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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 2026. 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 28th January 2026. 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 2026. 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

Syntax of facial communication

 Dr Alexander Mielke

Bacterial adaptation to antibiotic stress

 Dr Nikola Ojkic

Reprogramming Immunity: How Pathogenic Effectors Hijack the Ubiquitin System

 Dr Benjamin Stieglitz and
Dr Aravindan Illangovan

Molecular Mechanism for Initiation of DNA Replication in Bacteria

 Dr Aravindan Ilangovan and
Dr Vladimir Volkov

Engineering Heritable Epigenetic States in an Invertebrate model

 

 Dr Alex de Mendoza
Cognition in insects

Prof Lars Chittka

Amyloid-beta structure and membrane interactions in Alzheimer’s disease

 Prof John H Viles and 
Dr Aravindan Ilangovan
Information-Based Brain Markers of Consciousness and Cognition in Health and Disease Dr Daniel Bor and
Dr Pedro Mediano 

Neurodivergence and mental health in children and young people

 

 Dr Giorgia Michelini

Harnessing AI to Discover novel Anxiolytic Drugs

Dr Mohamed Elbadawi and
Prof Caroline Brennan

 

The evolution of asymmetric cell divisions through single-cell approaches

 Dr Chema Martin and
Prof Viji Draviam

How the brain consolidates new memories during sleep

 Dr Guifen Chen and
Dr Daniel Bush

Characterising molecular determinants of cell responses in melanoma using genome editing and single-cell technologies

 

 Dr Elena Torlai Triglia

Structural basis for error correction during cell division

Dr Vladimir Volkov and
Dr Aravindan Ilangovan

Mechanisms of Learning Under Uncertainty: Neural, Physiological, and Computational Perspectives on Mental Health

 Dr. Annemieke Apergis-Schoute and
Dr. Valdas Noreika

Molecular mechanisms of DNA repair

 Dr Matthew Day and
Dr Roberto Bellelli

Bee biodiversity in a warming world: Tracing functional change through time with AI and natural history collections

 Dr Madeleine Ostwald and
Dr Tom Fayle

One genome, three outcomes: a unified honeybee developmental trajectory atlas from rich multiomic data

 Dr Paul J. Hurd and
Dr Elena Torlai Triglia

The ecology and genomics of climate adaptation: mapping functional genetic variation in wild insect populations

 Dr Vicencio Oostra

A big data approach to women’s health among individuals with ADHD

 Dr Jessica Agnew-Blais and
Dr Ann-Marie de Lange

Molecular adaptations underlying dietary specialisations in bats

 Prof Stephen Rossiter and
Prof Aaron Irving

Developing efficient Bayesian samplers for evolutionary analysis in the Tree of Life

 Dr Mario dos Reis and
Prof Richard A Nichols

 

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