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.
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 opens 13 December 2021.
Main competition deadline is Sunday 23 January 2022 at 11.59pm GMT.
Doctoral Sanctuary Studentship in Engineering and Design deadline is Sunday 22 January 2023 at 11.59pm GMT.
Scheme opened in November 2021.
Application deadline is Friday 14 January 2022 at 12 noon GMT.
Scheme opened in November 2021.
Application deadline is Monday 7 March 2022 at 12 noon GMT.
Scheme opened in November 2021.
Application deadline is Tuesday 25 January 2022 at 11.59pm GMT.
If you have any questions about doctoral funding, get in touch.