Wellcome Trust

[Fully funded studentships; stipend not less than £22,460 per annum (tax-free), plus support for conference attendance and consumables.] The University of Oxford Department invites applications for DPhil Studentships starting in October 2027. These fully funded doctoral studentships support research in internationally renowned programmes focused on the causes and treatments of psychiatric illness, spanning the translational spectrum. Projects may sit within any of the department’s research domai...

Applications are now open for a fully funded PhD scholarship starting October 2027 through the Midlands+ Mental Health and Neuroscience PhD Programme for Healthcare Professionals . The advertised project is at the University of Birmingham and is titled Building the Foundations of Mental Health: Understanding and Supporting Executive Function and Emotion Regulation in Early Childhood . The project is being offered by Alex Hendry in collaboration with Maria Dauvermann (University of Birmingham) an...

PhD fellowship opportunity in personalised prevention for psychosis , focusing on how to move from predicting physical health risks to identifying which preventive treatments will help each person most. The project is supervised by Benjamin Perry (University of Birmingham) alongside Joie Ensor , Marco Bardus , and Amedeo Minichino , and is offered through the Wellcome-funded Midlands+ Mental Health & Neuroscience PhD Programme for Healthcare Professionals . Research themes include psychosis , ca...

Excellence in Diversity PhD Scholarships at The University of Manchester are open for October 2027 entry in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health . This is a fully funded PhD opportunity for UK-domiciled students from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds who are currently underrepresented in postgraduate research. The scholarship covers PhD tuition fees and provides an annual tax-free stipend for 3.5 years . Research areas span the Faculty’s broad postgraduate research portfolio, ...

PhD opportunity at Aston University in Birmingham, United Kingdom on medication optimisation, severe mental illness, peer support workers, realist research, qualitative interviewing, and co-design . This fully funded PhD (3 years, full-time) is part of the TIMELINESS project and will explore how peer support workers (PSWs) can use lived experience to help people with severe mental illness make informed decisions about medication and support recovery. The project is delivered in partnership with ...