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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: Rapid Diagnostics for Antimicrobial Resistance
Digital Health and Biomedical Engineering Research Group
University of Southampton
Location: Southampton
Salary: This PhD opportunity is fully funded for all UK and EU students for 4 years
Date Placed: 12 Mar
Closes 31 Aug
PhD Studentship: The Music Collection of Paul Hirsch (1881-1951): The Collecting Practices of a German-Jewish Emigré to England in the WWII Period
Music Department, in collaboration with the British Library
Royal Holloway, University of London
Location: Egham, London
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 25 Apr
PhD Studentship - Welfare and Distributional Effects of Energy-affordability and Debt: Consumer Policy Beyond the Energy Crisis
School of Economics
University of Sheffield
Location: Sheffield
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 12 Mar
PhD Studentship: Design and Additive Manufacturing of Heat Sinks for Fusion Reactors
School of Metallurgy and Materials
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 11 Jun
EPSRC Supported EngD An Experimental and Computational Investigation of Inverse Micelles
School of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £25,737 per annum plus fees paid
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 11 Jun
PhD Studentship: Investigating Modulators of Disease Progression in GATA2 Deficiency
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Funding available
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 06 Apr
PhD Studentship: Development of a Bespoke Extrusion Based Additive Manufacturing Capability for the Production of Functionally Graded Multi-material Components
School of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: EPSRC funding
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 30 Apr
PhD Studentship: To Improve Evidence Based Practice (EBP) in Surgery
School of Social Policy
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 21 Apr
PhD Studentship: Inflammation Engineering
School of Engineering
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Funded fees + maintenance PhD fellowship
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 11 Jun
PhD Studentship
School of Physical Sciences
The Open University
Location: Milton Keynes
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 09 Apr
PhD Studentship: Advancing Machine Learning for Extreme Wind Speed Prediction, Engineering
Engineering
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: Up to £19,237
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 07 Apr
PhD Studentship: Evaluating the role of Big Data and satellite technologies in understanding livestock impacts on the upland landscape
University of Plymouth
Location: Devon, Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 4 years and includes Home or International tuition fees plus a stipend of £20,780 per annum 2025-26 rate
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 28 Mar
PhD Studentship: Welfare in a Snapshot: Thermal Imaging for Real-Time and Cumulative Welfare Assessment in Hens
University of Plymouth
Location: Devon, Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for 4 years and includes Home or International tuition fees plus a stipend of £20,780 per annum 2025-26 rate
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 28 Mar
PhD Studentship: Evaluating the Microbiome Homeostasis in Gut Health and Immunity for Thriving Whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) – MIGHT "Y" Shrimp
University of Plymouth
Location: Devon, Plymouth
Salary: The studentship is supported for four years and includes Home or International tuition fees plus a stipend of £20,780 per annum 2025/26 rate (UKRI).
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 28 Mar
Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Computer Science
Computer Science
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £20,780
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 31 Mar
Rugby Union: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Rugby Union Sports Science with Swansea University and Scarlets Rugby Club
Sport Nutrition
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 31 Mar
Experimental Mechanics: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Bioprosthetic Design Evaluation Through Experimental-Computational Techniques
Science and Engineering
Swansea University
Location: Swansea
Salary: £19,237 for 2024/25
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 31 Mar
PhD Studentship: Investigation into the Impact of Material Properties on the Gas Transport Behaviour of Polyolefin Materials
University of Surrey
Location: Guildford
Salary: Funding covers a stipend of £20,000 pa (tax free) and UK “home” tuition fees for 3.5 years. Funding is available to cover travel, conferences, and consumables.
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 06 Jul
PhD Studentship: Enhancing the Dissemination, Implementation and Sustainability of Physical Literacy into Policy and Practice
Liverpool John Moores University
Location: Liverpool
Salary: £19,237 - please see advert
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 06 Apr
PhD Studentship: Development of AI Strategies for Accurate Tumour Staging in Multisite Cancer Imaging
London South Bank University
Location: London
Salary: See advert for details
Date Placed: 11 Mar
Closes 05 Jun
PhD Opportunity
University of Warwick
Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: Fully-funded
Date Placed: 10 Mar
Closes 08 Jun
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences EPSRC Project Proposals 2025/26 - Intelligent Catalyst Technology for a Net-Zero Fuel Economy
Chemical & Process Engineering/Chemistry
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 10 Mar
Closes 01 Apr
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences EPSRC Project Proposals 2025/26 - Robust Large Language Models for Intelligent Software Development
Computer Science
University of Leeds
Location: Leeds
Salary: £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 10 Mar
Closes 08 Apr
PhD Studentship: A Bioengineered 3D Model of Obesity-related Breast Cancer to Investigate the Anti-tumour Immune Response Induced by Exercise
School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: £19,237 per annum
Date Placed: 10 Mar
Closes 18 Apr

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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