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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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PhD Studentship: Improving Reliability of Medical Processes Using System Modelling and Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Health Sciences Research & Teaching
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: Funding available
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 22 May
PhD Studentship: 125th Anniversary Scholarship for Black British Researchers - What Matters to Patients in the Treatment of Lupus Nephritis? A Mixed Methods Study of Patient Preferences
School of Inflammation and Ageing
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: 3.5-year scholarships
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 30 Apr
Two funded PhD Studentships Opportunities available at the Faculty of Education and Health Sciences
University of Limerick
Location: Limerick
Salary: £19,135.50
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 10 Mar
PhD Studentship: Development of Novel Miniaturized Device Technologies for Point-of-Need Diagnostics
School of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Fully funded
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 21 May
PhD Studentship: Functional Molecular Capsules
School of Chemistry
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Fully funded
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 21 May
PhD Studentship: EPSRC Supported EngD A Digital Twin of The Human Stomach Combining Multiphysics and Artificial Intelligence
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 21 May
PhD in Economics
Department of Economics
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Location: Trondheim
Salary: £40,796.24 per annum
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 09 Mar
PhD in Anaerobic Digestion Microbial Ecology
Institute of Environmental Engineering
Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne - EPFL
Location: Lausanne
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Expires 22 May
PhD Studentship - Process Industries: Net Zero - Data Driven Optimisation for Process Scale-up
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 03 Apr
PhD Studentship - Process Industries: Net Zero: Development of Sustainable Manufacturing Processes for Confectionery Products
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 25 Mar
PhD Studentship: Time Varying Metasurfaces: Exploring Spectral Control and Overcoming Bandwidth Constraints
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £20,780 Stipend at UKRI rate (£20,780 from 1/10/25), plus an additional £2000 top-up per year.
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 14 Mar
Full-Time PhD Studentship - Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World
Durham University
Location: Durham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 31 Mar
PhD Studentship: Single view human reconstruction in large, uncontrolled environments
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP)
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully and directly funded for this project only. Award covers UK tuition fees and provide a stipend at the UKRI rate for a period of 3 years
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 14 Mar
PhD Studentship: Novel interfaces for video generation through intuitive storyboarding using Sketch
Institute for People-Centred AI
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Fully and directly funded for this project only. Award covers UK tuition fees and provide a stipend at the UKRI rate for a period of 3 years.
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 14 Mar
Full-Time PhD Studentship - Daphne and her Sisters: Framing Gendered Violence
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures - Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS)
Durham University
Location: Durham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 31 Mar
Full-Time PhD Studentship - Forging Social Solidarities during Religious Wars
Department of History - Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS)
Durham University
Location: Durham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 31 Mar
PhD Studentship: Neural Rendering of Human Performances
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP)
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Awards cover UK tuition fees and provide a stipend at the UKRI rate for a period of 3 years. The stipend (Tax-free maintenance payment based on the UKRI minimum rate) is £20,780 from 1 October 2025
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 14 Mar
PhD Studentship - Transport Engineering and Planning
The University of Edinburgh
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 31 May
PhD Studentship: MTC-UOB PhD Scholarship - Robotised Health Triage of End-of-life Products for Value Retention in the Circular Economy
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £25,500
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 28 Feb
PhD Studentship: Customisable and Infinite-dimensional Adversarial AI for Inverse Problems
School of Mathematics
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 22 Feb
PhD Studentship: Joint Reconstruction-segmentation for Imaging
School of Mathematics
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Funding is available through the School of Mathematics
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 22 Feb
Leverhulme Doctoral Programme for Regenerative Innovation (Regnr8-i)
University of Dundee
Location: Dundee
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 28 Feb
Two Doctoral Students
Department for European and Comparative Legal History
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Location: Frankfurt
Salary: £2,616.94 per month gross
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 19 Mar
Two Doctoral Students, Legal Transfer in the Common Law World
Department for European and Comparative Legal History
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Location: Frankfurt
Salary: £2,616.94 per month gross
Date Placed: 21 Feb
Closes 19 Mar

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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