library PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Aberystwyth University School of Art

Augustus John: Reassessing the Collections at Amgueddfa Cymru—Museum Wales and Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru—National Library of Wales

The University of Bristol, Prifysgol Aberystwyth University, Amgueddfa Cymru—Museum Wales and Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru—National Library of Wales are pleased to announce the availability of a fully-funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from October 2024 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Scheme. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Brockington, Mr N Thornton, Ms N Daniel, Dr SR Raybone

31 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Coventry University Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities

Atlantic Stories, Colonial Legacies and the Bodleian Library, 1650-1800

Eligibility: UK/International (including EU) graduates with the required entry requirements. Duration: Full-Time – between three and three and a half years fixed term. Read more

Supervisor: Dr AL Leonard

27 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Design for early detection of symptoms of anxiety and depression in university students

Anxiety, depression, and psychological distress can have a severe impact on university student quality of life and academic performance, and recent studies have highlighted the role that the COVID-19 pandemic has played in exacerbating symptoms. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Brunel University London Environmental Science

Sustainable products & processes - help industry ditch the plastic and toxic chemicals

Material and energy used for making products can have significant adverse environmental, health and safety and or socioeconomic impacts. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Troisi

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Disruptive Digital Experiences

Supervisors: Dr H Agius, Dr D Daylamani-Zad

Digital experiences deliberately go beyond simply communicating information - they seek to strongly engage, involve, and emotionally affect the user using digital means. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Design of digital technology and machine learning solutions for mental health

The significant societal and economic impact of mental health conditions worldwide is well documented. With a growing awareness of mental health, the pressing need to streamline access to sustainable care services is now an imperative. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Design of virtual immersive environments for inclusive multimodal experiences

Immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality are a topic of fast-paced research, and knowledge boundaries are presently being pushed by design research on inclusive immersive social environments, among others. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Brunel University London Chemical Engineering

Sustainable production of high-value compounds using cyanobacteria

Increasing environmental challenges mean there is a need for novel, safe, sustainable and cost-effective production technologies. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D McClure

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Brunel University London Chemical Engineering

Sustainable production of Vitamin K1

The project. Vitamin K1 is an essential nutrient in both human and animal nutrition. Given the increasing environmental pressures facing us as a society there is a need to develop safe, sustainable and cost-effective production methods for important compounds. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D McClure

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Design of virtual immersive environments for advanced anatomy training

Virtual immersive environments, including those that are anticipated to become available in the context of the Metaverse – a future immersive virtual world envisaged as a hypothetical iteration of the Internet – hold significant potential for future healthcare education. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Brunel University London Law

International law and the psychological impact of warfare on civilians

Drawing on the emerging field of psychology of international law, the PhD student will examine how international law discusses or should discuss civilian mental harm in warfare from a substantive as well as procedural point of view. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Solomon

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

University of Leeds Faculty of Biological Sciences

Exploring Synthetic Lethality Interactions through Targeting the SUMO Pathway for Therapeutic Insights

The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2024/25. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Bassi

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

University of Sheffield School of Medicine and Population Health

Mining data from National genomics Research Library to enable new gene discovery

Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) is a new genomic testing technology and process which became available through the NHS in April 2022. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Balasubramanian

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Swansea University School of Culture and Communication

History: Fully Funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD Scholarship: From Wales to the World: A History of the Children’s Peace and Goodwill Message, 1922-1972

Funding providers: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. Subject areas: History. Project start date: . 1 October 2024 (Enrolment open from mid-September). Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Irish

13 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Swansea University School of Culture and Communication

History: Fully Funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD Scholarship: Arts, Activism, and Accessibility: Disability Arts in Wales, 1980-Present

Funding providers: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. Subject areas: History. Project start date: . 1 October 2024 (Enrolment open from mid-September). Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Turner

13 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

University of the Arts London Research

The Art of Protest: Reimagining the Performative Politics of Black Lives Matter

A studentship based at Wimbledon College of Arts in collaboration with the Iniva collection and Stuart Hall Library. Project overview. Read more

Supervisors: Dr K Donkor, Prof A C Kear

20 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

King’s College London Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Creative Writing PhD

The PhD in Creative Writing at King’s is a practice-led course, incorporating taught elements and aspects of professional development. Read more

Self-Funded PhD Students Only Humanities Research Programme

Aberdeen University School of Law

School of Law - PhD opportunities available

The University of Aberdeen is one of four ancient universities of Scotland. Law was a founding discipline when the University was established in 1495. Read more

Self-Funded PhD Students Only Law Research Programme

King’s College London School of Natural & Mathematical Sciences

Synthesis of Novel Organic Probes for the Study of Lipid-Lipid Interactions

Lipids are diverse and principal components of the cell and are involved in a vast array of processes ranging from their well-known structural importance in cell membranes, through to energy storage and participation in signalling pathways. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Cobb, Prof U Eggert, Dr ES Silva

10 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

University of Dundee School of Science and Engineering

Last chance to apply

Binks Institute for Sustainability: Risk and sustainability dimensions of renewable energy infrastructure in the UK and Ireland in a changing climate

The transition from the primary reliance on exhaustible fossil fuel energy sources to renewable energy sources - decarbonisation of energy production - is an essential element of the government pledge to achieve Net Zero by 2050. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Teixeira, Prof M MacDonald

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Kingston University Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment

Numerical Investigation of premixed turbulent flames in staged Combustion gas turbine at high operationg pressures

A turbulent combustion model assumes that the flame in an explosion is a library of flamelets. The reaction model is usually segmented into two. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Muppala

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

University of Dundee School of Humanities

Poetry – Communism – Philosophy

Aim. The project aims to take seriously and examine systematically the political implications of the fact that there is no poetry that is not addressed to all. Read more

Supervisors: Dr H Yeung, Dr F Ruda

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

The University of Manchester Department of Mathematics

Prolog, constraint programming and algebra

My collaborators and I have written two recent papers which are intended to demonstrate that logic and constraint programming are tools which need to be better known and more widely deployed in pure mathematics. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D Stewart

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Arts Research Programme

Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Research, University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

Scholarship and funding opportunities. Scholarships and funding opportunities are available for postgraduate research degrees and PhD study in Arts and Humanities at the University of Glasgow. Read more

University of Edinburgh School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Choose from 20 PhDs in literatures, languages and cultures at Edinburgh

Why take a PhD in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) at the University of Edinburgh?. Doctorate-level study is an opportunity to expand upon your interests and expertise in a community that really values research. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Social Sciences Research Programme

Queen Mary University of London Institute of Dentistry

Transcriptome biomarkers and mechanisms of chemoresistance

Project Summary. This project aims to identify biomarkers linked to the most potent multimodal anticancer therapy with the least toxicity to counteract hemoresistance in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Read more

Supervisor: Dr M T Teh

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca

Fully Funded PhD Positions at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

The IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca is a public university school for higher education and research. Nestled in the picturesque region of Tuscany, the IMT School stands out as a premier post-graduate institution in Europe. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Italy PhD Programme

University of St Andrews School of Art History

SGSAH AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award 2024/25: "Women, Gender, and Political Engagement at The Glasgow School of Art"

This doctoral project offers an exciting opportunity for a student to work closely with The Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections to uncover and communicate marginalised histories of gender and politics from the late nineteenth through to the twenty-first centuries. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Kallestrup, Dr - Spencer

17 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)