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PhD Studentship: Too much touch? Enabling a better understanding of the use of touch in dementia care.
Nursing
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: The studentship provides an annual stipend at the UKRI standard rate (£19,237 per year for 2024-2025)
Date Placed: 24 Jan
Closes 14 Mar
PhD Studentship: Practises make places: artists’ responses to ‘prehistoric’ monuments
Archaeology
Manchester Metropolitan University
Location: Manchester
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 24 Jan
Closes 07 Mar
PhD Studentship (Fully Funded) in Politics and International Relations (Jonathan Rock Rokem)
Northeastern University London
Location: London
Salary: £21,237 annual stipend
Date Placed: 24 Jan
Closes 16 Feb
PhD Studentship: Building Coastal Resilience in Communities - A Combined Governance and Natural Science Approach
Government / Life Sciences
University of Essex
Location: Colchester
Salary: £19,237 Home tuition fee waiver. Living costs stipend at the UK Research and Innovation recommended level per year. The stipend for 2024-25 is £19,237. The rate for 2025-26 TBA
Date Placed: 23 Jan
Closes 18 Apr
PhD Studentship: ‘Consumption Work’ and Its Environmental Impact on the Circular Economy
Sociology / Business
University of Essex
Location: Colchester, University of Essex
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 23 Jan
Closes 18 Apr
PhD Studentship: Sasakawa
Humanities and Social Sciences
Oxford Brookes University
Location: Oxford
Salary: £15,000
Date Placed: 22 Jan
Closes 03 Mar
PhD Studentship: Crime, Punishment, and Politics Across Generations – A Multi-Cohort Study in the UK ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: Please refer to the advert text
Date Placed: 20 Jan
Closes 20 Feb
PhD Studentship: Second-Order Effects of Disinformation: Perceptions of Disinformation and Trust in the Context of Russian Foreign Influence Operations
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Loughborough University, Loughborough
Salary: Please refer to the advert text
Date Placed: 20 Jan
Closes 24 Feb
PhD Studentship: Perceived Impact of Expanded Early Years Childcare in England: Effects on Children's Well-being
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Loughborough University, Loughborough
Salary: Please refer to the advert text
Date Placed: 16 Jan
Closes 24 Feb
PhD Studentship: Estimating the True Extent of Electoral Fraud Victimisation in Britain
The Midlands Graduate School
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Nottingham, University of Nottingham
Salary: Please refer to the advert text
Date Placed: 15 Jan
Closes 14 Feb
PhD Studentship - AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain
Durham University
Location: Durham
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 10 Jan
Closes 31 Jan
PhD Studentship - ‘Staying in Business? The Aftermath of Acquired Disability for the Entrepreneur’
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £19,237 - please see advert
Date Placed: 08 Jan
Closes 17 Feb
PhD Studentship - Technological Choice and Variability in Prehistoric Metalworking: A Transdisciplinary Investigation
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 06 Jan
Closes 03 Feb
Kingston University PhD Studentships
Graduate Research School
Kingston University
Location: Kingston upon Thames
Salary: Total contribution to fees and stipend for fully funded studentships: £26,023 per year for three years full-time or £13,011 per year for six years part-time.
Date Placed: 03 Jan
Closes 05 Mar
PhD Studentship: Digital Inclusion in the E-IMMUNE Digital Care Pathway Study
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
University of Sheffield
Location: Sheffield
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 20 Dec
Closes 28 Feb
Sigrid Rausing MIASU PhD Studentship in the Social Anthropology of Inner Asia
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: University Composition Fee (tuition fees) and maintenance at the home fee rate
Date Placed: 19 Dec
Closes 30 Apr
Fully Funded Hardiman PhD Scholarships
University of Galway
Location: Galway
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 18 Dec
Closes 07 Feb
Funded Supervisor-led Collaborative Studentships Starting in October 2025
South and East Network for Social Sciences
Location: Colchester, Lincoln, London, Norwich
Salary: £20,000
Date Placed: 16 Dec
Closes 24 Feb
Fully funded 3-year PhD Studentships
Leeds Trinity University
Location: Horsforth, Leeds
Salary: £19,237 maintenance stipend per annum. The studentship covers the full cost of tuition fees.
Date Placed: 13 Dec
Closes 31 Jan
PhD Studentship: The Catfish Hunter: Games for Combating Online Deception
School of Science, Department of Computer Science
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 12 Dec
Closes 18 Feb
PhD Studentship: Exploring Organisational Sustainability and The Interplay Between Economic, Social and Environmental Logics Within Not-for-profit Sport Organisations
School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: £19,237 per annum
Date Placed: 11 Dec
Closes 10 Mar
SEDarc DTP PhD Studentships
Royal Holloway, University of London
Location: Canterbury, Egham, Falmer, Guildford, Kingston upon Thames, London
Salary: For the academic year of 2024/25 the UK fees are £4,786 and the stipend is £19,237 (£21,237 if London weighting applies) The balance between home & international tuition fees will be paid by the SEDarc institutions for successful overseas applicants
Date Placed: 05 Dec
Closes 03 Feb
PhD Studentship: Sustainable Lighting for Coastal Cities
University of Plymouth
Location: Devon, Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 3.5 years and includes Home or International rate tuition fees plus a stipend of £19,237 per annum 2024-25 rate (2025-26 rate TBC)
Date Placed: 04 Dec
Closes 03 Feb

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