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Closes 09 Jun
PhD Scholarship in the area of advanced Power Electronics using wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor devices
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University of Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-free stipend at the current UKRI rate is £21,805 for 2026/27; Research Training Support Grant (RTSG): £3000
Date Placed: 29 May
Closes 29 Aug
PhD Studentship: From Anatomy to Risk: Fast Digital Twins for LAA Thrombosis Risk in Atrial Fibrillation
Mechanical Engineering
UCL
Location: London
Salary: Full Home/UK tuition fees (currently £6,400/year) and maintenance stipend (currently £23,805/year) for 3.5 years
Date Placed: 29 May
Closes 29 Jun
PhD Studentship - Process Industries: Net Zero CDT: Decarbonising the Future of Marine Energy Systems
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: 29 May
Closes 09 Jun
Forshaw PhD Studentship in Architecture
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 per annum
Date Placed: 28 May
Closes 19 Jun
PhD Position in Microbial Physiology and Biotechnology: Physiology and Ecology of Methanogens
Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne - EPFL
Location: Lausanne
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 28 May
Closes 28 Aug
PhD Studentship: Engineered Self-Assembled Medical Scaffolds: Properties, Modification, and Application Testing
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: Please refer to advert
Date Placed: 28 May
Closes 25 Jun
PhD Studentship: Smart Medical Device for Non-invasive Physiological Monitoring
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick, Warwick
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 28 May
Closes 15 Jun
PhD Studentship in Translational Computational Psychiatry
School of Life & Medical Sciences (B02)
UCL
Location: London
Salary: The award covers UK fees and stipend only, with no fees covered in the 4th year (for writing up). Funding will cease once the PhD is submitted. 2025/26 Stipend: London - £22,780
Date Placed: 27 May
Closes 10 Jun
PhD Studentship: Coordinated Aerial Logistics for Emergency Response and National Resilience
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: UKRI rates
Date Placed: 27 May
Closes 16 Jun
PhD Studentship: Uranium Speciation and Mobility in Organic-Rich Wetlands under Environmental Perturbations
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate. Tuition fees will be paid for home students and fee waivers might be available for international students
Date Placed: 27 May
Closes 26 Aug
PhD Studentship - Energy Efficient Processing of Thermoplastic Composites
The University of Edinburgh
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 26 May
Closes 31 Jul
PhD Studentship: Interoception in Early Childhood: Measurement, Mechanisms and Mental Health
Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development
Birkbeck, University of London
Location: London
Salary: This studentship covers 4 years of PhD tuition fees (at Home level) and provides a tax-free living stipend (comparable to UKRI levels for 2026)
Date Placed: 26 May
Closes 08 Jun
PhD Studentship: Epilepsy Research Institute UK PhD Fellowship: Extracting added value from home EEG epilepsy diagnostics for children and young adults
Digital Health and Applied Technology Assessment (DHATA), King’s College London
King's College London
Location: London
Salary: For eligible students, this award will cover Home tuition fees, an annual tax-free stipend of approximately £24,643 for 3 years full-time, and a contribution to UK conference costs.
Date Placed: 26 May
Closes 19 Jun
PhD Studentship: What is the Impact of AI-Adaptive Sensory Environments on Child Behaviour and Cognition?
Birkbeck, University of London
Location: London
Salary: This studentship covers PhD tuition fees at home level and provides a tax-free living stipend (comparable to UKRI levels for 2026)
Date Placed: 26 May
Closes 08 Jun
PhD Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science
Location: Göttingen
Salary: TVöD E13 (75%)
Date Placed: 22 May
Closes 06 Jun
PhD Studentship: High light yield perovskite scintillators for Nuclear Security gamma applications
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: See advert
Date Placed: 22 May
Closes 12 Jul
PhD Studentship: Improving perovskite single crystals as radiation detectors using sonocrystallisation
Department of Chemistry
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: see advert
Date Placed: 22 May
Closes 12 Jul
PhD Researcher in Sociology
Department of Sociology - School of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Location: Dublin
Salary: Maintenance stipend of €25,000 per annum, tax-free, plus full tuition fees (EU/non EU) for 4 years
Date Placed: 22 May
Closes 12 Jun
PhD in Political Science and Public Management
Department of Political Science and Public Management
University of Southern Denmark
Location: Esbjerg, Odense, Sønderborg
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 22 May
Closes 08 Jun
NUAcT PhD Studentship – France in the Long Nineteenth Century
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 21 May
Closes 15 Jun
Closes 30 Jun
PhD Studentship - Developing Sustainable Supplies of Lithium-6 and Lithium-7 for the Nuclear Sector
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 21 May
Closes 30 Jun
PhD Studentship - Liquid-liquid Extraction of Plutonium: Third Phase, Molecular Modelling and Molecular Theory
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 21 May
Closes 30 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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