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, as shown below.
- Newcastle University is advertising for a PhD scholarship on a project titled Technological choice and variability in prehistoric metalworking: a transdisciplinary investigation, funded by the AHRC Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership as a Collaborative Doctoral Award. Antonella Scherillo is the ISIS co-supervisor. More information can be found on the Northern Bridge website.
Probing dynamics with implanted muons: a new paradigm, Durham University.
Muon spectroscopy provides decisive results in quantum magnetism, unconventional superconductivity, materials science and chemical reactions. The technique involves the implantation of spin-polarized muons into a sample, and the subsequent observation of the dephasing of this polarization. Using muons to investigate the dynamic properties of materials is a significant growth area. This project will develop and deploy a new paradigm in the analysis of dynamic muon measurements via an interdisciplinary PhD project. This will couple muon-site computations with simulation of transport processes. Together, these will provide a realistic description of the time-dependent change in muon environment that will enable us to compute the dynamic effect on the muon-spin ensemble.
New approaches for studying the structure of high-temperature molten materials, University of Nottingham. Understanding the structure and properties of high-temperature molten materials is of key importance in a diverse range of applications including optical glass manufacture, nuclear waste storage, green platforms for growth of functional materials, fuel cell hermetic seals, electrolytes, carbon capture solvents and thermal energy storage media. This PhD project will address this by designing and developing experimental equipment suitable for containing the liquids at the temperatures needed, as well as optimizing the quality of the data obtained, both through experiment design and developing the analysis techniques needed to interpret the data.
Neutron
Diffraction Studies of Inorganic Microcrystals, University of Edinburgh. This PhD studentship is available in the group of Professor J. P. Attfield,
School of Chemistry. The project offers an
exciting opportunity to explore and extend the limits of microcrystal neutron
diffraction for studying inorganic materials, based around the WISH and the
future WISH-II diffractometers at ISIS.
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
Watch the video below to hear from directly from the students themselves:
