We are pleased to announce that our application for a 50 : 50 DevelRx : University Research Studentship Award (URSA) funded PhD studentship with the University of Bath has been accepted. The project will be supervised between Dr Chris Bailey and Dr Sarah Bailey in the Department of Life Sciences and DevelRx. We are very much looking forward to the project which will start in October 2023 and will research the role of opioid receptors in the paraventricular thalamus in motivational memory initiating drug-seeking behaviour.