[Funding covers UK-rate tuition fees and UKRI-rate stipend (£22,780 for 2025/26 including London Allowance) for 3.5 years, plus a 3-month placement. 30% of awards available for international students.] Royal Holloway, University of London, announces three fully funded PhD studentships supported by the AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards. As one of the UK's top 30 research universities, Royal Holloway offers a vibrant and innovative research environment, encouraging both established and emerging schol...

African Creativity Beyond Borders, in partnership with King's College London and the Afe Babalola Centre for Transnational Education, announces a fully funded 4-year PhD opportunity in Leadership Studies with reference to Security & Development. This programme is designed for candidates interested in creative education, youth empowerment, and upskilling within Africa's informal creative economy, particularly in West Africa. The research project will explore educational pathways for young creativ...

King's College London is offering several fully funded PhD studentships in the Arts & Humanities for entry in October 2026. These prestigious opportunities are open across a range of research areas, including Digital Humanities, Film and Media Studies, Art and Technology, and African Creativity. The studentships are designed to support outstanding candidates with a passion for research and a commitment to advancing knowledge in their chosen fields. King’s-Ramón Areces Foundation PhD Scholarships...

Nottingham Trent University is offering a fully-funded PhD opportunity titled Augmenting Design – Speculative Processes for AI–Human Collaboration in 21st Century Design . This project, supervised by Luke Siena, Prof Guy Bingham, Ian Campbell Cole, and Dr Jen Bell, will explore how generative AI (GenAI) is transforming the role of designers and the design process, with a particular emphasis on industrial and 3D product design consultancies. The research aims to produce both academic outputs (suc...

Explore a curated list of fully funded and prestigious academic scholarships for PhD, Master's, and undergraduate studies across leading global institutions. Opportunities span a wide range of disciplines including arts, humanities, social sciences, political science, business, STEM, and more. These scholarships are open to international students and, in some cases, specifically support underrepresented or displaced individuals. PhD Scholarships: - African Creativity Beyond Borders Prize Program...

A fully funded PhD opportunity is available at Queen's University Belfast, focusing on 'Re-Sounding Identities: VR Music-Making & Storytelling with Asylum-Seeking Communities in Northern Ireland.' This interdisciplinary project, led by Professor Franziska Schroder in collaboration with Kim-Marie Spence (Cultural Policy/Music Industry) and Linda Curtin (Immersive Ireland), explores how immersive technologies such as virtual reality can foster inclusion, belonging, and skills development for margi...

[Funding covers UK-rate tuition fees and UKRI-rate stipend (£22,780 for 2025/26 including London Allowance) for 3.5 years, with a 3-month placement. 30% of awards available for international students.] Royal Holloway, University of London, is offering three fully funded PhD studentships through the AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards. As one of the UK's top 30 research universities, Royal Holloway provides a vibrant and supportive environment for postgraduate researchers, with a strong emphasis on in...

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...

Birmingham City University (BCU) is offering six fully funded PhD studentships for UK/Home Students through the Doctoral Landscape Awards, an AHRC-funded initiative designed to foster a vibrant and inclusive doctoral research culture in the arts and humanities. The scheme supports professional and personal development for doctoral researchers, providing access to expert supervision, interdisciplinary training, cohort events, and facilities across BCU and a regional hub of seven universities in t...