These scholarships enable excellent candidates to work with leading academics in research areas that are at the heart of the greatest global challenges and opportunities of our time.
Research with Impact PhD Scholarships
Our generous community supports the leaders of tomorrow to research global challenges through philanthropic gifts funding doctoral scholarships
Research with Impact PhD Scholarships
This prestigious scholarship programme is funded through the generosity of notable donors and allows the PhD students to work in areas such as sustainability; health and wellbeing; and digital.
Funding Available
Each scholarship provides funding for up to four years. This includes:
- Tuition fees at the home rate
- Training support fund of £5000 each year
- Maintenance Stipend at the UKRI minimum rate
If you are an international student and in receipt of this scholarship, you will receive a fee waiver on top of your scholarship. Find out more about your tuition fee status.
Please note that our studentships do not cover UK Student visa costs, or the cost of the mandatory UK Immigration Health Surcharge. These costs can be considerable, so we ask all Overseas applicants to check these costs before applying and ensure they would be willing and able to cover these from their personal funds.
Additional funds for childcare can be considered as part of the scholarship. If these funds are required, please state so in your application and the Doctoral College will contact you if you are successful in receiving an offer. Any request for childcare funds will not be considered as part of the selection process.
Eligibility
These scholarships are intended to support academically excellent applicants, so you must also meet our minimum academic entry requirements of a UK undergraduate degree 2:1 or higher, or international equivalent, and be able to meet the English language entry requirement before the published applications deadline.
Some of the scholarships have specific requirements, which will be detailed in application details of that scholarship.
How to Apply
These scholarships will be advertised from November each year. Each project has its own application deadline, so please follow the detailed instructions provided on the advert.
For PhDs starting in the 2025/26 Academic year, we have the following scholarships available:
- The Hughes PhD Scholarships supporting research on Sustainability. For this scholarship, requests to start mid-year in 2024/25 will also be considered.
- The Craig Scordellis PhD Scholarship in Sustainability
- The Nick Hynes PhD Scholarship for the Augmented Human
- The Mandy Norton PhD Scholarship supporting research in Mathematical Sciences
- The Sir Julian Horn-Smith Scholarship supporting research in Management
- The David Parkin Scholarship supporting candidates from the Americas
- The CMA CGM Excellence Fund for Education supporting candidates from Lebanon
Links to the application information will be added when the scholarships are open for applications.