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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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Welcome to jobs.ac.uk’s PhD Studentship section. Here you can 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. Find your ideal funded PhD opportunity in Engineering and Technology, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Languages and Literature or Biological sciences here. Updated regularly with new PhD opportunities across all disciplines.


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Fully Funded and Fee Waiver Scholarships
School of Human and Health Sciences
University of Huddersfield
Location: Huddersfield
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 15 May
Closes 19 Jun
PhD Studentship: Nanoscale standardisation of DNA damage for Emerging Isotopes in Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection
Physics
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Stipend is fully funded at the enhanced UKRI level of £26,000 per year, for 4 years. UK tuition fees are included in the funding offer. RTSG is £5k per year.
Date Placed: 15 May
Closes 12 Jul
PhD in Hydrogen Permeation and Degradation in Structural Materials for Energy Applications
School of Metallurgy & Materials
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £20,780 Stipend p.a.
Date Placed: 15 May
Closes 17 Jul
PhD in EPSRC supported EngD Thermodynamics of Aerosols Understanding VLE & Phase Transitions for Aerosolised Systems
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 15 May
Closes 15 Aug
PhD in Novel Sorption Enhanced and Chemical Looping Processes for LowTemperature Hydrogen Production and Carbon Capture
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 15 May
Closes 15 Aug
PhD studentship in the Population Health Sciences Institute: Exploring the Impact of Heavy Drinking in Older Adults on Healthcare Costs
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 annual stipend (living expenses) and 100% of home tuition fees paid
Date Placed: 15 May
Closes 12 Jun
PhD Studentship: Design of Multifunctional Coated Silicate Particles for Thermal Energy Storage and Environmental Remediation
Department of Civil Engineering and Management
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate and tuition fees will be paid.
Date Placed: 15 May
Closes 31 Jul
PhD Studentship - Single-Cell Spatial Multi-Omics for Cancer Biology
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: £22,500 Stipend
Date Placed: 15 May
Closes 06 Jul
The Iland Postgraduate Research Studentship Award (2026-27 entry)
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £21,805 annual stipend and tuition fees paid at the home rate
Date Placed: 15 May
Closes 26 Jun
Doctoral Student
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Location: Frankfurt am Main
Salary: £2,770.93 per month gross
Date Placed: 15 May
Closes 01 Jun
PhD Studentship: Latin American Studies: Women Walkers in Latin America
Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
University of Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Funding: A full studentship will cover UK tuition fees, and a stipend (£21,805 p.a. in 2026/27, updated each year) for 3 years
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 14 Jun
PhD Studentship: Learning and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Public Health
Faculty of Engineering
University of Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Minimum tax-free stipend at the current UKRI rate (for 2025/26 standard stipend is £20,780, RTSG £8,400, full Tuition Fee covered)
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 31 Jan
PhD Studentship: Human-AV Collaboration for Nuclear Transportation
Systems Engineering
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol, Sellafield
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three and a half years (Home/UK only).
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 03 Jun
PhD Studentship - Optimisation of Thermomechanical Ageing Processing: Influence of Quenching and Pre-ageing on the Performance of High Strength 6xxx Aluminium Alloys
Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 14 Aug
PhD Studentship in Control and Machine Learning Algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles
Mechanical Engineering
Imperial College London
Location: London
Salary: Tuition fees and providing a stipend at the UKRI rate
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 15 Jun
PhD Studentship: EPSRC supported EngD Computational modelling of drag reduction agents (DRAs) in pipe flow
School of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 14 Aug
PhD Studentship: EPSRC supported EngD: Formulation and in-process characterisation of ceramic systems for aerospace component manufacture
School of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 14 Aug
PhD Studentship: Materials for Energy and Industrial Decarbonisation
Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 07 Jun
PhD Studentship: Tackling Health Inequalities in Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Health Services Management Centre
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 29 May
PhD Funded Studentship: Sustainable Aviation Fuel Thermochemical Modelling
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: £24,000 tax free stipend
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 31 Jul
PhD Studentship: RL-Based Safe Autonomous Systems for Long-Horizon Robotic Tasks
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 an annual tax-free stipend and tuition fees will be paid
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 04 Jun
PhD Studentship: Heat Transfer Effect on Nonlinear Disturbances in Transitional Boundary Layers
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Sheffield
University of Sheffield
Location: Sheffield
Salary: Home tuition fee (£5,005 in 2025/26) and stipend for four years.
Date Placed: 14 May
Closes 13 May
PhD Studentship - Agentic AI and Cognitive Work in Healthcare: Reshaping Cognitive and Emotional Work in Clinical Decision Making
Sheffield University Management School (SUMS)
University of Sheffield
Location: Sheffield
Salary: 3.5 years of tuition fees (incl. international) and stipend at the UKRI rate (£21,805 for 2026/27) and a RTSG of £7,250 during the funded period.
Date Placed: 13 May
Closes 26 Jun
Closes 23 Jun
PhD Studentship: Co-production and decolonial archiving
College of Arts, Technology and Environment
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Tax-exempt stipend, which is currently £20,780 (2025/26) per annum. In addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home).
Date Placed: 13 May
Closes 12 Jun

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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