Opportunities

Masters Projects

Projects for Master’s students at the Silwood Park Campus of Imperial College London’s Department of Life Sciences (ICL DoLS) and the Natural History Museum, are advertised on the ‘Silwood and NHM Masters Project proposals’ webpage. If there are not any available projects from me or you have a specific idea that falls within my interests but is not listed, please feel free to contact me and discuss your idea. Im happy to try and customise projects wherever possible.

PhD studentships

Usually, studentships will be advertised on www.findaphd.com. If you are interested in carrying out a PhD studentship that is advertised, please follow the instructions on the advert but also feel free to contact me to discuss the project informally. If there are no current opportunities but if you are interested in a studentship with myself, please email me (p.graystock@imperial.ac.uk) a copy of your CV and brief summary of your research interests and we can discuss what possibilities there may be.

Postdoctoral research fellowships

I’m happy to discuss opportunities, collaborations, and how I can act as host/sponsor and further help develop applications for fellowships. My group have a variety of expertise and skills in controlled manipulation experiments and fieldwork setups, genetics and genomics, microbiology, mixed effects modelling, and analysis of large omics datasets. I can offer access to a number of resources, datasets, and long-term experiments that can support fellowship applications, including: i) entomology, genomics & sequencing suite, and category 2 microbiology labs; ii) large greenhouse space for experiments; iii) research apiary; iv) high specification, controlled environment rooms with red and white lighting; v) 110 hectares of privately owned land for field work; vi) access to a variety of bee omics data.

In the UK, there are a number of fellowship opportunities that fall within my research area. These include external fellowships calls from: The Welcome Trust; BBSRC; Royal Society; Leverhulme; NERC. There is also an internal fellowship call for our 4-year Imperial College Research Fellowships (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-office/funder-information/research-fellowships/icrf/). Those interested will need to demonstrate an excellent track record in relation to their career stage and have the potential to submit competitive fellowship applications. I can help advise on this.