Postgraduate Funding
Find out about postgraduate funding opportunities.
Funding opportunities and excellence scholarships
The University provides a guide to postgraduate funding. The postgraduate funding database will help you to find funding opportunities.
Our postgraduate research students are eligible for £200 funding to attend relevant conferences. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences also offers Postgraduate Excellence Scholarships for taught study. This includes MLitts.
Read on for details of more specific research opportunities.
ESRC Northern Ireland North East (NINE) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) - PhD Studentships in the Social Sciences
The Northern Ireland and North East Doctoral Training Partnership (NINE DTP) is a new and exciting collaborative enterprise. It comprises seven universities across Northern Ireland and the North East of England. The Economic and Social Research Council, with support from the Department for the Economy Northern Ireland (DfENI), funds the partnership.
NINE DTP provides outstanding students with fantastic opportunities to conduct their doctoral studies and develop core research skills in an exciting and creative environment.
More than 50 PhD studentships are available across the universities of:
- Newcastle
- Durham
- Queen's Belfast
- Ulster
- Northumbria
- Teesside
- Sunderland
Newcastle University awards NINE DTP studentships to learning pathways in the following areas:
- Economic and Social History
- Education
- Environmental Planning (includes Planning, Environment, Food and Rural Development)
- Human Geography
- Language-based Area Studies
- Law and Society
- Linguistics
- Management, Business and Economics
- Psychology (PhD only)
- Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work
- Children, Youth and Families
- Conflict, Security and Justice a
- Health, Well-being and Society
- Media and Society
Find out how to apply.
Find out about Postdoctoral Fellowships with NINE DTP.