7.4k PhD programmes in Europe

The History, English, Linguistics, Theology programme offered by Canterbury Christ Church University develops expertise in historical inquiry, language analysis, literary study, and religious thought.

Welcome to TU Berlin's cutting-edge Urban Water Interfaces Doctoral Program. Explore the complex and vital intersection of urbanization and water dynamics, contributing to innovative solutions for sustainable urban water management at one of Germany's premier institutions.

Nurturing academic excellence, the Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences takes pride in its distinguished programs, including the doctoral offering in Animal Science and Fisheries.

At the University of Barcelona, we offer our graduate students a phd programme in Bioinformatics. Join us! 

The School of Clinical Dentistry is proud to provide a world-class research environment for our PhD students and the University of Sheffield is in the Russell Group Top Ten for research output.

Abertay University’s Division of Psychology and Forensic Sciences has a strong and active role in delivering research degrees, including those in partnership with the NHS, local education authorities, Police Scotland, and the business and digital technology communities. The university offers this PhD in Fingerprints and Forensic Mark Visualisation.

The PhD in Maths at the University of Hertfordshire is the internationally recognised degree signifying high levels of achievement in research.

As a PhD researcher in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Stirling, you’ll benefit from our desire to engage with communities around the world and produce research that makes a positive difference to society.

How do we conceive of the world? What is the structure and composition of our concepts? How do we represent in our minds categories, individuals, relations, properties, events, or sentence meanings? The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf is a research centre that addresses such issues.

The Centre for Astrophysics Research at the University of Hertfordshire carries out research on a broad range of key science questions in Astronomy.

The Media and Broadcast programme offered by Queen's University Belfast develops advanced research expertise in media cultures, broadcasting, digital media, communication, and creative practice, enabling students to produce original scholarly or practice-led contributions to contemporary media research.

The Built Environment expertise course at University of Plymouth welcomes applications for doctoral research that deals with various aspects of the built environment, especially those that focus on broad areas of building performance, construction management and architectural engineering.

At SPRU – Science Policy Research Unit, our research focuses on the direction, degree and impact of technological change. This Technology and Innovation Management programme is offered at the University of Sussex.

English at University of Hull is friendly, inclusive and supportive, and characterised by the internationally excellent research that informs our postgraduate degree supervision.  

The PhD in Human Rights offered at the University of Sussex is radically interdisciplinary, spanning the social sciences and humanities.

The Social Policy programme offered by Queen's University Belfast develops advanced research expertise in social welfare, inequality, wellbeing, public policy, and social change, enabling students to investigate complex societal challenges through multidisciplinary research with local and global impact.

Our research ethos underpins and stimulating and dynamic environment in which to study. As a PhD researcher in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, you'll be joining a community of world-leading researchers who are pushing the boundaries of literary and linguistic study. 

Both in Classical languages and literature, and in ancient history, the DPhil Ancient History programme from University of Oxford is a research degree intended to make it possible for the successful candidate to aspire to a career in research and teaching at university level anywhere in the world where the Classical subjects are studied.

The Sport and Exercise Sciences programme offered by Anglia Ruskin University enables researchers to investigate performance, health, exercise, and coaching through advanced research in physiology, psychology, biomechanics, and sport pedagogy.

Our Biochemistry and Biotechnology research at University of Glasgow aims to answer fundamental questions about how cells and organisms work at the molecular and biochemical level.