Four-year PhD Studentships in Science

Who can apply

You can apply for a studentship on one of Wellcome's four-year programmes if you're a graduate or student who has, or expects to obtain, a degree (or equivalent for EU and overseas candidates) in a relevant subject.

Candidates with other relevant qualifications or research experience may also be eligible.

For more information about eligibility, contact the individual programmes listed in the 'How to apply' section on this page.

Who can't apply

You can't apply to carry out activities that involve the transfer of grant funds into mainland China.

A Four-year PhD Studentship in Science includes support for:

• a studentship stipend

  If you're based outside London:

  • Year 1: £19,919
  • Year 2: £21,542
  • Year 3: £23,298
  • Year 4: £23,997

  If you're based in London:

  • Year 1: £22,278
  • Year 2: £24,093
  • Year 3: £26,057
  • Year 4: £26,839

• PhD registration fees at the home (UK) rate

  Nationals of the UK and Republic of Ireland are eligible to pay home fees.

  Nationals of all other high-income countries will need to pay international fees. From 1 January 2021, this also includes EU and EEA nationals.

  We recommend that you check with the relevant programme to see what fees you will need to pay.

• college fees (where required)
• laboratory rotation expenses, if required
• research expenses
• transferable skills training

• travel costs, including registration fees and carbon offset costs, and childcare or any other caring responsibility cost

  Find out about claiming the costs to offset the carbon emissions of your travel and cover childcare or any other caring responsibilities.

• transition costs at the end of the studentship to help you move to the next stage of your career

The studentship may be held on a part-time basis.

To apply for a Four-year PhD Studentship in Science, contact one of the programmes below. Please don't apply to Wellcome.

Programmes
 

Health Data Research UK

• The HDRUK/Turing Wellcome PhD Programme in Health Data Science

King's College London

• Advanced Therapies for Regenerative Medicine
• Neuro-Immune Interactions in Health and Disease

Queen Mary University of London

• Health Data in Practice: Human-centred science   

University College London

• Optical Biology
• UCL Wellcome 4-year PhD in Mental Health Science

University of Bristol

• Dynamic Molecular Cell Biology
• Molecular, Genetic and Lifecourse Epidemiology

University of Cambridge

• Wellcome Four Year PhD Programme in Stem Cell Biology and Medicine

University of Dundee    

• Dundee Training Programme in Integrated Molecular, Cellular and Translational Biology

University of East Anglia

• EDESIA: Plants, Food and Health: a cross-disciplinary PhD programme from Crop to Clinic

University of Edinburgh

• Hosts, Pathogens and Global Health
• Integrative Cell Mechanisms (iCM)
• One Health Models of Disease: Science, Ethics and Society
• Translational Neuroscience 2 (TN2)

University of Glasgow

• Integrative Infection Biology - Mechanisms and Control of Disease 

University of Leicester

• Genomic Epidemiology and Public Health Genomics

University of Manchester

• Immunomatrix in Complex Disease (ICD)

University of Nottingham

• Drug Discovery and Team Science

University of Oxford

• Cellular Structural Biology
• Chemistry in Cells – New Technologies to Probe Complex Biology and Medicine
• Genomic Medicine and Statistics

University of Sheffield    

• Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health, Economics and Decision Science (PHEDS)

 

In addition, we also fund four-year PhD programmes at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. Please contact the programmes directly for more information.

Dates

Individual PhD programmes recruit students annually.

• Recruitment

  Autumn each year

• Programmes start

  October each year

More information

Read Wellcome's review of PhD training in biomedical research.

See a list of Non-recruiting Four-year PhD Programmes in Science [PDF 23KB]