4.0k PhD programmes in United Kingdom

University of Surrey research on the Vision, Speech and Signal Processing programme is creating machines that can see, hear and understand the world around them.

This Media and Cultural Studies course from Lancaster University offers a chance to develop your own knowledge and research in the ever changing world of media. 

Environmental factors influence our health and wellbeing, as well as affect ecosystems and wildlife. An intimate understanding of such factors – chemical substances, for example, or changes in radiation or temperature – is urgently needed to better understand disease trends in humans and adverse effects on wildlife. Life Sciences (Integrated) is offered at Brunel University of London.

The Doctor of Business Administration programme from The University of Exeter is designed exclusively for accomplished professionals with a strong level of academic achievement and a minimum of five years of work experience.

Earn a groundbreaking US-accredited Doctorate in Business Administration through part-time study with minimal disruption to your work and home life. Graduate in 3 years with the skills to improve business practice around the world.

Through critical and original reading of audiological practices, you will be equipped to enable problem-solving and application of audiology to marginalised and complex patient groups. The Hearing Therapy (Online) course is offered at Aston University. 

The Applied Social Science course from Lancaster University has an active research community within the fields of child protection, theories of welfare, gender and sexuality, family support and family justice, law and social work, community care, and health and social care.

Are you an ambitious researcher looking to combine comparative studies and critical theories? Conduct your own research exploring world cultures and literatures through an interdisciplinary, critical lens with the Comparative Literature and Critical Theories at the University of Birmingham.

The Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering course from Loughborough University enables us to work closely with some of the world’s most renowned engineering and commercial companies.

The University of Surrey Space Centre is the largest UK academic centre for space engineering research. With a host of expert academics and close links with industry, the Centre offers the ideal research environment for the next generation of space scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs.

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is the highest academic award for which a student can be registered. This Chemical Engineering programme at the University of Huddersfield allows you to explore and pursue a research project built around a substantial piece of work, which has to show evidence of original contribution to knowledge.

This Molecular, Genetic and Lifecourse Epidemiology programme from University of Bristol is an innovative interdisciplinary, four-year, graduate programme within the thriving, inter-disciplinary Bristol Medical School in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Bristol.

This Creative Writing course from Lancaster University has a long and distinguished history which dates back to 1970, meaning that, in the UK, we were there at the very beginning of the discipline. And we remain at the fore with prize-winning authors as tutors, and students who go on to publish their work both while with us and after.

The Medicine degree at the University of Leicester is a postgraduate research degree awarded for original research carried out in a clinical or health-care related context.

As a PhD Biomedical Engineering student at University of Reading, you'll be part of a dynamic research community and will work with our research intensive team towards new discoveries in biomedical engineering, brain computer interface, neurorehabilitation, assistive technology, neuroscience, biomaterial, robotics and electrical engineering.

This Languages and Cultures course from Lancaster University warmly welcome enquiries from appropriately qualified applicants who are keen to register for Languages and Cultures doctoral research.

They offer the graduate students a PhD degree in Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate at the University of Reading. 

Throughout The Philosophy PhD programme from Newcastle University you'll explore critical thinking through the assumptions of the age.

The School of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Leicester offers research supervision for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Cardiovascular Sciences.

In this PhD Management (Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour) programme at Henley Business School at University of Reading, you will undertake original research that is timely and business relevant in the area of Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour.