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Doctoral Loan

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

There’s different funding if you normally live in Wales . Moving somewhere to study does not count as normally living there.

You can also get extra support if you have a disability .

You will not be eligible for an Adult Dependants’ Grant, a Childcare Grant or Parents’ Learning Allowance from Student Finance if you’re studying a doctoral course.

When you can apply

You can now apply for funding for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.

When you repay your loan

You’ll have to start repaying your loan when your income is over a certain amount (the ‘threshold’ amount).

You’ll be charged interest from the day you get the first payment.

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PhD funding programme launched

£48 million over 10 years to attract best talent

By Paul Seagrove

Trinity College and the University of Cambridge’s new £48 million programme enabling fully-funded PhDs has been launched. It is seeking the brightest minds from across the world to conduct ground-breaking research, creating the next generation of pioneering treatments, technology and services.

The Trinity Cambridge Research Studentships (TCRS) have been created to respond to declining funding opportunities for PhD research, both in the sciences and the humanities. In the next decade, the programme will support up to 300 fully funded PhD studentships, depending on the breakdown between home and international students.

Trinity Fellow and Nobel Laureate Dr Venki Ramakrishnan said:

"PhD students are the lifeblood of new research, making breakthroughs in all areas of science, and it is very important that we be able to attract the best brains to Cambridge wherever they may be from. The Trinity Cambridge Research Studentships Programme will greatly facilitate that goal."

The first students funded by the new programme will begin in October 2025; anyone applying to join a PhD programme in 2025-26 will be considered for this funding.

Trinity College

Cambridge Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education Professor Bhaskar Vira said:

"If the UK is to continue to be world leading in research, it is important to support the next generation of PhD students. We are grateful for the funding provided to postgraduate research students through the UK government’s investments in science and research, but also aware of worrying pressures on budgets."

We work closely with many external partners and benefactors who allow us to continue to invest in this future research capacity, for the wider benefit of society. We welcome the generous support of Trinity College for this new scheme, which will ensure more students are able to continue their research careers here in Cambridge, and look forward to working with partners who would be interested in collaborating with us on this initiative."

Cambridge University has 4,339 PhDs students (2022-2023 figures) but the availability of fully funded places has declined by an estimated 140 per year since 2018 and analysis suggests this will get worse.  

Senior Tutor at Trinity Professor Catherine Barnard said:

"We are committed to using our resources to support the next generation of world-class researchers whose work will improve the lives of many and help tackle some of the toughest problems the world faces."

"Trinity’s five living Nobel Laureates show that being able to change the world begins with your PhD. Whether you want to create new life-saving drugs, discover new planets or new understandings of the relationship between economics and ethics, Cambridge is the place to realise your ambitions – and change the world."

The PhD awards will be highly competitive and seek students with the potential to be the Nobel Laureates of the future and help increase Cambridge’s £30bn contribution to the UK economy.

Professor Didier Queloz

Trinity Fellow Professor Didier Queloz, who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2019 for the discovery of the first exoplanet during his PhD research, said Cambridge was an extraordinary place.

"When I came ten years ago, I was attracted by the diversity of the culture, the Cambridge way of life – in the sense that you interact with a lot of people, you have this mixing of different ideas - the College system is really unique in the world. We should maximize the number of PhD students and the diversity of PhD students."

With the first year of the programme fully funded by Trinity College and the University of Cambridge, matched funding is sought to unlock resources and achieve the programme’s 10-year goal of £48 million in new funding for PhDs.

Trinity student Bjorn Olaisen chose Cambridge over Harvard for his PhD in medical sciences in the lab of Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, where he is investigating the ageing process.

Bjorn said full PhD funding was key to enabling him to focus on his research and refine ideas to pursue after his PhD on how to develop therapies that could enable us to live better for longer, with interest already from Cambridgeshire biotech companies.

"You feel a great sense of gratitude because someone has paid for you to do research so you get extra inspiration, an extra drive and I really feel that. ‘So as my supervisor put it, you can do something in your PhD that leads to a Nobel Prize. The sky is the limit."

The Trinity Cambridge Research Studentships builds on the success of the Student Support Initiative by making even more financial help available to PhD students.

