REGISTER YOUR INTEREST Applicants for Melbourne and Manchester jointly awarded/dual PhD projects should: Identify a project of interest Register their interest via an email to the project supervisor based at the University of Melbourne, including the following information: Name, contact details Joint PhD project of interest Cover Letter, CV and Transcript Any supporting documentation Note, all applicants are required to meet the …

This PhD project will be based at the University of Melbourne with a 12 month stay at University of Manchester. Project Description: Melanoma is the cause of most skin cancer deaths worldwide. While surgery and adjuvant therapies are the mainstay of treatment in early melanoma, many patients relapse following treatment, as well as experience profound side effects from therapy. There is a …

This PhD project will be based at the University of Melbourne with a 12 month stay at University of Manchester. Project Description: The University of Melbourne is seeking applicants for a full time PhD scholarship, in conjunction with the University of Manchester. This unique opportunity will allow the successful applicant international travel and collaboration opportunities in a reciprocal program facilitating a parallel …

This PhD project is based at the University of Manchester with a 12 month stay at University of Melbourne. Project Description: Critical examination of practices of cleanliness, hygiene, and sanitation is vital for advancing human and environmental health. This PhD project aims to understand how these practices (care for self, others, clothes, things, homes) constantly shifts in response to global changes (e.g. …

This PhD project is based at the University of Melbourne with a 12 month stay at University of Manchester. Project Description: The PhD project examines the changing urban water profiles of Beijing and Tianjin, following the construction of the South-North Water Transfer Project, and explore the possible emergence of a water-abundant urbanism in places long defined by water scarcity. Grounded conceptually in …

This PhD project is based at the University of Manchester with a 12 month stay at University of Melbourne. Project Description: The deterioration of the relationship between the US and China accelerated during the Covid-19 pandemic, and according to some commentators it heralds a ‘new Cold War.’ Indeed, the Financial Times recently launched a New Cold War Series. The ‘new’ Cold War …

This PhD project is based at the University of Melbourne with a 12 month stay at University of Manchester. Project Description: The deterioration of the relationship between the US and China accelerated during the Covid-19 pandemic, and according to some commentators it heralds a ‘new Cold War.’ Indeed, the Financial Times recently launched a New Cold War Series. The ‘new’ Cold War …

This PhD project is based at the University of Manchester with a 12 month stay at the University of Melbourne. Project Description: Shallow convective clouds are commonly observed over mid- and high-latitude oceans and have well been documented for their distinctive morphology. However, little is known about the properties of these clouds. Knowledge on any hemispheric contrast in these systems is even …

This PhD project is based at the University of Melbourne with a 12 month stay at University of Manchester. Project Description: The best constructions of the Earth's climate continue to be challenged by large errors in the energy budget over high-latitude oceans, with large biases in precipitation estimates directly contributing to these errors. A poorly represented energy budget not only limits the …

This PhD project is based at the University of Manchester with a 12 month stay at University of Melbourne. Project Description: Graphene, the monolayer carbon first isolated in Manchester, has a unique combination of many superlative properties that makes it an ideal batter electrode material. Briefly, graphene possesses high strength combined with flexibility, high electrical conductivity, high thermal conductivity and high specific …

This PhD project is based at the University of Melbourne with a 12 month stay at University of Manchester. Project Description: Energy is all around us but not all is currently harvested. With an increasing emergence of always-on, portable, wearable and implantable electronic devices, it is of great importance to investigate the viability of sustainable energy harvesting technologies. Materials which generate electricity …

This PhD project is based at the University of Manchester with a 12 month stay at University of Melbourne. Project Description: Management of resected early stage melanoma remains a challenge. For these patients, individual recurrence risk is low with >75% of patients alive at 10 years. However, these patients account for ~50% of people who subsequently develop metastases and die. It is …

This PhD project will be based at the University of Manchester with a 12 month stay at University of Melbourne. Project Description: The University of Manchester is seeking applicants for a full time PhD scholarship, in conjunction with the University of Melbourne. This unique opportunity will allow the successful applicant international travel and collaboration opportunities in a reciprocal program facilitating a parallel …

