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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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PhD Studentship: Unveiling Structure-Property Relationships in Layered Materials via Synchrotron Techniques and Computational Modelling
School of Chemistry
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Funded studentship
Date Placed: 24 Sep
Closes 24 Sep
PhD Studentship: Knowledge Graphs and LLMs for Decentralised Data Governance
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: This scholarship covers (UK home) tuition fees and stipend.
Date Placed: 24 Sep
Closes 24 Sep
PhD Studentship - Universality in Random Growth Processes
Mathematics
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 23 Sep
Closes 27 Nov
PhD in Nano-assembling 3D MetaMaterials (Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 23 Sep
Closes 01 Nov
PhD studentship in the Centre for Mechanism of Disease and Drug Discovery (MoDDD)
University of Hertfordshire
Location: Hatfield
Salary: £20,780 The award includes cover for UK home tuition fees and, subject to eligibility, a stipend at standard RCUK rates. For 2025-26, this is set at £20,780.
Date Placed: 22 Sep
Closes 15 Oct
PhD Studentship: Prediction of turbine cooling flows using scale-resolving CFD
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)
Brunel University London
Location: London
Salary: 50:50 EPSRC DLA:Rolls-Royce
Date Placed: 22 Sep
Closes 17 Oct
PhD Studentship - Optimising Sustainable Bioplastic Supply Chains: Modelling Nanocellulose Production in the UK
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 19 Sep
Closes 19 Dec
PhD Scholarship in AI Controlled Combustion Engine - Closed Loop Combustion Control
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
Technical University of Denmark
Location: Lyngby
Salary: Based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations
Date Placed: 19 Sep
Closes 17 Oct
PhD in Electrical Arc Furnace (EAF) Steelmaking Slag and its Utilisation
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: £24,780 per annum for 4 years
Date Placed: 19 Sep
Closes 09 Apr
PhD Studentship : Determination and Exposure Assessment of emerging Alternaria mycotoxins in selected foodstuffs
Cranfield University
Location: Cranfield
Salary: Sponsored by Barilla, this studentship will provide a bursary of up to £ 20,780 plus fees* for one year.
Date Placed: 18 Sep
Closes 10 Dec
PhD Studentship in Neurotechnology: Spatiotemporal Population Dynamics for Neural Decoding
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £19,000 to £20,000
Date Placed: 18 Sep
Closes 01 May
PhD Studentship: Future Energy Strategies for Transport Hubs
WMG
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: Monash Warwick Alliance - £21,300 p/a to increase with inflation. Funding period is for 3.5 years
Date Placed: 17 Sep
Closes 22 Dec
PhD Studentship: Optimising Revision Hip Arthroplasty Planning
Department of Mechanical Engineering
UCL
Location: London
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 17 Sep
Closes 30 Sep
PhD Studentship: 3D printed ultrafast optical metamaterials
Physics / Engineering
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: at least £19,237 for 3.5 years full-time, or pro rata for part-time study
Date Placed: 17 Sep
Closes 14 Oct
PhD Studentship: Physics/Engineering (Metamaterials) - Metasurfaces for mm-wave communications Ref: 5568
Physics or Engineering
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: The stipend will be paid at the UKRI rate (£20,780 from 1/10/25); there is an enhanced budget for project costs (including travel) of £20,000
Date Placed: 17 Sep
Closes 28 Oct
PhD Studentship: Unravelling Electrical Treeing Mechanism for Next-Generation HV Cable Insulation
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: Please refer to advert.
Date Placed: 17 Sep
Closes 12 Dec
PhD Studentship: Novel Biocide Development from Experiments and Computer Modelling
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: Annual tax-free stipend based on the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26) and tuition fees will be paid
Date Placed: 17 Sep
Closes 28 Nov
PhD Studentship: Matchmaker: Prioritising the Best Cell Line for Expressing Target Proteins using CRISPR and Machine Learning
Department of Biochemistry, Central Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: This four-year studentship covers University composite fees (at home fees rate), a stipend (£21,500/year) and dedicated consumables and travel budgets.
Date Placed: 17 Sep
Closes 31 Oct
PhD Studentship: Visualising Platelet Biogenesis: Intravital Imaging of Megakaryocyte Signalling in Real Time
School of Pharmacy
University of Reading
Location: Reading
Salary: Funding covers full home tuition fees plus UKRI stipend
Date Placed: 17 Sep
Closes 31 Oct
PhD Studentship:Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Fixed Term)
Department of Physics
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 17 Sep
Closes 03 Jan
Advancing the Frontier of Bespoke In-vivo Orthopaedic Implants
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 + Tuition fees for the 2025/2026 academic year
Date Placed: 16 Sep
Closes 18 Dec
PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities
Ghent University
Location: Ghent
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 16 Sep
Closes 15 Nov
Closes 29 Sep
PhD Studentship: Same Day and Urgent Care Workforce: Retaining and supporting staff to thrive.
College of Health, Science and Society
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: The studentship is available from 01 January 2026 for a period of three years, subject to satisfactory progress and includes a tax exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum.
Date Placed: 16 Sep
Closes 12 Oct
CRUK CI PhD Studentship: Understanding the role of transcription factors and associated proteins in neuroendocrine prostate cancer
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 15 Sep
Closes 24 Oct

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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