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PhD Studentship: The Impact of Surgical Trials on Clinical Practice in the UK
School of Social Policy and Society
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 28 Oct
Closes 10 Nov
LSE PhD Studentships for 2026
London School of Economics and Political Science
Location: London
Salary: The studentships will be awarded across the School, providing full fees plus an annual stipend
Date Placed: 24 Oct
Closes 14 Jan
PhD (4-Year) Studentship - Difficult to Digitalise Hard Work: Barriers and Opportunities for Digital Adoption in Agri-Food Value Chains
ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work, Department of Management, University of Sussex Business School
University of Sussex
Location: Falmer
Salary: £21,383 per annum
Date Placed: 22 Oct
Closes 09 Jan
PhD (4-Year) Studentship - Digitalising Healthcare Work for Sustainability: Professional Tensions and Ethical Paradoxes
ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work, Department of Management, University of Sussex Business School
University of Sussex
Location: Falmer
Salary: £21,383 per annum
Date Placed: 22 Oct
Closes 09 Jan
PhD Studentship: Equitable Nature-based Solutions Deployment to Mitigate Urban Heat Islands
Geography and Environment
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: £20,780 per annum
Date Placed: 22 Oct
Closes 07 Jan
Full-Time PhD Studentship - Daphne and her Sisters: Framing Gendered Violence
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures and the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS)
Durham University
Location: Durham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 21 Oct
Closes 16 Jan
Full-Time PhD Studentship - Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World
Durham University
Location: Durham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 21 Oct
Closes 16 Jan
Grand Union DTP Studentships
Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASS)
The Open University
Location: Milton Keynes
Salary: £20,780 per annum stipend
Date Placed: 21 Oct
Closes 07 Jan
ESRC-funded PhD studentships offered jointly by SENSS and CAM Doctoral Training Partnerships
SENSS DTP
University of Cambridge
Location: Bedford, Cambridge, Essex
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 20 Oct
Closes 07 Jan
School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 17 Oct
Closes 11 Nov
PhD SEDarc Studentships
University of Kent
Location: Canterbury
Salary: Stipend £20,780 - 2025/26 rate
Date Placed: 14 Oct
Closes 23 Nov
PhD studentship: Justice-Based Sustainability Transformations (JUST)
Faculty of Environment / School of Earth and Environment
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: UK tuition fees plus a maintenance stipend matching UKRI (£20,780 in 2025/26)
Date Placed: 09 Oct
Closes 24 Nov
Social Care, Social Work, Social Policy: Fully Funded PhD Scholarship in the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Social Care, Social Work and Social Policy Pathway
Department of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 09 Oct
Closes 11 Dec
(SENSS) (ESRC) Masters and PhD Studentships
University of Roehampton
Location: London
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 08 Oct
Closes 13 Dec
PhD Scholarship: The Scale and Effectiveness of Parenting Interventions Delivered in Children’s Social Care in the UK: Impact, Experience of Families and Barriers to Evaluation
Human Sciences
University of Greenwich
Location: London
Salary: Bursary available: £20,780 (FT) + tuition fee contribution; details subject to annual review.
Date Placed: 07 Oct
Closes 07 Nov
PhD Studentship : Individual differences in noun generalization by shape over early vocabulary development (SAMUELSONL_U26SYNPSY)
School of Psychology
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 03 Oct
Closes 02 Nov
PhD Studentship : PhD in Global Sustainable Development via Design Route. Consumer Trends: Gen-Z and the Design of Tangible Artefacts
Global Sustainable Development, School for Cross-faculty Studies
University of Warwick
Location: University of Warwick
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 02 Oct
Closes 07 Nov
PhD Studentship: Dynamic Microsimulation for Health
School of Geography
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 01 Oct
Closes 31 Oct
ESRC PhD Studentships in the Social Sciences in the Midlands Graduate School
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Birmingham, Coventry, University of Warwick, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham
Salary: Please see advert
Date Placed: 01 Oct
Closes 13 Jan
Economic and Social Science Research Council PhD Studentships: South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP)
South West Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Bath, Bournemouth, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth
Salary: Fully-funded studentships
Date Placed: 01 Oct
Closes 09 Jan

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