam

Sex, drugs, and the lipidome: using 'omics to understand the role of fat during infection

 Dr Vincent
Kinetochore-mediated control of microtubule dynamics reconstituted in vitro  Dr Vladimir Volkov

 

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