Below is a list of Ph.D Scholarships in United Kingdom for African students 2026-2027
The University of St Andrews and Macquarie University are pleased to offer a scholarship funded by both institutions to support an exceptional student undertaking doctoral research in the following project: PhD position on catalysis, polymer chemistry and recycling Students will enro
Published: 23 Oct 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia, United Kingdom Deadline: 18 Dec 2026
Ulster's Annual PhD Studentship Competition offers Department for the Economy studentships to home and overseas applicants for full-time and part-time study on-campus. Where available, part-time study mode will be at 50% of the full-time mode.
Published: 23 Oct 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 08 Jan 2027
The Department of Earth Science and Engineering offers several scholarships for the PhD programme in any research area within the department.
Published: 20 Oct 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 11 Jan 2027
Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the E5 Doctoral Training Partnership (E5 DTP) builds on the success of the E3 and E4 DTPs, led by the University of Edinburgh's School of Geosciences. Continuing a strong legacy of research and collaboration, E5 will recruit and tr
Published: 19 Oct 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 02 Dec 2026
The Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) VC PhD Scholarship is now open (7 October 2026 to 29 January 2027). The Vice-Chancellor and the University Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee have endorsed the 2027 version of the programme. Now in its 12th year LJMU invite applications from exce
Published: 16 Oct 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 29 Jan 2027
The department offers PhD Scholarships to prospective PhD candidates starting in 2026. The Scholarship covers full fees and a tax-free stipend of *£23,805 (*27/28 rate TBC).
Published: 16 Oct 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 10 Dec 2026
Prostate cancer remains one of the most common cancers in men, yet accurately predicting which individuals will develop clinically significant disease or experience disease progression remains a major challenge. Advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), biomarker discovery, and health data scien
Published: 15 Oct 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 15 Feb 2027
The threat of large-scale, general-purpose quantum computers to existing public-key cryptographic solutions has led to global efforts to standardise post-quantum cryptography as a replacement. One of the front-runners for problems to base post-quantum cryptography on are hard problems on lattices. O
Published: 15 Oct 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 30 Nov 2026
The scholarships have been established in memory of Imperial alumnus Alex Fortescue (1968 – 2024), who graduated in 1990 with a first-class degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Alex’s family connections with Imperial span more than a century; his grandfather, Cecil Lewis Fort
Published: 09 Oct 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 01 Mar 2027
The University of Edinburgh is one of 50 leading Higher Education Institutions to receive a Doctoral Landscape Award from the AHRC to help underpin the strength and stability of the arts and humanities research environment. Doctoral Landscape Awards support PhD studentships across the arts and hu
Published: 09 Oct 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 19 Jan 2027
Rolls Royce in partnership with 12 universities in the United Kingdom (UK), provides support to 500 PhDs and 800 research staff at any one time across a wide range of disciplines. The scholarship includes fully funded PhD projects that covers tuition fees, and a stipend per year for four years.
Published: 08 Oct 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified
The International Max Planck Research School for Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials is a joint PhD program between the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany, Technische Universität Dresden and the University of St Andrews, Scotland. By wo
Published: 05 Oct 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Germany, United Kingdom Deadline: 30 Nov 2026
The Graduate Ellison Scholars programme provides fully-funded doctoral (DPhil/PhD) study at the University of Oxford, where graduate students directly contribute to progressing an Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) project. These projects tackle global challenges through cutting-edge technology,
Published: 24 Sep 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 01 Dec 2026
Applications are invited for a funded PhD studentship in foundational artificial intelligence at University College London. The project will investigate fundamental questions in AI, machine learning and sequential decision-making. The research directions include: Reinforcement learning; intellige
Published: 22 Sep 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified
A fully-funded PhD is available from February 2027 to work with Professors Sonya Crowe, Christina Pagel and Nici Zimmermann on an Operational Research / System Dynamics project as part of the NIHR/EPSRC-funded SPROCKET Hub (Systems and Process Redesign and Optimisation at Childhood Key Events and Tr
Published: 22 Sep 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 25 Oct 2026
Are you interested in working in the rapidly evolving research field of quantum materials? The Max Planck Graduate Center for Quantum Materials (MPGC-QM) currently has an open call for multiple fully funded PhD student positions. Deadline for submission of your application is
Published: 18 Sep 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Germany, United Kingdom Deadline: 01 Aug 2026
La Trobe University is offering a graduate research scholarship for students to undertake a joint PhD with Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Applications for this scholarship are now open to Australian or New Zealand citizens or Australian permanent residents newly enrolling in a PhD. Student
Published: 01 Sep 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia, United Kingdom Deadline: 31 Dec 2026
The Sheffield Institute of Education welcomes applications for White Rose funded PhD scholarships, starting in October 2027. Applicants are advised to submit their own project ideas on topics aligned with the White Rose Education, Childhood and Youth pathway.
Published: 17 Aug 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 13 Nov 2026
Commonwealth PhD Scholarships are for applicants from least developed countries and vulnerable states, as classified by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), in the Commonwealth, for full-time doctoral study at a UK university. The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (CSC) pr
Published: 04 Sep 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 20 Oct 2026
This PhD project will develop and validate fast, zonal voltage control strategies for power grids with high penetrations of inverter-based resources (IBRs). The research will focus on grid segmentation methods, coordinated voltage control across zones and scalable architectures that enhance voltage
Published: 15 Jul 2026 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 14 Aug 2026