PhD Funding Directory (UK)

The ethos of The PhD Place centres around friendship, connection, and exchanging ideas. This doesn't stop with our PhD Spotlight articles! We have a lot to learn from each other,  which is why we want to dedicate this space to sharing likeminded projects for PhD researchers. Below you can find out more about these projects and how you can get involved. If you want to share with us, please use our contact form.
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Master Academia is a friend of The PhD Place. Their site provides comprehensive information on the many facets of academia that contribute to academic success. It targets master and PhD students with the aim to support them in their academic journeys. Following a master's or PhD degree is a unique time for professional and personal development. However, all too often postgraduate students only receive supervision in terms of highly specialised content. As a consequence, they struggle to navigate the academic world with all its complexities. To fill the knowledge gap of how academia works and how to make the most of it, Master Academia publishes regular content in four categories: thesis/dissertation tips, academic skills, networking hacks and career advice.
PhD Breakdown is a new YouTube channel for PhD students starting on 1st April 2022 sharing advice and support on all things PhD! The channel, headed by The PhD Place's very own Chris Thompson, aims to give advice on a range of topics from mental health support to questions surrounding the PhD Viva. 
Bolded Science is a collaborative blog for members of the scientific community. As misinformation propagates on the internet, mistrust in science and medicine is growing. More than ever, there is a call for scientists to participate in public communications and advocacy. 

Bolded Science has two goals: 
1) Provide a platform for scientists to communicate their stories and ideas on social media.
2) Enable scientists to gain experience with informal, public writing.

You can find them on Twitter and LinkedIn.
EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. It demonstrates the quality of UK research, and supports the UK Government’s open access principle that publications resulting from publicly-funded research should be made freely available for all researchers, providing opportunities for further research. 

​​There are approximately 600,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 400,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Records are held for all UK PhD-awarding institutions, but we do not (yet) hold all records for all institutions. Every month around 3000 new records are added and an additional 2000 full text theses become accessible. 
The Black Women in Science (BWiS) Network is a community for women of African and Caribbean heritage in various stages of their scientific careers.
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Black women face pressures both within and outside the workplace. BWiS Network provides a safe space in which Black women can come to ask/give advice and seek support in their careers. The BWiS Network believes that everyone should be encouraged to pursue careers of their choice and wants to make sure that our members feel equipped to do so.
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BWiS Network is keen to impact legislation and influence change in the STEM industry so that Black women feel comfortable and supported in their careers. ​
STEMM Global Scientific Society is a unique, interdisciplinary community dedicated to the advancement of science and technology. The mission is to connect and bring together the Society's members to create a diverse, like-minded network of leading scientists and researchers from academia and industry.​

Thought-leadership platform that enables collaboration, bridging communities in science and industry to face the challenges of the future!
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral training in Distributed Algorithms (CDT) works in collaboration with STFC Hartree, IBM Research, The Alan Turing Institute, and 20+ project partners to train 60 PhD students to possess the expertise to meet the world's pressing need for highly-trained data scientists.

An Innovative Data Science, AI and Machine Learning Research Centre
PhD students, academics and industrialists work together to generate novel solutions to tough data science problems.
The MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership provides up to 40 fully-funded studentships per year and delivers training for the next generation of biomedical researchers.

Utilising the combined expertise of five world-leading institutions, the Discovery Medicine North (DiMeN) partnership will train the next generation of researchers to tackle the major health problems facing the population.

The partner institutions (Universities of Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield and York) are core members of the Northern Health Sciences Alliance, which confronts stark North-South disparities in the rates of chronic disease, poor health and early death in a population of >15 million.
The Midlands Graduate School, led by the University of Warwick, is an accredited Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership and forms part of the ESRC’s Doctoral Training Network which significantly widens access for postgraduates to ESRC funding across the UK.
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The DTP offers 17 different training pathways that span various social science disciplines. For further information on which pathways are available at each institution and how to apply for funding, please visit the Midlands Graduate School DTP website
Loughborough PhD Social and Support Network. We are a Doctoral Researchers-led group aiming at supporting fellow Loughborough DRs through their PhD journey. We are doing so by organising all kinds of online and in-person (when possible) social, health & fitness, arts & culture and academic development events. The aims of the PhD Social and Support Network (SSN) are:
  • To provide a space and support activities for the Loughborough Doctoral Researcher community 
  • To remain a partial between the Doctoral College and the Students’ Union and to hold each accountable for the welfare of the Loughborough Doctoral Researcher community 
  • To improve the experience of the Doctoral Researcher community at Loughborough University 
The Royal Holloway Doctoral School was relaunched in August 2019 to provide a single point on campus to support our research student body. Our more than 1000 research students are integral to our mission and intellectual culture. The Doctoral School brings together key aspects of research student life, aiming to ensure that research students are fully integrated as members of the College's research community and to provide opportunities to meet and share ideas and experiences across our Schools.  We will support our research students throughout their progress, ensuring availability of relevant contemporary research skills and employment training alongside the highest standards of administrative and pastoral support.
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