Applications open for 2027 White Rose DTP / SHF studentships

The Stuart Hall Foundation is delighted to continue working with the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP) to support two PhD studentship awards available to black British students applying for a PhD in the WRDTP starting in October 2027. The award will cover UK tuition fees, a stipend and a research training support grant. 

The White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership is a partnership of seven universities providing inter-disciplinary doctoral training and, like the Stuart Hall Foundation, is committed to addressing inequalities in Higher Education.

The scholarships can be held in any of the seven institutions of the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (i.e. Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Manchester Metropolitan, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, and York). The successful candidates will undertake research projects that focus on one of Stuart Hall’s many areas of interest: cultural studies, race, ethnicity and/or inequalities, and their work will align with one of the DTP’s seven thematic interdisciplinary pathways:

1. Civil Society, Development, and Democracy (CDD)
2. Digital Technologies, Communication and Artificial Intelligence (DCA)
3. Education, Childhood and Youth (ECY)
4. Security, Conflict and Justice (SCJ)
5. Space, Place, Environment and Liveability (SPEL)
6. Sustainable Growth, Business, Work and Economic Productivity (SBE)
7. Wellbeing, Health and Communities (WHC)

Awards are available for study on either a full-time or part-time basis. Please note international students are not eligible to apply for the awards.

Potential applicants should first contact the department or school at the university in which they wish to study, to find out how to apply for a PhD place and how to register an interest in applying for the WRDTP / Stuart Hall Foundation Studentship Awards.  Successful applicants for the studentship will be invited to join the Stuart Hall Foundation Peer Network where they can benefit from its programme, which includes regular events and opportunities to develop their career and research profile.

Students must have submitted their application for a PhD study place to their department/school by 5pm GMT, 20 January 2027 in order to be considered for an ESRC WRDTP PhD studentship award. 

The deadline for departments/schools to send Nomination Forms to the WRDTP is 5pm GMT, 24 February 2027.

For more information on how to apply, visit the WRDTP website

An applicant information session providing guidance on the application process has been organised to take place online on Thursday 8 October 2026, 5.30pm – 6.30pm. Book your place on the applicant information session here.

Contact WRDTP by email with your questions at enquiries@wrdtp.ac.uk