[Full tuition fee award and annual stipend of £19,775 per annum for up to 3.5 years (full-time) or 7 years (part-time), with annual uplift.] The University of St Andrews invites applications for a fully funded PhD studentship in English, supported by St Leonard's Postgraduate College. This prestigious scholarship is designed for an exceptional student to undertake doctoral research on the project titled Exporting the Nation: Making the Commonwealth, Re-making Men . The project explores the endur...

The Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, is offering a research fellowship for a PhD student or a master enrolled in a non-academic degree course, reference MPOBS_2026_02. This opportunity is open in the fields of Communication Sciences and Sociology, with a focus on media literacy, communication policies, science communication, and culture policies. The fellowship is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the Fina...

The University of South Wales, through its Faculty of Business and Creative Industries, invites applications for a fully funded PhD studentship commencing in October 2026. The project, titled 'The Establishment and Impact Evaluation of a Digital-First, Multi-Site, National Poetry Library of Wales,' aims to explore the creation, development, and cultural significance of a digital-first poetry library spanning multiple sites across Wales. This innovative research will evaluate the impact of such a...

[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...

[Fully funded 4-year studentship covers home or international tuition fees, maintenance at UKRI base levels (£20,780 for 2025/26), and £10,000 to support research and training needs.] The University of Surrey invites applications for a fully funded PhD studentship as part of the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship in AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility (ADA). This opportunity is designed for candidates interested in advancing digital accessibility through artificial intelligence, focusing on the challe...

The University of Manchester invites applications for a fully funded PhD studentship titled 'Artificial Inequality? AI and its Impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship)'. This research opportunity addresses the urgent and evolving intersection of artificial intelligence and structural inequalities within the UK's cultural and creative industries (CCIs). The project explores how AI technologies, such as Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, and Suno, are reshaping creative work, business...

This PhD project, titled 'Sensing the Machine: Generative AI and the Transformation of Musical Ensemble Practice (CreativeAI Studentship)', offers a unique opportunity to investigate how generative AI is reshaping creativity, collaboration, and trust within musical performance, production, and composition. As AI systems become increasingly integrated into creative workflows—from real-time improvisation tools to AI-assisted compositional platforms—musicians are beginning to treat algorithms not o...

The Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship in AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility (ADA) at the University of Surrey offers an exciting opportunity for doctoral researchers to address the challenges of digital accessibility in a world increasingly reliant on digital media. Digital media is central to public information, news, government services, healthcare, finance, education, culture, entertainment, and social interaction. Ensuring accessibility for all is crucial, yet complex due to multimodal and langu...

ETH Zurich invites applications for a fully funded doctoral position in Artistic Research, focusing on the intersection of art and quantum physics. This unique 4-year PhD project, part of the Art in Space and Time (AISAT) initiative, is a collaboration between Prof. Dr. Rosa Barba (Chair of Art in Space and Time, Department of Architecture) and Prof. Dr. Puneet Murthy (Department of Physics, Nanoscale Quantum Optics group). The research explores fundamental phenomena of light and matter, particu...