We have 488 writing PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia has a long-established international reputation in literary studies. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Humanities Research Programme

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Creative Writing - Postgraduate Research Opportunities

University of Birmingham School of English, Drama and Creative Studies

Work with our team of award-winning authors to develop your creative practice and its critique. Read more

Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding Arts Research Programme

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Creative Writing PhD

King’s College London Faculty of Arts & Humanities

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

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Writing trans and non-binary lives in the 20th and 21st centuries: autobiography, autofiction, autotheory

University of Dundee School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

This research project aims to explore the ways in which trans and non-binary people have been using different approaches in writing about their lived experiences. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Gratzke

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

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The poor, by the way: Practice-led working-class experimental writing

University of Dundee Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

This practice-led project aims to forefront working-class lived experience to produce new experimental, interdisciplinary writing. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Fusco

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

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School of Cultural Studies and Humanities

Leeds Beckett University School of Cultural Studies and Humanities

The School of Cultural Studies and Humanities is the home of English Literature, Creative Writing, History and Media Studies research at Leeds Beckett University. Read more

Self-Funded PhD Students Only Social Sciences Research Programme

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Creative and Critical Writing

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Welsh

This PhD pathway offers students the opportunity to produce an original piece or collection of creative work as well as a thorough analysis of the work. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Arts Research Programme

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The representation of love and relationships in contemporary zine culture

University of Dundee School of Humanities

The primary objective of this PhD project is to research the representation of love and relationships in contemporary zine culture. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Gratzke

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

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21st century literary representations of love and relationships in works with themes of disabilities, long-term illness or neurodivergence

University of Dundee School of Humanities

The primary objective of this PhD project is to research the interaction in literature of love and relationships with themes of disabilities, ill-health or neurodivergence. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Gratzke

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

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PhD at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies

University of London, School of Advanced Study

Undertaking doctoral research allows you to develop in-depth knowledge, while making a meaningful contribution to your chosen field. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Humanities Research Programme

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PhD Studentship in Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI of the spine

University College London Division of Surgery & Interventional Science

A 3-year PhD Studentship is available at the UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, within the Research Department of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science based at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) and in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic London (CCL). Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Di Laura

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Poetry – Communism – Philosophy

University of Dundee School of Humanities

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

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Research Degrees at UCA

University for the Creative Arts

Studying a creative research degree at UCA means joining a vibrant and progressive top ten research community with a wealth of specialist resources for creative research and practice. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Arts Research Programme

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Large Language Models for authorship analysis

The University of Manchester Faculty of Humanities Doctoral Academy, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

About the Project. Authorship analysis, sometimes also called authorship attribution or authorship identification, is the task of determining who wrote a document based on the author’s use of language. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Nini

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

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Self-folding Origami ”Robots” for Cognitive Smart Materials

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Background: . With the development of smart materials capable of sensing and changing states, the realisation of 'robots' that are paper-like materials but that can fold themselves up, start moving, and adapt to the situation while sensing their environment is becoming a reality. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Miyashita

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

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Numerical modelling of multiphase flow and reactive transport in porous materials

Heriot-Watt University School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society

Understanding reactive transport in porous materials is of utmost importance for a wide range of engineering applications, including subsurface energy storage, low-carbon building materials and fuel cells. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Maes

26 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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PhD studentship in Human-computer Interaction exploring AI in Film and TV

University of Edinburgh School of Informatics

One fully funded PhD position to work with Dr. Susan Lechelt and Prof. Ewa Luger in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh on a project titled “Scripted Production Futures in the Age of AI”. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Lechelt

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

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Self-funded PhD- Emergent leadership by well-informed individuals in self-organising groups

University of Bristol School of Biological Sciences

Emerging infectious diseases often originate from a host shift, where a pathogen is transferred from its original host to a new host species. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Stroeymeyt

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

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Developing an integrated tool to assess soil health in agricultural settings

University of Plymouth Faculty of Science and Engineering

Applications are invited for a 3.5 years PhD studentship within the Environmental Intelligence doctoral training programme at the University of Plymouth. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Rowntree

26 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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PhD Studentship: Safer Scoring: Application of mixed methods evaluation to understand ward strain

University College London Division of Surgery & Interventional Science

We seek an outstanding early career researcher or clinician to be appointed to a 3-year PhD studentship to collaborate on a series of projects using mixed methods to explore aspects of patient safety related to effective management of acute deterioration (acute illness) across whole wards/departments, hospitals and patient pathways. Read more

Supervisors: Prof C Vindrola, Dr D Smith, Dr J Welch, Dr K Kohler

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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FAIROmics - PhD fellowship in applied mathematics - Optimal Transportation to improve databases integration.

INRAE Inrae - Paris-Saclay Food and Bioproduct Engineering Research Unit

About the Project. Plant-based dairy and meat alternatives have grown in popularity in recent years for various reasons, including sustainability and health benefits, as well as lifestyle trends and dietary restrictions. Read more

Supervisors: Dr SD Déjean, Dr PSP Saint-Pierre, Dr NS Savy, Prof DR Remondini, Dr EG Giampieri

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

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FAIROmics - PhD fellowship in plant-based food fermentation genomics.

INRAE Inrae - Paris-Saclay Food and Bioproduct Engineering Research Unit

Supervisors: Dr MWB Wells-Bennik, Dr HB Bachmann, Dr EH Hester, Prof M Zwietering, Prof VV Valdramidis, Dr MD Dasenaki, Dr KA Karatzas

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

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French PhD

King’s College London Faculty of Arts & Humanities

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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Optimising the measurement of working memory for assessment of speech-in-noise perception

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

The ability to hear and understand speech in a noisy background is vitally important to good communication, and ultimately a good quality of life. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Heinrich, Dr R Millman, Dr S Couth

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

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'A Vernacular Scientific Imaginary?' The Origins and Impacts of Science Fiction Stories and Strips in British Comics in the First Half of the 20C

University of Dundee School of Humanities

Aim. This project will explore the idea of a distinctively indigenous and responsive tradition of popular SF aimed at a younger readership before the widespread influence of imported US comics and pulp SF after WW II. Read more

Supervisors: Dr K Williams, Prof C Murray

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

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English PhD (option of joint PhD with Hong Kong/Singapore/Humboldt Berlin)

King’s College London Faculty of Arts & Humanities

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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An intervention to improve deaf children’s social communication skills

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Deafness and hearing loss combined is the most prevalent sensory deficit experienced by children. In England alone, more than 45000 children are deaf or have a hearing loss. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Heinrich, Dr H Chilton

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

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Welsh

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Welsh

This PhD is lead by the Literature, Theory and Creativity Research Unit in the School of Welsh. Join our passionate, challenge-led and diverse research community to explore your interests in a supportive and impact-focused environment. Read more

Self-Funded PhD Students Only Arts Research Programme

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Nano-particle enhanced Additive Manufacturing of aluminum alloys

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Additive manufacturing is rapidly developing manufacturing concept; however, metal additive manufacturing has seen numerous inconsistencies regarding methods of controlling and standardizing the performance of the deposits from the metal additive manufacturing process. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Cooke

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

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Development of enhanced Nanostructure High-Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) Coatings for ultra-low wear applications

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

High-velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) is a well-established thermal spraying technique for applying wear and corrosion-resistant coatings onto metallic substrates. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Cooke

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

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