Applications open for 2026 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 2026. 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. 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. Cities, Environment, and Liveability (CEL)
2. Security, Conflict, and Justice (SCJ)
3. Education, Childhood, and Youth (ECY)
4. Data, Communication, and New Technologies (DCT)
5. Wellbeing, Health, and Communities (WHC)
6. Sustainable Growth, Management, and Economic Productivity (SMP)
7. Civil Society, Development, and Democracy (CDD)

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, 21 January 2026 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, 25 February 2026.

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

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