Doctoral Funding

Funding for PhD studies in our program can come through different competitions both internal to Durham and among external funding bodies.

Once you have found a supervisor, there are a number of potential funding opportunities, some of which depend on your citizenship status. In each case, we encourage you to be in touch with us well in advance of the official deadlines below for different schemes. This is for two reasons:

1. We want to support your work by providing feedback that will support you as you sharpen your research proposal.
2. We recruit the very best postgraduate students, and this often means that we have internal deadlines to meet in order to make nominations to different funding schemes. 

During your studies, we may offer paid opportunities in several different contexts: running tutorials, teaching, lab demonstrations, and on our domestic and international fieldtrips. Our doctoral students are also encouraged to participate in our research and impact groups. These act as hubs for discussion and collaboration in fieldwork, analysis and grant applications, and so increase vitality and diversify our internal and external collaborations.

Doctoral Studentships

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – Corbridge Roman Town: Economy and Society on the Edges of Roman Britain

The Department of Archaeology, in partnership with English Heritage, are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from October 2026 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships (CDP) scheme.

This project will use archival and collections research to shed light on the role of Roman Corbridge in the social and economic networks of the Romano-British frontier from the 3rd to 5th centuries AD. Find out more about this AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship.

Other Funding Routes

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