Doctoral fees and funding

As a member of the TECHNE Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Surrey students are eligible to apply for Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) studentships. Technē is a consortium of nine universities in London and the South East offering a rich and diverse training programme for doctoral students with a focus on interdisciplinarity and developing career potential both in and beyond higher education.

Technē’s training programme is enhanced by input and placement opportunities provided by Technē’s 15 partner organisations (including the Barbican, Natural History Museum, The National Archives, UNICEF and Science Museum) in the cultural sector. Technē’s vision is to produce scholars who are highly motivated and prepared for academic, public or professional life. Students will benefit from a diversity of training opportunities and be able to draw on supervisory expertise from across the Consortium.

Studentships are awarded on the basis of the academic excellence of both the candidate and the research proposal. This is an extremely competitive process and only very high calibre candidates are successful.

Apply for the Techne studentship

The SeNSS Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the ESRC is a centre of excellence in social science postgraduate research training, and is a partnership between the following Universities: City, Essex, Goldsmiths, Kent, Reading, Roehampton, Royal Holloway, Surrey, Sussex and University of East Anglia. SeNSS offers:

Student-led studentships

SeNSS is offering approximately 40 student-led studentships for the 2021/2022 academic year, in 13 social science disciplines across 10 universities.

Apply for a SeNSS studentship

SeNSS collaborative studentships

SeNSS is offering six collaborative studentships, each linked to a different research project. We are now seeking to identify the best candidate for each of these six collaborative studentships, to start their studies in October 2022.

Apply for a SeNSS collaborative studentship

SeNSS ESRC-funded post-doctoral fellowship

SeNSS offers six ESRC-funded post-doctoral fellowships each year. These provide an opportunity to consolidate your PhD through developing publications, networks, and research and professional skills.

Please note that the deadline for submitting an application is around 20 March each year.

Apply for a SeNSS ESRC postdoctoral fellowship

As a SCENARIO PhD student based at the University of Surrey you will have the opportunity to participate in our leading research.

For available PhD studentships take a look at the SCENARIO NERC Doctoral Training Partnership website which is a joint collaboration between the University of Surrey and the University of Reading.

There are non-means tested loans available for those studying research-based programmes at masters level (such as the MRes and MPhil).

They are available for UK, EEA and Swiss nationals residing in England and EU nationals residing in the EU, EEA or Switzerland. They are open to anyone under 60 who does not have a qualification at masters level or above. To find out more about the postgraduate loan, findamasters has a step-by-step guide to applying.

You can also get further details on the GOV.UK postgraduate loans pages.

A postgraduate doctoral loan can help with course fees and living costs while you study a postgraduate doctoral course, such as a PhD.

Visit the Government's doctoral loan site for more information.