To find out more about studying for a PhD at Cambridge go to: https:www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/apply

  Published 11th November 2024

The text in this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .

Supporting doctoral students

If you are thinking about applying for a doctorate we can help you to get the most out of your studies. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) supports doctoral students with:

• funding to cover fees and living costs, known as studentships
• other training and development opportunities that complement your doctoral programme

We provide UK universities with grants, awarded through a competitive process, to cover the fees and living costs of postgraduate students. Each place a university offers as a result of this funding is called a studentship.

UKRI does not provide doctoral funding directly to students. You will need to apply for a studentship through the research organisation, normally a university, where you want to study. UKRI-funded studentships are offered by many research organisations in the UK.

Read more about getting funding for studentships .

What UKRI is doing in skills and talent

We continue to implement our delivery plans as part of the wider UKRI strategy and the government’s Research and Development People and Culture Strategy.

As part of these strategies, we have launched a programme to develop a ‘new deal for postgraduate research’ and are transitioning to collective talent funding.

New deal for postgraduate research

The new deal for postgraduate research (PGR) aims to ensure that PGR in the UK remains open and attractive to a wide range of candidates both from the UK and abroad.

PGR should be sustainable and deliver the highly skilled researchers the UK and global societies need.

Collective talent funding

In May 2022 we announced, as part of our budget allocation, that we will transition to working in a collective manner across £2 billion of talent initiatives, covering studentships and fellowships, building on our strong track record in working across research council remits.

This will allow us to harmonise further our talent investments to reduce bureaucracy.

This will make it more efficient and easier to work across disciplines and across the research and innovation system, including the private, public and third sectors.

Read our budget allocation explainer and blog outlining the transition to collective talent funding .

In our most recent update on collective talent funding we announced that from January 2024, all UKRI-funded doctoral training will be delivered through two types of awards. Focal and landscape awards as part of our new doctoral training investment framework. This replaces the nine different schemes through which we currently support doctoral training.

In addition to these award types, we have a core offer at the heart of the framework. The core offer will apply to all UKRI-funded students regardless of council, award type, or funding exercise through which the investment was made. It will cover our expectations for their training experience and the support we will provide.

A core offer

We are developing and implementing our core offer in stages. As a first step, we have a new statement of expectations which will apply to all funding opportunities launched from January 2024.

The previous statement of expectations will be retained for existing students and training grants and for funding opportunities that opened in 2023.

Stage two of our core offer will form part of our planning for the next spending review, focusing on providing greater parity of support for research and wider professional training, while still recognising the wider variation in discipline-related costs.

Doctoral focal award

This type of investment will provide support for areas that require a concentration of studentships in combination with a highly tailored training programme. Key features include:

• funding for research training in specific, tightly focused themes or challenges
• training programmes still supporting some tailoring of opportunities to individual needs

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) launched the first focal award opportunity in November 2023 and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is developing plans to launch an opportunity in early 2024.

We are currently developing our plans for future investment in this type of award beyond the current Spending Review period. We will share more details once they are available.

Doctoral landscape award

This type of UKRI doctoral investment will support the UK’s overall doctoral capability and capacity needs. They will provide broad flexible doctoral funding, supporting talented people in excellent research environments across UKRI’s research portfolio.

Features of the doctoral landscape award include:

• investments that will be shaped to fit the needs of disciplines and sectors
• supporting doctoral students in excellent research environments, learning about and carrying out high quality research to achieve their doctorate
• supporting students to develop a breadth of knowledge and skills for a wide variety of academic and non-academic careers
• providing tailored support for students according to their previous research, technical and other relevant experience and knowledge, doctoral research project and career aspirations
• supporting breadth and diversity in research and ensure that, as a community, we are rapidly responsive to new and emerging research ideas and areas
• providing flexibility for students, supervisors and non-academic co-funders to choose the specific focus of studentships within a broadly defined research area
• providing opportunities for a variety of engagement with non-academic partners ranging from workshops and visits to partially or fully funded doctoral studentships and shared supervision
• supporting and leading change to enhance both doctoral support, diversity of doctoral students and the research and innovation landscape in general

The landscape award brings together a number of doctoral training schemes helping to simplify and harmonise our doctoral offer. In doing so we have been careful to maintain the flexibility to adapt the award to our research and innovation communities. For example, we will retain the ability to include flexible funding tailored to meet particular needs at the council, individual grant and studentship level while ensuring that all UKRI students have access to a core offer. We will also support both competitive and allocated routes for funding our landscape awards.

