UHI offers 12 new postgraduate studentships
Research will look at topics in energy and the environment and health
Research at the new University of the Highlands and Islands has been given a major boost with funding for 12 postgraduate studentships in energy and environment and health.
The European Social Fund has awarded funding for 12 postgraduate appointments based at campuses across the university’s partnership throughout the region.
Projects include coastal change and heritage in Northern Scotland; exploring the mechanisms of heart disease through proteome dynamics; investigation of lipid metabolism in a cellular model of type 2 diabetes; integrated land use – exploring and testing issues surrounding farming, forestry and energy in the Highlands and Islands; linking habitat characteristics with red deer conditions in the Highlands; and the impact of large-scale wave energy converter farms on the regional wave climate.
The studentships will begin in October and November and are being funded for three-and-a-half years.
