Now accepting applications
AstraZeneca has been a strong supporter and sponsor of UK-based collaborative PhD
studentships for many years. We have a significant portfolio of collaborations,
which provide great benefits for the company, academics and students. You can access
the general objectives and scope for the 2025 call here.
You are restricted to the submission of one proposal per individual academic as a
PI. However, we would like to encourage collaboration between academic staff at the
same or different universities, so we very much welcome proposals with joint
supervisory support, so a PI for one proposal can be a secondary contributor on
additional proposals.
Proposals should be a maximum three pages in length. Proposals should provide a
brief background to the area, any preliminary results (if relevant) and highlight
research novelty. Of significant consideration to reviewers of proposals (in
addition to novel and interesting science), is that the project should provide good
research training to a prospective student and an expectation that publication(s)
should arise. A brief statement summarising training benefit and potential
publications should be included.
This year's deadline for submission is September 27th 2024. Proposals will be shared and reviewed across AstraZeneca UK science functions as part of AstraZeneca's internal review process. Offers of sponsored studentships will be made known in November 2024 with expected start date of October 2025. In common with previous years we will have two levels of support including a number EPSRC Industrial Doctoral Landscape Awards (IDLAs) as well as studentships where a level of matched funding would be expected to be found by the host university. When you are ready, click the "Submit a proposal" button above
To increase transparency of the process we have listed the proposals we supported in previous calls below.