ESRC Supervisor-Led Funded PhD Studentships 2026
Current Supervisor-Led funded PhD Studentship opportunties
The following ESRC-funded supervisor-led PhD studentship vacancies are available (funding to start in October 2026), i.e. a supervisor has been awarded a funded studentship for a specific PhD research project for which any eligible applicant can apply. These are also advertised on SGSSS website.
Applicants must register and apply via SGSSS Apply.
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Dr Stephanie Chambers |
Co-production of an acceptable, valid and reliable measure to evaluate the effectiveness of the MCR Pathways mentoring programme in improving young people’s wellbeing |
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Professor Deirdre Shaw |
Diet Transition: Understanding the Effectiveness of Community Organisations in Supporting Change |
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Professor Jim Lewsey |
Evaluating the effects of Scotland’s Violence Reduction Unit as a public health intervention using natural experimental methods |
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Professor Jillian Gordon |
Exploring Alternative Finance for Impact-Driven Deep Tech Ventures |
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Dr Louise Marryat |
Intersecting Vulnerabilities: Mapping the Care Journeys of Opioid-Exposed Children in Scotland using administrative data |
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Professor Gerry McCartney |
Mirroring GalGael: An Ethnography of Repair and Belonging |
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Dr Scott Lavery |
National Security and the “new” industrial policy: A comparative political economy of quantum technology strategies |
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Professor Christian Ewald |
Random Fields in Continuous-Time Overlapping Generations Models: Wealth Inequality and Macroeconomic Dynamics |
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| Dr Juliane Kloess |
The development of a risk assessment tool for under 18-year-olds who display problematic behaviour, both offline and online |
More information |
| Professor David Lundie |
What works in supporting secondary school non-attenders? An evaluation of careers provision in Scotland’s National Digital Academy for students not in in-person attendance |
More information |