BSID Undergraduate Research Experience Scholarship in Summer 2027
2027
The BSID is pleased once again to offer undergraduate students the opportunity to gain skin research experience during the Summer of 2027.
Eligibility and focus:
The BSID Undergraduate Research Experience Scholarship is now open to undergraduate students who are looking for a Summer Project in one of the BSID members’ labs and are at least in the second year of their undergraduate degree and onwards. Preference will be given to applicants who do not yet have any research experience, and would therefore, particularly benefit from working on a summer project. The project should be skin focused and research question-based. Through the support of the BAD the BSID will fund 1 (one) scholarship for this call. The awardee will submit a final report at the end of the project, and will be invited to present their work at the BSID 2028 Annual meeting.
Funding:
£1500 stipend and £500 consumables for a 6-week project in the lab. No top-ups or extensions are possible.
Application process:
Potential students should contact projects’ supervisors prior to their applications. Applications should be submitted by the students, in agreement with the chosen supervisor, selected from the list below. The applicants are expected to outline what they want to achieve through this studentship. The application form to be emailed to ukbsid@gmail.com with the subject “BSID Undergraduate Research Experience Scholarship
Application form can be found HERE
Submission Deadline: 11.59 pm on Monday 11th January 2027.
Potential Supervisors
|
PI name(s) |
Institution |
Research area |
Contact email |
| Dr Thomas Tull | St John’s Institute of Dermatology, King’s College London | Immunobullous and connective tissue disorders | thomas.tull@kcl.ac.uk |
| Prof Tanya Shaw | King’s College London | Anatomical variations of skin; keloid scars (fibrotic mechanisms, molecular drivers of itch/pain) | tanya.shaw@kcl.ac.uk |
| Dr Zoe Venables, Prof Nick Levell, Dr Birgitta Van Bodegraven | University of East Anglia/ British Association of Dermatologists-National Disease Registration Service Partnership | Skin cancer epidemiology leveraging National Disease Registration Service outputs for England | zoe.venables@nnuh.nhs.uk |
| Dr Bezaleel Mambwe,
Dr Abigail Langton |
University of Manchester | Stress responses and skin ageing | bezaleel.mambwe@manchester.ac.uk |
| Dr Emma Chambers | QMUL | Cutaneous immunity; ageing; menopause; sex difference; in vitro models. | emma.chambers@qmul.ac.uk |
| Dr Christos Tziotzios | St John’s Institute of Dermatology, King’s College London | Exploration of CYP1B1 in the pathogenesis of frontal fibrosing alopecia | christos.tziotzios@kcl.ac.uk
|
| Dr Matthew Caley, Dr Emanuel Rognoni |
QMUL | Epidermolysis Bullosa: Preclinical models for drug testing | m.caley@qmul.ac.uk |