All Doctorates at Huddersfield

Completing a PhD can give you a great sense of personal achievement and help you develop a high level of transferable skills which will be useful in your subsequent career, as well as contributing to the development of knowledge in your chosen field.

Our research degrees are available as full-time, part-time and some are offered distance learning.

You are expected to work to an approved programme of work including appropriate programmes of postgraduate study (which may be drawn from parts of existing postgraduate courses, final year degree programmes, conferences, seminars, masterclasses, guided reading or a combination of study methods).

This programme of research culminates in the production of a large-scale piece of written work in the form of a research thesis that should not normally exceed 80,000 words.

You will be appointed a main supervisor who will normally be part of a supervisory team, comprising of up to three members to advise and support you on your project.

What can I research? There are different ways to find the right research topic for you:

Find a supervisor and design your own research project – explore the Huddersfield Research Portal to find research and researcher expertise to find the area you’re interested in - https://pure.hud.ac.uk/

For research in science, computing, engineering, health, and social science we have named projects you can search and apply for instead of developing a research proposal - https://www.hud.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/named-projects

Browse our listed funded opportunities - https://research.hud.ac.uk/research-degrees/researchscholarships/