Examples of flexibilities you will see in landscape award funding opportunities this year are:

• NERC and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Concil (BBSRC) will ask for cohort-based opportunities for students to deepen and acquire skills and experience, and BBSRC will continue their professional internships for PhD students
• The Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) doctoral landscape award will include opportunities to award funding for long term attachments for students to work at international research facilities such as CERN where this is essential for the training programme
• AHRC will provide funding to support regional diversity and provide funding for cohort-based development and collaborative opportunities enabling students to network and prepare for their future careers work at a regional level
• The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will provide flexibility to support career path development including support for vacation internships to help attract people into doctoral studies and for postdoctoral funding to support exploitation of research outcomes

We continue to develop and consolidate our approaches to supporting landscape awards. Each council has a different investment cycle and so any transition to greater collective working will need to take place over a number of years.

Here is the approach that each council is taking.

AHRC is finalising details of an algorithm-based funding and assurance process that will support studentships starting from October 2026. An update will be provided in spring 2024.

BBSRC doctoral landscape awards will be available through a competitive funding route. Awards will be made as block grants to single or multi-institutional partnerships, led by an academic research organisation, to maintain the breadth and diversity of our research base. Jointly with NERC, BBSRC launched a funding opportunity for landscape awards in January 2024 to support students starting from October 2025.

EPSRC will fund two sets of doctoral landscape awards, one university-led and one business led. Following algorithm-based funding and assurance processes, these investments will support students to start from October 2025. EPSRC is engaging with its communities about how they can make the most of the opportunities that the landscape awards provide.

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

ESRC announced in November 2023 that it was investing in 15 doctoral training partnerships (DTPs) spanning 89 institutions across the whole of the UK. These will support five years of PhD studentship intake beginning in October 2024 and will cover the breadth of social sciences, as well as areas of interdisciplinary research. Given this recent investment, ESRC has no further investment plans for doctoral landscape awards at this time.

Medical Research Council (MRC)

MRC announced in July 2021 that it was awarding 17 new DTPs to support high quality doctoral training programmes that take a student-centred approach, focusing on scientific excellence, positive research culture and wider training opportunities. These existing investments are expected to recruit students for up to five intake years (2022 to 2026) and MRC does not currently plan to invest in new doctoral landscape awards in the immediate future.

NERC doctoral landscape awards will be available through a competitive funding route. Awards will be made as block grants to single or multi-institutional partnerships, led by an academic research organisation, to maintain the breadth and diversity of our research base. Jointly with BBSRC, NERC launched a funding opportunity for landscape awards in January 2024 to support students starting from October 2025.

STFC is currently developing plans to evolve our algorithm-based funding and assurance processes that will result in awards ready to support students to start from October 2025.

We continue to transition towards simpler and more harmonised support for doctoral training.

For our landscape awards, AHRC, EPSRC and STFC are discussing the details of their landscape awards with their non-academic and university partners to identify opportunities to harmonise the approach to doctoral landscape funding awarded through an algorithm. We expect to be able to share more details in the spring.

As part of our planning for the next spending review, we will be working on stage two of our core offer, focusing on providing greater parity of support. We will also be considering our plans for focal awards.

If you have any questions or would like to engage with us on this area, please email: [email protected]

Last updated: 30 January 2024

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King's College London

Funding for doctoral research.

We have a broad range of funding for PhD students. This includes fully-funded scholarship programmes, a financial aid scheme and various smaller funds to support training & development, community building and conference travel.

If you're a potential student and need funding, we suggest you search our funding database .

Our funding opportunities include:

• Our cohort training programmes or Doctoral Training Entities
• Individual scholarships
• Funding for Black and Global Majority students
• Funding for international students
• Funding that includes a period of time overseas

Find out more about funding support available

• If you already have funding we can help you identify a supervisor for your research.
• If you're already a PhD student in the UK or abroad and want to spend some time at King’s as a visiting research student.
• If you're interesting in partnering with us please take a look at King's Doctoral College Partners.
• If you're a King’s student or supervisor looking for funding, please see the internal King’s Doctoral College hub for detailed guidance.

