ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Studentship

[ESRC studentship covers tuition fees and an annual tax-free living stipend at UKRI minimum rates; current stipend is £21,805 for 2026/27.] This PhD studentship at Swansea University sits within the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) pathway in Health, Wellbeing and Data Science . The project area brings together observational, descriptive, and trials-based methods with large population-scale datasets to tackle pressing health and social challenges. Research in this area ...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Military mental health at King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR), King’s College London . The project is titled “Developing treatment guidance to support military personnel affected by deployment-related psychological distress” . The research will review evidence on treatments for psychological distress pre-, during-, and post-deployment to combat operations, work with clinicians from multiple specialties on clinical decision-making for mental health c...

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...

ESRC SENSS student-led PhD studentship competition is now open for projects in social science and coastal health inequalities. The opportunity is linked to the Centre for Coastal Communities and the Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing at the University of Essex, within the South and East Network for Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership. This is a prestigious fully funded PhD studentship lasting 3.5–4 years. Fees are paid and the stipend/salary is between £21,805 and £23,805 per yea...

PhD Studentship in Parent-Infant Relationships at the University of York, Department of Health Sciences . This fully funded PhD sits within the Family Wellbeing Team and the STRIVE programme, led by Professor Sarah Blower in partnership with colleagues from health and public health research groups. The project focus is on parent-infant relationships and related early-years constructs, with scope to investigate the quality and robustness of existing measurement tools, how tools are used in practi...