4.0k PhD programmes in United Kingdom

This Business Administration, Doctorate programme offered by The University of Hertfordshire Online is designed for experienced professionals who want to combine their leadership skills with advanced research expertise. By contributing groundbreaking research, you’ll shape business practices that define the future while maintaining your career and commitments.

Embark on your journey of intellectual growth. Ignite your curiosity and create a lasting impact through educational research. We offer a Education degree at the University of Chichester.

With more than two decades of experience in computer games education, Abertay University helped to pioneer the development of academic study for artists engaged with new and emergent media technologies. It offers this PhD in Computer Arts.

Management Studies is located within an integrated Business School at University of Aberdeen which allows it to draw upon relevant core disciplines for research and teaching.

The food and drink industry is extremely important to the UK/Scottish economy and Abertay research within the Division of Engineering and Food Science is at the forefront of new developments and knowledge transfer in food innovation and sustainability. This PhD in Food and Drink Science and Technology - Novel and Sustainable Production is offered at Abertay University.

Politics and International Studies (POLIS) researchers have expertise in theories of international relations as well as their applications to both Western and non-Western contexts. This International Relations and Global Politics programme is offered at The Open University UK.

Research in this Informatics programme at the University of Sussex is led by scientific curiosity and motivated by social, economic and industrial needs.

Th Doctor of Philosophy programmes at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are aimed at students who anticipate a career in which research plays a major role and who want to focus on an independent piece of research.

The Chemical Engineering programme offered by Queen's University Belfast develops advanced research expertise in sustainable processes, energy technologies, materials innovation, and healthcare-related applications, enabling students to create solutions that address global environmental and societal challenges through chemical engineering research.

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

At University of Liverpool, Medical Microbiology represents the study of the agents responsible for causing human or animal infections: bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites. 

Religions are deeply implicated in global challenges and in processes of change in cultural, social, political, ecological and economic spheres. This Global Challenges and Religious Change programme is offered at The Open University UK.

The Philosophy discipline at The Open University UK welcomes applications for graduate work in History of Philosophy of Science.

History faculty at the University of Sussex research, teach and write about history in Britain, Europe and across the globe. This means you’ll be supervised by leading practitioners in your field. 

The question of whether life exists beyond Earth is eons old, yet it is only relatively recently that space missions have been launched to help answer this. This Governance and Ethics programme is offered at The Open University UK.

Our unique approach to the scientific aspects of Astrobiology - Science research at The Open University UK combines fieldwork, laboratory simulations, thermochemical modelling and in situ observations.

Language learning is a key topic in the School of LAL, with a focus on access, social justice, policy-related and political dimensions, and pedagogies. This Language(s) Learning, Teaching and Assessment degree at 

Conducting a PhD in Management and Organisation at the University of Stirling will put you at the heart of a vibrant environment which facilitates the development of world-class research.

The Geography programme offered by Queen's University Belfast develops advanced research expertise in environmental change, human geography, spatial analysis, and geospatial technologies, enabling students to investigate interactions between society, culture, landscapes, and the natural environment through interdisciplinary research.

Professional Doctorates in Health and Social Care at University of Salford are linked intrinsically to your workplace.