The creative economy encompasses advertising, architecture, the arts and antiques market, crafts, design, designer fashion, film, interactive leisure software, music, performing arts, publishing, software, television, and radio. The creative economy presupposes entrepreneurial success, and it has become common-place to talk about “market validation,” “customer development”, and “pivots” among creative economy entrepreneurs—suggesting that a market orientation focus yields superior outcomes (such …

Malaria remains one of the most important diseases in the world, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and significant morbidity and suffering in many millions of people, each year. CD4+ T cells are essential for control of malaria, through helping macrophages kill parasites and promoting antibody production. However, it is well known that CD4+ T cell effector responses become …

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1.5°C report of 2018 assesses the impact of global warming, necessitating immediate action for countries to decarbonize. While research has focused on sustainable strategies in the design and construction of environmentally responsive buildings and quantifying the extent of carbon emissions from construction materials, there is a knowledge gap in the extent to which …

The objective in this exciting cross-disciplinary project is to investigate the potential of a bio-inspired coating of flexible devices to passively modify energetic modes of an unsteady crossflow and to assess, for the first time, the role of colour in determining mechanical properties. We seek an exceptional candidate with a strong first degree in physics, maths, engineering or bioengineering. The …

Antibiotics are medicines used to prevent and treat bacterial infections. Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria evolve in response to the use of these medicines, which decreases the effectiveness of the antibiotics to control infections. Resistance leads to prolonged hospital stays and increased mortality rates. The UK government and other important health organizations, such as WHO, understand and support the need …

Many cities around the world are struggling with how to finance and to govern their transport infrastructure. Faced with a range of economic, environmental, political and social challenges, a growing numbers of learning from each other, experimenting with a range of models. For cities in the most industrialized countries this involves both existing and new infrastructure. Moreover, the value of …

Social influence and contagion occur in large-scale populations and have a crucial impact on a multitude of individual and societal outcomes, from political opinion to mental and physical health and from integration to inequality. The interpersonal networks connecting people in society affect how influence and contagion unfold, but the networks are subject to change over time. Understanding the joint evolution …

The project focuses on comparing strategic urban responses and implications in Greater Manchester and Greater Melbourne. The research is at the interface of urban studies and innovation studies that synthesises two debates: first, debates around visions of future sustainable cities and how these are incorporated in to urban strategies and policy; and second, the emergence of digital platforms as a new …

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most common cause of cancer related mortality in children and young adults. Although outcomes have improved significantly a substantial number of patients are either refractory to initial therapy or relapse after achieving a clinical remission. Long term survival in these patients is very poor and, in this context, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy …

Proton therapy is the most rapidly-expanding method of radiotherapy, with a number of new proton treatment centres being established around world that are primarily based on high-intensity isochronous cyclotrons; an example of this is the recently-installed 250 MeV Varian cyclotron at which a research beamline has been installed where Dr. Appleby and Dr. Owen are carrying out research into rapid …

Have you ever wondered what happens to the surface of the eye when you apply a contact lens? Some people suffer from red and painful eyes with their contact lenses and many wearers suffer from discomfort at the end of each lens-wear day.  We speculate that these two types of responses (corneal inflammation and wearer discomfort) both derive from the …

This fully funded project will develop a new biophysical approach to coral studies, integrating mathematical modelling, numerical simulations and lab-on-chip experiments. Although the Great Barrier Reef spans more than 2,300km, fundamental processes driving the health and function of corals such as nutrient uptake, oxygen exchange and bacterial recruitment occur at sub-millimetre scales. Despite their importance, we still largely lack a quantitative understanding of the governing transport processes. The PhD …

Effective digital health interventions can be used to supplement under-resourced traditional forms of therapy or in some cases replace them. These interventions can reduce the resource burden on mental health services, extend services to isolated users, provide 24/7 support, and reduce the stigma and cost of attending traditional services (Mental Health Task Force, 2016.) It is well established that successful …

The global chemical industry is facing a crisis in dealing with polluting emissions and the resulting environmental impact. This PhD programme is focused on solving these problems through technology development. The programme will create novel membrane technology that is specifically designed to actively sieve out toxic gases from industrial emissions. This technology also has a lower energy duty compared to …

This doctoral project will focus on strategies of ‘fortification, accommodation and retreat’ in response to sea-level rise in small island states. The doctoral candidate will be part of a research team working on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, titled “Sea-level rise and everyday lives in small island states”. The project aims to advance understanding of the impacts of sea-level …

