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UWS VICE-CHANCELLOR STUDENTSHIP SCHEME 2024

Under the UWS Vice-Chancellor’s Studentship Scheme 2024, 12 funded PhD studentships are offered for October 2024 start. These highly selective studentships span the University’s four academic schools: Business & Creative Industries; Computing, Engineering & Physical Sciences; Education & Social Sciences; and Health & Life Sciences.

The studentship themes are aligned with the University’s strategic ambitions and underline the University’s commitment to distinctive research and innovation, and addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Successful applicants will be aligned to their relevant UWS academic School and also become part of the UWS Doctoral College, providing an outstanding quality experience, supporting your student journey and focusing on investment and development in training, resources and facilities.

Find out more about these studentships

Pheonix Instinct

“Working with UWS brought Phoenix Instinct specialist skills, knowledge and support that have been fundamental to the success of the project.”
Andrew Slorance, Phoenix Instinct

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Our vision for UWS is to be among the global leaders of excellent, relevant and purposeful research aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

English Language Common Equivalents from Reseach Degrees page - replaced with 2024 Eng Language Accordion item

See below

Common equivalent English language qualifications

All stated English tests are acceptable for admission for both home/EU and international students for this programme:

CAE (Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English): 176 overall; no sub-test less than 169
CPE (Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English): 176 overall; no sub-test less than 169
Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English: ISEII with the minimum of a Pass in all sub-tests

PhD Studentships

University of the West of Scotland currently has a mixture of some 34 PhD projects, programmes and studentships available for start in October 2023.

This comprises 21 PhD programmes of research which are fully-funded (Vice-Chancellor Studentships 2023) for eligible applicants and 13 PhD programmes of research for self-funding applicants.

You can also propose your own PhD research topic. Contact the academic lead (on this page) to discuss your proposal.

VIEW ALL PHD PROGRAMMES

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This statement will be reviewed regularly to reflect the discovery/resolution of any accessibility issues.

We are aware that some parts of the platform are not fully accessible, and this may cause some users some problems accessing content within the platform (see Technical Information section below for more details).

How accessible this website is

We continually review the accessibility of our website using the web governance platform, Siteimprove, for an automated accessibility review. This statement will be reviewed regularly to reflect the discovery/resolution of any accessibility issues. Currently, the following are being addressed may cause minor issue with some aspects accessibility:

Inline Hyperlinks & Broken Links

A minority of our hyperlinks have non-unique text such as 'Download' or 'Click Here'. This is covered in more detail in the technical section below.

Embedded Forms

Some of our embedded online forms may be difficult to complete when using a screen reader. We use external, third party platforms for embedding or linking to online forms on the website to gather appropriate data from users.

Documents

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Downloading and setting up the Microsoft Authenicator app

This guide explains how to set up Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) using the Microsoft Authenicator app for the first time, allowing access to Microsoft 365 services (including email, calendar and OneDrive).

Microsoft Authenticator app Set-up Guide (pdf)

Resetting Your Microsoft Office 365 Password

This guide demonstrates how you can reset your own Microsoft Office 365 password via office.com

Resetting your Microsoft Office 365 Password (pdf)

Microsoft Authenticator App Password Reset

This guide walks you through the process of resetting Microsoft passord via the Microsoft Authenticator app.

Guide on how to Reset Your Microsoft Password Reset Using the Authenticaor app (pdf)

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