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PhD Studentship: Machine Learning-Driven Design and Structural Health Monitoring of Concrete-Filled Double Skin Steel Tubular (CFDST) Wind Turbine Towers
Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: See advert
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 30 May
PhD Studentship: Zinc Undercoating for Hydrogen Barrier Application
Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: See advert
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 30 Jun
PhD Studentship: Multi-scale investigation on salt formations for disposal and storage applications
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: Annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£19,237 for 2024/25) and tuition fees will be paid.
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 30 Apr
PhD in Psychology of Ageing: Understanding the dynamics of the hearing loss/cognition relationship in chronological vs. biological ageing.
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle
Salary: 100% of home tuition fees and an annual stipend (£20,780 in 2025/26)
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 16 Apr
PhD Studentship on the NOvA Experiment
Experimental Particle Physics
University of Sussex
Location: Sussex, Falmer
Salary: Fully-paid tuition fees for three and a half years. A tax-free bursary for living costs for three and a half years (£19,237 per annum in 24/25). Additional financial support is provided to cover short-term and long-term travel.
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 17 Apr
PhD Studentship on the FASER(2) experiment
Experimental Particle Physics
University of Sussex
Location: Sussex, Falmer
Salary: Fully-paid tuition fees for three and a half years. A tax-free bursary for living costs for three and a half years (£19,237 per annum in 24/25). Additional financial support is provided to cover short-term and long-term travel.
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 17 Apr
PhD Studentship on the ATLAS experiment: measuring the properties of the top quark and the Higgs boson
Experimental Particle Physics
University of Sussex
Location: Sussex, Falmer
Salary: Fully-paid tuition fees for three and a half years. A tax-free bursary for living costs for three and a half years (£19,237 per annum in 24/25). Additional financial support is provided to cover short-term and long-term travel.
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 17 Apr
PhD Studentship on Novel Opaque Scintillator Detector R&D and Neutrino Physics
University of Sussex
Location: Sussex, Falmer
Salary: Fully-paid tuition fees for three and a half years. A tax-free bursary for living costs for three and a half years (£19,237 per annum in 24/25). Additional financial support is provided to cover short-term and long-term travel.
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 17 Apr
PhD Studentship on the SNO+ Neutrino Experiment
Physics
University of Sussex
Location: Sussex, Falmer
Salary: Fully-paid tuition fees for three and a half years. A tax-free bursary for living costs for three and a half years (£19,237 per annum in 24/25). Additional financial support is provided to cover short-term and long-term travel.
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 17 Apr
PhD Studentship: Permeation Resistant, Novel Ceramic Materials for the Fusion Fuel Cycle
Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: An annual tax free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26), a RTSG budget for will be used for project costs, and tuition fees will be paid. We expect the stipend to increase each year
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 04 May
PhD Studentship: Non-equilibrium Phases and Phase Transitions in Many-body Open Quantum Systems
Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems
Coventry University Group
Location: Coventry
Salary: Fully Funded with Stipend
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 27 May
PhD Studentship - Combinatorial Discovery of Peptide Materials as Ice Binding Protein Mimics
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £19,237 tax free stipend set at the UKRI rate (for 2024/25) + Tuition fees
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 25 Sep
PhD Studentship - Polymer Materials to Store Biologics at Room Temperature
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £19,237 annual tax free stipend at UKVI rates (for 2024/25) + tuition fees
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 25 Sep
PhD Studentship in Reimagining Caribbean Collections (Fixed Term)
Department of Archaeology
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 25 Mar
Closes 30 Apr
PhD Studentship: Investigating the role of DNA2 in DNA replication, genome stability, and human disease.
Genome Damage and Stability Centre
University of Sussex
Location: Sussex, Falmer
Salary: Home (UK) tuition fees and stipend at standard UKRI rates
Date Placed: 24 Mar
Closes 21 Apr
PhD Studentship : Battery Materials
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 24 Mar
Closes 20 Apr
PhD Position for Research Project “Sustainable Futures for New Generations of Farmers”
Department of Political Science and Public Management
University of Southern Denmark
Location: Odense
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 24 Mar
Closes 15 May
PhD Studentship: Experimental nuclear astrophysics
Physics
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully and directly funded for this project only for 3.5 years; including UKRI standard stipend of £20,780 for 2025/26 academic year.
Date Placed: 24 Mar
Closes 18 Apr
PhD Studentship in Efficient LLM Inference
School of Informatics
The University of Edinburgh
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 24 Mar
Closes 30 Apr
PhD Studentship: SuS-Tex Research Cluster: User-centric Application Design for Super-smart Textiles
School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: £19,237 per annum
Date Placed: 21 Mar
Closes 18 Apr
PhD Studentship – Air Power
Freeman Air and Space Institute, School of Security Studies
King's College London
Location: London
Salary: Stipend: full UKRI stipend (£21,237 p.a. in 2024-25, including London Weighting of £2000 p.a.) Tuition fees: three years Home tuition fees
Date Placed: 21 Mar
Closes 09 Apr
Fully Funded 3-year PhD Studentship in the School of Psychology and Sport Science
School of Psychology and Sport Science
Bangor University
Location: Bangor
Salary: Fully funded 3-year PhD studentship
Date Placed: 21 Mar
Closes 31 May
DCU PhD Scholarship - AI Regulation, Digital Sovereignty and the Future of the EU Defence Strategy
School of Law and Government
Dublin City University
Location: Dublin
Salary: EUR 25,000 tax-free stipend per annum
Date Placed: 21 Mar
Closes 03 Apr
DCU PhD Scholarship - Migration, Border Securitization, and Citizenship in the Global South.
School of Law and Government
Dublin City University
Location: Dublin
Salary: EUR 25,000 tax-free stipend per annum
Date Placed: 21 Mar
Closes 03 Apr
DCU PhD Scholarship - Anti-Money Laundering in the EU
School of Law and Government
Dublin City University
Location: Dublin
Salary: EUR 25,000 tax-free stipend per annum
Date Placed: 21 Mar
Closes 03 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.

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