Current PhD studentships

We currently offer the following PhD studentships:

WELS are offering 7 faculty studentships and these are reserved for on-campus full-time targeted projects, for which a proposal is required. The targeted projects are linked below:

  • WELS-01-27J Skills Development and Further Education in England 
  • WELS-02-27J Optimising Exercise Prescriptions for Individuals with Mild Cognitive Decline
  • WELS-03-27J Critical Approaches to Language Teaching and Learning 
  • WELS-04-27J Fathers and Loss
  • WELS-05-27J Developing Interventions to Improve Support for Young People with Melanoma
  • WELS-06-27J Music in Times of Conflict: Resilience, Belonging and the Making of Alternative Identities 
  • WELS-07-27J Research in Care Ethics 
  • WELS-08-27J Recovering the Hidden Histories of People with Learning Disabilities from Black and Minoritised Ethnic Communities 
  • WELS-09-27J Young Motherhood in West Africa

    WELS are also advertising for a Self-Funded Project 

  • WELS-10-27J Strength and Conditioning for Golf 

    Any applicants not applying for a targeted project will need to apply on a self-funded basis.
     

The Open University is offering full and part-time PhD studentships in health and wellbeing and innovation in learning, funded in collaboration with the ESRC funded Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership.

Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences