If you are applying for doctoral study in humanities, management, engineering or science, you may be eligible for the University Research Studentship Award.
Find out how much funding is available.
You could receive funding for up to:
Funding includes:
Find out if you are eligible for this funding.
You can apply for this studentship if you are a Home student.
In determining Home student status, we follow the UK government’s fee regulations and guidance from the UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA). You can find more information within our fee status guidance.
Very limited opportunities may be available for academically excellent international applicants to receive an award.
Find out how to apply for URSA funding. You need to follow a different process depending on which faculty or School runs the PhD you're applying for.
Find an available project or projects on our FindAPhD feed. You'll find application instructions in each project advert.
We also welcome applications from exceptional students with research proposals of their own design.
One URSA studentship per year is reserved for an applicant holding Refugee, Humanitarian Protection, or Asylum Seeker status as the Doctoral Sanctuary Studentship in Engineering and Design.
In Humanities & Social Sciences only, the URSA competition is run in tandem with the ESRC SWDTP competition.
Guidance on applying for the ESRC SWDTP competition will be available once the scheme opens.
We welcome applications from exceptional students with research proposals of their own design.
Find an available project or projects, with application instructions, on our FindAPhD feed.
Read about applying for ESRC SWDTP, URSA, and GRS funding.
Find an available project or projects on our FindAPhD feed. You'll find application instructions in each project advert.
Find out when you should submit your application.
Scheme now open. URSA project adverts will go live on our FindaPhD project feed in early December 2022.
Applications close on Sunday 29 January 2023 at 23:59 GMT.
Doctoral Sanctuary Studentship in Engineering and Design deadline is Sunday 22 January 2023 at 23:59 GMT.
Now open for applications for entry in the 2023/24 academic year.
Applications close on 13 January 2022 at 12:00 (midday) GMT.
Now open for applications for entry in the 2023/24 academic year.
Applications close on Friday 31 March 2023 at 23:59 GMT.
Scheme now open. URSA project adverts will go live on our FindaPhD project feed on an ongoing basis until the end of November 2022.
Applications close on Sunday 22 January 2023 at 23:59 GMT.
If you have any questions about doctoral funding, get in touch.