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PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships
Department of War Studies
King's College London
Location: London
Salary: Stipend: full UKRI stipend (£21,805p.a. in 2026-27, plus London Weighting of £2000 p.a.) Tuition fees: Home tuition fees.
Date Placed: 08 Apr
Closes 01 May
PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) AHRC Doctoral Studentships
Department of War Studies
King's College London
Location: London
Salary: Stipend: full UKRI stipend (£21,805p.a. in 2026-27, plus London Weighting of £2000 p.a.). Tuition fees: Home tuition fees. CRSW can appoint and fund one Overseas fee-paying student across the three opportunities.
Date Placed: 08 Apr
Closes 01 May
PhD Studentship: Near Real-Time Surveillance and Decision Support for CBRN and Major Incident Response
Department of Applied Health Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: A yearly stipend based on the current UKRI rates
Date Placed: 07 Apr
Closes 28 Apr
PhD Studentship: Understanding and Changing Driver Behaviours in Situations of Acute Stress
Birmingham Medical School
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Centre-UB studentships cover tuition fees, a maintenance stipend, support for research training, as well as research activity support grants.
Date Placed: 07 Apr
Closes 01 May
PhD Studentship: Supporting Invictus Games Competitors to Thrive UK Competitors Post-Games Experiences, Support Needs, and International Best Practice
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Funded by the Invictus Games Foundation
Date Placed: 07 Apr
Closes 06 May
PhD Studentship: Enhancing Emergency Response Through Technology-Enabled Communication and Coordination During Major Incidents
Department of Applied Health Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Stipend based on the current UKRI rates
Date Placed: 07 Apr
Closes 28 Apr
PhD Studentship: Enhancing Interoperability Across Category-1 Responders Building System-Level Readiness for Major Incidents
Department of Applied Health Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: See advert
Date Placed: 02 Apr
Closes 28 Apr
PhD Studentship: Applied Records of Traumatic Events and Mass Injury Building a Learning System for Emergency Preparedness
Department of Applied Health Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: See advert
Date Placed: 02 Apr
Closes 28 Apr
PhD Studentship: Politics and Mythmaking: Disentangling Myth from Ideology
Sociology, Politics and International Relations, School of Society and the Environment
Queen Mary University of London
Location: London
Salary: Home tuition fees + annual stipend at QMUL rate (£21,874 for 2025/26)
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 30 Apr
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award - Spaces of Health: Connecting Past and Present Experiences of Health and Wellbeing in Heritage
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 31 Mar
Closes 01 May
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: 31 Mar
Closes 12 Apr
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award - Intimate Energies: How Do Museum Collections Help Us See Unrecognised Actors in the History and Future of Energy?
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 31 Mar
Closes 01 May
ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship: Educational Mobility and Trajectories: Advanced Quantitative Analysis of Pupil Movement and Long-Term Outcomes in England
University of Warwick and University of Birmingham
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 27 Mar
Closes 27 Apr
Closes 31 Aug
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
4-year PhD Studentship: AI Selecting or Evaluating Humans. Professional and Ethical Tensions in the use of AI in Organisations
ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work, Department of Management, University of Sussex Business School
University of Sussex
Location: Falmer
Salary: £20,780 Stipend per annum
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 15 May
PhD Studentship: Meritocracy as Political Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Structures, Attitudes, and Meanings
Department of Sociology
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Location: Dublin
Salary: £16,091.23 per annum plus £500 allowance and full tuition fees (EU/non- EU)
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 01 May
PhD studentship: Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 annual stipend (living expenses) plus home tuition fees paid
Date Placed: 23 Mar
Closes 20 Apr
PhD Research Fellow in Sociology - Punishment as a Vehicle for Change?
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: 20 Mar
Closes 30 Apr
Creative Bridges PhD Studentships
University of Warwick
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 20 Mar
Closes 20 Apr
Early Notice of Forthcoming Call for Applications for the Doctoral Programs (2026/27)
Scuola Superiore Meridionale
Location: Naples
Salary: £16,526.12 p.a.
Date Placed: 19 Mar
Expires 17 Jun
PhD Studentship - Faunal Materials and Objects from the 2nd Millennium BCE East Mediterranean
Faculty of Arts
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Location: Leuven
Salary: Competitive
Date Placed: 19 Mar
Closes 30 Apr
Closes 30 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
PhD studentship: Histories of Pollution in the Urban Art Museum
(UCL and The National Gallery
UCL
Location: London
Salary: £21,805 pa + £2,000 pa + £600 pa (See advert)
Date Placed: 18 Mar
Closes 04 May

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