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Funded PhD Studentships – Teachers’ Professional Journeys
School of Education
University of Limerick
Location: Limerick
Salary: £19,135.50 and EU fees for 4 years
Date Placed: 26 Mar
Closes 14 Apr
PhD Studentship: Identifying progression and patterns of symptoms in autoimmune rheumatic disease flares
Norwich Medical School
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 01 May
PhD Studentship: Investigating the role of cerebellar-midbrain projections in emotional contributions to pain - PhD (funded)
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: 24 Mar
Closes 20 Apr
PhD Studentship: Exploring a One Welfare approach to Human-Animal-Computer Interaction in Digital Dairy Technologies
Veterinary Medicine & Science
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 24 Mar
Closes 27 Apr
4-Year PhD / Associate Lecturer
School of Psychology & Neuroscience
University of St Andrews
Location: St Andrews
Salary: £25,209 per annum
Date Placed: 23 Mar
Closes 13 Apr
Open-topic PhD Studentship within the School of Psychology,
School of Psychology / Faculty of Health: Medicine, Dentistry and Human Sciences
University of Plymouth
Location: Plymouth
Salary: Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £19,215 per annum 2025-26 rate (2026-27 rate TBC)
Date Placed: 20 Mar
Closes 17 Apr
PhD Studentship: How does a 4 day working week support employee inclusivity?
School of Psychology
University of Sussex
Location: Brighton
Salary: A stipend for 3 years. Rates for 2026/27: £21,805 per year.
Date Placed: 18 Mar
Closes 08 May
DPhil Studentship: Language-grounded Causal Inference from Electronic Mental Health Records
Department of Psychiatry
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £20,780 per annum
Date Placed: 17 Mar
Closes 10 Apr
PhD Studentship - Restructuring Motor Maps by Developmental Expansion of Motor Cortex Neuroscience
Neuroscience
University of Sussex
Location: Falmer
Salary: tuition fees covered + stipend
Date Placed: 17 Mar
Closes 30 Apr
PhD Studentship - Integrating Neuroimaging and Life-Course Analysis in Justice-Involved Women
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 13 Mar
Closes 19 Apr
PhD Studentship - Dissecting the Neural Code for Skilled Action Planning and Coordination
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 13 Mar
Closes 30 Aug
PhD Studentship: Agentic AI for Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrial Environments
Mechanical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 13 Mar
Closes 06 Apr
DPhil Studentship - Mental Health Complexity and Service Inequalities in Adolescent Chronic Pain
Department of Psychiatry
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 12 Mar
Closes 10 Apr
PhD (via MPhil) Studentship in the School of Engineering and Computing - The Development and Evaluation of a Metacognitive Training Intervention in Aviation
School of Engineering and Computing
University of Lancashire
Location: Lancashire
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 12 Mar
Closes 13 Apr
PhD Studentship: Cancer Data Driven Detection: Understanding and handling missing data due to differential tendencies of clinicians to record symptoms for the development of cancer risk prediction models CRUK funded PhD
Department of Health and Community Sciences
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £22,113 UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of £22,113 per year
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 03 Apr
ESRC CASE PhD Studentship - Investment Aversion in the UK: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Narrative Origins, Biases and Decision Errors
Department of Economics
Lancaster University
Location: Lancaster, London
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 09 Mar
Closes 31 Mar
PhD Scholarship in Occupational/Organizational Psychology – focus on careers and/or vocational guidance
Birkbeck, University of London
Location: London
Salary: The Fund plans to support a full-time studentship for three years (or part-time equivalent in exceptional circumstance), at a rate equivalent to the ESRC funding where for 2025/6 the maintenance grant was set at £20,780 (with an additional top up for stud
Date Placed: 06 Mar
Closes 07 Apr
PhD Studentship: PILLOW: Feasibility, clinical effectiveness and economic rationale of CBT-I and digital CBT in pregnancy
Norwich Medical School
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 04 Mar
Closes 31 Mar
PhD Studentship - Vascular and Hemodynamic Health following Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 04 Mar
Closes 08 Apr
PhD Studentship:Transforming asthma care: Implementation of a behavioural science medication adherence intervention
School of Health Sciences
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 03 Mar
Closes 31 Mar
PhD Studentship: Co-producing peer support resources for young people with mental health difficulties in rural and coastal communities
School of Health Sciences
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 03 Mar
Closes 31 Mar
PhD Studentship: Reimagining Behaviour Change at Scale: Agricultural Extension-inspired Health Intermediaries as a Strategy for Uptake
School of Health Sciences
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Fully funded for 3 years
Date Placed: 27 Feb
Closes 31 Mar
PhD Studentship: Improving Prediabetes Conversations: Training Medical Students to Deliver Effective Behaviour Change Support in Underserved Coastal Communities
Norwich Medical School
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Fully funded for 3 years
Date Placed: 27 Feb
Closes 31 Mar
PhD Studentship: Psychology inspired Efficient Training of AI Models
School of Psychology / School of Computer Science
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: Annual tax-free stipend based on the UKRI rate (£21,805 for 2026/27), Home tuition fee, and £3000 p.a. Research Training Support Grant.
Date Placed: 24 Feb
Closes 19 Apr

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