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Find the latest PhD scholarships available at universities across the UK and globally. We regularly advertise new fully-funded PhD studentships and PhD scholarships in STEM, the humanities, business and management studies and the social sciences plus many more.

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PhD Studentship: Monitoring complex ecosystems - critical transitions in time series for soil health and earthquake emergence
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 per year
Date Placed: 02 Apr
Closes 30 Apr
8 Fully Funded PhD Scholarships in Management
jointly with Free University of Bolzano/Bozen
University of Trento
Location: Bolzano, Trento
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 02 Apr
Closes 14 May
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: Investigating the blueprint for bio-inspired next generation sunscreens
School of Chemistry
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: See advert
Date Placed: 02 Apr
Closes 02 Jul
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: From the Frontline: Witnesses to War – Exploring the role, perspectives and impact of war correspondents during the Cold War and late 20th century
University of Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: The award pays an annual stipend for all students, both home and international students; The stipend is tax free, & is the equivalent of an annual salary, enabling the student to pay living costs (UKRI Minimum Doctoral Stipend for 2026/2027 is £21,805)
Date Placed: 02 Apr
Closes 01 May
PhD Studentship: Mapping the Manor: Burrow Architecture and Its Consequences in Wild Kalahari Meerkats
School of Biological Sciences
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 02 Apr
Closes 30 Apr
PhD Studentship: Novel Diagnostics to Target Pathogens in Plant Biosecurity
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £20,780 tax-free annual living allowance
Date Placed: 02 Apr
Closes 27 Apr
PhD Studentship: The performance of pontoons for offshore solar energy
University of Plymouth
Location: Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3.5 years and includes Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum 2026-27 rate
Date Placed: 02 Apr
Closes 24 Apr
PhD Studentship: Enhancing AI medical applications on AMD cutting-edge AI hardware
University of Plymouth
Location: Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3.5 years and includes Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum 2026-27 rate
Date Placed: 02 Apr
Closes 24 Apr
PhD Studentship: Protecting privacy while preventing wandering in people living with mild dementia
University of Plymouth
Location: Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3.5 years and includes Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum 2026-27 rate
Date Placed: 02 Apr
Closes 24 Apr
PhD Studentship: Integrating multi-modal radiomics and AI co-pilot software to accelerate cancer detection and improve treatment decision-making
University of Plymouth
Location: Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3.5 years and includes Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum 2026-27 rate
Date Placed: 02 Apr
Closes 24 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
PhD Studentship: Embedding care for people and planet? Designing sustainable floristry
Coventry University – Creative Economies
Coventry University Group
Location: Coventry
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 27 May
PhD Studentship: Human-in-the-Loop AI for Equitable and Climate-Resilient Sewer Systems.
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: Please see full advert for details of funding covered by this studentship.
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 24 Apr
PhD Studentship: Does the Earth magnetic field spin up the polar vortex in the outer core?
Coventry University - Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems
Coventry University Group
Location: Coventry
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 27 May
EPSRC Project Proposals 2026/27 - Next-Generation Farrington Model for Infection Prevention and Control: An Enhanced Farrington Algorithm with Spatiotemporal and Adaptive Baseline Capa
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences - Mathematics (Statistics)
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 30 Jun
PhD Studentship: AI-Enhanced Battery State of Health Estimation Using Ring Probabilistic Logic Neural Networks
School of Architecture / Faculty of Health, Science and Technology
Oxford Brookes University
Location: Oxford
Salary: Bursary p.a: £20,780
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 20 Apr
PhD studentship on Early Modern Global History
Arts and Humanities
King's College London
Location: London
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 19 Apr
PhD Studentship: Topological data analysis for multimodal neuroimaging: MRI and NIRS biomarkers of brain change
University of Plymouth
Location: Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3.5 years and includes Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum 2026-27 rate
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 24 Apr
PhD Studentship: Next-generation biodegradable microneedle electrodes for continuous heart monitoring
University of Plymouth
Location: Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3.5 years and includes Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum 2026-27 rate
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 24 Apr
PhD Studentship: Development of pancreatic tumour treating field system
University of Plymouth
Location: Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3.5 years and includes Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum 2026-27 rate
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 24 Apr
PhD Electrical and Electronic Engineering: Advanced Wireless Power Transfer Technologies for Offshore Renewable Energy Systems
University of Plymouth
Location: Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3.5 years and includes Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum 2026-27 rate
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 24 Apr
PhD Studentship: Novel Graphene Field-effect Transistors for RF to THz Electronics and Biosensing Applications’
University of Plymouth
Location: Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3.5 years and includes Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum 2026-27 rate
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 24 Apr
PhD Studentship: Decarbonisation of Coastal Defences Through Adoption of Vegetation-enhanced Coastal Infrastructure
Civil Engineering
University of Plymouth
Location: Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3.5 years and includes Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum 2026-27 rate
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 24 Apr

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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