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Part-Time PhD Opportunity in Control Systems and Robotics (Postgraduate Research Teaching Associate)
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 03 Jul
Closes 13 Aug
PhD Studentship: Safeguarding Wheat Yields from Cereal Fungal Invaders (SAUNDERS_J26DTP3)
John Innes Centre
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich, University of East Anglia
Salary: £21,805 Stipend + Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 pa
Date Placed: 03 Jul
Closes 30 Jul
PhD Studentship: Engineering Stable Designer Chromosomes (NIEDUSZYNSKI_E26DTP3)
Earlham Institute
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich, University of East Anglia
Salary: £21,805 Stipend + Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 pa
Date Placed: 03 Jul
Closes 30 Jul
PhD Studentship: Investigating how Plants use RNA to cope with Stress (DING_J26DTP3)
John Innes Centre
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich, University of East Anglia
Salary: £2,105 to £21,805 Stipend + Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 pa
Date Placed: 03 Jul
Closes 30 Jul
PhD Studentship: Microbial Determinants of Behaviour in Herbivorous Beetles (SALEM_J26DTPF3)
John Innes Centre
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich, University of East Anglia
Salary: £21,805 Stipend + Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 pa
Date Placed: 03 Jul
Closes 30 Jul
PhD Studentship: Chew on This! Understanding Food Structure Transformation During Oral Processing and its Impact on Digestion (EDWARDS_Q26DTP3)
Quadram Institute Bioscience
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich, University of East Anglia
Salary: £21,805 stipend + Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 pa
Date Placed: 03 Jul
Expires 30 Jul
PhD Studentship: Transcriptional Evolution in Miscanthus Hybrids and Polyploids (DE-VEGA_E26DTP3)
Earlham Institute
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich, University of East Anglia
Salary: fully funded
Date Placed: 03 Jul
Expires 30 Jul
PhD Studentship: Developing and validating 3D-OCT-based tools for posterior eye shape characterisation
University of Plymouth
Location: Devon, Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3 years and includes full Home and International tuition fees plus a stipend of £20,176.
Date Placed: 03 Jul
Closes 20 Aug
PhD Studentship: Additive Manufacture: Optimisation and Characterisation of Additively Manufactured Alloy 625 Thin-Wall Structures
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £21,805
Date Placed: 03 Jul
Closes 16 Jul
PhD Supervisors for PhD Programme in Economic Policy & Public Administration
European Research University
Location: Remote
Salary: Up to £17,395.91 Competitive remuneration per PhD candidate per year
Date Placed: 02 Jul
Closes 31 Aug
PhD in Economic Policy & Public Administration
European Research University
Location: Remote
Salary: Up to £217,449 Full financial support over three years
Date Placed: 02 Jul
Closes 31 Aug
PhD Studentship: Investigating the role of SET/PP2A in haematopoietic and leukemic stem cells
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully and directly funded for this project only. UKRI standard stipend starting from £21,805. Funding is available for 3.5 years.
Date Placed: 01 Jul
Closes 12 Jul
PhD Studentship - Mechanosensitive Nanochannels
Physics and Astronomy
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 annual stipend + tuition fees paid
Date Placed: 01 Jul
Closes 01 Jul
PhD Studentship: The Mitochondrion as an Engineering Target for Mammalian Cell Factories
Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 annual tax-free stipend and tuition fees will be paid
Date Placed: 01 Jul
Closes 24 Jul
PhD Studentship - A curious example of Hierarchical Aggregation: Computational Modelling, Theory and a Practical Application
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 01 Jul
Closes 31 Aug
Closes 15 Jul
PhD Studentship: Controlling Microtexture in Titanium Alloys for Sustainable Aeroengines
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: From £20,780 annual tax-free stipend and tuition fees will be paid
Date Placed: 01 Jul
Closes 31 Aug
PhD Studentship: Bayesian Analysis of Relativistic Nuclear Energy Density Functionals
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 01 Jul
Closes 12 Jul
PhD Studentship: Nitrogen Behaviour in EAF Steelmaking
WMG
University of Warwick
Location: University of Warwick
Salary: Tata steel and WMG (This is the department contribution to the ADAPT-EAF Prosperity Partnership with Tata Steel)
Date Placed: 01 Jul
Closes 29 Sep
PhD Studentship: Development of Novel ionic conducting materials for next generation electrochemical devices
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 per year
Date Placed: 01 Jul
Closes 31 Jul
PhD Studentship: Co-development of tailored support for patients and healthcare professionals in the long-term management of obesity
Norwich Medical School
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 01 Jul
Closes 29 Jul
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
PhD Studentship - EPSRC - Engineering Collagen-Based Materials for the Scalable Manufacturing of Next-Generation Regenerative Therapies
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 - please see advert
Date Placed: 30 Jun
Closes 31 Aug
PhD Studentship in Fast Zonal Control for Voltage Stability
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Imperial College London
Location: London
Salary: Stipend of approximately £23,805 per year (tax-free) for 3.5 years and overseas tuition fees.
Date Placed: 30 Jun
Closes 14 Aug
PhD Studentship: Mechanically Robust and Transport-optimized Thin-film Composite Mixed-matrix Membranes
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £21,805 p.a. for 2026/27. UKRI rate
Date Placed: 29 Jun
Closes 31 Aug
PhD Studentship: Biorecovery of Rare Earth Elements using Natural and Engineered Lanthanophores
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £31,805 tax-free annual living allowance per year and 100% Home fees covered
Date Placed: 29 Jun
Closes 17 Jul

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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