The cultural and creative industries have travelled far and wide from their initial policy uses in Australia and the UK. Virtually every country in the world now uses the terms in one way or another in their cultural, urban, and development policies. Though relatively little is known about what these terms have come to mean through the process of their …

In 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services released a report declaring that up to one million species are at risk of extinction within the next few decades, largely due to human activities. Urban landscapes, and the people who live in them have a critical role to play in actively reversing this current trend. The design and construction practices …

Professors Munro and Hutton have an established collaboration investigating enzymes from the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), with the overarching aim to characterize their functions and exploit these proteins as novel drug targets. The gene encoding for the Mtb enzyme CYP121 is essential for mycobacterial viability. CYP121 generates the natural product, mycocyclosin, an oxidatively modified cyclic dipeptide. It is therefore …

Hydrogen (H2) is the ultimate clean energy, and currently is primarily produced by steam reforming of hydrocarbons (mainly natural gas) and electrolysis. The high availability of surplus renewable electricity (from solar and wind) has enriched the source of renewable H2 significantly recently. The storage and distribution of H2 is a major challenge due to the difficulty of liquefaction. Existing natural …

Project title: Standardising carbon neutrality in delivery of complex projects. Aim of the project : To develop a cost-decarbonisation framework that evaluates the trade-off between operational emissions, embodied emissions and cost for various building envelope insulation designs. Project description:  The construction industry accounts for approximately a quarter of the global carbon emissions and is the largest consumer of materials and energy. Drastic transformational changes …

Project title: International organizations and the global mobility of cultural policy Aims of the project: To understand the global mobility of cultural policies on cultural and creative industries and its key actors including international organizations such as UNESCO. To explore the implications for policy mobility in time of physical immobility produced by the pandemic through case studies of UNESCO-funded projects in …

Research Project title: Integrating Urban Sustainability and Digital Platforms? Aim of the project: To review global academic debates about urban sustainability and develop overviews of sustainability strategies in Greater Manchester and Greater Melbourne To review global academic debates about smart cities and urban platforms and develop socio-technical analysis of overall urban platform ecosystems in Greater Manchester and Greater Melbourne; To conduct …

Research project title: Photoaffinity labelling for the elucidation of mycocyclosin target protein(s) Aim of the project: To design light-activated probes that bind in the same way as the essential small molecule mycocyclosin to an unknown protein in mycobacterium tuberculosis; To use these probes to capture and identify the unknown protein target of the essential small molecule; To understand the functioning of …

Research Project Title: Material politics, urban nature and residential neighbourhood design in the Global South: How architecture can rupture and repair the native, historical, and cultural landscapes of modern Mexico. Research Project Summary: The research project looks into the material and construction culture of post-industrial Mexico and its ecological impact as evidenced by uncontrolled urban sprawl, the imitation of North American …

Research Project Title: Digital Therapeutic Alliance with Mental Health Apps Graduate Researcher Profile: Before I came to Australia, I obtained my bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and master’s degree at New York University in the United States. In my spare time, I enjoy working out in the gym, trying sports and reading books. Project Duration: 4 years Supervisors: Prof. Reeva Lederman, Dr. …

Research Project Title: Identifying the mechanisms of sub-clinical corneal inflammation during contact lens wear Research Project Summary: The main aim of this project is to investigate the ocular surface immune response, including during contact lens wear, using advanced methods such as in vivo confocal microscopy and tear film analytics, to characterise inflammatory response and dendritic cell dynamics. The project will also include …

Research Project Title:  Microscale fluid dynamics around coral surfaces Research Project Summary: The project explores the ciliary motion in the coral conservation and nutrient transport. The problem will be studied by integrating mathematical modeling, lap-on chip experiment, image processing and numerical simulations. The mechanistic framework will be developed for analyzing the nutrient transport and chemotaxis near the coral surface. This has …

Research Project Title: The interplay between environmental/climate change and food security: a study of spatial and temporal dimensions of food systems in the Maldives (As part of the Melbourne/Manchester joint research project titled ‘Sea level rise and everyday lives in SIDS’) Research Project Summary: My thesis would seek to understand the connections between food security and climate/environmental change, by using Maldives as …