UKRI
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Which Research Council Funds Your PhD? UKRI Doctoral Training by Council and Discipline in Numbers (2026)
UKRI now funds doctoral training through two award types, landscape and focal, and the 2026 investment lists show how unevenly they fall across disciplines: 65 current EPSRC centres…
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Who Gets a UKRI Studentship? Diversity Data on UK Doctoral Researchers (2026)
UKRI’s equalities monitoring on 5,165 funded studentship starts: 47% female, 10% declaring a disability, 2% Black — and a 35% non-disclosure rate that the funder itself says makes…
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Integrated PhD vs Traditional PhD in the UK: Which Route Should You Take? (2026)
Integrated MRes+PhD, CDT cohort programmes, direct-entry doctorates and industry-embedded routes compared on what each year actually contains — including why the familiar “1+3” label is now out of…
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UKRI Studentship vs Self-Funded PhD: What the Decision Actually Costs (2026)
Home PhD fees are pegged to the UKRI rate at £5,238 for 2026/27. International fees at one named university are £25,350 or £30,950 a year. The funded and…
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UK PhD Stipends and Studentship Funding in 2026: The Published Figures
The UKRI minimum doctoral stipend and fee figures for 2026, what the London weighting does and does not cover, why no sector-wide award duration exists, and how many…
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How to Write a PhD Research Proposal for a UK Studentship Application (2026)
A section-by-section guide to the research proposal in a UK funded studentship application — what selection panels actually assess, how to write a feasible timeline, and the 2026…