Academic funding for MPhil/PhD students

Following is a summary of the types of funding available to 'home' and EU MPhil/Phd students for degrees starting in October 2011. (Click here for a summary of funding for international students.)

If you want advice, please contact our academic studentships team.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

• Who: UK and EU-based students
• What: Fees and maintenance
• More information: If you are interested in applying for funding, please see our AHRC block grant partnership information.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award: museum studies

• Who: UK and EU-based students
• What: Fees and maintenance
• More information: If you are interested in applying for funding, please see the information on our Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society web site.

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

• Who: PhD students doing interdisciplinary research in structural, chemical, and computational biology
• What: Fees and stipend
• More information: see details on the ISMB web site and the Department of Biological Sciences: Crystallography web site

Bloomsbury Colleges PhD scholarship

• Who: 12 PhD studentships
• What: Fees and stipend
• More information: See details on the Bloomsbury Colleges web site.

Commonwealth scholarships

• Who: PhD candidates from: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, Malta, New Zealand, Singapore and the Bahamas
• What: fees and maintenance
• More information: see the Commonwealth Scholarship web site.

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

• Who: PhD Students.
• What: Fees and Stipend.
• More information:  Please contact the relevant School (check the PhD listings for details of ESCR funding and contacts). For further information, see the Birkbeck ESRC web site.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

• Who: PhD students.
• What: fees and stipend
• More information: please contact the relevant School (check the PhD listings for details of ESCR funding and contacts). For more information, see the EPSRC web site.

Jason Schone award (law)

• Who: PhD law students of outstanding academic merit and research potential
• What: full-time or part-time tuition fees at the EU/home student rate and maintenance award
• More information: see the School of Law web site

Marie Curie studentships in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

• Who: PhD students.
• What: Seven 3-year fellowships are available.
• More information: see the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development.

Medical Research Council (MRC) studentships

• PhD and MRes studentships funded by the MRC are currently available. For further details please see the Department of Biological Sciences.

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

• Who: PhD geology students
• What: fees and stipend
• More information: contact the Department of Earth Sciences. Also, see the NERC web site for more information.

Ronnie Warrington Studentships (law)

• Who: PhD law students of outstanding academic merit and research potential
• What: Full-time or part-time tuition fees and maintenance award.
• More information: see the School of Law web site

School of Arts research studentships

• Find out more about this funding here.

School of Biological Sciences

• Find out more about this funding here.

School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy Research studentships

• Find out more about this funding here

Wellcome Trust 4-year Interdisciplinary PhD Programme

• Who: PhD students doing research in structural, computational and chemical biology
• What: fees and stipend
• More information: see the Department of Biological Sciences.