Postgraduate opportunities

Here you can find information on our postgraduate programmes. The deadline for the 2024-2025 recruitment round, for start dates around September 2025, has now passed. Applications will open again around October 2025.

The Astrophysics Group offers fully-funded PhD studentships and a fully or partly self-funded MSc by Research programme. For more details see the sections below.

PhD Studentships
MSc by Research

A number of projects hosted by the School of Earth Sciences are focused on Solar System research, funded by STFC. Interested applicants can view the projects on the Earth Sciences Postgraduate Projects page. Please note that applications for School of Earth Sciences projects must follow the School of Earth Sciences application procedure, and select Geology (PhD) rather than Physics (PhD).