MRes students work on their research project throughout the year.   You can apply for one of the projects listed below, or contact your preferred supervisor to discuss a different project.

You must name at least one potential supervisor in your personal statement when you apply.

Applications will be considered in three rounds; to ensure your preferred project is available, we encourage you to apply by the Round 1 deadline.  If you are applying in a later round, some projects may have already been allocated so please consider including a second or third choice project in your application.

Visit our How do I apply? page for full details of the application process including deadlines.

Projects available for 2023-24

Click a title for a full description of the project.

SupervisorTitleTypeTheme
Andriy Kozlov & Piotr Sirko Testing effects of serotonin receptor agonists on brain circuits using patch clamp Lab based  Neurotechnology & robotics
Andriy Kozlov & Piotr Sirko Characterising mechano-electrical transduction currents in hair cells of the inner ear Lab based  Biomechanics and mechanobiology, Microscopy, Molecular & cellular bioengineering 
Andriy Kozlov & Piotr Sirko Representational similarity analysis of natural and artificial neural networks for object recognition Desk based Computational & theoretical modelling
Darryl Overby & Simon Schultz Brain-on-Chip: A Novel Explant Perfusion Model for ex vivo Study of Brain Tissue Function Lab-based  Biomechanics and mechanobiology;Biomedical sensing diagnostics and imaging 

David Labonte

We do research on a range of topics in animal biomechanics and evolutionary robotics. Both lab and desk-based experiments are available. 
Evolutionary Biomechanics Group – Science at the intersection between physics and biology

Both

Biomechanics and mechanobiology;Computational and theoretical modelling;Neurotechnology and robotics
Holger Krapp & Huai-Ti Lin Neural mechanisms of integrated visual information in dragonfly

Lab-based

Computational and theoretical modelling;Neurotechnology and robotics
Kambiz Alavian (Brain Sciences), Andrew Shevchuk (Metabolism, Digestion & Reproduction)

Understanding the role of mitochondrial metabolic efficiency in synaptic transmission and plasticity

Lab based

Biomedical sensing diagnostics & imaging, Image acquisition & signal processing, Microscopy

Mengxing Tang

Tissue motion correction for Super-Resolution Ultrasound microvascular imaging

Desk based

Biomedical sensing diagnostics & imaging, Computational & theoretical modelling

Mengxing Tang

Improvement of 4D ultrasound imaging with a Matrix transducer Array

Lab based

Biomedical sensing diagnostics & imaging

Simon Schultz

ALL PLACES FULL FOR 2023/4

   

Sophie Morse

Can focused ultrasound stimulate astrocytes in our brain? 

Lab based

Neurotechnology & robotics

Sophie Morse

Can focused ultrasound stimulate the activity of the brain’s innate immune cells?

Lab based

Biomedical sensing diagnostics & imaging, Molecular & cellular bioengineering, Neurotechnology & robotics

Sophie Morse

How do astrocytes respond when the blood-brain barrier is opened with focused ultrasound to deliver drugs to the brain?

Lab based

Biomedical sensing diagnostics & imaging, Molecular & cellular bioengineering, Neurotechnology and robotics

Sophie Morse

How do microglia respond when the blood-brain barrier is opened with focused ultrasound to deliver drugs to the brain?

Lab based

Biomedical sensing diagnostics & imaging, Molecular & cellular bioengineering, Neurotechnology and robotics

Sophie Morse

What effect does drug delivery to the brain with focused ultrasound have on neuronal signalling? 

Lab based

Neurotechnology and robotics