PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Theater Studies in United Kingdom

[For eligible students, the studentship covers home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship explores costly signalling and mate search in wild fiddler crabs , using West African fiddler crabs ( Afruca tangeri ) as a model for understanding how sexual displays evolve and how mate choice operates in dynamic social environments. The project combines evolutionary modelling with cutting-edge behavioural experiments . On the theoretical side, the student will build models u...

Henri Frankfort Fellowship at the Warburg Institute, part of the University of London, supports a two-month research visit in London for postdoctoral scholars working on the Ancient Near East. The fellowship is designed for research in the history of ideas, cultural history, and art history, and is connected to the Warburg Institute’s broader strengths in the history of ideas, visual history, and cultural history. The award honours Henri Frankfort, who directed the Institute from 1949 to 1954, a...

The William S. Phillips Fund award supports postgraduate study in art and design at the University of Dundee’s College of Art and Design, part of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. This scholarship is intended for students entering a one-year Master’s programme and covers the full duration of that year. The award is rooted in a foundation established from the estate of William Sangster Phillips, a Dundee-born benefactor, and is designed to help talented home students pursue advance...

Pigott Scholarships at the University of Cambridge support doctoral study in the humanities and social sciences. This award is intended for students pursuing a research-based PhD at Cambridge, with two scholarships available each year. The scholarship sits within the University of Cambridge’s named scholarship offering and was established in 2008 following a £2 million donation from the Pigott family. It is aimed at high-achieving students whose research and academic interests fall within the ar...

Sheffield Hallam University’s Creative Industries Institute is offering three Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Landscape Awards for PhD study beginning in October 2027. The opportunity supports doctoral research across the arts and humanities, with the Creative Industries Institute providing the academic setting. Potential research directions may connect with creative industries, culture, media, history, literature, film, theatre, music and related humanities disciplines, sub...

Architectural History and Heritage MA (Hons) is a four-year, full-time undergraduate degree at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Based at the Lauriston campus, the programme explores how people have imagined, designed and used buildings and places, and how historic environments can be understood in relation to wider social, political and urban history. The curriculum combines architectural history, fine art, heritage management, urbanism and the cultural history of cities. T...

Arabic and History MA (Hons) is a four-year, full-time undergraduate joint honours programme at the University of Edinburgh, combining Arabic language study with the critical study of human history. Students learn both classical and modern Arabic while exploring the Arabic-speaking world, the Middle East, and the Islamic world. The programme develops language skills across reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, and translation, with opportunities to study Arabic literature and Islamic a...

The University of Exeter is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join its Technology Enabled Rehabilitation research team in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. The project focuses on developing home-based rehabilitation for stroke and other neurological or ageing disorders, combining clinical expertise with experimental psychology, biomechanics, physiotherapy and mathematical methods. Working within the National Institute for Health and Care Research Exeter Biomedical Research Centre, the ...

The University of the Arts London is recruiting a Research and Knowledge Exchange Administrator to support research, doctoral education and financial administration at London College of Fashion (LCF). Based within the Research and Knowledge Exchange department, the role connects research administration, finance support and PhD student administration. The administrator will work with the Research and Knowledge Exchange Manager, the wider RKE team, the UAL Doctoral School and colleagues across the...