Funded PhD

[manchestermom5]

Are there any funded PhDs in Education.?

I had a friend who was doing a fully funded PhD but she was working with a Professor and had to do what he wanted and she was not really invested in the research. I worked in a university and did get help with paying my PhD fees plus some study leave. Vacancies for funded PhDs will probably be advertised as a job but will be time limited.

@manchestermom5 in my experience (science) most PhD's are fully funded by research grants.

However, if you just want to pursue your own thesis, rather than one constrained by a grant, you will need to fund it yourself.

It depends though. I wrote my own proposal and my phd is funded. Universities and other funders do have researcher-led proposal type grants. I would recommend doing some research around it. They only come up at certain times of year.

It’s not my field, but I imagine so. I would contact potential supervisors and ask advice.

There was just a call for fully funded EdD in Wales for teachers with masters degrees. The round just closed.

@manchestermom5 this is a good place to look: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/phd

There are several options:

1. You need to get a move on - a funded PhD in Education is likely to be funded by one of the UKRI research councils (AHRC, or ESRC) via their Doctoral programmes. These are highly competitive and work via consortia of universities.
2. Individual universities may have funded PhD studentships - look at the websites of universities where there is supervision/research you want to be part of
3. Project-based funded studentships, where a senior academic has a project, with some funding for a PhD student. You'll be doing a topic broadly defined by the lead researcher (PI: Principal Investigator).

For most of these you'll need a 1st for your Bachelor degree, and a Distinction (or very high Merit) for your Masters.

Your best source of information are your current Masters tutors.

Or look for at university websites of academics whom you would like to work with, and who could supervise you.

However, if you just want to pursue your own thesis, rather than one constrained by a grant, you will need to fund it yourself.

Not entirely true. A studentship via AHRC or ESRC will allow you to do your own topic. BUt these are highly competitive.

In Education, I think there are slightly lower rated qualifications of a taught/coursework PhD (I find these a bit dodgy in terns of research, but hey ho). Those can be done self-funded & part-time - they're designed for professionals in work eg school teachers.

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