King’s Doctoral College manages King’s doctoral studentships budget. This enables us to deliver on King’s Doctoral Strategy in terms of the size and breadth of our doctoral community and the quality of experience for both students and supervisors.

Helping you go further

Exciting opportunities to explore as a research student at King's.

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Funding opportunities for international research students.

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Search our database to discover opportunities you may be eligible for.

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Funded PhD research programmes 2025 UK

The University of Brighton invites applicants for PhD study across all its disciplines, and highlights regular opportunities to develop applications for full-funding or partial funding.

These opportunities allow motivated, high-calibre applicants for research degrees to join our thriving academic community and contribute to our rich and innovative research environment. 

Our funding pages publicise any funding offered directly from the university, partnership funds to which we can help students apply, and other financial help that can allow students to study at doctoral level. Our processes often allow us to support promising candidates for applications to external funders and, if unsuccessful, we welcome self-funded applicants to programmes .

Please visit our PhD funding advice page  for current offers or see below for further general advice about applying for a funded PhD in the UK. 

Visit our PhD disciplinary programme lists

Current funding opportunities for study at the University of Brighton, UK

The University of Brighton is proud to be a partner in five Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTP) and Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT), and  funding opportunities are currently available through two of them for doctoral, PhD degree study starting in autumn 2025. 

South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership

The ESRC-funded DTP aims to develop the next generation of research leaders in social science in academia, government, business and civil society.

Techne Doctoral Training Partnership

This AHRC-funded DTP draws together traditional scholarship, history, theory and practice across seven universities, with collaboration from world-leading partners.

University of Brighton funding opportunities

On this page we post all funding opportunities available through the University of Brighton, its partners and networks. 

Applying for PhD study

Depending on the discipline area, applicants for postgraduate research study may be:

• applying to work on specific, defined research projects
• applying to work with an academic department or individual with specific interests
• or applying with a self-identified research topic proposal.

When available, studentships are open to home and international students and will be given to candidates who best fulfil the promise outlined by these academic departments.

When funding schemes are open, the application will usually involve: 

• approaching and securing the assistance of a relevant member of the University of Brighton's academic staff
• submitting a full application through the university's PhD application portal; you will upload your research proposal as part of this process.
• The submission will typically require two references, academic qualifications, a proposed project approach and a personal statement.

Please note, funding schemes are only open at specific times of year. Applications for funding outside of these timeframes will not be considered. See our  PhD funding opportunities page  for details of any current funding calls.

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Can you be a researcher? Professor Bhavik Patel reassures applicants of all backgrounds that they can study for a PhD and aim for a research career. 

What does PhD funding include?

The funding for the PhD usually covers the full fee and a stipend at the UKRI rate plus an allowance of £1,500 per year for researcher training for three years (or part-time equivalent). 

Successful candidates benefit from expert supervisory teams, a programme of postgraduate researcher development workshops and membership of specialist, interdisciplinary research centres and groups. There will be introductions to a network of relevant researchers, careers advice and opportunities for interaction within and beyond the university. Through this, our PhD students have the best start possible towards ambitious careers that make use of their research degrees.

The University of Brighton fosters research careers and will provide doctoral training, attentive and expert supervision and access to world-class laboratories and equipment. 

We are renowned as a leading applied university, with pioneer academics in disciplines from sport science to design history and applied science research that translates efficiently to the global challenge of worldwide health and wellbeing. Our strategy of 'practical wisdom' leads to real-world partnerships and beneficiaries across all disciplines while the development of community-university partnership practices have placed us among the best universities for many aspects of co-produced research and innovation.

We pride ourselves on the ways we work in partnership with those outside higher education, across the European Union and internationally. Through our research collaborations we work with a wide range of universities, both internationally and with universities in the UK. We are also founding members of two UKRI Doctoral Training Partnerships which, this year, are dealt with outside our University of Brighton studentship offer. We learn constantly from our involvement in these, and our rich resources are offered across all doctoral research programmes.

