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PhD Studentship:Building Synthetic Self-Propelled Cells for Bioinspired Motion
Physics
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully and directly funded for this project only. UKRI standard stipend - £20,780 per year for 2025/26 academic year. Funded for 3.5 years.
Date Placed: 31 Jan
Closes 30 Jan
PhD Studentship - Closing the Loop on Critical Minerals Recycling Rare-Earths from Polymer Bonded Magnets
School of Metallurgy & Materials
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: funded by the EPSRC's Doctoral Landscape Award
Date Placed: 30 Jan
Closes 31 Mar
PhD Studentship - Mapping the Engineering of Plasma - and High Heat Flux Induced Failure Modes in Plasma-Facing Divertor Components for Future Fusion Reactors
School of Metallurgy and Materials
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: tax-free stipend
Date Placed: 30 Jan
Closes 30 Apr
PhD Studentship - Design and Synthesis of Metal-Organic Assemblies and Materials
School of Chemistry
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: fully funded
Date Placed: 30 Jan
Closes 30 Apr
PhD Research Studentship in Control Engineering and Energy Systems
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: UKRI minimum stipend
Date Placed: 30 Jan
Closes 03 Mar
ESRC DTP Collaborative Studentship: Understanding and Supporting Children’s Accounts of Domestic Abuse: Memory Accuracy, Suggestibility, and the Child’s Voice in Safeguarding Practice
University of Birmingham and Operation Encompass
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Birmingham, University of Birmingham
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 30 Jan
Closes 23 Feb
ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship: Trade Policy, Sustainable Value Chains and Reshoring: National and Regional Perspectives from the UK
University of Birmingham and Aston University
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Birmingham, University of Birmingham
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 30 Jan
Closes 26 Feb
PhD Studentship: Advanced Materials Processing for Disposal Mixed Oxide Nuclear Wasteforms
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (for 2025/26; subject to annual uplift) and tuition fees will be paid.
Date Placed: 30 Jan
Closes 31 Mar
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Birkbeck, University of London
Location: London
Salary: £19,490 to £22,123 per year (0.5 FTE) (pro-rated £38,981 rising to £44,247 1 FTE Grade 6).
Date Placed: 30 Jan
Closes 01 May
PhD Studentship: Effect of Sintering Atmosphere on Diposal Mixed Oxide Manufacturability For Nuclear Wasteform Applications
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 an annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (for 2025/26) and tuition fees will be paid.
Date Placed: 30 Jan
Closes 31 Mar
University of Birmingham Scholarships in Arts, Humanities and Law
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Please see advert for individual details
Date Placed: 30 Jan
Closes 27 Feb
ESRC DTP Collaborative Studentship: Misinformation, Trust, and Vaccine Uptake: Theory and Evidence from the UK
University of Birmingham and UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Birmingham, University of Birmingham
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 29 Jan
Closes 23 Feb
PhD Studentship - Development, Characterisation and Application of a Novel Resonant Ionisation Mass Spectrometry Instrument
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 28 Jan
Closes 06 Feb
PhD Studentship - Spin-lattice Dynamics in Advanced Magnetic Materials
Computer Science
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 28 Jan
Closes 16 Mar
PhD Studentship: Modelling Climatic Variables and their Impact on Health Outcomes
Department of Mathematics
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (for 2025/26) and tuition fees will be paid.
Date Placed: 28 Jan
Closes 27 Feb
EPSRC DLA Studentship - Advanced Semiconductor Design for Future Telecom Applications
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Co-funded by imec
Date Placed: 28 Jan
Closes 15 Feb
EPSRC DLA Studentship - Machine-Learning-Driven Inverse Design for 3D Turbomachinery
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 28 Jan
Closes 20 Feb
PhD Studentship: EPSRC Industrial Doctoral Landscape Award (IDLA) - Probabilistic Numerics and Inverse Problems
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 28 Jan
Closes 14 May
Fully funded 4-year PhD Studentship in Chemistry - Machine Learning-Accelerated Quantum Chemical Modelling of Molecular Junctions and Surface Catalytic Reactions
Department of Chemistry
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: home fees plus annum stipend
Date Placed: 28 Jan
Closes 27 Feb
Hans Rausing Doctoral Scholarship: PhD in the History of Science and Technology (Home/EU/Overseas)
Department of History
King's College London
Location: London
Salary: £22,780 stipend per annum (based on UKRI 2025/26) Additionally covers Home, EU and International tuition and fees, plus research stipend.
Date Placed: 28 Jan
Closes 17 Apr
PhD Studentship: Three PhD Fellowships in Psychology
Psychology
University of Warwick
Location: University of Warwick
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 27 Jan
Closes 15 Mar
ESRC DTP Collaborative Studentship: CHISEL - Clear Health Information Supporting Empowered Lives
University of Nottingham and the NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB)
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Nottingham, University of Nottingham
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 27 Jan
Closes 02 Mar
PhD Studentship: Repurposing Polymers and Drugs for Sustainable Therapeutics: Polymer Functionalisation, High-Throughput Screening, and In Vivo Evaluation of Amorphous Solid Dispersions
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: £20,780 tax‑free stipend at the prevailing UKRI rate. Fully funded for 48 months (UK applicants only) and covering tuition fees.
Date Placed: 27 Jan
Closes 10 Mar
PhD Studentship in Computational Chemistry
School of Chemistry
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 27 Jan
Closes 27 Jul
PhD Studentship: Microstructurally Informed Modelling of Metal Fragmentation
Department of Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (for 2025/26) and tuition fees will be paid
Date Placed: 27 Jan
Closes 31 May

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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