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PhD Studentship: The Role of Directors’ Duties and Their Relationship With Non-financial Reporting in Achieving Environmental Sustainability
Law / Business
University of Essex
Location: Colchester
Salary: Living costs stipend at the UK Research and Innovation recommended level per year. The stipend for 2024-25 is £19,237. The rate for 2025-26 is £20,780.
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 28 May
PhD Studentship: Addressing the Place of Microorganisms in the Nagoya Protocol: Microbial Biogeography, Genomics and Taxonomy
Life Sciences / Law
University of Essex
Location: Colchester
Salary: Living costs stipend at the UK Research and Innovation recommended level per year. The stipend for 2024-25 is £19,237. The rate for 2025-26 is £20,780.
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 28 May
PhD Studentship: Exploring the Legal and Social Emergence of Rights of Nature as a Form of Environmental Protection
Law / Sociology
University of Essex
Location: Colchester
Salary: Living costs stipend at the UK Research and Innovation recommended level per year. The stipend for 2024-25 is £19,237. The rate for is £20,780.
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 28 May
PhD Studentship: Unilateralism v Multilateralism: Harnessing International Economic Policy for Sustainable Transitions
Law / Business
University of Essex
Location: Colchester
Salary: Living costs stipend at the UK Research and Innovation recommended level per year. The stipend for 2024-25 is £19,237. The rate for 2025-26 is £20,780.
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 28 May
PhD Studentship: Towards a Praxis of a Just Transition in Developing Economies: Beyond Counter Accounts and Regulatory Frameworks to Action
Business / Law
University of Essex
Location: Colchester
Salary: Living costs stipend at the UK Research and Innovation recommended level per year. The stipend for 2024-25 is £19,237. The rate for 2025-26 £20,780.
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 28 May
PhD Studentship: From Global Promise to Local Impact: Evaluating Climate Funding at the Local Level
Business / Law
University of Essex
Location: Colchester
Salary: Living costs stipend at the UK Research and Innovation recommended level per year. The stipend for 2024-25 is £19,237. The rate for 2025-26 £20,780.
Date Placed: 01 Apr
Closes 28 May
PhD Opportunity in International Law/History: Empire’s Other Captives: Colonial Prisoners of War, British Diplomacy, and the Laws of War 1872—1977
University of Roehampton
Location: London
Salary: The award pays tuition fees up to the value of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) full-time home rate for PhD degrees. Roehampton university will waive the difference between the home and overseas fee to ensure that overseas students can also apply for
Date Placed: 31 Mar
Closes 23 May
10 x Faculty Funded Projects for Sept 2025 Entry - Business, Law and Social Sciences PhD Studentships
Faculty of Business Law and Social Sciences
Birmingham City University
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £20,780 stipend
Date Placed: 21 Mar
Closes 16 Apr
PhD Scholarship in Law for Black British applicants
The City Law School
City St George’s, University of London
Location: London
Salary: An annual bursary (currently £21,237 subject to change in line with Research Councils UK’s recommendation on the national minimum stipend) Full tuition fee waiver. Research expenses (up to £1000 over three years) to support research needs
Date Placed: 21 Mar
Closes 28 Apr
PhD Studentship - Legal Pathways to Equitable Energy Access
Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 18 Mar
Closes 30 May
PhD Studentships in The Faculty of Business and Law
Faculty of Business and Law (FBL)
The Open University
Location: Milton Keynes
Salary: Stipend £20,780 (circa) per annum
Date Placed: 17 Mar
Closes 09 Jun
Fully Funded PhD at the Aston Institute of Forensic Linguistics
Aston University
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Fully-funded PhD scholarship
Date Placed: 10 Mar
Closes 14 Apr
PhD Studentship: Transparency and Secrecy: The Paradoxes of Tech Whistleblowing in The Digital Era
Coventry University - Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity
Coventry University Group
Location: Coventry
Salary: Fully Funded with Stipend
Date Placed: 27 Feb
Closes 27 May
The Vice-Chancellor’s PhD Scholarships
University of West London
Location: London
Salary: Stipend of £22,000 per year (tax free)
Date Placed: 25 Feb
Closes 30 Apr
125th Anniversary Scholarship for Black British Researchers - Construction of Narratives of Black Male Victimisation in Birmingham Magistrates' and Crown Courts
Birmingham Law School
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: 3.5-year scholarships
Date Placed: 18 Feb
Closes 30 Apr
PhD Studentship: Practicing (Post-) Publishing (PPP)
Coventry University Group
Location: Coventry
Salary: Fully Funded
Date Placed: 30 Jan
Closes 30 Apr
PhD Studentship: The Relationship Between Legal and Economic Interventions for Effective Climate Adaptation Strategies
Law / Business
University of Essex
Location: Colchester, University of Essex
Salary: £19,237 Home tuition fee waiver. Living costs stipend at the UK Research and Innovation recommended level per year. The stipend for 2024-25 is £19,237. The rate for 2025-26 TBA
Date Placed: 23 Jan
Closes 18 Apr

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