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 DLA scheme. This highly competitive EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award provides full academic fees, together with a tax-free maintenance grant at the standard UKRI rate for 3.5 years, with training and support also provided. Applicants can propose research in any area of computer science for which the school is actively engaged in research. This includes five main research themes: Artificial Intelligence (robotics, biomedical analysis and imaging, reasoning, natural language processing), 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 actively in the Alan Turing Institute and other national and international centres of excellence. 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. Up to 2 funded places are available. Selection is based on academic merit through the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award Competition. Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact supervisors for an informal discussion before making a formal application.