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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 Studentships in the History of International Development in the Global South
School of Global Affairs
King's College London
Location: London
Salary: Full tuition and fees (Home, EU or Overseas rates) + PhD stipend (equivalent to the UKRI rate): £23,805 per annum
Date Placed: 27 Mar
Closes 29 Apr
ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship: Educational Mobility and Trajectories: Advanced Quantitative Analysis of Pupil Movement and Long-Term Outcomes in England
University of Warwick and University of Birmingham
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 27 Mar
Closes 27 Apr
Closes 31 Aug
PhD - End-of-Life Strategies for Diverse Onshore Wind Portfolios
University of Strathclyde
Location: Glasgow
Salary: £21,805 per annum - please see advert
Date Placed: 27 Mar
Closes 31 Aug
PhD - Offshore Wind O&M Costs focusing on Climate-Driven Changes in Metocean Patterns
University of Strathclyde
Location: Glasgow
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 27 Mar
Closes 31 Aug
PhD Studentship: QoE-Driven Agentic AI for Automated Bug Discovery in Video Games (Collaborative Doctorate with Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Innovative Media Technology
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully and directly funded for this project only. Home or International fees for 42 months. UKRI standard stipend £21,805 pa (42 months) - for academic year 2026/27 RTSG: £1,500 pa. Additional conference funding (up to £3,000) may be available
Date Placed: 27 Mar
Closes 30 May
PhD Studentship: Cocoa Flavanols and Mental Health: An Investigation of Mood, Cognition and Gut–Brain Mechanisms
Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences
University of Reading
Location: Reading
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 27 Mar
Closes 21 Jun
PhD Studentship: Robust, Certified, and Scalable Federated Machine Unlearning for Privacy-Preserving AI
Computer Science
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully funded studentship opportunity covering home university fees, additional research training, travel funds & UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year). Funding is available for 3.5 years
Date Placed: 27 Mar
Closes 19 Apr
Closes 13 Apr
PhD studentship: Pressurised Ion Transport in Nanoporous Materials
School of Chemistry
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Fully funded
Date Placed: 27 Mar
Closes 29 Mar
PhD Studentship: A new approach to minimum colour vision requirements and optimum use of colour signals within Network Rail
School of Health & Medical Sciences
City St George’s, University of London
Location: London
Salary: A tax-free stipend at the UKRI rate (£22,780 for 2025/26, expected to increase annually)
Date Placed: 27 Mar
Closes 30 Apr
EngD Studentship in the EPSRC Centre in Doctoral Training (CDT) in Innovation for Sustainable Composites Engineering
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: £26,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 26 Mar
Closes 17 Apr
EngD Studentship in the EPSRC Centre in Doctoral Training (CDT) in Innovation for Sustainable Composites Engineering
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: £26,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 26 Mar
Closes 17 Apr
DPhil studentship in Materials Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 26 Mar
Closes 25 Jun
Studentship - EPSRC - Engineering Collagen-Based Materials for the Scalable Manufacturing of Next-Generation Regenerative Therapies
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 26 Mar
Closes 31 May
PhD Studentship: Chalcogen Bonding: Elucidating Fundamental Origins and Advancing Innovations in Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis
University of Warwick
Location: University of Warwick
Salary: Self-funded Students only (UK or Worldwide)
Date Placed: 26 Mar
Closes 24 Jun
PhD Studentship: Development of New Inks for Recyclable 3D-printed Materials
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: Funded under the ‘DeCoDER’ programme
Date Placed: 26 Mar
Expires 24 Jun
Funded PhD Studentships – Teachers’ Professional Journeys
School of Education
University of Limerick
Location: Limerick
Salary: £19,135.50 and EU fees for 4 years
Date Placed: 26 Mar
Closes 14 Apr
PhD Studentship: Reversible Photoreactions for Sustainable Materials Synthesis
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: Please refer to the advert text
Date Placed: 26 Mar
Closes 24 Jun
EUTOPIA PhD Co-tutelle: Rational Design of Next Generation Chalcogen Bonding Catalysts
University of Warwick
Location: University of Warwick
Salary: Competition funded for students with UK home fee status
Date Placed: 26 Mar
Closes 01 May
PhD Studentship: Global Methane Politics
Faculty of Social Sciences, politics and international studies funded studentship 2025-26
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: £21,805 per annum
Date Placed: 26 Mar
Closes 08 Apr
4-year PhD Studentship: AI Selecting or Evaluating Humans. Professional and Ethical Tensions in the use of AI in Organisations
ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work, Department of Management, University of Sussex Business School
University of Sussex
Location: Falmer
Salary: £20,780 Stipend per annum
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 15 May
PhD Studentship - Printable Multi-junction Solar Cells for Green Energy Production
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £19,237 - please see advert
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 15 Jun
PhD Studentship: Identifying progression and patterns of symptoms in autoimmune rheumatic disease flares
Norwich Medical School
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 01 May
Crohn's & Colitis UK Funded Non-clinical PhD Studentship: Can We Inhibit Rectal Sensation to Treat Bowel Urgency?
Department of Pharmacology
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: £21,805 per annum
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 16 Apr

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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