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We have 120 king PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Law Research PhD

Value of the award. This is a fully funded studentship that includes 3 years of fees + a maintenance stipend at the UKRI level (2026-2027 rate is £23,805) for three years with small, annual inflationary increases. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Law Research Programme
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Music PhD (option of joint PhD with Hong Kong University)

For 2025/26 entry, we will be welcoming applications for PhDs in all supervisory areas. The department has an international reputation for music research in history, theory, anthropology/ethnography, composition, and creative practice. Read more
 Self-Funded PhD Students Only  Arts Research Programme
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Comparative Literature PhD

Joint PhDs available. Exciting opportunities to gain a joint PhD with Hong Kong University (HKU), the National University of Singapore (NUS). Read more
 Self-Funded PhD Students Only  Humanities Research Programme
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Optomechanical control of protein translocation across biologically-relevant pores

  Research Group: Biological Physics & Soft Matter
To be functional, most proteins must remain in their natively folded conformation. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Garcia-Manyes
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship project: Incentives and Barriers: Patent Law in the Age of the 3Rs

Biological research stands at a juncture. technologies exist and are constantly emerging that could reduce and even replace the use of animal testing. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr JL Liddicoat, Prof T Aplin
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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ESPRC DLA: Electromigration Driven Surface Regeneration of Porous Getter Materials for Advanced Vacuum Systems

  Research Group: Photonics & Nanotechnology
This PhD studentship is 50% funded by Atlas Copco Group and 50% by King’s Quantum research centre. Students interested in real world applications of fundamental materials research are encouraged to apply. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Mannan
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Discovering New Physics in Near-Fields — ERC ATLANTIS Project

  Research Group: Photonics & Nanotechnology
Two fully funded, 3.5 year PhD studentships will explore what happens when textbook assumptions about near-field waves are removed. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr F Rodríguez Fortuño
 20 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Connecting Older Communities Through Digital Heritage, Storytelling, and Co-Creation

Older adults across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire face increasing risks of social isolation, loneliness, and exclusion from community life. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G Lawson
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Classics PhD

We supervise research across an exceptionally wide range of topics in Greek, Roman and Near Eastern history, archaeology and art, as well as Greek and Latin language, literature and thought, late antique and Byzantine studies, and reception studies. Read more
 Self-Funded PhD Students Only  Humanities Research Programme
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Culture, Media & Creative Industries PhD

Culture, Media & Creative Industries at King's carries out world-leading research across the field of culture, media and the analysis of particular creative industries. Read more
 Self-Funded PhD Students Only  Arts Research Programme
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French PhD

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures offers research strengths and opportunities for PhD supervision across all periods of French and Francophone literature and visual culture, French thought and modern French history and politics. Read more
 Self-Funded PhD Students Only  Humanities Research Programme
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English PhD (option of joint PhD with Hong Kong/Singapore/Humboldt Berlin)

King's is one of the oldest English departments in the country and is home to a lively and supportive group of academics and students engaged in the exploration of literary cultures from the 7th to the 21st centuries. Read more
 Self-Funded PhD Students Only  Humanities Research Programme
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Approximation of Constraint Satisfaction Problems

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is, informally, the computational problem of finding an assignment from a set of values to a set of variables that satisfies a series of given constraints on the values that the variables can take. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr SB Butti
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD in Peace and Security Studies

Contribute to our understanding of peace-building and global challenges with a flexible online doctoral programme awarded by the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Read more
 Self-Funded PhD Students Only  PhD Research Programme
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Hinduja PhD Scholarship

4-year scholarship worth £270,000+. In partnership with the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Advanced Engineering for Personalised Surgery & Intervention (AE-PSI). Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  4 Year PhD Programme  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training