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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: Finding the Unexpected in Vast Pulsar Data Sets (PhD Supervisor: Lucy Oswald)
University of Southampton
Location: Southampton
Salary: funding opportunities including Bursaries and Scholarships
Date Placed: 26 Dec
Closes 17 Jan
PhD Studentship - Integrating Machine-Learning Techniques in Structural Digital Twins
School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering (MAC)
University of Sheffield
Location: Sheffield
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 25 Dec
Closes 31 Jan
PhD Studentship - Combinatorial Discovery of Peptide Materials as Ice Binding Protein Mimics
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £19,237 tax free stipend set at the UKRI rate (for 2024/25) + Tuition fees
Date Placed: 25 Dec
Closes 25 Sep
PhD Studentship - Polymer Materials to Store Biologics at Room Temperature
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £19,237 annual tax free stipend at UKVI rates (for 2024/25) + tuition fees
Date Placed: 25 Dec
Closes 25 Sep
Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Hydrogel-Based Bioaerosol Sensing
University of Hertfordshire
Location: Hatfield
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 19 Jan
PhD studentship in Efficient LLM Inference
The University of Edinburgh
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 30 Apr
Physics: Fully Funded STFC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Chern Simons Theory and Integrability
Physics
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 24 Feb
Physics: Fully Funded PhD STFC and Swansea University in The Centre Vortices as Confinement Mechanisms in QCD
Physics
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 24 Feb
Physics: Fully Funded DTP EPSRC STFC PhD in The Complexity in Conformal and Confining Field Theories and Holography
Physics
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 24 Feb
Materials and Science Engineering: Fully Funded EPSRC DTP PhD in Scaling up Perovskite Solar Module Manufacturing for Africa
Materials and Science Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 13 Jan
Materials and Science Engineering: Fully Funded EPSRC DTP PhD Scholarship: Sustainable Smart Packaging (NIBAC)
Materials and Science Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 13 Jan
PhD Studentship: Degradable Polymer Coatings for Sustainable Packaging
Physics
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: UKRI standard stipend (£19,237 per annum) and tuition fees; fully and directly funded for this project only; funding is for 3.5 years.
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 19 Jan
Biological Sciences: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems
Biological Sciences
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237 for 2024/25
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 24 Feb
PhD Studentship: Exploring the Legitimacy of River Health Monitoring
Cranfield University
Location: Cranfield
Salary: From £19,237
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 26 Mar
PhD Studentship: Building Natural Resilience to Floods and Drought Using Green Infrastructure
Cranfield University
Location: Cranfield
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 26 Mar
PhD Studentship: Development of Origami-paper eDNA Sensors for Real-time Surveillance of Freshwater Ecosystems
Cranfield University
Location: Cranfield
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 26 Mar
PhD Studentship - Novel Method Development and Applications in Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £19,237 - please see advert
Date Placed: 23 Dec
Closes 21 Mar
PhD Studentships: Economic and Social Science Research Council, South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP)
South West Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: South West
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 21 Dec
Closes 14 Jan
QMUL Principal’s PhD Studentships : School of Business and Management
Queen Mary University of London
Location: London
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 20 Dec
Closes 22 Jan
MRes and PhD Studentships : School of Business and Management
Queen Mary University of London
Location: London
Salary: Please see advert for details
Date Placed: 20 Dec
Closes 24 Jan
PhD Studentship - Long-term Behaviour of Markov Chains
Mathematics
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 20 Dec
Closes 14 Feb
PhD Positions in Mathematics and Stochastics
Department of Mathematics
University of Aarhus
Location: Aarhus
Salary: From £3,827.10
Date Placed: 20 Dec
Closes 01 Feb
Physics: Fully Funded EPSRC & SFTC PhD Scholarship: Quantum Spacetime Geometry Beyond The Horizon
Physics
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237 for 2024/25
Date Placed: 20 Dec
Closes 24 Feb

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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