Engineering Students at Productivity East, UEA

Application Deadlines

for Postgraduate Research Degrees

These are the deadlines for PhD studentships in the 2026/2027 recruitment year.

Details for each individual studentship can be found either via our course search or on the studentship's host website.

PhD and Studentship funding deadlines

PhD studentship	Application deadline
NRP Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership	Tuesday 2 December 2025
Faculty of Science Studentships Competition	Wednesday 3 December 2025
John Innes Foundation Rotation Programme	13 November 2025 (midnight)
China Scholarship Council	UEA PhD application deadline - first Friday of January CSC application deadline is normally 31 March
MMB DTP	Tuesday 6 January 2026
ARIES (NERC Doctoral Training Partnership)	Wednesday 7 January 2026
SENSS DTP Studentships	UEA deadline - Monday 15 December 2025 SENSS deadline - 12:00pm GMT on Wednesday 14 January 2026
CHASE Doctoral Awards (CDA)	To be confirmed
CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership	UEA deadline - To be confirmed CHASE deadline - To be confirmed
SENSS Collaborative Studentships	SENSS Deadline - To be confirmed
AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards	6 February 2026
Faculty of Arts and Humanities Studentships	6 February 2026

PhD project deadlines

Additional deadlines for individual PhD projects both self-funded and funded can be found on the Postgraduate Research PhDs and Studentships in our course finder.

Self-funded research degree start dates and deadlines

Start date	Last date for submitting application
	Home	International
1 February 2026	30 November 2025	30 September 2025
1 June 2026	31 March 2026	31 January 2026
1 October 2026	31 July 2026	31 May 2026

Please note that not all of the start dates are available for each school. Contact the Postgraduate Research Service for more information.

The School of Global Development only has an October start date.

School of Global Development - last date for submitting applications
Start Date	Home	International
1 October 2026	31 July 2026	31 May 2026

The EdD has a start date every other year. The next start date is expected to be in October 2026.

Professional Doctorate
Course title	Application deadline
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (ClinPsyD)	13:00 GMT Wednesday 19 November 2025
Doctorate in Educational Psychology (EdPsyD)	17:00 GMT Wednesday 29 October 2025
Doctor of Education (EdD)	Friday 17 April 2026
Professional Doctorate in Health and Social Care (ProfD HaSC)	Not recruiting in 2026/27
Doctor of Medicine (MD)	Please see section "Self-funded research degree start dates and deadlines"