PhD Opportunities in Education in United Kingdom

This scholarship offers a fully funded PhD place through the NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership, a joint programme run by the Universities of Bristol, Exeter, Bath and Cardiff. It supports doctoral research in Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences over 3.5 years, with projects hosted at one of the four UK partner universities. The partnership brings together a large cohort of researchers across the natural sciences, with access to laboratory and fieldwork resources, conference support, and...

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...

Newton Trust PhD Studentship at the University of Cambridge This named award supports PhD study at the University of Cambridge for UK (Home) students across any subject area. It is one of Cambridge’s central funding competition awards and is intended for high-ranked applicants who narrowly miss the main funding pots. The studentship is funded by the Isaac Newton Trust, a charity founded by Trinity College, Cambridge. The award provides a contribution to PhD tuition fees and living costs for up t...

[Home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship at the University of Exeter investigates the dynamics of the Southern Ocean , with a particular focus on how submesoscale and mesoscale ocean flows interact across scales to shape the large-scale eddy field. The project is framed by the Southern Ocean’s importance as a major sink for excess anthropogenic heat and carbon and as a key component of global climate and sea-ice dynamics. The successful student will study the pro...

The Quantum Information Science and Technologies (QIST) PhD programme offers a four-year route into advanced quantum technologies and interdisciplinary research. It is designed for students seeking the knowledge and skills needed for careers in the rapidly developing quantum technology sector. The programme is delivered through a partnership between the University of Sussex and the University of Bristol , bringing together leading academics and industry partners. Its cross-disciplinary structure...

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...

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...

Information-Based Brain Markers of Consciousness and Cognition in Health and Disease is a PhD project at Queen Mary University of London, co-supervised by Daniel Bor and Pedro Mediano of Imperial College London. The research will examine how information is integrated and shared across the human brain, and whether changes in these processes can help explain cognitive decline and identify early markers of dementia. The project connects computational neuroscience with information theory, consciousn...

This four-year PhD project investigates why urinary tract infection prevalence increases substantially during menopause. It examines how menopause-associated hormonal changes affect the urinary tract environment and alter competition between bacterial species in the distinctive flow conditions of the bladder and urethra. The project will explore how changes in hormone signalling may disrupt microbial communities and their interactions with the host. A central focus is microbial communication: ho...