History PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students in London

Self-Funded PhD Students Only Humanities Research Programme

The Department of History at King's has a long and distinguished tradition in world leading, cutting-edge research. Our staff and research students are fully engaged in original historical scholarship, ranging from late antiquity to the present day. Read more

PhD at the Institute of Historical Research

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Humanities Research Programme

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

German PhD (option of joint PhD with Stuttgart or Humboldt University)

Self-Funded PhD Students Only Humanities Research Programme

Our current research students work mainly in cultural and historical studies from the Middle Ages to the present day, including literary studies, film and cinema studies; theatre studies; literary and cultural theory; and the history of ideas. Read more

PhD at the Institute of English Studies

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Arts Research Programme

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

PhD at the Warburg Institute

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Humanities Research Programme

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

PhD at the Institute of Classical Studies

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Humanities Research Programme

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

PhD at the University of London Institute in Paris

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Humanities Research Programme

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

PhD at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Humanities Research Programme

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

University of Greenwich School of Humanities and Social Sciences

The National Army Museum Doctoral Scholarship: The Punjab Registers and the Indian Army, c. 1895-1947

In collaboration with the National Army Museum (NAM), the University of Greenwich (UoG) seeks to recruit an outstanding researcher to investigate the social, cultural and military history of the Indian Army across the late colonial period. Read more

Supervisors: Prof GR Rand, Dr AJ Jeffreys

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

PhD at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Humanities Research Programme

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

French PhD

Self-Funded PhD Students Only Humanities Research Programme

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

Classics PhD

Self-Funded PhD Students Only Humanities Research Programme

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

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme

The Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme Knowledge Orders before Modernity

King’s College London

The Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme `Knowledge Orders before Modernity' (KOM) is an innovative collaboration between King's College London and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent. Read more

University College London UCL SECReT

UCL SECReT: The International Training Centre for Security and Crime Research Degrees

UCL's Security Science Doctoral Research Training Centre (UCL SECReT) was founded in 2009 with support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESRC) and an array of public and private sector organisations working in crime reduction security and law enforcement. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only) EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training