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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: Grey Water Recycling With Nature Based Solutions
Cranfield University
Location: Cranfield
Salary: £20,000 p.a.
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 19 Mar
PhD Studentship: Nitrous Oxide in the Wastewater Industry: Measurement, Monitoring, and Mitigation
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £24,000
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 28 Feb
Early Stage Researcher Project POSTDIGITAL Plus (two posts)
Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies
Aston University
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £42,100 to £46,000 per annum
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 28 Mar
PhD Studentship: Understanding Catalysts for a Sustainable Hydrogen Economy Using Advanced X-ray Spectroscopy
School of Science - Department of Chemistry
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 01 Mar
PhD Studentship in War and Climate Change
Law
University of Reading
Location: Reading
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 19 Mar
PhD Studentship: Using repurposed HDAC inhibitors to promote beta-cell survival. PhD (DUK Funded)
HLS
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: £18,700 annual stipend
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 21 Feb
PhD Studentship: Investigating RNA processing defects in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis using iPSC models, genomics and imaging
HLS
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: £20,500 annual stipend
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 16 Mar
PhD Studentship: Developing A Welfare Assessment Protocol For Kennelled Dogs
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences/ Bristol Veterinary School
University of Bristol
Location: Bristol
Salary: £19,237 tax free stipend
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 28 Feb
PhD Studentship: Developing Self-Healing Coatings for Hydrogen Storage Systems
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £19,237 - please see advert
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 17 Feb
PhD Studentship in Logistics Automation
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 31 Mar
PhD Studentship: Sasakawa
Humanities and Social Sciences
Oxford Brookes University
Location: Oxford
Salary: £15,000
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 03 Mar
PhD Studentship: The Development and Evaluation of a New Communities of Practice Model for Autism Educators
Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Location: Birmingham, University of Birmingham
Salary: Please refer to the advert text
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 25 Feb
Medicine, Population Health, Diabetes: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Human Agency & Leveraging Technology (HALT) to Prevent Diabetes Complications
Medicine, Population Health, Diabetes
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £18,700
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 17 Feb
PhD Scholarships available: Start Date October 2025
UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Digital Media Inclusion
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: UK home tuition fees; Tax-free maintenance payment (based on the UK Research and Innovation; UKRI’s minimum rate); Current amount for 2025/26 is £20,780 per year; Enhanced supplement of £4,000 per year
Date Placed: 04 Feb
Closes 28 Feb
Materials Engineering: Fully Funded SU/ Rolls-Royce PhD Studentship: Mechanism
Materials Science & Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237 p.a.
Date Placed: 03 Feb
Closes 24 Feb
PhD Studentship - Developing a Deterministic Prediction of the Specular Component of Reflections from an Evolving Melting Surface Due to High Energy Laser Irradiation
Materials
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £23,237 - please see advert
Date Placed: 03 Feb
Closes 31 Mar
Sports and Exercise Science: Fully Funded EPSRC INEOS PhD: Towards the Development of Digital Twins for Efficient Talent Identification in Professional Cycling
Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Sports Science
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237 p.a.
Date Placed: 03 Feb
Closes 24 Feb
Physics & Mathematics: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Theoretical Explorations on the Lattice with Orthogonal and Symplectic Group (TELOS): Toward the Energy Frontier
Department of Physics and Department of Mathematics
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237 p.a. Additional research expenses of up to £1,000 per year will also be available.
Date Placed: 03 Feb
Closes 24 Feb
PhD Studentship: Funding Opportunity
Architecture and Built Environment
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 03 Feb
Closes 16 Feb
Aerospace Engineering: Fully Funded PhD EPSRC Studentship in Advanced Numerical Methods for Curing Process Simulation of Fibre-Reinforced Composites
Aerospace Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237 p.a. Additional research expenses of up to £3,000 will also be available.
Date Placed: 03 Feb
Closes 24 Feb
Engineering & Physics: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Design, Manufacturing and Testing of “Living” Cellular Microfluidic Sensors
Chemical Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237 p.a. Additional research expenses of up to £1,000 per year will also be available.
Date Placed: 03 Feb
Closes 24 Feb
PhD Studentship: Tailored Ceramic Matrix Composites for Active Thermal Management in Lightweight Aerospace Structures
Metallurgy & Materials
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: The funding comes from BAE Systems
Date Placed: 03 Feb
Closes 04 May
PhD Studentship: Processing of Ceramic Matrix Composites via Polymer Impregnation and Pyrolysis
Metallurgy & Materials
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: The funding comes from DSTL
Date Placed: 03 Feb
Closes 04 May
PhD Studentship in Energy Efficient Mobile Networking Systems
The University of Edinburgh
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £19,237 - please see advert
Date Placed: 03 Feb
Closes 28 Feb
Graduate Teaching Associate Public Health
Buckinghamshire New University
Location: High Wycombe
Salary: £33,232 to £36,924
Date Placed: 03 Feb
Closes 21 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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