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Are you looking for a postgraduate research opportunity?

We offer a wide variety of studentships and other research opportunities throughout the year. As a research student, you'll work with at least one academic supervisor and be given research training to help you gain skills in research methodology.

Please read the adverts carefully as different projects may have different types of funding available.

Cache-enabled semantic immersive video delivery

The School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, in partnership with NexCache Ltd, is offering a fully funded PhD studentship at International rate in the area of cache-enabled semantic immersive video delivery.

The project aims to revolutionise the delivery of immersive content over networks by exploiting content semantics.

Based in : School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Deadline : 1 November 2026

The University of Essex is host organisation for the NIHR INSIGHT programme for the East of England. The programme funds up to 30 research Masters places each year for health and social care professionals. Funding covers tuition fees and a stipend, and you can study full-time (one year) or part-time (two years).

Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences studentships

Throughout the year departments in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences may advertise studentships and available projects. More information on supervision and applicant criteria can be found on the individual studentship pages, which will be advertised here when available.

Collaborative PhD studentship: Fabric of Everyday Life: Marianne Straub, Textile Innovation and Design, 1950-1970

The School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies in partnership with the Warner Textile Archive is offering a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Award studentship examining post-war British design through the life and legacy of Marianne Straub (1909 - 1994), one of the most influential textile designers of the twentieth century. The studentship is open to both Home and International students. Find out more .

Sustainable Transitions - Governance, Ecological Management and Society - Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme 2025-26

This is an opportunity to conduct fully funded interdisciplinary research under the Sustainable Transitions Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme at the University of Essex.

Each research project will be interdisciplinary in nature and supervised by expert academics drawn from two (and in certain instances three) of the following five disciplines at the University - Business, Government, Law, Life Sciences and Sociology - to address specific challenges.

There are ten different projects that you can apply for under the programme:

Our Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) offer you skills training and funding for your postgraduate research. Join one of our DTPs and you'll work alongside leading academics in your subject.

• Addressing the place of microorganisms in the Nagoya Protocol: microbial biogeography, genomics and taxonomy
• Biodiversity Conservation. An empirical analysis of the ways that developers in England are working to achieve Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)
• Co-production, climate resilience, and accountability: A Pathway to Localising Sustainability Agendas
• Digital technologies of Farming: Analysing and communicating their impact on farmers and the environment
• Exploring the legal and social emergence of rights of nature as a form of environmental protection
• From Global Promise to Local Impact: Evaluating Climate Funding at the Local Level
• The role of directors’ duties and their relationship with non-financial reporting in achieving environmental sustainability
• Towards a praxis of a just transition in developing economies: Beyond counter accounts and regulatory frameworks to action
• Transitions to sustainable wildlife harvest: evidence based management and the social licence to hunt
• Unilateralism v Multilateralism: Harnessing International Economic Policy for Sustainable Transitions
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