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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 - Advanced Process Intensification Strategies for Chemical and Catalytic Reactions Using Taylor–Couette Reactor Technology
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 06 May
Closes 26 May
PhD Studentship - Process Industries: Net Zero - Pathways to Net Zero: Decarbonising Cellulosic Film Manufacturing in the UK Chemicals Sector
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 minimum tax-free annual living allowance, 100% fees (UK home only) and a research training support grant of £20,000
Date Placed: 06 May
Closes 26 May
PhD Studentship in Childhood Cancer Immunogenomic Predictors of Tumour Immune Microenvironment and Treatment-related Brain Injury in Medulloblastoma
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 annual stipend (living expenses) at the UKRI non‑clinical rate and 100% of home tuition fees paid
Date Placed: 06 May
Closes 23 May
PhD Studentship: Endogenous Lying in Economic Environments
Department of Economics
University of Essex
Location: Colchester
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 06 May
Closes 08 Jun
PhD Studentship Opportunities: Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health
University of Lincoln
Location: Lincoln
Salary: PhD tuition fees paid (home fee rate*)
Date Placed: 06 May
Closes 17 May
PhD Studentship: Heat Transfer Effect on Nonlinear Disturbances in Transitional Boundary Layers
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Sheffield
University of Sheffield
Location: Sheffield
Salary: Home tuition fee (£5,005 in 2025/26) and stipend for four years.
Date Placed: 06 May
Closes 05 Aug
Phd:Studentship: Experimental Study of Vortex Dynamics in Rotating Flow
School of Engineering
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick, Warwick
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 15 Jun
PhD Studentship: Realistic Computer Vision
School of Computing Sciences
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £20,408
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 02 Jul
PhD Studentship : AI-powered, Smart, and Sustainable E-bike Charging
Nottingham Trent University
Location: Nottingham
Salary: £27,043
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 31 Aug
PhD Studentship: Safety assurance processes for autonomous swarm robotics
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home)
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: Risks and justice implications of data centre and water security in England
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home)
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: Biomedical Engineering: Infra Red Heating Systems, Human Thermal Comfort and Behaviour
Engineering and Applied Sciences School
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 25 May
PhD Studentship: Optically enhanced solar façades as public art
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home)
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: Care-full digital mobility
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home)
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship in Computer Science: Empirical Security Assessment of AI Decision Engines in Cyber-Physical Systems
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 14 Jun
PhD Studentship: Making materiality audible
College of Arts, Technology and Environment.
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home)
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: History and Heritage Studies: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship (Fully Funded) in History with Museum Wales
Culture and Communications School
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: Towards a new earthly vernacular
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home)
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: Temperature integrated design for composite manufacturing (TIDE)
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home)
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: Aeroelastic stability
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home).
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: Project BELONG: Social robots for educational inclusion
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home).
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: Flexible robotic tools
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home).
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: Multimodal detection system for neurodegenerative decline
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home).
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: Machine vision and AI for automated recognition of animal emotions
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home).
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: Multiscale Optimisation of Aperiodic Lattice Metamaterials for Spatially-Programmable Printed Structures
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 annual tax free stipend set at the UKRI amount + Tuition fees for the 2025/2026 academic year
Date Placed: 05 May
Closes 19 Jun

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.

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