Recently the University of Brighton celebrated its performance in the Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) and the Knowledge and Exchange Framework (KEF2023). Over 87 per cent of our submitted impact case studies in REF2021 were rated as having 'outstanding' or 'very considerable' impact beyond academia. We are dedicated to developing this quality work with new students. Read more about the review of our research and knowledge exchange performance in REF2021 . Also, read more about our KEF2023 results, which placed Brighton in the top tier for economic and social benefits .

How will you build a relationship with your supervisor? Professor Annebella Pollen and Dr Tom Ainsworth are among those offering advice. This film was made by the University of Brighton for UKRI and also features academics from other institutions.

How do I increase my chances of getting a PhD studentship?

You must be able to show your suitability for a UK research degree if you wish to apply for fully-funded studentships.

This includes evidence either of a relevant and successful academic background or equivalent relevant professional/expert background in the applied subject area. Applicants from overseas will also have to fulfil any English language and visa requirements.

This will be true for studentships in the UK across most of the UK universities. It is usual for applicants either to have completed (or be about to complete) a masters degree, have an exceptional undergraduate record and references, or demonstrate the equivalent scholarly potential.  

Supervisory staff and research students at the University of Brighton consider how important diverse thinking and inclusive practice are to their doctoral studies.

Can I get PhD funding at the University of Brighton?

We have a long-standing annual programme of funded PhD opportunities across all our disciplines, including several rooted in research council (UKRI) partnerships .

The initiatives allow postgraduate study for UK-based students as well as study in the UK for international students (depending on the PhD programme). 

We are also keen to encourage students who might be able to self-fund their doctoral studies. Studying part-time, for example, is likely to prove more affordable and more easily balanced with professional life than you'd imagine. 

We are dedicated to providing a welcoming and supportive atmosphere and structure for your studies. Show us your own qualities and your suitability for programmes as they become available and we will look forward to receiving your application. 

Please visit our  PhD funding advice page  for current offers or see below for further general advice about applying for a funded PhD in the UK. 

Insitutions and funding bodies for PhD study

On the Funding pages of our website we post advice as to the regular and specific funding opportunities available through the University of Brighton, its partners and networks. 

These include  Doctoral Training Partnership  and University of Brighton PhD studentship calls,  individual studentship projects , University of Brighton  international research scholarships  and our  alumni scholarships  for current and past students. 

We also include below some of the major funding options for international students wanting to do a PhD with us, each of which may support all or part of your studies.

Worldwide international funding schemes for PhD research

The british council.

The British Council offers a search engine for UK courses, institutions (including the University of Brighton) and scholarships.

Find out more about scholarships and funding through The British Council.

The Gen Foundation

The Gen Foundation considers applicants living in all countries. It is a charitable trust which principally provides grants to students/researchers in natural sciences, in particular food sciences/technology.

Find out more about grants to students and researchers from The Gen Foundation .

The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN)

The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is dedicated to improving the quality of life of those in need, mainly in Asia and Africa, irrespective of their origin, faith, or gender. Our multifaceted development approach aims to help communities and individuals become self-reliant.

Find out more about research funding through the Aga Khan development network .

The Open Society Foundations

The Open Society Foundations are active in more than 120 countries around the world, using grant-giving, research, advocacy, impact investment, and strategic litigation to support the growth of inclusive and vibrant democracies. The four main themes of the Open Society Foundations are climate justice, equity, expression, and justice and they will award grants and fellowships throughout the year to organisations and individuals who share those values. The Open Society Foundations look for grantees who have a vision and whose efforts will lead to lasting social change.

Find out more about postgraduate funding through The Open Society Foundations .

International Education and Financial Aid

The International Education and Financial Aid (IEFA) provides students from all over the world comprehensive information on financial aid for studying abroad. Using the IEFA website, you can easily search the IEFA database for scholarships, grants, loan programs, and other options available to help finance your international education.

Find out more about international PhD research funding through the IEFA .

The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds 

The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) awards PhD fellowships of two to three-and-a-half years to outstanding junior scientists worldwide who wish to pursue an ambitious PhD project in basic biomedical research in an internationally leading laboratory.

