University of Sussex 2025 Digitalising Healthcare Work (Digit) for PhD Students

The ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) aims to advance our understanding of how digital technologies are reshaping work. This studentship is part of the Management Integrated PhD course at the University of Sussex Business School. The successful applicant will have access to the instruction and support of the Business School’s PhD training programme and to supervision by experts in the field. The studentship project also involves a placement with a business developing digital ways of working.

• Table of Content
• About University of Sussex
• Digitalising healthcare work (Digit)
• Aim and Benefits of Digitalising healthcare work (Digit)
• Requirements for Digitalising healthcare work (Digit) Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is a leading research-intensive university near Brighton. We have both an international and local outlook, with staff and students from more than 100 countries and frequent engagement in community activities and services.

Digitalising healthcare work (Digit)

Aim and Benefits of Digitalising healthcare work (Digit)

Digit is offering a studentship, with a stipend and UK fees covered, starting in 2025 on digital work in healthcare. The successful candidate will recieve:

Full UK tuition fees only for up to four years.

A stipend equivalent to UKRI doctoral stipend, £20,780 (2025/26) per annum for up to four years.

Requirements for Digitalising healthcare work (Digit) Qualification

Minimum of a 2.1 undergraduate honours degree.

A Master’s degree ideally in a relevant subject area, with ideally at least a merit mark (60%), or equivalent professional experience.

Proof of proficiency in English language to meet the university’s entry requirements.

We require a 2.1 undergraduate honours degree, or equivalent, and a Master’s degree in a relevant subject area such as work and employee relations, value chains and economic geography, political economy or agri-food studies. This studentship can only cover Home Student fees and is therefore open to UK students (or those with indefinite leave to remain/settled status in the UK). Overseas (including EU) applicants would need to demonstrate how they would fund the difference between the UK and Overseas fees, which are not covered by this studentship.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Please submit by email to Professor Dimitra Petrakaki at [email protected] and as one pdf file an application including:

• A statement of interest that outlines why you would like to be considered for this studentship project and what you would like to research (maximum 1 page)
• A CV (2-3 pages)
• Degree transcripts and certificates
• A piece of written work (e.g. an essay or project from your undergraduate or master’s degree
• Names and contact details for two academic referees

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to interview. The successful candidate will then need to apply for the PhD programme at the University of Sussex.

For more details, visit University of Sussex Scholarship webpage