7.5k PhD programmes in Europe

Based at Dumfries Campus, our staff at University of Glasgow are experts in many areas of Environmental Sustainability, including sustainable tourism, environmental risk, community resilience, hydrology and environmental stewardship. 

We have outstanding facilities in the field of Text and Image Studies, from the holdings of the library from University of Glasgow, including the Stirling Maxwell Collection, and The Hunterian, to an environment that includes world-leading publications and journals, the hosting of conferences, and exhibition curation.

We offer a phd degree in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow. We are internationally recognised for research excellence in modern economic and social history, with exceptional strengths in business and financial history, the history of medicine, and social and gender history.

Our Law staff at University of Glasgow are experts from across all areas of the law, supervising top-calibre international research students.

In the Social and Public Health programme from University of Glasgow, we welcome applicants from low- and middle-income countries and we have significant experience of supervising students whose PhD research takes them overseas.

Urban Studies at University of Glasgow is widely recognised as a world-leading centre for innovative, interdisciplinary urban research with high international impact. 

Information Studies at University of Glasgow has a vibrant research culture with a growing number of doctoral and masters students, exploring a range of topics in the fields of information studies, museology, digital culture and digital humanities.

Scientists at The Open University UK have been involved in the development of instruments for space applications for many decades. The university offers this Imaging in Space programme.

Research opportunities in the Neuroscience degree at Keele University include a wide range of topics in mammalian molecular biology, molecular medicine, epigenetics, proteomics, physiology, structural biology and neuroscience.

Disorders of the nervous system are major causes of disability globally. Neurological Science at the University of Liverpool offers a range of one year research projects designed for medical students interested in working for an intercalated MPhil.

The Professional Doctorate in Design (DDes) at the University of Hertfordshire is aimed at candidates who currently work in a design discipline, and who wish to engage in research that relates to their professional role.

The Applied and Forensic Cognition Research Group at The Open University UK is a vibrant team of psychological researchers interested in all aspects of forensic and cognitive psychology addressing applied issues in collaboration with practitioners from a range of backgrounds.

The University of Salford is an international centre for Acoustics and Audio Postgraduate Research. Since 1958, our academics and researchers have led pioneering projects that have developed new knowledge, set industry standards and shaped products sold worldwide today.

Members of the Classical Studies discipline at The Open University UK have distinctive expertise in the study of The Ancient Body and the Senses.

Research in this Correlated Magnetism - Frustration to Topology research training group at TU Dresden aims at investigating novel phases of magnetic materials.

Our postgraduate Earth Sciences students at University of Liverpool are led by internationally-renowned experts and enjoy a first-class experience in an exciting research environment.

The History of Science and Ideas programme offered by University of Gothenburg develops advanced research expertise in intellectual history, knowledge traditions, and the history of science.

Our research students benefit immensely from a vibrant research community, a supportive environment and many opportunities to engage critically with academic research and contemporary issues. They are immersed in a research culture which situates legal studies in its historical, social and economic context.

This doctoral programme in "Optical Excitations in Organic and Inorganic Semiconductors" is offered at the University of Bayreuth. 

Information Systems is part of Karlstad Business School at Karlstad University. The discipline includes technical, financial, and educational aspects of information systems.