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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 programme in Wearable Robotics for Mobility and Independence
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 per annum for the 25/26 academic year; Standard EPSRC RTSG - £4900 over 3.5 years
Date Placed: 20 Feb
Closes 15 Mar
PhD Studentship - Co-producing Dementia Awareness Education with Black Communities: A Partnership between Academia and Sheffield Memory Hub
Applied Dementia Studies
University of Bradford
Location: Bradford
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 20 Feb
Closes 11 Mar
PhD Studentship: Ultra-High Voltage Power Semiconductor Devices
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry
Salary: £21,805, paid at the prevailing UKRI rate for 3.5 years
Date Placed: 20 Feb
Closes 30 Apr
PhD Studentship: Multiscale modelling of polymer network constitutive behaviour
Mathematics
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 20 Feb
Closes 19 May
PhD Studentship: Designing polymer drug delivery implants with tuneable release pathways
Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 20 Feb
Closes 11 Mar
PhD Studentship: Intelligent Distribution System Operation for Low-Carbon Power Systems
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 20 Feb
Closes 19 May
PhD Studentship: Stability and Control Interaction of Multi-terminal HVDC Systems
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 20 Feb
Closes 14 Apr
Doctoral Studentship (PhD)
Hartpury University and College
Location: Gloucestershire, Hartpury
Salary: Funding: £20,780 per annum
Date Placed: 20 Feb
Closes 01 Jun
PhD Studentship in Aeronautics: Development of Multifunctional Measurement Methods for Coupling in Structural Power Composites (AE0083)
Aeronautics
Imperial College London
Location: London
Salary: Full coverage of tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of £22,780 for Home students
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 26 Mar
PhD Studentship - Development of New Generation Corrosion-resistant Aluminium Alloys
Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 15 Mar
PhD Studentship(s) in Aeronautics: The role of turbulence intermittency in cloud physics
Aeronautics
Imperial College London
Location: London
Salary: Full coverage of tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of £22,780 for Home, EU and International students
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 30 Apr
PhD Studentship in Aeronautics: Prediction of Extreme Events in Turbulent Reacting Flows with Scientific Machine Learning
Aeronautics
Imperial College London
Location: London
Salary: Full coverage of tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of £22,780 for Home, EU and International students
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 01 Apr
CIC-START PhD Programme
The Crop Innovation Centre
University of Dundee
Location: Dundee
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 03 Apr
PhD Studentship: The business case for battery traceability: exploring product passports and circular value creation
King’s Business School (King’s College London), Centre for Sustainable Business with Circularise
King's College London
Location: London
Salary: Stipend - £23,805 (for 2025-26) Tuition fees - Full Home and International fees for 2025-26) Research training & support grant - £1,000 per year; length of award: 4 years (PhD) (3 years full time + 1 year writing up)
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 31 Mar
PhD Studentship - EPSRC - Metal-Organic Frameworks for Mitigating NH3 and NO2 Emissions
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 19 May
PhD Studentship in Aeronautics: Thermo-structural Design of Hypersonic Vehicles under Extreme Material Nonlinearity (AE0085)
Imperial College London
Location: London
Salary: £21,237 - please see advert
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 26 Mar
PhD Studentship: (BioProcess) Harnessing Biocatalysis Toward Next Generation Nucleoside Triphopshates
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 18 May
PhD Studentship: Resolving carbon pathways to microbiomes in extreme geothermal environments
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 18 May
PhD Studentship in Vehicle-based Intelligent Technologies for Ambient Monitoring of Healthy Living (VITAL)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Imperial College London
Location: London
Salary: The post is supported by a bursary and fees (at the UK student rate)
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 17 May
PhD Studentship: Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship in AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility (ADA)
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully funded 4-year studentship (48 months of full-time study) covers home or international tuition fees, maintenance at UKRI base levels (£20,780 for 2025/26) and £10,000 to support research and training needs.
Date Placed: 19 Feb
Closes 14 Apr
PhD Studentship - Understanding the Rules of Life in Microbiomes Using Stable Isotope Labelling
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 18 Feb
Closes 18 May
PhD Studentship - Microbial Engineering of Novel Catalysts for Hydrogen Production
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 18 Feb
Closes 18 May
PhD Studentship - Assessment of Gait Characteristics using Video-based Skeletal Tracking Data
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 18 Feb
Closes 13 May
PhD Studentship: Understanding RNAi application for the control of cabbage stem flea beetle
John Innes Centre
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 18 Feb
Closes 04 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.

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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