Studentships
The department offers a range of studentships, which provide funding for postgraduate students to carry out research and are normally provided by a Research Council or through a combination of funds from partners, sponsors and the department. Studentships differ from scholarships, which are offered by the University to graduate students and cover some, or all, of your course fees and living costs.
Both studentships and scholarships enable talented students to progress in their studies, when they otherwise may not be able to, and are highly sought after.
Funded studentships with EPSRC
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funds several research students in the department every year, covering course fees and offering a grant for living costs from UKRI. If you are an applicant for our DPhil (PhD) courses and have home fee status, you will automatically be considered for this funding, so you cannot apply separately. If you have overseas fee status, you may also be considered for a small number of the EPSRC awards.
Other DPhil Studentships
We also offer studentships funded by various partners, sponsors and the department. Please see below for details of studentships available for October 2025.
Oxford-MRC DTP iCASE 2025 Projects:
Designed to nurture the academic entrepreneurs of the future, the Enterprise studentship
programme offers a stimulating educational experience as part of the Oxford-MRC DTP cohort,
with the additional benefit of working closely with an industrial partner. This will
provide entrepreneurial training opportunities and an insight into how commercial
science is conducted alongside a superb academic base within the University. Students
will work for at least 3 months in the associated company.
iCASE DPhil scholarship with IDEMS International Community Interest Company
on ‘Computational statistics and deep learning to strengthen families and reduce violence
towards children’.
iCASE DPhil scholarship with AstraZeneca on
‘Strategies for novel cardiomyopathy treatments from organoids-informed computational
multiscale modelling and simulation’. For more information on the topic ‘Digital
Twins and In Silico Trials for Cardiology and Pharmacology’, please read the
latest publications for
further information.
To be considered for either of the above iCASE studentships, please apply through the
DPhil in
Computer Science by 12:00 midday on Tuesday 3 December, indicating the relevant lead
supervisor, detailing 'iCASE' before the project title, and including the reference iCASE code.
Kleros Doctoral Support
Grant
The Kleros Doctoral Support Grant is a department-matched collaboration with Kleros providing
funding for a DPhil student researching decentralised justice at the department.
Learn more about the grant here.
If you are interested in any of these studentships, you should first speak to the member of
faculty listed. If you meet the graduate admissions criteria, you should then submit your
application, quoting the studentship reference in your application.
DPhil (PhD) Teaching Assistant opportunities
The department also employs DPhil research students each year as Teaching Assistants. Details will be provided below when these studentships become available.
Graduate scholarships and other funding opportunities
The University also offers a variety of scholarship programmes based on academic excellence, giving candidates from around the world the opportunity to pursue graduate study. You can find out more about scholarships, plus other graduate funding opportunities from the University's Graduate Funding pages. The helpful fees, funding and scholarship search tool will enable you to find out about the cost of studying and living at Oxford, as well as discover scholarship opportunities.