Alternative Ways to Fund Your Studies
In today’s climate, it is increasingly difficult to achieve funding for postgraduate research. Many excellent applicants fail to secure funding every year, so if you don’t get funding, it does not invalidate your proposed research. But what can you do to pursue it?
At Warwick, we offer a supportive, flexible environment for postgraduate research, to ensure that as many excellent students as possible can study here whether they have achieved funding or not. If you hold a place here, we would like you to take it up and we hope that the following possibilities might enable you to fund it ‘without full funding’.
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EPSRC DLA Interdisciplinary Studentship
Title: PhD in Vision-based Marker-less Navigation for Total Hip Replacement
Department: Warwick Manufacturing Group
Description: Total Hip Replacement (THR) is a common surgical procedure, with nearly 100,000 performed annually in the UK. However, about 20% require revision within 15 years due to complications like implant loosening, dislocation, and fractures caused by suboptimal implant positioning. This interdisciplinary project aims to overcome these challenges by developing a vision-based marker-less navigation system using deep learning (DL).
Eligibility: Open to Home applicants
Value: UKRI rate stipend for 3.5 years full-time (70 months part-time). Full Payment of academic fees (home only). A Researcher Training Support Grant of up to £5,000. Access to Disabled Student Allowance, paid sick leave and paid parental leave
Deadline: Open until filled (start date January 2026)
EPSRC DLA Interdisciplinary Studentship
Title: Low-dose 4D-STEM electron ptychography for biological dynamic imaging
Department: Physics
Description: This PhD project bridges physics and life sciences by integrating physics-based imaging solutions into biological research, so that you will be exposed to diverse and interdisciplinary research areas in applied mathematics, electron microscopy and biological macromolecules.
Eligibility: Open to Home applicants
Value: UKRI rate stipend for 3.5 years full-time (70 months part-time). Full Payment of academic fees (home only). A Researcher Training Support Grant of up to £5,000. Access to Disabled Student Allowance, paid sick leave and paid parental leave
Deadline: Open until filled (start date October 2025)
Warwick Industrial Fellowship - PhD Scholarship
Title: Thermal Energy Decarbonisation of Large Industrial and Commercial Sites
Department: School of Engineering
Description: This collaborative project between Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and the University of Warwick seeks to develop flexible digital twin models that will enable novel, integrated solutions to the decarbonisation of heating and cooling on large industrial and commercial sites. The electrification of heating in particular is one of the biggest challenges facing the UK. The move to heat pumps for space heating would require at least a doubling of grid capacity if boilers are directly replaced without any storage considerations. The variability of renewable electricity and the increase in electric vehicles will compound the problem.
Eligibility: The candidate should have a good 2.1 Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering. Applications are welcome from Home and Overseas candidates.
Value: The award will cover the tuition fee level, plus a tax-free stipend, currently £20,780, paid
at the prevailing UKRI rate for 3.5 years of full-time study.
Deadline: 29 August 2025
Warwick Collaborative Fellowship - PhD Scholarship
Title: Funded PhD Studentship: Co-Creating Culture: Community, Representation, and History at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry (Warwick Collaborative Fellowship)
Department: English and Comparative Literary Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies
Description: The University of Warwick, in collaboration with the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, invites applications for a fully funded 3.5-year PhD studentship to explore co-creation in civic theatre. The project investigates how co-creation challenges notions of who has knowledge, expertise, and the right to be seen and heard in cultural organisations.
Eligibility: Open to Home fee students only.
Value: Full tuition fees (at Home rate, currently £5,006/year); UKRI-level stipend (currently £20,780/year, to rise each year) for 3.5 years.
Deadline: 1 September 2025
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