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Find the latest PhD scholarships available at universities across the UK and globally. We regularly advertise new fully-funded PhD studentships and PhD scholarships in STEM, the humanities, business and management studies and the social sciences plus many more.

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Welcome to jobs.ac.uk’s PhD Studentship section. Here you can find the latest PhD scholarships available at universities across the UK and globally. We regularly advertise new fully-funded PhD studentships and PhD scholarships in STEM, the humanities, business and management studies and the social sciences plus many more. Find your ideal funded PhD opportunity in Engineering and Technology, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Languages and Literature or Biological sciences here. Updated regularly with new PhD opportunities across all disciplines.


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PhD Studentship: Flood Asset Performance and Sediment Dynamics under Climate Change
Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: Fully funded
Date Placed: 30 Oct
Closes 08 Jan
PhD Studentship: Optimising aerial image analysis for beach litter characterisation and quantification
Department of Geography and Environment
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: Fully funded
Date Placed: 30 Oct
Closes 07 Jan
PhD Studentship: Exploring the Role of UK Drainage Catchments in Managing Water Levels
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: Please refer to advert.
Date Placed: 30 Oct
Closes 08 Jan
PhD Studentship: Harnessing Floodwaters: Adaptive Strategies for Sustainable Water Resources and Flood Risk Management under Future Uncertainty
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: Please refer to advert.
Date Placed: 30 Oct
Closes 08 Jan
PhD Studentship: Flood Risk Implications of Anthropogenically Disturbed River-beds
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: Please refer to advert.
Date Placed: 30 Oct
Closes 08 Jan
PhD Studentship: CFD-DEM Optimisation of Porous Breakwater Design and Placement for Enhanced Flood Mitigation
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: Please refer to advert.
Date Placed: 30 Oct
Closes 08 Jan
PhD Studentship: Drought Impacts on the UK Levee Network: Asset Health and Resilience
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: Please refer to advert.
Date Placed: 30 Oct
Closes 08 Jan
PhD Studentship: How Does the Superficial Geology of Gateshead and Newcastle Influence Groundwater Flood Risk
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 30 Oct
Closes 08 Jan
Closes 14 Nov
INCEPTION Doctoral Network – Doctoral Candidates Vacancies
Department of Natural Sciences
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: See Advert Text for details.
Date Placed: 29 Oct
Closes 23 Nov
PhD Studentship: Assessing the Eco-hydrological and Geomorphic Effects of Floodplain Restoration
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £20,780 2025/26 UKRI rate
Date Placed: 29 Oct
Closes 08 Jan
PhD Studentship: A Sub-hourly Quality Controlled Blended UK Precipitation Dataset to Understand Uncertainty in Flood Predictions
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £20,780 (2025/26 UKRI rate)
Date Placed: 29 Oct
Closes 08 Jan
PhD Studentship: Storyline Approaches to Regional Flood Risk: Making Climate Change Relatable
Geography and Environment
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: £20,780 per annum
Date Placed: 29 Oct
Closes 08 Jan
PhD Studentship: Smart Droplets Using Organic Chemistry to Control Emulsion Stability
School of Chemistry
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Fully funded
Date Placed: 29 Oct
Closes 28 Jan
PhD Studentship: Predictive Modelling and Control of Low-cost “Active Droplets” for Micro-engineering
School of Mathematics
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Funded by BBSRC
Date Placed: 29 Oct
Closes 28 Jan
PhD Studentship: Fuel, Iron, and Fire Mitochondrial Iron Metabolism in Ageing
School of Biosciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Funded by BBSRC
Date Placed: 29 Oct
Closes 27 Nov
PhD Studentship: Diagnosis of Menopause Related Musculoskeletal Pain in the UK
School of Social Policy and Society
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £20,780 p.a.
Date Placed: 29 Oct
Closes 10 Nov
PhD Studentship: Equitable AI for Health Predicting Cardiometabolic Disease in Underserved Populations
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Funded by BBSRC
Date Placed: 29 Oct
Closes 27 Nov
PhD Studentship: Developing Porous Materials for Key Challenges in Decarbonization and Thermal Energy Storage (TES)
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Funded by BBSRC
Date Placed: 29 Oct
Closes 27 Jan
50 fully funded 4-year EPSRC PhD Studentships in Science and Engineering
Science and Engineering
UCL
Location: London
Salary: 4-years fees (with a UCL award to cover the additional fee for International students) Stipend at the UELA enhanced rate (at least £23,466 in 2026/27, pro rata, rises each year) Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 to cover additional costs
Date Placed: 29 Oct
Closes 05 Jan
PhD Studentship: Molecular Shape-Shifting in the DNA-Damage Response
Cancer and Genomic Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 29 Oct
Closes 27 Nov
Doctoral Studentship (PhD): Enhancing traceability, transparency and equine welfare in sport horse breeding using assisted reproductive techniques
Equine
Hartpury University and College
Location: Gloucestershire, Hartpury
Salary: University fees and research bursary per annum
Date Placed: 29 Oct
Closes 06 Nov
PhD Studentship : Oceanic island insights into river-driven volcanic landscape evolution
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: £20,780 per annum
Date Placed: 28 Oct
Closes 07 Jan
PhD Studentship (Fixed Term): Towards full object analysis of precious metal artefacts
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: £20,780 (current rate).
Date Placed: 28 Oct
Closes 02 Dec
PhD Studentship: Developing Mass Spectrometry Toolkit to Solve Complex Biological Problems
School of Biosciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Funded by BBSRC
Date Placed: 28 Oct
Closes 27 Nov

Wondering if a PhD is right for you? What is it like to take on a PhD? What can you do with a PhD once you’ve finished? We have lots of advice on all these topics in our career advice section.

What Can You Do With a PhD?:

Are you thinking about a PhD as the next stage in your educational and professional development? It’s an exciting road to travel with many potential benefits and opportunities. But you have to earn it first so considering what’s involved is important.

What is it really like to do a PhD?

Watch our vlog series, where real PhD students from all walks of life and various levels of study recorded themselves to showcase what undertaking a PhD is actually like.

PhD Funding – A Checklist of Possible Sources

Funding bodies support PhD students in different ways. Some pay course fees only, some include a stipend (maintenance costs) or travel expenses, and others offer a one-off award to ease the financial burden of academic study.

Make sure you never miss out on the perfect PhD opportunity by signing up to our jobs by email service, and for more helpful articles head to our career advice site.

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