Announcing 10 PhD Studentships within the Royal Holloway Social Purpose Centre for Doctoral Training

As a research-intensive university, we’re of one of the UK’s top 30 universities for research quality according to The Complete University Guide. Operating in six interdisciplinary Schools - Business and Management; Engineering, Physical and Mathematical Sciences; Humanities; Law and Social Sciences; Life Sciences and the Environment; Performing and Digital Arts - we’re home to some of the brightest minds across the globe. We encourage innovation and rising talent, enabling established and emerging research leaders to achieve excellence and respond to new opportunities. 

Royal Holloway, University of London leads and is in partnership with a number of Doctoral Training Partnerships (AHRC Techne, ESRC SEDarc, BBSRC LIDo, NERC Aries, NERC London) as well as Centres for Doctoral Training (EPSRC AI and Digital inclusion, EPSRC Cybersecurity for the everyday). We have an excellent Researcher Development programme, and wider institutional postgraduate training. We are committed to supporting a strong and growing PGR community, including PGR-Led activities (including “The Other Kind of Doctor” podcast and blog), annual conference, and opportunities to connect and engage with PGRs outside your main discipline.

Details of the Award

The studentship will fund full-time UK-rate tuition fees and UKRI-rate stipend (for 2024/25 academic year this is £21,237 including London Allowance) for 3.5 years including a 3-month placement for career enhancing research activity. 

• Applicants must be eligible for UK home fees.
• Applicants must be available to start 13^th January, 2025

Before applying:

1. Applicants should visit https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/ to find out more about applying for a PhD programme at Royal Holloway within their field of interest. You may also wish to explore department specific webpages to find out more.
2. Applicants must identify a supervisor and get in touch with them directly before preparing an application for submission. You should have an agreement from your proposed supervision team that they will support your application. You may submit your own proposal or can select and develop a project proposed by a potential supervisor. The following proposal ideas have been suggested by supervisors actively seeking PhD students; if you are interested in one of these, please get in touch with the project supervisor directly. To view potential projects, please visit the CDT’s webpage, here.
3. Prepare application following the Applicant information guidance document, available on the CDT’s webpage, here.

Where to apply:

• Apply directly through the Royal Holloway Applicant Portal.

The timetable for the competition is as follows:

Deadline for applications on Royal Holloway Applicant Portal:

Saturday 26 October 2024

Applicants notified of outcome: Wednesday 20 November 2024

Student’s start date: Monday 13 January 2025

If you have questions about opportunities within Schools, contact the relevant Director of Postgraduate Research Education

School of Business and Management:

Dr Gül Berna Özcan, G.Ozcan@rhul.ac.uk

School of Engineering, Physical and Mathematical Sciences:

Dr Rikke Bjerg Jensen, Rikke.Jensen@rhul.ac.uk

School of Humanities:

Professor Andrew Jotischky, Andrew.Jotischky@rhul.ac.uk

School of Life & Environment Sciences:

Dr Rebecca Fisher, R.E.Fisher@rhul.ac.uk

School of Law & Social Sciences:

Dr Emily Glorney, Emily.Glorney@rhul.ac.uk

School of Performing and Digital Arts:

Professor Tina K. Ramnarine, Tina.K.Ramnarine@rhul.ac.uk

Royal Holloway is committed to supporting students from all backgrounds to access our programmes. To help address any questions about doctoral study and the applications process we are hosting two information events for interested applicants: Thursday 10^th October from 11am -12:30 pm and repeated on Friday 18^th October from 3pm – 4:30pm. Please sign up here to attend an online information event.

Funding Details

The studentship will fund full-time UK rate tuition fees and UKRI rate stipend (for 2024/25 academic year this is £21,237 including London Allowance) for 3.5 years including a 3-month placement for career enhancing research activity.

Funding is available for UK Home students only.

Successful applicants are expected to start on the 13^th January, 2025.