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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 Studentship : Advanced sensing and AI-driven diagnostics for earthwork condition assessment and deterioration detection
School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Department of Computer Science
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: £20,780 per annum
Date Placed: 08 Dec
Closes 04 Jan
PhD (DPhil) Studentship in Organic Synthetic Chemistry and Functional Materials
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £20,780 (c.) Stipend p.a.
Date Placed: 08 Dec
Closes 08 Jan
PhD Studentship in Theory and Practice of High Dynamic Range Imaging (Fixed Term)
Department of Computer Science and Technology
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Funded by a donation through Apple Inc. (Cambridge)
Date Placed: 08 Dec
Closes 01 Feb
Phd Studentship: AI-powered, Smart, and Sustainable E-bike Charging
Nottingham Trent University
Location: Nottingham
Salary: Tuition fee £5006, and Stipend £15774
Date Placed: 08 Dec
Closes 08 Mar
PhD in Evaluating the influence of NEOM regreening approaches on terrestrial productivity (Funded PhD Studentship)
Department of Geography
University of Exeter
Location: Streatham
Salary: £20,780 per year
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 10 Jan
PhD Scholarship for Black British Applicants
The City Law School
City St George’s, University of London
Location: London
Salary: An annual bursary (currently £22,780 subject to change in line with UKRI guidance). Full tuition fee waiver. Research expenses of up to £1000 over three years to support training, equipment, or conference attendance.
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 31 Jan
Funded Studentship 2025-26 - Designing Chocolate Products with Enhanced Health, Wellbeing and Technical Performance using Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Environment - School of Food Science and Nutrition
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 23 Feb
Marie-Curie PhD Studentship - MetaExplore (Fixed Term)
Department of Biochemistry, Central Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: funded
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 02 Jan
PhD Studentship: Policy-Ready Evidence for Living Green Walls: Methods and Metrics for Urban Greenery Decision-Making
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 for the academic year 2025/26. Please refer to advert for further details.
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 03 Mar
PhD Studentship: Building Trustworthy EV Charging: Confidential and Explainable AI for Security and Privacy
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 stiped for the academic year 2025/26. Please see advert for further details.
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 02 Mar
PhD Studentship: Estuaries of the Future: Understanding the Impacts of Wetland Restoration to Inform Scaled-up Planning
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 stipend for the academic year 2025/26 plus home tuition fees £5,006
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 10 Mar
DPhil Studentship: LSRI Ecotheology Scholarship
Laudato Si' Research Institute
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £6,000 per annum, rising at 5% per year for 3 years
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 07 Jan
PhD in Accounting
Finance and & Accounting, Henley Business School
University of Reading
Location: Reading
Salary: £20,780 per annum, 2025/26 figure
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 13 Feb
PhD in Finance
Finance and & Accounting, Henley Business School
University of Reading
Location: Reading
Salary: £20,780 per annum, 2025/26 figure
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 13 Feb
Exciting Fully Funded PhD Opportunity: Novel Sealing for High-Pressure H2 and Low-Carbon Storage Technologies - Help Shape the Future of Clean Energy Storage!
School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering (MAC)
University of Sheffield
Location: Manchester, Sheffield, Slough
Salary: Bursary/Stipend: £19,795, Fees: £4,925
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 30 Aug
Exciting Fully Funded PhD: Computational Modelling for High-Pressure, Low-Carbon Storage Technologies. Be a Key Player in Shaping the Future of Clean Energy Storage!
School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering (MAC)
University of Sheffield
Location: Manchester, Sheffield, Slough
Salary: Bursary/Stipend: £19,795, Fees: £4,925
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 30 Aug
10 Quintin Hogg Trust PhD Studentships
Graduate School
University of Westminster
Location: London
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 06 Feb
PhD Studentship - Towards Scalable eDNA Monitoring: Engineering Microfluidic Systems for Biodiversity Assessment
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 04 Dec
Closes 09 Mar
PhD Studentship - Agentic AI in Retail Investing: Security, Resilience, and Trust
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 04 Dec
Closes 27 Feb
PhD Studentship - AI-Driven Remote Sensing for Species-Level Savannah Monitoring
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 04 Dec
Closes 28 Feb
PhD Studentship - Investigating the Links between Appetite Control, the Gut Microbiome and Anorexia/cachexia in Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 04 Dec
Closes 12 Mar
PhD Studentship - Generalisable Multimodal Learning for Socio-Contextual Human Behaviour Modelling
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 04 Dec
Closes 31 Jan
PhD Programme Studentship (10386)
Rosalind Franklin Institute
Location: Oxford
Salary: fully funded
Date Placed: 04 Dec
Closes 02 Mar
PhD Studentships at the School of Physical Sciences
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
The Open University
Location: Milton Keynes
Salary: £20,780 stipend (2025/26 rate) per annum
Date Placed: 04 Dec
Closes 22 Jan
PhD Studentship: Investigating Emerging Disease Threats to UK Oilseed Rape from Fungal Pathogens
University of Hertfordshire
Location: Hatfield
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 04 Dec
Closes 10 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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