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ESRC DTP Collaborative Studentship: Understanding and Supporting Children’s Accounts of Domestic Abuse: Memory Accuracy, Suggestibility, and the Child’s Voice in Safeguarding Practice
University of Birmingham and Operation Encompass
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Birmingham, University of Birmingham
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 30 Jan
Closes 23 Feb
ESRC DTP Collaborative Studentship: CHISEL - Clear Health Information Supporting Empowered Lives
University of Nottingham and the NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB)
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Nottingham, University of Nottingham
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 27 Jan
Closes 02 Mar
ESRC DTP Collaborative Studentship: Improving Students’ Transition to University Mathematics in Low Resource Environments
Loughborough University and IDEMS International
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Loughborough University, Loughborough
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 26 Jan
Closes 18 Feb
ESRC DTP Collaborative Studentship: Understanding Homicide Data: Institutional Practices, Analytical Innovation, and the Prevention of Serious Violence in London.
University of Warwick, London’s Violence Reduction Unit, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime and The Metropolitan Police Service.
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 23 Jan
Closes 17 Feb
ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship: Understanding the Relationship Between Housing Inequality and Wellbeing
Loughborough University and University of Nottingham
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Loughborough University, Loughborough
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 23 Jan
Closes 20 Feb
PhD Studentship in Planning/Landscape: The Environmental Impacts of Housing Development
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £20,780 tax-free stipend plus home fees.
Date Placed: 21 Jan
Closes 06 Mar
ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship: Longitudinal Prediction of Children’s Health and Wellbeing Outcomes from Early Years Assessments
Aston University and University of Birmingham
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Aston University, Birmingham
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 20 Jan
Closes 16 Feb
ESRC DTP Collaborative Studentship: Non-contentious Politics? An Examination of the Ways in which Global Disability Rights Ideals are Operationalised in China and its Global Implications
University of Nottingham and Ability Beyond Borders
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Nottingham, University of Nottingham
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 20 Jan
Closes 23 Feb
Two fully funded PhD Studentships in Psychology at the University of Liverpool: Health, Psychology and using Research to Bring About Real-world Change
Department of Psychology
University of Liverpool
Location: Liverpool
Salary: £20,780 Funding covers student fees and a monthly stipend, set at the standard UKRI rate (full time £20,780 in 2025/26)
Date Placed: 20 Jan
Closes 01 Mar
PhD Studentship: Future Of Flight Behaviour, Risk and Regulation in the Public Sector
School of Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 19 Jan
Closes 17 Feb
PhD Studentship: Emerging Technologies, Digital Surveillance and Stalking Understanding Perpetrator Behaviour, Victim Impact, and System Responses
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 19 Jan
Closes 17 Feb
PhD Studentship: Loneliness, Mental Health and Wellbeing in Policing. Examining Rates, Associations and Experiences of UK Police Investigators
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 19 Jan
Closes 17 Feb
PhD Studentship: A Systems Thinking Approach to Understanding and Preventing Male Suicide
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 19 Jan
Closes 17 Feb
PhD Studentship: BETW33N Towards Equitable Digital Wellbeing
School of Social Policy
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 19 Jan
Closes 17 Feb
PhD Studentship: How do climate change-induced biodiversity targets influence the dynamics and effectiveness of international cooperation in biodiversity governance?
Government / Life Sciences
University of Essex
Location: Colchester, Essex
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 19 Jan
Closes 13 Apr
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: 19 Jan
Closes 20 Feb
PhD Studentship: Community risk perception, response and effective preparedness for low-frequency geoenvironmental hazards
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 19 Jan
Closes 17 Feb
PhD Studentship: Human-Aligned Super-Resolution for Facial Identification Behavioural Evaluation, Bias Analysis, and Explainable AI
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 19 Jan
Closes 17 Feb
PhD Studentship: Permissible Population Policy as a Means of Averting Harmful Climate Change
Government / School of Health and Social Care
University of Essex
Location: Colchester, Essex
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 19 Jan
Closes 13 Apr
PhD Studentship: Humans, Machines, Trust, and Taxes Experimental and Survey Approaches to Behavioural Public Policy
Birmingham Business School
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 19 Jan
Closes 17 Feb
PhD Studentship: Understanding and changing driver behaviours in situations of acute stress
Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 19 Jan
Closes 17 Feb
PhD Studentship: Towards a Praxis of a Just Transition in Developing Economies: Beyond Counter Accounts and Regulatory Frameworks to Action
Essex Business School / Essex Law School
University of Essex
Location: Colchester
Salary: £20,780 for 2025-26
Date Placed: 19 Jan
Closes 13 Apr
ESRC DTP Collaborative Studentship: In the Shadow of the Penal State: A Systematic Historical Analysis of the Penal Voluntary Sector in England and Wales
University of Nottingham and the National Justice Museum
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Nottingham, University of Nottingham
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 16 Jan
Closes 23 Feb
ESRC DTP Collaborative Studentship: Deteriorating Unnoticed in Digital Health: Inequality and the Human Dimensions of Telehealth in Care Homes
De Montfort University and These Hands Academy Ltd
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: De Montfort University, Leicester
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 15 Jan
Closes 15 Feb
PhD Studentship in Anthropology of Health and Environment in Africa and Europe (x3 Posts)
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Oslo
Location: Oslo
Salary: £41,907.07 to £45,330.85
Date Placed: 14 Jan
Closes 01 Mar

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