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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’.

Please note we cannot take responsibility for content on external web pages.

Please also refer to individual department webpages for further subject-specific opportunities.

Department of Physics Funded Studentships

Department: Physics

Project: various, covering 6 broad areas of Condensed Matter Physics, Theoretical and Computational Physics, Medical and Biophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics and Elementary Particle Physics.

Value: Full payment of tuition fees at the Home rate, a UKRI-rate stipend for 3.5 to 4 years plus additional research costs

Deadline: ongoing

School of Engineering Funded Studentships

Department: School of Engineering

Project: various projects in the key themes of Energy, Biomedical Engineering and Cities

Value: Full payment of tuition fees at the Home rate, a UKRI-rate stipend for 3.5 to 4 years plus additional research costs

Deadline: ongoing

Warwick Manufacturing Group Funded Studentships

Department: Warwick Manufacturing Group

Project: various projects driving innovation in applied science, technology and engineering

Value: Full payment of tuition fees at the Home rate, a UKRI-rate stipend for 3.5 to 4 years plus additional research costs.

Deadline: ongoing

School of Engineering - Project Specific Funded Studentship

Department: School of Engineering

Title: PhD Scholarship: Design of a two-temperature plasma reactor

Project: The main objective of this project is to simulate and build a plasma system that generates a two-electron temperature discharge that will be used in plasma gas processes like DRM and NOx production. The modelling will be performed with COMSOL, while experimental validation will be carried out by direct measurements of reactant conversion. Active species identification will be performed with optical emission spectroscopy. The plasma parameters will be obtained from the waveforms. Additionally, coupling the plasma system with a catalyst will be studied.

Value: The award will cover tuition fees at the UK fee level plus a tax-free stipend of £18,200 (£21,000 with top-up) per annum for 3.5 years of full-time study. International students are welcome to apply but must meet the fee difference themselves.

Deadline: 1 April 2023

School of Engineering - Project Specific Funded Studentship

Department: School of Engineering

Title: PhD Scholarship: "Optics" with ultrasound using magnetostriction

Project: This project will aim to gain control over ultrasonic wave beam profiles – similar to the way light is manipulated in optics and photonics - using strategies such as geometric focusing, waveguiding and acoustic metamaterials, capitalising on the flexibility of the generation and detection geometries.

Value: The award will cover the full tuition fees at the UK student rate plus a stipend of £18,200 per annum for 3.5 years of full-time study.

Deadline: 31 March 2023

Department of Computer Science - Project Specific Funded Studentship

Department: Computer Science

Title: PhD Studentship: Deep learning for large-scale analysis of brightfield and multiplexed whole slide images.

Project: This project is seeking a PhD student in deep learning and artificial intelligence to research and develop tools and methods for the large-scale analysis of multiplexed digital multi-gigapixel whole-slide images of cancerous tissue sections. Candidates should have a computer science, engineering or data science background.

Value: This award will cover Home or International fees, an annual stipend at the UKRI rate for 3.5 years and a discretionary budget for conference attendance/travel/consumables.

Deadline: 31 May 2023

School of Modern Languages & Cultures - Doctoral Scholarship 2023

Department: School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Title: Doctoral Scholarship in Modern Languages and Cultures

Project: The School of Modern Languages & Cultures invites applications for the award of one SMLC Doctoral Scholarship to an outstanding candidate to pursue a PhD from October 2023 in one of the following areas: French Studies, German Studies, Italian, or Hispanic Studies or Translation & Transcultural Studies (all broadly conceived). Applicants must also be applying (or be an offer holder) for one of the PhD courses in the University of Warwick’s School of Modern Languages & Cultures to begin in October 2023. Please see the link provided for more information and how to apply.

Value: This award will cover Home or equivalent reduction in fees (fee discount) for Overseas applicants, an annual stipend at the UKRI rate for 3.5 years.

Deadline: 20 April 2023