Do you have a Master’s degree and are looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? University of Leeds, Leeds, England is now accepting applications for several funded PhD programs across a range of research areas.
1. Fully Funded PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Summary of Funded PhD Program
For 2025/26 entry, we are offering 3 talented budding researchers the opportunity to join our thriving community of leading researchers within the School of Mechanical Engineering. These are highly competitive EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award Studentships offering the award of fees, together with a tax-free maintenance grant (currently £19,237 for academic session 2024/25) for 3.5 years. Training and support will also be provided. This opportunity is open to all applicants, with 1 place available to international applicants. All candidates will be placed into the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award Studentship Competition and selection is based on academic merit.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2025
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2. Fully Funded PhD in Future Fluid Dynamics
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This is an exciting opportunity to undertake a 4-year EPSRC funded integrated PhD and MSc in Future Fluid Dynamics. Fluid dynamics is a substantial UK research strength and is of critical importance to the economy and society. The discipline is developing rapidly with new techniques, including data-driven fluid dynamics, enabling increasingly complex and challenging problems to be tackled on an ever-faster timescale. Harnessing these advances requires graduates with new skills who can lead the adoption of these new approaches.
Application Deadline: 10 January 2025
3. Fully Funded PhD in Quantum Technologies
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Over the next decade, Quantum technologies are set to revolutionise many aspects of life in the UK and bring enormous benefits to the UK economy, society and the way we can protect our planet. In light of this, these studentships are designed to capitalise on the UK’s world-leading position in Quantum technologies by developing the next generation of experts across a range of theoretical and experimental projects, from new materials to developing control system methodologies.
Application Deadline: 13 December 2024
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4. Fully Funded PhD in Arts, Humanities and Cultures
Summary of Funded PhD Program
These research scholarships are available for 3.5 years full-time or 5 years 10 months part-time study. Applicants must live within a reasonable distance of the University of Leeds whilst in receipt of this scholarship, as they would be expected to regularly attend campus for in-person supervision meetings, tutorials, and other events and training.
These fully funded PhD places provide an exciting opportunity to pursue postgraduate research in a range of fields within arts, humanities and culture. The Faculty is home to a thriving, collaborative and international facing group of academic experts, who work with a variety of external partners: industry, charities, schools, social enterprises, local council, etc.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
5. Fully Funded PhD in Computer Science
Summary of Funded PhD Program
For 2025/26 entry, we are offering 2 talented budding researchers the opportunity to join our thriving community of leading researchers within the School of Computer Science. These are highly competitive EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award Studentships offering the award of fees, together with a tax-free maintenance grant (currently £19,237 for academic session 2024/25) for 3.5 years. Training and support will also be provided. This opportunity is open to all applicants, with 1 place available to international applicants. All candidates will be placed into the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award Studentship Competition and selection is based on academic merit.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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6. Fully Funded PhD in Chemistry
Summary of Funded PhD Program
For 2025/26 entry, we are offering 3 talented budding researchers the opportunity to join our thriving community of leading researchers within the School of Chemistry. These are highly competitive EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award Studentships offering the award of fees, together with a tax-free maintenance grant (currently £19,237 for academic session 2024/25) for 3.5 years. Training and support will also be provided. This opportunity is open to UK applicants only. All candidates will be placed into the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award Studentship Competition and selection is based on academic merit.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The IOP and leading physicist Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell launched the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund to encourage greater diversity in physics. The fund is made possible thanks to Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s generous donation of her £2.3m Breakthrough Prize. This scholarship fund is being used to support full or part-time graduates who wish to study towards a doctorate in physics and are from groups that are currently under-represented in physics. The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund is a restricted fund established under the management of the IOP to support Full-Time or Part-Time postgraduate studentships for people from groups that are currently under-represented in Physics.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD in Politics and International Studies
Summary of Funded PhD Program
We are offering one scholarship for a UK applicant and one for an international applicant. We are looking for excellent applicants who can contribute to our vision to investigate the ‘politics of global challenges’ and to play a dynamic role in our research community in advancing original research informed by a rigorous research design. We are looking for applicants who can develop into future leaders in their research area and/or make an impact on the work of a non-academic organisation.
Application Deadline: 21 March 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD in Media and Communication
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Three full scholarships are available in the School of Media and Communication in 2025/26. Up to two of them cover international rates (full maintenance plus fees), the remaining scholarship will cover maintenance and fees equivalent to Home rates. These fully-funded scholarships provide exciting opportunities to pursue postgraduate research in a range of fields relating to media and communication.
Application Deadline: 3 March 2025
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