School of Media and Communication PhD Scholarships 2026/2027

Three highly competitive scholarships are available in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, providing full fees with a maintenance allowance for 3.5 years. These fully-funded PhD places provide exciting opportunities to pursue postgraduate research in a range of fields relating to media and communication. One award will be for a Home/UK candidate and two awards for International candidates. The awards are available for full-time or part-time candidates (UK only) who have been offered a place on a PhD degree at the School of Media and Communication. The School especially welcomes applications that connect to its core research areas of global communication, journalism, political communication, media industries and cultural production, gender and media, race and media, digital cultures, and visual media and communication. The School of Media and Communication's research is multidisciplinary, theoretically innovative and socially relevant. The School is ranked 4th in the QS ranking 2022 of institutions in the UK and 88% of research outputs are considered world leading or internationally excellent according to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.