Research funding opportunities

Full details of all studentships and funding opportunities will be advertised on this page as and when they become available. If you are applying for one of the studentships, you must follow the application guidance detailed at the end of each advert. Do not apply directly via the University's online application system at this stage.


Studentship titleApplication deadlineStart date
The Oxford Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science training programme (ILESLA)Wednesday 29 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025
Nigel Groome Studentship: Gene Regulatory Networks Driving Male-Female Genital Co-evolution
Friday 17 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025
Nigel Groome Studentship: Using Drosophila to Uncover the Functions of Genetic Variants Linked to Human Disease
Friday 17 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025
Nigel Groome Studentship: Dissecting the initial stages of basal body assembly in trypanosomes
Friday 17 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025
Nigel Groome Studentship: Cancer-associated cellular glycosylation: its regulation and functional significance
Friday 17 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025
Navigating setbacks and challenges: Insights from autobiographical memories
Friday 17 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025
Empowering foster carers to support sleep in children in care
Friday 17 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025
Nigel Groome Studentship: Alcohol consumption in mid-life: intervention co-production and evaluation
Friday 17 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025
Nigel Groome Studentship: The psychology of the ‘spiritual but not religious’
Friday 17 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025
Nigel Groome Studentship: Behavioral ecology of nesting in penguins
Friday 17 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025
Nigel Groome Studentship: The impact of neonicotinoid pesticide resistance on the role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in food-related reward signalling
Friday 17 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025
Nigel Groome Studentship: Pushing the limits of museuomics: investigating the disappearance of Mazarine Blue butterfly (Cyaniris semiargus) and the Large Copper (Lycaena dispar) in the British Isles
Friday 17 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025
Nigel Groome Studentship: Investigating the role of non-coding RNAs in patient pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour cells, extracellular vesicles and blood samples and their function in cancer development
Friday 17 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025
Nigel Groome Studentship: How do ER-mitochondrial communications regulate plant metabolism during growth and stress adaptation?
Friday 17 January 2025 - 12 noon
September 2025 / October 2025

Self-funded research opportunities

If you are interested in undertaking a research degree at Oxford Brookes University, visit the Postgraduate research page to find out more about the range of subject areas offered within our research communities, centres, groups, academic faculties and schools.

Sources of funding

The UK Government's Postgraduate Doctoral Loan and Postgraduate Masters Loan schemes are available to eligible students.

Contact us

Research Degrees Team

rdt-researchdegrees@brookes.ac.uk