Funded Studentships

You can use our search listing to find the right project for your skills, passion and expertise. The listing includes:

  • An extensive portfolio of PhD projects, with expert supervisory teams based in one of our leading research centres.
  • A number of PhD programmes with international partner universities around the world.

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Trailblazers: The Early Career Researcher and PhD Candidate Partnering Scheme

The scheme provides PhD candidates with an innovative and dynamic intellectual space in which to undertake transformative research, whilst fully supported by a team of experienced supervisors.

Energy transfer in rotating stably stratified turbulence

We are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position to investigate the complex behaviours of energy transfer in rotating, stably stratified turbulent flows—a critical phenomenon in atmospheric physics and environmental science.

Resilience of pastoral societies to social-ecological change in central Kenya

Using a case study from central Kenya, this studentship seeks to address these unknowns and establish a critical basis for the effectiveness of these and other key factors in building resilience in pastoral societies.

Green investment, green finance, climate risk exposure and sustainability decisions of the firms

This PhD project is a studentship opportunity for a dual degree PhD programme between Coventry University in the United Kingdom and the Bandung Institute of Technology (Institute Teknologi Bandung, ITB) in Indonesia.

Foreseeing the impact and nature-based management of emerging unprecedented climate extremes on water security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Coventry University (CU) is inviting applications from suitably qualified graduates for a fully-funded PhD studentship.

Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory

This project explores the concept of ‘presentism’ in cultural representations of the past. 

Emerging invasive alien species and their management

This fully funded studentship explores the early identification of emerging invasive alien plants in Britain and stakeholders' awareness and management responses.

Modelling of Timber and Hybrid Structures for Automotive Crash Analysis and Optimisation

The Centre for Future Transport and Cities are seeking applicants for a fully funded Studentship to explore the modelling of timber and hybrid structures for automotive crash analysis and optimisation.

The role of health technology in menopause support: co-designing culturally and socially appropriate solutions

The Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities are offering a fully-funded opportunity which seeks to identify and understand the needs and priorities of people experiencing the menopause through language-based and creative methods.

Practicing (Post-)Publishing (PPP)

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) and its Post-publishing research strand invite applications for a fully-funded PhD studentship exploring alternative publishing practices and their potential to foster more supportive, diverse, and equitable publishing cultures.

Investigating the Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Benefits of Classroom Exercise Breaks in School-Age Children

The PhD student will be based in the Centre for Physical Activity, Sports and Exercise Sciences alongside Dr Ricardo Martins (DoS) and Prof Mike Duncan (Co-Supervisor). 

The peace potential of everyday economic spaces and practices in conflict-affected societies

This three-year funded PhD studentship enables research into the everyday economic spaces and practices that emerge during and following war, exploring the peace potential they offer to conflict-affected societies.

Transparency and Secrecy: The paradoxes of tech whistleblowing in the digital era

The Research Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity is pleased to invite applicants to a fully-funded PhD opportunity to analyse the paradoxes of tech whistleblowing, focused on secrecy and transparency in the UK, EU and US.