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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 (NERC GW4+ DTP) - Associations Between Plastic Additives Exposure and Reproductive Success in Wild Herring Gulls (September 2025 Entry)
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £19,237 (BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council funded)
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 13 Jan
Closes 13 Jan
PhD Studentship: Demystifying the signal-to-noise paradox in climate predictions, NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2025 Entry Ref 5395
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: Up to £19,237 annual stipend
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 13 Jan
PhD Studentship (NERC GW4+ DTP) - Bayesian Sampling Methods for Geophysical Inversion using Multi-component Seismic Data (September 2025 Entry)
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £19,237 (BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council funded)
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 13 Jan
Closes 13 Jan
PhD Studentship (NERC GW4+ DTP) - Applying Genomic Approaches to Understand Bat Population Declines (September 2025 Entry)
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £19,237 (BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council funded)
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 13 Jan
Closes 13 Jan
PhD Studentship (NERC GW4+ DTP) - Advancing Weather and Climate Prediction: Breaking the Convergence Barrier (September 2025 Entry)
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £19,237 (BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council funded)
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 13 Jan
Can You Predict The Weather By Watching Aeroplanes Fly? NERC GW4+ DTP PhD Studentship for September 2025 Entry
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 13 Jan
PhD Studentship (NERC GW4+ DTP) - AI for Ocean Health: Machine Learning Emulators for Predicting Key Ocean Health Indicators under Climate Change (September 2025 Entry)
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £19,237 (BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council funded)
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 13 Jan
PhD Studentship (NERC GW4+ DTP) - A Novel Biosensing System for Detecting Concentrations and Tissue Distribution of Contaminants in Living Animals (September 2025 Entry)
ESE
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £19,237 (BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council funded)
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 13 Jan
PhD Studentship: The evolution of cell-cell signalling in unicellular eukaryotes, BBSRC SWBio DTP PhD studentship 2025 Entry
HLS
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: Up to £19,237 annual stipend
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 11 Dec
PhD Studentship: Molecular basis for differential susceptibility to stress in freshwater invertebrates, BBSRC SWBio DTP PhD studentship 2025 Entry
HLS
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: Up to £19,237 annual stipend
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 11 Dec
PhD Studentship: Social Policy/Social Care Pathway
Social Work and Social Care
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 11 Dec
PhD Studentship: Understanding how beneficial soil bacteria promote plant growth. BBSRC SWBio DTP PhD studentship 2025 Entry
HLS
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: Up to £19,237 annual stipend
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 11 Dec
PhD Studentship: Developing an axenic media to grow the currently uncultivable Mycobacterium leprae. BBSRC SWBio DTP PhD studentship 2025 Entry
HLS
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: Up to £19,237 annual stipend
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 11 Dec
PhD Studentship: Mechanically Interlocked Biomolecules and Biomaterials for Drug Delivery Applications
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: Funded by the University of Warwick
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 20 Feb
PhD Studentship: Will climate change worsen the problem of antibiotic resistance? BBSRC SWBio DTP PhD studentship 2025 Entry
HLS
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: Up to £19,237 annual stipend
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 11 Dec
PhD Studentship: Understanding and improving the hailstorm resistance of crop plants BBSRC SWBio DTP PhD studentship 2025 Entry
Biosciences
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: Up to £19,237 annual stipend
Date Placed: 20 Nov
Closes 11 Dec

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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