The President’s Doctoral Scholar Award at The University of Manchester offers a fully funded PhD opportunity focused on the prevention of species loss and its implications for human health and wellbeing. This interdisciplinary project explores the historical and cultural roots of conservation, de-extinction, and rewilding, tracing their development from the nineteenth century to the present. The research will examine how longstanding ideas about the therapeutic and restorative potential of natur...

The University of Manchester invites applications for a fully funded PhD project titled '[PDS Award] The Future of Sex: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sexual Biology and Gender Studies.' This innovative doctoral research responds to the evolving role of 'sex' as an organising concept in the humanities, aiming to bridge insights from gender and sexuality studies with recent scientific developments in sexual biology. The project leverages the humanities' capacity to interrogate the social and cul...

This interdisciplinary PhD project, based at The University of Manchester, investigates the environmental, cultural, and economic impacts of end-of-life practices in 21st century Britain. The research addresses the pressing question of how Britain should dispose of its dead, considering the intersection of environmental science, cultural heritage, medical ethics, and public policy. Traditional burial and cremation methods are evaluated for their resource use and carbon footprint, while the ecolo...

This funded PhD position at the University of Birmingham offers an exceptional opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary, international research collaboration focused on responder-perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse (RP-SEA) in humanitarian crises. The RESPONDER Partnership addresses critical evidence and policy gaps in contexts such as Haiti, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Kosovo, and the Central African Republic. The research employs mixed-methods, including r...

The Leverhulme Unit for the Design of Cities of the Future (LUDeC) at Manchester Metropolitan University offers a transdisciplinary doctoral programme that integrates the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences to address contemporary urban challenges. The programme encourages collaboration across disciplines, such as artists working with sociologists, historians with designers, and literary scholars with geographers, to foster a co-creative approach to urban design. LUDeC aims to promote a more h...

King's College London is offering the Harold Moody Postgraduate Research Studentships for the 2026/27 academic year, providing full funding for Black UK residents to pursue a PhD in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Social Science & Public Policy, or King's Business School. The scheme, named after King's alumnus and civil activist Dr Harold Moody, aims to support Black British students who are eligible for home fees. Five studentships are available, each covering full tuition fees, an annual UKR...

Queen Mary University of London, in partnership with the Museum of the Home, is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. The project, 'Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870', investigates the role of music in shaping domestic life, emotional responses, and social interactions in working-class and petit-bourgeois English homes. The research will contribute to museum displays and...

Queen Mary University of London, in partnership with the Museum of the Home, is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. The project, 'Soundscapes of Domesticity: Music and Lived Experience in Non-Elite English Homes, 1780–1870', investigates the role of music in everyday life across a range of domestic settings, from working-class cottages to petit-bourgeois households and institutional homes. The research will address how music sh...