Scholarships for PhD and MSc by Research applicants
Further information
General application process
- Make contact with a potential supervisor or supervisors to gain their support in the application.
- With your potential supervisor’s advice, make your application
- If you do not have funding, you can be considered for scholarship opportunities
- Self-funded students currently receive £600 pa for research costs, and the School Research Committee will contribute towards the costs of presenting your research at conferences.
- Your nominated supervisor(s) and Director of Postgraduate Research Studies assess your online application. The assessment process is likely to include an interview.
- If successful, you will receive an offer letter from the Faculty of Life Sciences. This is not an offer of a scholarship.
- If you applied for a scholarship - and are eligible - you will be included in the selection process along with other candidates. We will notify you of the outcome.
Active scholarship opportunities
Microsoft Funded PhD: Using AI to develop joint attention in blind children
Application information: We are seeking a person with an interest in employing human-computer interaction methodologies to evaluate new AI technologies and their impact on children over time. The ideal person would have an undergraduate or Master’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Computer Science, Psychology or Social Science and would be interested in both quantitative and qualitative methods. Strong background in design and evaluation, experience working with children, disability, or minority population as well as demonstrated capability for research (e.g. through publication) are particularly desirable.
Funding: The post must start by September/October 2020 and will be funded over 4 years. The award covers an enhanced EPSRC stipend, home-based student fees and a substantial budget for consumables, travel and subsistence. The person will also have an opportunity to intern at Microsoft Research.
Eligibility: Standard EPSRC eligibility rules apply: Normally, to be eligible for a full award a student must have no restrictions on how long they can stay in the UK and have been ordinarily resident in the UK for at least 3 years prior to the start of the studentship (with some further constraint regarding residence for education). There is limited flexibility of universities to include EU students and international.
Applicants are encouraged to contact us as soon as possible. For further details or to discuss this contact Dr Oussama Metatla including a full CV and any relevant details.
Trust, identity, privacy and security in large-scale infrastructures (TIPS-at-scale)
Computational Statistics and Data Science – COMPASS
Fully funded PhD studentships in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Fully funded PhD studentship in Digital Health and Social Care
Active scholarship opportunities
University of Bristol Alumni Scholarship Scheme
A 10% discount on postgraduate tuition fees for University of Bristol graduates.
Students must start the programme within 10 years of graduation and be progressing from the final year of an undergraduate programme or taught masters programme. Eligible programmes include PhD and MSc by Research.
A University of Bristol-Macquarie University Cotutelle PhD Scholarship Programme
Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Bristol
Area: Optimised acquisition and coding for future immersive formats
Funder: EPSRC/BBC R&D iCASE award:
Supervisor: Professor David Bull, Professor Iain Gilchrist
Funding: EPSRC iCASE award with BBC Research and Development
For further information about this studentship, please contact:
Previous Scholarship opportunities
Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Bristol
Project Title: Does the experience of fasting have long-term benefits for healthy weight maintenance?
Funder:
Supervisor: Professor Jeff Brunstrom, Dr. Natalia Lawrence, Dr. Elanor Hinton, and Professor Julian Hamilton-Shield
For further information about this studentship, please contact:
psychology-pg-admissions@bristol.ac.uk
The Chinese Scholarship Council-University of Bristol Joint Scholarship Scheme
Twenty 4-year PhD scholarships per year, for an initial period of 5 years, with the first cohort registering in autumn 2017.
Eligibility: Chinese students already studying in the UK (or other countries). Chinese students attending their home universities.
Application process
- Candidates apply directly to Bristol
- Complete a simple one-page form
Optimised acquisition and coding for immersive formats based on visual scene analysis
Deadline: 2018
Eligibility: EPSRC eligibility rules apply
ERC Fully-funded PhD studentship
Generalisation in Mind and Machine
University of Bristol PhD Scholarships
Eligibility: Open to both home and international students
Selection criteria: academic excellence, research potential, the research proposal, collaboration/impact/engagement, ambitions and innovation.
EPSRC Fully- funded PhD Studentship
Visual perception and action research
Deadline: 29th June 2018
Eligibility: EPSRC eligibility rules apply
Previous Scholarship opportunities
Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Bristol
Area: Neural dynamics of egocentric action observation
Funder: EPSRC
Supervisor: Dr. Susanne Quadflieg, Dr. Dima Damen
Funding: For 3.5 years at EPSRC standard stipend rates
For further information about this studentship, please contact:
psychology-pg-admissions@bristol.ac.uk
EPSRC/BBC iCASE award
Understanding Audiences of the Future – development and deployment of non-invasive measures of individual or collecting immersion
Deadline: 2018
Eligibility: EPSRC eligibility rules apply
A University of Bristol-Macquarie University Cotutelle PhD Scholarship Programme
We are seeking applicants for a cotutelle MRes+PhD studentship to study the problem of converting text to speech. The project will aim to develop and test a new computational model of reading aloud. Experimental tests will examine whether this model can read words and nonwords similarly to skilled adult readers. The project will be jointly supervised by Prof. Anne Castles at Macquarie University and Prof Colin Davis at the University of Bristol (UK).
Fee-waiver scholarships
Deadline: 5pm, Wednesday 1st May 2019
Eligibility: UK and EU students - no tuition fees are payable (full fee waiver). International students - tuition fees reduced to £5,500 per annum.
Selection criteria: academic excellence, research potential, the research proposal, collaboration/impact/engagement, ambitions and innovation.
For further information about this Fee waiver, please contact: