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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 Studentship: Mechanical Engineering, Fusion, Digital: Digital twin validation - Physics-based model, AI and Data
Aerospace Civil Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 06 Jul
UNICIL Research Technician (With Option to Undertake a PhD)
Living Systems Institute
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £30,628 on Grade D, depending on knowledge, skills and experience.
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 29 Jun
PhD Studentship - Process Industries: Net Zero - Decarbonising Industrial Cellophane Production
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 01 Jul
PhD Studentship - Process Industries: Net Zero - Designing the Net‑Zero Polymer Factory: Energy Efficiency, Recovery and Novel Process Technologies
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 minimum tax-free annual living allowance, 100% fees and a research training support grant of £20,000
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 01 Jul
PhD Position in Efficient Test-Time Model Adaptation in Dynamic Edge Environments
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Technical University of Denmark
Location: Aarhus
Salary: Competitive
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 15 Aug
PhD Studentship: Wind-wave-ocean Eddy Interactions: Unravelling Coupled Processes at the Air-sea Interface
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £21,805 in 2026/27
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 22 Jul
PhD Studentship: Windstorms and Atmosphere-ocean Coupling Around Greenland in a Changing Climate
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £21,805 in 2026/27
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 22 Jul
MSCA Doctoral Graduate Research Assistant [DC4]
Environment, Science and Economy
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £33,951 to £39,906 (The starting salary will be from £33,951 on Grade E, depending on knowledge, skills and experience.)
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 06 Jul
PhD Scholarship in Applied Health research supported by the Applied Research Collaboration Kent, Surrey and Sussex (ARC KSS)
Centre for Health Services Studies
University of Kent
Location: Canterbury
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 26 Jul
PhD Studentship: PhD in Renewable Energy (Funded)
Engineering
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: UK and International tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 per year
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 03 Jul
PhD Studentship: Breaching the barrier: enterovirus and parechovirus antagonism of mucosal innate immunity and near-patient diagnostics for neonatal disease
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully funded studentship including stipend aligned with UKRI (£21,805 per annum for 2026/27, with annual uplifts applied), home-student fees and project costs.
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 12 Jul
PhD Studentship: Evaluating the influence of vibrotactile stimulation on sensory processing and motor symptoms in people with Parkinson’s
HLS
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 per year
Date Placed: 22 Jun
Closes 20 Jul
PhD Studentship: Climate change impacts on the Antarctic coastal ocean carbon sink
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £21,805 per annum
Date Placed: 19 Jun
Closes 22 Jul
PhD Studentship: Mechanical engineering, fusion, digital: Stochastic failure prediction – A stochastic finite element approach
Aerospace Civil Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £20,780 per annum
Date Placed: 19 Jun
Closes 06 Jul
PhD Research Fellows in Human Geography
Department of Sociology and Human Geography
University of Oslo
Location: Oslo
Salary: £41,922.28 to £45,193.90 depending on competence and experience
Date Placed: 19 Jun
Closes 15 Aug
PhD Research Fellows in Sociology
Department of Sociology and Human Geography
University of Oslo
Location: Oslo
Salary: £41,922.28 to £45,193.90 depending on competence and experience
Date Placed: 19 Jun
Closes 15 Aug
PhD Studentship: Robust Beam-shaping and Fibre-coupling System for High Power Diode Laser Stacks
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 annual tax-free stipend and tuition fees will be paid
Date Placed: 19 Jun
Closes 31 Jul
PhD Studentship: Numerical Modelling of Microscale Material Behaviour for Prediction of Damage
Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering (EEME)
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: 19 Jun
Closes 31 Jul
PhD Studentship: Nonlinear Dynamics Vibration Attenuation: Shock and Vibration Mitigation in Rotary Steerable Tools
Aerospace Civil Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 18 Jun
Closes 06 Jul
PhD Studentship: Mechanical engineering, fusion, digital: An AI enhanced modelling of coupled tritium breeding and heat exchange for fusion breeder blankets
Aerospace Civil Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 18 Jun
Closes 06 Jul
PhD Studentship (Fixed Term)
Department of Pathology, Central Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 18 Jun
Closes 31 Jul
Fully Funded 4.5-Year PhD Studentship in Health Economics
Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Integrated PhD Program 2027
Monash University, Australia
Location: Melbourne
Salary: £19,483.61 tax-free stipend per annum + scholarships of up to AU$47,000 per annum
Date Placed: 18 Jun
Closes 31 Aug
PhD Studentship: Investigating the role of SET/PP2A in haematopoietic and leukemic stem cells
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully and directly funded for this project only. UKRI standard stipend starting from £21,805. Funding is available for 3.5 years.
Date Placed: 18 Jun
Closes 12 Jul
PhD Studentship: Recycling high-impact Polypropylenes for the Automotive Sector
Department of Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate and tuition fees will be paid
Date Placed: 18 Jun
Closes 31 Aug
PhD Studentship: Human Performance and Wellbeing in Space Explorations
Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space
University of Leicester
Location: Leicester
Salary: £21,805 p.a.
Date Placed: 18 Jun
Closes 02 Jul

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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