Find out more about the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds fellowships .

Resource sites for international PhD research funding

Internationalstudent.com.

InternationalStudent.com is a leading online resource for international students around the world providing advice pages for studying in the USA, UK and Australia for international students, plus a dedicated study abroad center for US students who want to travel abroad.

Find out more about international study through InternationalStudent.com .

ScholarshipTab

ScholarshipTab is an online portal that connects international students to available scholarship opportunities round the world.

Find out more about the Scholarship Tab resource .

International Education and Financial Aid (IEFA)

The IEFA provides students from all over the world comprehensive information on financial aid for studying abroad. Search the IEFA database for scholarships, grants, loan programs, and other options available to help finance your international education.

Find out more from the International Education and Financial Aid website .

The European Funding Guide 

Scholarships and grants for students from the European Union

Find out more through the European Funding Guide  

The Americas: Postgraduate doctorate funding from institutions and bodies to study in the UK

• Marshall Scholarship:  Provides for United States students to study abroad.
• Benjamin A Gilman International Scholarship provides for United States students to study abroad.
• American Student Loans and Federal Student Aid
• Global Affairs Canada International Scholarships Program
• Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund
• Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
• The Bolsas Lideres Estudar Program provides for Brazilian students studying in the UK .

Asia: Postgraduate doctorate funding from Asian institutions and bodies to study in the UK

The Charles Wallace Bangladesh Trust

The Charles Wallace Burma Trust

China and Hong Kong

Great Britain – China Educational Trust is a charity that promotes mutual understanding between the UK and China and aims to build long-term connections between the two countries. It delivers awards contributing towards university tuition fees and living expenses for Chinese nationality students studying for a PhD in any subject at a UK university.

Great Britain China Centre Chinese Student Awards  offers scholarships of up to £3,000 for citizens of China and Hong Kong studying for a PhD in any subject at a UK university

The Hong Kong People Association (HKPA)  aims to provide financial aids for further university education to students from Hong Kong who are not able to afford international tuition fees. 

The Charles Wallace India Trust  offers PhD funding for study in the arts, heritage conservation or the humanities.

The Inlaks India Foundation

The JN Tata Endowment award funds 90 to 100 scholars across disciplines ranging from the sciences to management, law and commerce and the fine arts.

The KC Mahindra Education Trust

The Persia Educational Foundation Abdolreza Ansari Scholarship   is designed to support the education of students of Iranian descent enrolled in a Master or Doctorate programme in human rights or public service in the UK.

Momeni Iranian Financial Assistance Scholarships  offer partial funding scholarships for international students of Iranian descent towards a PhD in any subject.

The Kenneth Lindsay Scholarship Trust

The Anglo-Jewish Association (AJA)  provides funding for Jewish students to study a Masters or PhD in the UK.

The Japan-IMF Scholarship Program for Advanced Studies  funds students of macroeconomics with a view to them working at the International Monetary Fund.

The Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust

Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan . The HEC offers government scholarships for Pakistani students to study abroad in various countries, including the UK.

Saudi Arabia

The Cultural Bureau of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia (SACB)  offers scope for full tuition fees and supporting fees for PhD level study.

Agency for Science, Technology and Research

The Thai Office of Educational Affairs 

Europe: Postgraduate doctorate funding from European institutions and bodies to study in the UK

The European Funding Guide  - Scholarships and grants in the EU.

France -  Entente Cordiale scholarships for postgraduate studies  provide funding to help students enrolling for a Masters or a PhD qualification in the UK or in France.

Italy -  Il Circolo Italian Cultural Association is a UK-registered charity based in London with the mission to support deserving students with awards and scholarships.

Norway - Lanekassen  - The Norwegian student loans and grants awarding body supports Norwegian students studying overseas.

Scandinavia - Fundraising.how  - article database offering funding advice for Scandinavian students.

Sweden - CSN -  loans and grants for Swedish students studying overseas.

Australia: funding for PhD study in the UK

The Australia Day Foundation  offers grants to young Australians for fees and course materials.

Africa: funding for PhD study in the UK

Sudan -  The Gordon Memorial College Trust Fund (GMCTF)