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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: Quantum Materials Physics and Machine Learning
School of Metallurgy and Materials
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: UK/Home funding available only
Date Placed: 13 Jun
Closes 14 Jun
PhD Studentship in Cancer Radiotherapy and in Vivo Imaging
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 12 Jun
Closes 02 Jul
PhD Studentships in Psychology 2025
University of Limerick
Location: Limerick
Salary: - please see advert
Date Placed: 12 Jun
Closes 04 Jul
PhD Studentship: Evaluating End of Life Strategies for Non Woven Industrial Filtration Felts
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: Annual tax free stipend, set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26) and tuition fees will be paid
Date Placed: 12 Jun
Closes 27 Jul
PhD Studentship - CBF Control for Safety-Critical Multi-Agent Autonomous Systems
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 12 Jun
Closes 12 Sep
PhD Studentship: Assistive wearable technologies: What are the right trousers? And who are they right for?
School of Engineering Mathematic and Technology & School of Psychological Science
University of Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Minimum tax-free stipend at the current UKRI rate is £20,780 for 2025/26. For eligibility and residence requirements please check the UKRI UK Research and Innovation website
Date Placed: 12 Jun
Closes 10 Sep
PhD Studentship in Algorithms and Complexity
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences - Computer Science
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: - please see advert
Date Placed: 12 Jun
Closes 04 Aug
PhD Studentship - Large Language Model for System Software
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences EPSRC Project Proposals 2025/26 - Computer Science
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 12 Jun
Closes 27 Jun
PhD Studentship - Air Power
War Studies
King's College London
Location: London
Salary: Stipend at UKRI rate + London Weighting (£22,780 for 2025/26 academic year) Tuition fees: UK Home Fees for 3 years
Date Placed: 12 Jun
Closes 20 Jun
PhD Studentship: Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectroscopy Applied to Energy Materials
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £20,034
Date Placed: 12 Jun
Closes 11 Jul
PhD Studentship: Rapid Diagnostics for Antimicrobial Resistance
Digital Health and Biomedical Engineering Research Group
University of Southampton
Location: Southampton
Salary: This PhD opportunity is fully funded for all UK and EU students for 4 years
Date Placed: 12 Jun
Closes 31 Aug
Funded PhD Studentship in AI for Wearable Music Interfaces
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: studentship includes a tax exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 per annum; in addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to 3 years
Date Placed: 11 Jun
Closes 01 Jul
PhD Engineering Studentship: Analysis and Optimization of Friction Damping Devices for Gas-turbine Bladed Disks
Engineering
University of Sussex
Location: Sussex, Falmer
Salary: Tax-free stipend at the standard rate for 3.5 years - currently £20,780 pa for 25/26; a fee waiver at the UK or international rate for 3.5 years; a one-off Research and Training Support Grant of £2,000
Date Placed: 11 Jun
Closes 11 Sep
Biosciences (Restoration Ecology): Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Restoring Intertidal Systems Using Electronics
Restoration Ecology, Biodiversity, Population and Community Ecology
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 11 Jun
Closes 30 Jun
Biosciences (Restoration Ecology): Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Measurement and Modelling of Future Persistence of Restored Peatlands at Their Bioclimatic Range Limits
Restoration Ecology, Biodiversity, Population and Community Ecology
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 11 Jun
Closes 30 Jun
Biosciences (Restoration Ecology): Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Harnessing Ecosystem Resilience to Inform Woodland Restoration Across Wales
Restoration Ecology, Biodiversity, Population and Community Ecology
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 11 Jun
Closes 30 Jun
Biosciences (Restoration Ecology): Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Assessing and Enhancing Functional Biodiversity in Solar Parks and Ecological Restoration Projects
Restoration Ecology, Biodiversity, Population and Community Ecology
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 11 Jun
Closes 30 Jun
PhD Studentship: Investigation into the Impact of Material Properties on the Gas Transport Behaviour of Polyolefin Materials
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Funding covers a stipend of £20,000 pa (tax free) and UK “home” tuition fees for 3.5 years. Funding is available to cover travel, conferences, and consumables.
Date Placed: 11 Jun
Closes 06 Jul
PhD Studentship - Development of Advanced Porous Media Models for High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors
Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 11 Jun
Closes 01 Jul
PhD Candidate in Modern Economic History
Department of Modern History and Society
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Location: Trondheim
Salary: £40,796.24 gross per annum depending on qualifications and seniority
Date Placed: 11 Jun
Closes 15 Sep
PhD Studentship on the NOvA Experiment
University of Sussex
Location: Sussex, Falmer
Salary: £19,237 per annum
Date Placed: 09 Jun
Closes 29 Jun
PhD Studentship - Solvent Extraction for Lithium Isotope Enrichment to Fuel Fusion Power
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,870 - please see advert
Date Placed: 09 Jun
Closes 09 Sep
PhD in Molecular Dynamic Simulation for modelling the corrosion inhibition mechanisms of film forming amine
Department of Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: From £20,780 annual tax free stipend for 2025/26
Date Placed: 09 Jun
Expires 07 Sep
PhD Studentship: Maintaining Muscle Mass and Physical Function During GLP1 Agonist Induced Weight Loss With Progressive Resistance Exercise Training or Protein Nutrition
University of Exeter - Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 09 Jun
Closes 04 Jul
PhD Studentship - Biorenewable Antioxidants Production for Enhanced Sustainability of Polymeric Materials
Chemical Engineering
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: The studentship provides 100% fees (Home & international), a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £20,780 (2025/26 UKRI rate) and a research training support grant of £20,000.
Date Placed: 09 Jun
Closes 24 Jun

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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