Key facts
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Study level
Postgraduate; Research Degree
Award value
£27,892 in 2022-23 (total for length of course)
Number of awards
All applicants who meet the criteria
Postgraduate doctoral loans for home students
Overview
This loan is open to new students who start their programme after 1 August 2018.
The loan amount for students starting their course is £27,892 in 2022-23. The loan will be divided equally across each year of your course, and is paid in 3 instalments in each year of the course.
Students must be registered on the Doctoral Degree and not on a Masters award to qualify, and students are encouraged to apply from Year 1 as it cannot be backdated.
Eligibility
This funding is available to students studying on the following courses:
- Doctor of Education
- Doctor of Coaching and Mentoring
- Architecture
- English and Modern Languages
- Education
- History, Philosophy and Culture
- Law
- Social Sciences
- Arts
- Engineering
- Computing
- Professional Doctorate in Midwifery
- Professional Doctorate in Nursing
- Built Environment
- Biological and Medical Sciences
- Sport and Coaching Sciences
- Psychology
- Social Work
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Hospitality, Tourism and Events Management
- Economics, Accounting or Finance
- Marketing
- Business and Management
- Nutrition
- Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, and Rehabilitation
- The Oxford Interdisciplinary Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership
- A mixed methods study to explore factors influencing the learning environment, patient safety and care quality in non-UK and UK trained registered nurses
- Japanese by Research
- English by Research
- Innovative Sustainable Transport Solutions
Eligibility criteria
- It must be a full, standalone doctoral course, not a top-up course
- You must have started your course on or after 1 August 2018
- It must last between three and eight academic years
- It must be at a UK university (with research degree awarding powers)
- It can a full-time or part-time course
- It can be a taught or research-based course (or a combination of both)
- It can be a distance learning course, as long as you live in the UK while studying
- It can also be an integrated master's degree (a master's and PhD combined). However, you won't be able to apply for a separate Postgraduate Master's Loan.
- Students in receipt of Research Council funding cannot apply
Application process
Please apply via the gov.uk website.