Key facts
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Study level
Research Degree; Postgraduate
Award value
£28,673 in 2023-24 (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 applying to Student Finance England is up to £28,673 in 2023-24. Students applying to Student Finance Wales and get a loan of up to £28,395 in 2023-24. 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
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
Find out more about full eligibility
This funding is available to students studying on the following courses:
Research Degree
- Understanding sweet-liking phenotypes: differences in eating behaviour and metabolic responses to food intake as a function of sweet liking – implications for personalised weight loss interventions
- Anthropology
- Architecture
- Arts
- Biological and Medical Sciences
- Built Environment
- Business and Management
- Communication, Media and Culture
- Computing
- Criminology
- Economics, Accounting or Finance
- Education
- Engineering
- English
- Geography
- History
- History of Art
- Hospitality, Tourism and Events Management
- Identifying and developing an intervention to support physical activity predicated on an in-depth analysis of the OxWell student survey
- Japanese by Research
- Law
- Marketing
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Nutrition
- Philosophy
- Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, and Rehabilitation
- Politics or International Relations
- Professional Doctorate in Midwifery
- Professional Doctorate in Nursing
- Psychology
- Social Work
- Sociology
- Sport and Coaching Sciences
- Technology in diabetes self-care: use and contextual engagement with flash and continuous glucose monitoring
- The ACUTE study, optimising support for acute oncology patients: a mixed methods study with health care professionals and patients
Postgraduate
Application process
Please apply via the gov.uk website.