[Fully and directly funded opportunities. Funding includes Home or International fees for 42 months and UKRI standard stipend which is currently £20,780 for 2025/26 academic year. Funded by Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences.] The University of Surrey’s School of Arts, Humanities, and Creative Industries is offering four fully funded PhD studentships for outstanding postgraduate researchers. These studentships are designed to support innovative and impactful research that aligns with...

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...

The University of Melbourne, in collaboration with the University of Toronto, is offering a fully funded PhD position in Latin Language and Literature, focusing on the project 'Research-Creation in the early Middle Ages: the example of Hibernicus Exul.' The successful candidate will be co-supervised by Sarah Corrigan (University of Melbourne) and Associate Professor Cillian O'Hogan (University of Toronto). This unique opportunity allows the student to spend a year in Toronto, several months in F...

This PhD position at Radboud University offers an exciting opportunity to join the ERC-funded CONSENT project, focusing on the theme of sexual consent in medieval European narrative songs. As a PhD candidate, you will conduct an independent research project within the CONSENT team, investigating how song texts from the Rhine-Maas-Lorraine region (c. 1300-1430) contributed to positive scenarios for behaviour in sexual relationships and the importance of mutual consent. The project aims to unveil ...

Ghent University, in collaboration with Leiden University, is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD position in Middle Dutch literature, codicology, and digital humanities. The successful candidate will join the FWO project "The origin of the Bible in Dutch," focusing on the earliest Middle Dutch translations of biblical texts (1200–1350), with a special emphasis on the oldest Middle Dutch translation of the Apocalypse. The research will involve studying textual witnesses, building a database, and ...

The School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University is offering a four-year, fully funded PhD studentship as part of the AHRC-funded Lles Doctoral Fund Award. The project, titled Enabling Activities: Narratives of Health and Wellbeing in Wales and Beyond , invites applications from researchers interested in exploring how arts and humanities can contribute to health policy and wellbeing. The studentship is embedded within the unique context of the Well-being of Future Generations Ac...

The University of Bristol is offering the GREAT Scholarships for international students seeking to pursue postgraduate (master's) studies in the UK. This scholarship provides a partial tuition fee contribution of £13,000, making it an attractive opportunity for students from around the world. Notably, there are no subject restrictions, so applicants from arts, science, engineering, health, social sciences, and business disciplines are all eligible to apply. The University of Bristol is a prestig...

PhD admissions are now open for the II Cycle of the Academic Year 2025–26 (January–June 2026 session) at the Central University of Andhra Pradesh (CUAP), a growing center of academic excellence established in 2019. The university is inviting applications for 28 PhD seats across the following disciplines: Political Science (7 seats), Economics (8 seats), English (4 seats), Psychology (2 seats), Telugu (1 seat), and Management (6 seats). Admission is based on eligibility through national-level fel...