4.0k PhD programmes in United Kingdom

Staff supervise research in: African Literature in English and in translation, Caribbean literature, African-American and Native American literatures, Australian literature, New Zealand and South Pacific literature since 1800, Indian and South-East Asian literature in English and in translation, middle-eastern literature and Mediterranean literature, postcolonial women writers.

We have a wide range of expertise on conflict, war and politics in the 20th century, supported by the Centre for War and Peace in the 20th Century at The Open University UK.

The Economics programme at Durham University offers a rigorous research training programme and provides you with the opportunity to become an expert in your chosen field in economics.

A PhD in History at Swansea University enables you to undertake a substantial project led by your own passions and interests.

The Sociology Department’s research activity at Durham University focuses on five main research themes, around which we organise research groups of staff and postgraduate researchers to share and develop research ideas and practices.

A Linguistics (Modern Languages) PhD from University of Nottingham allows you to research a linguistic topic related to one or more modern languages. 

The research programme in Pharmacy at the University of Kent gives you the integrated, broad-based research training needed to exploit current advances in pharmaceutical and biological sciences and pharmacy practice.

The Materials Engineering programme offered by Swansea University provides an excellent base for doctoral research with main strengths in aerospace materials, environmental materials and steel technology.

During your Nanomedicine course at Swansea University, you will benefit from our highly regarded specialist facilities. Our vision is to advance medical science through interdisciplinary research and innovation.

A Creative and Critical Practice PhD at the University of Sussex develops your practice-led research in creative media production alongside critically engaged writing.

The Business School at University of Hull (HUBS) offers PhD research degrees in a number of research groups, including Accounting and Finance.

The University of Warwick's Politics and International Studies department (PAIS) offers the PhD in Politics and International Studies. 

MD Medicine students are awarded a joint degree from the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton. Research at BSMS spans basic science through to clinical projects, medical ethics and social science, offering a wide and exciting range of possibilities for postgraduate students.

The Social Policy and Criminology - Crime, Harm, Criminalisation and Criminal Justice research group at The Open University UK is recognised for critical scholarship, that challenges assumptions about ‘crime’, ‘the criminal’ and/or ‘justice’ and critically interrogates criminology as a discipline.

The University of Warwick invites you to join our PhD/MPhil course in Statistics. Find out more about our MPhil/PhD in Statistics.

The Animal Biology programme from University of Worcester has grown significantly in the last 10 years as the University itself has expanded.

Research across the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at University of Liverpool spans ‘from Cell to Society’, with the work of the Department of Public Health and Policy firmly at the Societal end of the spectrum. 

Abertay University’s Sport and Exercise Sciences Division has expertise in women’s sport equity; sedentary lifestyle risk factors; exercise and health training interventions; high-intensity exercise; elite sports performance; and healthy ageing. The university offers this PhD in Duty of Care in Sport.

Current Linguistics research at University of Aberdeen is focused on topics including discourse analysis, language variation and change, language attitudes, language acquisition and learning (for both children and adults), bilingualism, morphosyntactic structure, and the linguistic ecology of Scotland.

Spanish and Latin American Studies at University of Aberdeen are centred on staff research interests and are integrated across research centres.