PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Law in United Kingdom

[For eligible students, the studentship covers home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship investigates how chemicals of emerging concern, especially PFAS, move from South West catchments into reservoirs and drinking water, and what happens to them along the way. The project asks which contaminants are present across catchments and reservoirs, how they partition and transform between water, sediment and reservoir systems, and which compounds escape removal during tre...

The University of Birmingham’s School of Social Policy and Society is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to lead original research on suicide and homicide risk among young carers. The role is based at the University’s Edgbaston campus in Birmingham and contributes to research at the intersection of public health, sociology, psychology, social policy, and social care. The researcher will undertake literature reviews and collect, analyse, and interpret qualitative data. A central part of the p...

The Open University’s School of Computing and Communications is offering two PhD research opportunities at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and digital forensics, supervised by Adrian Winckles. The first project, Forging the Evidence , investigates whether generative AI can create unique, fair and consistently difficult digital forensics case scenarios for university students, police first responders and continuing professional development cohorts. The research will exp...

This funded PhD project at Ulster University’s School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences will investigate how digitally enabled, patient-centred approaches can support safer deprescribing for older adults living with frailty in Northern Ireland. The research will examine the intersections between health literacy, frailty and medication use. The doctoral researcher will co-design and pilot a digitally enabled intervention intended to support safer prescribing and deprescribing, with direct ali...

The University of Oxford’s Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for its Economics, Inequality, and Opportunity team. The project is focused on advancing research into economic and social inequality. The successful researcher will contribute original ideas to inequality research and work in an interdisciplinary environment that brings together economists, sociologists, policy researchers, and related scholars. The team is committe...

The University of Oxford’s Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative (AIGI Oxford) is seeking a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in AI Verification (Political) to join the Oxford Martin School in Oxford, United Kingdom. The researcher will play a leading role in a grant-funded project examining technical and political pathways for verifying that computational rules are being followed in AI data centres. The project is designed to help states develop viable, privacy-preserving and attack-resistant ver...

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and the Institute for Technology and Humanity at the University of Cambridge invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Cambridge Digital Minds research group, directed by Dr Lucius Caviola. The researcher will work closely with senior researchers including Dr Bradford Saad and Dr Caspar Kaiser. The role supports rigorous empirical, computational, theoretical or policy research on digital minds and artificial intelli...

The University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Oxford Climate Policy Hub at Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in Oxford. The role focuses on climate policy, regulation and governance across sectors and jurisdictions. The fellow will work collaboratively to develop innovative research on how climate policies and regulations are designed, interact and spread in different contexts. The project involves designing and adapting research m...

[Fully funded three-year PhD studentship with annual stipend in line with UKRI levels (£21,805 in 2026/27, uprated annually) plus tuition fees (UK/Overseas).] The University of Southampton Law School is offering a fully funded PhD studentship within the Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and Law . The project sits inside one of the School’s research centres and is designed to strengthen the Centre’s work on discrimination against women and girls, the causes of gendered inequality, and possi...