De Montfort University PhD Scholarships

Applications to scholarships for the 2023/24 academic year have now closed.

Please contact PGRscholarships@dmu.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Midlands4Cities

The AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M4C) brings together eight leading
universities across the Midlands to support the professional and personal development of the next
generation of arts and humanities doctoral researchers. M4C is a collaboration between the University of
Birmingham, Birmingham City University, University of Warwick, Coventry University, University of Leicester,
De Montfort University, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham.

Offering you cross-institutional supervision, training, mentoring and career support to ensure that you
produce world-leading research and maximise your career potential. The Doctoral Training Partnerships
awards IRO 80 PhD Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) studentships applicants each year.

Through the partnership we aim to deliver excellence in all aspects of research supervision and training. We
will assist you in acquiring the best supervision for your field of research, you will have access to a wide
range of facilities and support networks across our campuses.

See further information on the application process.

Two fully funded PhD studentships

Applications are invited for fully funded PhD Scholarships on the research project of “Multiscale Modelling of
Drug Release from Tablets”. Immediate release (IR) tablets manufactured via direct compression are the
most popular oral solid dosage forms to deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to patients. In order
to absorb the drug molecules, the tablet needs to be disintegrated in the gastrointestinal tract to release the
API crystals for dissolution. In vitro dissolution testing plays a vital role throughout the IR tablet product
development life-cycle, aiming to probe API release profile to inform selection of formulation candidates and
identify the impact of variants of the formulation and/or manufacturing processes on in vivo performance.
Current compendial dissolution tests can neither reflect the actual conditions of the gastrointestinal tract of
a patient nor are they suitable to predict the drug release performance in vivo. The best way to achieve this is
to model the tablet drug release profile based upon a thorough understanding of the underlying physics.

DMU is offering a fully-funded 3-year PhD scholarship for this work, commencing on 1 April 2024.
Applications are open to UK and international students, i.e., tuition fees at Home or International level will be
waived. The studentship comes with a stipend pegged at the UKRI rate, currently at £18,622 per annum.
Lead Supervisor is Professor Mingzhong Li, Professor of Crystallisation Science & Drug Delivery, Leicester
School of Pharmacy. Email: mli@dmu.ac.uk.

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Studentship 1: Development of Tablet Disintegration Model

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Studentship 2: Development of Faceted Crystal Dissolution Model

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Funding and how to apply

Alumni discounts

De Montfort University offers alumni discounts for students that have previously studied with us at
undergraduate or taught masters degree level. This discount is available to Home and International
Students. This discount is only available to new starters and will be automatically applied if you are eligible.

Home alumni discount is £500 per year (full-time equivalent).

International alumni discount is £2,000 per year (full-time equivalent).

Additional funding opportunities

Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship

Commonwealth Scholarships

Amelia Earhart Fellowship

Education Loans | Leicestershire | The Sir Thomas White Loan Charity

The Harry James Riddleston Charity

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