7.4k PhD programmes in Europe

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. 

The Atmospheric Research and Surface Exploration group at The Open University UK undertakes world-leading climate modelling and atmospheric retrievals spaceflight instruments Beagle 2, Cassini-Huygens and the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).

The Materials Engineering programme from Politecnico di Milano provides high educational opportunities to young talents and executives who intend to become proactive researchers and professionals skilled in the design, production and application of both traditional and innovative materials.

The Applied Data Science and Artificial Intelligence programme offered by University of Trieste develops expertise in large-scale analytics, intelligent algorithms, and computational modelling.

Immerse yourself in the forefront of structural resilience and geotechnical innovation with MIP Politecnico Di Milano's Structural Seismic and Geotechnical Engineering doctoral program.

The Agroecology, Water and Resilience programme offered by Coventry University investigates sustainable agricultural systems, water resource management, environmental resilience, and nature-based solutions for global development challenges.

Education in this Theology program at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn is carried out within the framework of the theological teachings of the Christian religion of the Roman Catholic confession.

The Human Geography degree at the University of Plymouth offers you the chance to be part of this rich discipline in its quest to understand people’s diverse relationships with the world.

Using a range of practice and theory based methods the Transtechnology Research group at University of Plymouth is concerned to make apparent evidence of human desire and cultural imperatives as they are manifested in the way that science and technology is practiced, innovated by entrepreneurs and interpreted by its users.

The Doctorate in Education (EdD) at the University of Hertfordshire is designed to support the professional learning and development of practitioners in the fields of education and training and to bring benefits to the organisations and professions in which they work.

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