ESRC & AHRC PhD Studentships 2024/25

Keele University is accepting expressions of interest for funded studentships through the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC) and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for September 2025.

Eligibility

Studentships are available in several pathways in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Pathways include (for AHRC eligibility) Creative Writing, English, History, Law, Media and Cultural Studies, Music, and Philosophy, and (for ESRC eligibility) Politics, Criminology, Social Policy and Social Work, Sociology, Economic and Social History, Social studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, Health and Well-being, Psychology, Geography, Socio-legal Studies and Biosocial Research. We welcome expressions of interest from both home and international students.

Applicants should have an Honours degree with a first or 2:1 classification or the equivalent if educated outside the UK.

How to Apply

Please submit an expression of interest https://forms.office.com/e/X0aupXAJHP.

If you are unable to complete the online form, please email DTP.pgr@keele.ac.uk and we will issue a word version instead.

Please Note: incomplete expressions of interest will not be considered. Interested researchers are asked to submit an expression of interest before making a formal application to enter doctoral study at Keele.

Informal enquiries about individual PhD proposals should be directed to the relevant PGR Lead for your subject area PGR Reps, Directors and Leads – Keele University or to your potential supervisor.