General information
Welcome to the application site for our 2023 PhD studentships
The University of Brighton is offering funding to selected applications from across a wide range of disciplinary programmes. Each of the discipline pages listed below gives details of research areas that are inviting studentship applications:
- Applied Sciences (including natural environment, equality and inclusivity, emerging technologies, global security, health and wellbeing)
- Architecture, Technology and Engineering (including design, computing and mathematics)
- Art and Media (including design and craft)
- Business and Law (including tourism and leisure)
- Education
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Sport and Health Sciences
- Medicine (Brighton and Sussex Medical School)
Explore and select
- You should explore the topics and research areas on offer and decide whether your own ambitions and interests suit the expectations of our staff.
- If they do, select a supervisor from those listed, or the clear lead supervisor. Links go to a comprehensive database of staff interests. Emails are available for all staff.
Make contact
- Contact the most suitable academic to supervise your work. When you make contact, you should outline your project, its suitability for their interests and your own qualifications and background. They may refer you to a colleague if their own lists are full.
- If your initial proposal to the supervisor is successful, they will then support you in refining the application.
Submit your application
Together with your potential supervisor, you will build a full application which will include:
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- your research proposal (maximum 1000 words; please see our research proposal guidance)
- two references – one must be an academic reference from your most recent period of study; both must have been written within the last year
- copies of your degree certificates, including transcripts
- a CV where appropriate
- a copy of your IELTS (or equivalent) certificate (if applicable)
- a copy of your passport
When you are ready, follow the application page links on this site. You will be taken to a separate portal for formal submission including upload of documents.
The deadline is Monday 27 February 2023, 16:00 (UCT/GMT). The studentships are for full-time or part-time study and start in October 2023.
Our supervisory staff have created these offers in order to apply with you for the university’s funding and they look forward to hearing from you.
Further information
- See our About the studentships page for details of the funding and eligibility requirements.
- See our Application page for full details of how to apply.
Get in touch
If you have a question about the application process or similar, please contact DoctoralCollege@brighton.ac.uk. For academic queries about an advertised project or research area, please contact your potential supervisor.