Postgraduate research

Funded opportunities

Listed below are the funded studentship opportunities which are currently accepting research student applications.

Research Council Studentships

PhD studentships funded by Research Councils open for September 2023 entry

  • Please refer to the individual project information for funding details and eligibility.

Midlands4Cities DTP: Open Doctoral Awards

  • closed

Midlands4Cities CDA: Doctoral Collaborative Awards

  • closed

NERC CENTA: Central England NERC Training Alliance Studentships

  • closed

MRC AIM DTP: Studentships

  • Closed

Midlands Graduate School: ESRC DTP

  • closed

BBSRC MIBTP: Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership

  • Closed
STFC: Science and Technology Facilities Council
  • Closed

Wellcome Trust DTP: Genomic Epidemiology and Public Health Genomics PhD Programme

  • Closed

British Heart Foundation: 4 Year MRes+PhD Studentship

  • Closed

Leicestershire Healthcare Inequalities Improvement: Doctoral Training Programme

  • Closed

ESRC Midlands Graduate School with ADR UK PhD Studentship  The Contemporary Rural Working Classes in England and Wales

  • Closed

ESRC Midlands Graduate School DTP Joint Studentship  The digitalisation of agriculture

  • Closed

College of Life Sciences

Please read the studentship adverts for eligibility criteria, funding and application process.

PhD Studentship in Population Health Sciences: Flexible synthesis of cancer survival data incorporating electronic health records

  • Open to UK and International applicants
  • School: Population Health Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Suzanne Freeman and Professor Sylvia Bujkiewicz
  • Start date: Early 2023
  • Closing date: 30 April 2023 
PhD Studentship in Diabetes Research/Population Health Sciences: Obesity and health: what can primary care data tell us?
  • Open to UK (Home) students only
  • School: Diabetes Research Centre / Population Health Sciences
  • Supervisor: Professor Tom Yates
  • Start date: 25 September 2023
  • Closing date: 31 March 2023

College of Life Sciences / Respiratory Sciences Studentship: Longitudinal trends in asthma mortality and uncontrolled asthma, and predictors for asthma-related deaths in children living in England

  • Open to UK (Home) applicants only
  • School: Respiratory Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr David Lo, Dr Clare Gillies and Professor Jennifer Quint
  • Start date: 25 September 2023
  • Closing date: 17 April 2023

College of Life SciencesNIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre PhD Studentships

  • Open to UK and International applicants
  • 32 projects across College of Life Sciences
  • Start date: 25 September 2023
  • Closing date: 16 April 2023

College of Life Sciences Studentship: Integrated discovery and clinical science to establish how exposure to air pollutants impacts respiratory bacteria and infectious disease

  • Open to UK and International applicants
  • School: Respiratory Sciences
  • Supervisors: Professor Julie Morrissey and Dr Jo Purves
  • Start date: 25 September 2023
  • Closing date: 8 May 2023

College of Life Sciences Studentship: Human health impact of exposure to environmental chemicals

  • Open to UK and International applicants
  • School: Population Health Sciences
  • Supervisors: Professor Anna Hansell and Dr Ovnair Sepai
  • Start date: 25 September 2023
  • Closing date: 8 May 2023

College of Life Sciences Studentship: The pathogenic potential of environmental fungi

  • Open to UK and International applicants
  • School: Respiratory Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Leah Cuthbertson and Dr Emma Marczylo
  • Start date: 25 September 2023
  • Closing date: 8 May 2023

Self funded PhD projects in Population Health Sciences

College of Science and Engineering

Please check eligibility for each individual project.

PhD studentships

3.5 Year Engineering Studentship: Oxide-dispersion-strengthened Steels for High Temperature Fusion

  • Open to UK and International applicants
  • School: Engineering
  • Supervisors: Professor Bo Chen and Dr Chritos Skamniotis
  • Start date: 25 September 2023
  • Closing date: 3 April 2023

3.5 Year Engineering Studentship: Computer modelling of flash sintering

  • Open to UK and International applicants
  • School: Engineering
  • Supervisors: Professor Jingzhe Pan and Dr Cathryn Hickey
  • Start date: 25 September 2023
  • Closing date: 30 April 2023

College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities

PhD/MPhil Studentships

Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) funded PhD

  • Economics PhD
  • Start date: 25 September 2023
  • Closing date: 24 April 2023

Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA) funded PhD

  • Management PhD and Economics PhD
  • Start date: 25 September 2023
  • Closing date: 24 April 2023

Future 50 PhD Scholarships

Applications are currently closed for 2023 entry

The University of Leicester are investing £5.45m in 50 Doctoral Scholarships for entry in autumn 2023 as part of its ambition to deliver on its strategic aim to ‘nurture the next generation of researchers to become world-leaders in their field’.

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