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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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Welcome to jobs.ac.uk’s PhD Studentship section. Here you can 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. Find your ideal funded PhD opportunity in Engineering and Technology, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Languages and Literature or Biological sciences here. Updated regularly with new PhD opportunities across all disciplines.


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PhD Studentship : Research Studentship in Numerical Optimisation and Control
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 30 Jun
Closes 18 Jul
PhD Studentship: Combining information from Multiple Sources to Estimate Exposures to Air Pollution
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: Tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26) and tuition fees will be paid.
Date Placed: 30 Jun
Closes 24 Aug
PhD Studentship: Research Studentship in ‘Deformation and fracture of TRISO fuel particles’
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 27 Jun
Closes 18 Jul
PhD Studentship: Developing New Decision-Making Materials
School of Chemistry
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 27 Jun
Closes 27 Sep
PhD Studentship: Synthetic load profiles for future, decarbonised, domestic heat demand in GB
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 27 Jun
Closes 30 Sep
PhD Studentship: Co-developing a model for community readiness in emergency response with emphasis on groups experiencing disproportionate health burden
Health Services Management Centre
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 27 Jun
Closes 31 Jul
PhD Studentship - Aircraft Observations of Reactive Chemistry in the Tropical Atlantic and its Impact on Methane Lifetime
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 27 Jun
Closes 24 Aug
PhD Studentship: Unveiling and enhancing nature-based solutions for mitigating emerging micropollutants
Cranfield University
Location: Cranfield
Salary: £25,726 - bursary per year with fees paid.
Date Placed: 27 Jun
Closes 23 Jul
PhD Studentship in Kidney Disease: Multi-omics of Inherited Cystic Kidney Diseases
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 27 Jun
Closes 31 Jul
PhD Studentship: Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Elite Sport (Co-funded by Brighton & Hove Albion FC)
University of Sussex
Location: East Sussex, Falmer
Salary: Annual stipend for 3 years to cover living costs. The amount is tied to the UKRI studentship rates; for 2025/26 it is £20,780 per year. UK or International fees are covered for 3 years.
Date Placed: 27 Jun
Closes 25 Jul
PhD Studentship Opportunities: Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health
University of Lincoln
Location: Lincoln
Salary: LIRCH fully funded studentship
Date Placed: 27 Jun
Closes 07 Jul
PhD Studentship: Automated Aircraft Inspection
Cranfield University
Location: Cranfield
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 26 Jun
Closes 23 Jul
PhD Studentship: Lithic lava fragments – secret recorders of eruptions pre-explosive history
University of Plymouth
Location: Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3 years and includes Home tuition fees plus a stipend of £20,780 per annum 2025-26 rate
Date Placed: 26 Jun
Closes 25 Jul
PhD Studentship: Predictive Modelling of Hydrogen Embrittlement Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
University of Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: Minimum tax-free annual stipend at the current UKRI rate is £20,780 for 2025/26. Basic UKRI; RTSG £4500.00 in total
Date Placed: 26 Jun
Closes 30 Jul
PhD Studentship: Improving the Quality of Life of Women Returning to the Workplace after Breast Cancer
University of Hull
Location: Kingston upon Hull
Salary: Fee waiver for 25/26 is £5,006 (Home fee) and the maintenance grant is £20,780 per annum.
Date Placed: 26 Jun
Closes 11 Jul
PhD Studentship: Assessing the impact of progressive organic farming standards on the nutritional quality of dairy products.
Public Health and Sport Sciences
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: Up to £20,780 The studentship will be awarded on the basis of merit. Students who pay international tuition fees are eligible to apply, but should note that the award will only provide payment for part of the international tuition fee (~£25k) and no stipend.
Date Placed: 26 Jun
Closes 30 Jul
PhD Studentship: Low-cost Multi-source Representation Learning
Computer Science
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: Annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26) and tuition fees will be paid.
Date Placed: 26 Jun
Closes 15 Aug
PhD Studentship: Peer support for individuals affected by alopecia areata: Understanding best practice
College of Health, Science & Society
UWE, Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: a tax-exempt stipend, which will be £20,780 per annum for the 25/26 academic year; in addition, full-time tuition fees will be covered for up to three years (Home).
Date Placed: 25 Jun
Closes 13 Jul
PhD Studentship: Biogeochemical impacts of sea-ice thickening in the Arctic
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: This PhD studentship is fully funded for 42 months from October 2025. Funding includes tuition fees to students who qualify for UK Home fees and an annual stipend for maintenance.
Date Placed: 25 Jun
Closes 22 Jul
PhD Studentship - Human-AI Collaborative Representation Learning
Computer Science
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 25 Jun
Closes 15 Aug
PhD Studentship : Investigating RUNX2 mRNA structural plasticity and dysregulation in fusion positive sarcomas
Norwich Medical School
University of East Anglia
Location: Norwich
Salary: This PhD opportunity offers funding for 3 years and comprises of tuition fees at Home fee rates, an annual stipend starting at £20,006 in the first year, and £1,000 per annum to support research training.
Date Placed: 25 Jun
Closes 28 Jul
PhD Studentship: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Democratic Security
School of Global Affairs
Lancaster University
Location: Lancaster
Salary: EPSRC Stipend + tuition fee support
Date Placed: 25 Jun
Closes 24 Jul
PhD Studentship: Leveraging Reinforcement Learning to Improve Long-term Planning in Generative Models
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 25 Jun
Closes 31 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.

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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