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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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ESRC PhD Studentships in the Social Sciences in the Midlands Graduate School
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Birmingham, Coventry, University of Warwick, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham
Salary: Please see advert
Date Placed: 30 Dec
Closes 13 Jan
PhD Studentship: Machine learning and AI for air traffic control, Computer Science
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £20,780 Home/UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £20,780 per year
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 11 Jan
PhD Studentship: Non-coding RNAs as Biomarkers of Lewy Body Dementias and Related Traits - PhD (Alzheimer’s Society LBD DTN Funded)
Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £21,800
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 31 Jan
PhD Studentship: Materials Engineering: Advancing Sustainable Solar Solutions to Transform Global Energy Access
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: This scholarship covers the full cost of tuition fees and an annual stipend at UKRI rate (currently £20,780 for 2025/26).
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 02 Feb
PhD Studentship: PhD in High Pressure Flow Boiling in Water Based Nuclear Reactors
School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 15 Feb
PhD Studentship: Combined Synthetic and Computational Understanding of New Heterobimetallic Dimetallocenes
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 06 Feb
PhD Scholarship: The Wheeler History of Travel Writing
History
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: UKRI rate for 3.5 years
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 15 Jan
PhD Studentship: Examining the shape of proton-rich nuclei
the Faculty of Science and Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 31 Jan
Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation PhD Studentship
Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience - Department of Geography
Durham University
Location: Durham
Salary: £5,000 per year
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 06 Feb
PhD Studentship: Optimisation of thermomechanical ageing processing: influence of quenching and pre-ageing on the performance of high strength 6xxx aluminium alloys
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: an annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26; subject to annual uplift), and tuition fees
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 31 Jan
PhD Studentship - Detection and Study of Exotic Radioactive Ions using Laser Cooling and Precision Laser Spectroscopy
Physics and Astronomy
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 31 Jan
PhD Studentship: Development of Ultra-Sensitive, Field-Deployable Radiochromic Films for Real-Time Radiation Detection
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: an annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26; subject to annual uplift), and tuition fees
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 30 Dec
PhD Studentship: Understanding sweetness and flavour perception in frozen desserts
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 19 Jan
PhD Studentship: An experimental study of mineral reactivity and critical metal mobility in faulted granites
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: An annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26) and tuition fees
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 01 Feb
PhD Studentship: Physics-informed machine learning for deep geothermal systems under uncertainty
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 02 Feb
PhD Studentship: Representative Elementary Volume fluid dynamic modelling for sedimentary geothermal production
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 02 Feb
PhD Studentship: Contemporary Approaches to Biotherapeutics: Flow Chemistry and Biocatalysis
School of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Pharmacology
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Funded studentship
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 22 Feb
PhD Studentship: Utilising Large Scale Metagenomic Surveillance Data Sets to Identify and Track Pathogen Population Dynamics
School of Biosciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 09 Jan
PhD Studentship: Data-driven Modelling and Control of Turbulence-generated Noise
School of Mathematics
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 19 Mar
PhD Studentship: Non-equilibrium Quantum Many-body Dynamics
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £20,780 p.a.
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 23 Jan
PhD Studentship: Molecular Origins of Stability in Organic Photovoltaic Materials
School of Chemistry
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 19 Mar
PhD Studentship: Silent Owl Flight: Noise Generation by Turbulent Flows Over Flexible Aerofoil Trailing Edge
School of Metallurgy and Materials
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £20,780 per year
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 19 Mar
PhD Studentship: Dimensionality Tuning and Quantum Engineering in Exotic 2D Materials
School of Physics & Astronomy
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 22 Dec
Closes 31 Jan

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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