EPSRC DLA Scholarship in the School of Computer Science

The School of Computer Science at the University of Leeds is offering a fully-funded, 3.5 year PhD studentship for UK fee-rated applicants, to start on 1 October 2026, as part of the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award (DLA) scheme. This scholarship covers full academic fees together with a tax-free maintenance grant at the standard UKRI rate (£20,780 in academic session 2025/26). The scholarship supports research in any area of computer science where the school is actively engaged, including: Artificial Intelligence (robotics, biomedical analysis and imaging, reasoning), Computer Science in Biology, Medicine and Health (computational neuroscience, healthcare process analytics), Algorithms and Complexity (graph theory, scheduling), Distributed Systems and Services (cloud and edge computing, digital democracy), and Computational Science and Engineering (computational fluid dynamics, high-performance graphics, physics-informed neural networks). The School of Computer Science collaborates extensively with other universities and companies across the world, including Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and participates in the Alan Turing Institute. The school holds the Athena Swann silver award for gender equality, and 99% of its research was classified as world-leading or internationally excellent in the most recent REF exercise.