Externally funded research opportunities

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH) provides postgraduate researchers with the opportunity to develop their employability skills with a cohort, learning and networking with each other in a unique and tailored training programme, alongside excellent supervision. Find out about current scholarship opportunities on the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures page.

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the White Rose Social Sciences DTP delivers excellent supervision, first class training and a vibrant intellectual environment across fourteen Leeds Schools. It enables postgraduate researchers to link with national and international networks of industrial partners, opinion formers, policy makers and academics and aims to produce doctoral graduates with outstanding skills and flexibility.

Funded by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), the Engineering and Physical Science DTP funds postgraduate researchers across the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, offering them the chance to engage with our vibrant research culture and enjoy the benefits of our outstanding resources including state-of-the-art laboratories, high performance computer facilities and one of the UK's major academic libraries. The DTP also provides funding for a number of industrially co-sponsored studentships.

Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Panorama NERC DTP spans the science of earth’s atmosphere, geosphere and biosphere. Through high quality research projects and training, we attract excellent postgraduate researchers into natural environment science research and train them for future employment and leadership, enabling them to contribute to environmental wellbeing and UK economic prosperity.

Funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC), the White Rose Mechanistic Biology DTP offers a four year PhD programme in Mechanistic Biology, aligned with the BBSRC’s strategic priorities in food security, bioenergy and industrial technology and world class bioscience. It delivers regional PhD training that has interdisciplinary collaboration and placement opportunities, as well as the opportunity to engage with the very best molecular and cellular bioscience researchers.

Funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Discovery Medicine North (DiMeN) DTP is training the next generation of researchers to tackle the major health problems facing the population, with a focus on the themes of genetic influences on health, ageing and disease, and bioinformatics and personalised medicine. The DTP aims to deliver training in stratified medicine, focusing on the best treatment for every patient.

Fluid Dynamics sits at the centre of our lives, the weather we experience, the products we use, the food we eat, cars we drive, medical care we receive all depend on fluid dynamics. As a postgraduate researcher studying at the EPSRC CDT in Future Fluid Dynamics at the University of Leeds you will tackle fundamental and applied problems, with the opportunity to undertake cutting-edge multidisciplinary research.

The Centre for Satellite Data in Environmental Science (SENSE) will bring together expertise in satellite remote sensing, climate change, and advanced data science to nurture the next generation of earth observation researchers. Join us to transform environmental science in the UK using both advanced data science and earth observation techniques.