School of Computing Science

Studentships

The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow is offering studentships to support PhD research for students starting in October 2027 or shortly thereafter.

The application deadline is 31 January 2027. Funding is available to support tuition fees for both home and international students. In most cases, this also includes living expenses at the UKRI rate (annual stipend of £22,437  for session 2027–28). 

Available studentships

The following studentships are available:

• Minerva ScholarshipsFive-year part-time PhD scholarships, with two-thirds of time spent on research and one-third on teaching. Covers tuition fees at the home level and a remuneration package of at least £22,437 per year for living expenses.
• College Scholarships
  Supports tuition fees at the home level and living expenses at the UKRI stipend rate.
• Excellence Bursaries
  Tuition fee waiver for home students and £10,000 per year fee discount (3 years) for international students.
• Graduate School Scholarships
  Fees (home/international) plus stipend, available for 3 years.
• James McCune Smith PhD Scholarship
  Funds Black UK-domiciled students to undertake PhD research in any area where we can offer supervision.

To be considered for a scholarship, select “Univ of Glasgow Scholarship” as the funding source when submitting your application.

How to apply for a postgraduate research degree

Students can apply for admission to PhD study at any time. To be considered for the studentships listed above, applications must be received by 31 January 2027.

For support with your application:

• Explore our list of suggested projects on the PhD Projects page.
• Read our application advice from the School and University
• Search for a potential supervisor
• Review full details of funding available
• For tailored advice, email socs-pgr-enquiries@gla.systa-s.com (if you describe your general area of interest, we can help match you with a potential supervisor)

How to apply for a postgraduate research degree

Why choose Glasgow for your PhD

Postgraduate students in the School benefit from excellent support and supervision. Our graduates go on to key roles in both industry and academia.

The School is consistently ranked in the UK top 10 and is a member of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), a collaboration of Scottish universities working to strengthen Scotland’s position as a world leader in Informatics and Computing Science research and education.

We are seeking research students who are creative and passionate about their subject.

Entry requirements are normally an upper second class honours undergraduate degree (or equivalent), or a master’s degree, in Computing Science or a related discipline.

Areas of research

Our areas of research are organised according to the following sections and groupings: 

Studentship Information

The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow is offering studentships to support PhD research for students starting in October 2027 or shortly thereafter. Funding is available to support tuition fees for both home and international students, and in most cases to support living expenses at the recommended UKRI rate with an annual stipend (£22,437 for session 2027-28). In particular, the following studentships are available:

• Minerva Scholarships. These are 5-year scholarships to support part-time PhD students spending two thirds of their time on research and one third of their time on teaching. They support tuition fees at the home level and a remuneration package of at least £24,000 per year for living expenses. More information is available here.
• College Scholarships. These studentships support tuition fees at the home level and living expenses at the recommended UKRI rate with an annual stipend.
• Excellence Bursaries. These bursaries support a tuition fee waiver for home students and a £10k fee discount per annum for 3 years for international students. More information is available here.
• Graduate School Scholarships. Stipend and fees (home/international) available for 3 years.
• James McCune Smith PhD Scholarship.  Fund Black UK domiciled students to undertake PhD research at the University in any research area in which we can offer supervision.  More information is available here.
• Other available funding opportunities and Scholarships are available, please click here.

Application Deadline: 31 January 2027

How to apply: Apply online, you must select “Univ of Glasgow Scholarship” as the funding source when submitting your application in order to be considered for a scholarship.

PGR Information Session: If you would like to be contacted with details about the PGR Information session then please complete this form.  The School of Computing Science PGR team will invite you to the session once the date has been confirmed, this is likely to be around October time. Please register here.  The session will give more information on the University, School and available Scholarships as well as short presentations from academic staff members, there will also be an opportunity for participants to ask questions. This event will take place via zoom.

Postgraduate students benefit from the best possible support and supervision, and on graduating, they are well qualified to take up key posts in industry and academia. 

More generally, the School is consistently ranked in the top 10 in the UK.  It is a member of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA). This is a collaboration of Scottish universities whose goal is to develop and extend Scotland position as a world leader in Informatics and Computing Science research and education. 

Our areas of research are organised according to the following sections and groupings: 

Formal Analysis, Theory and Algorithms (FATA) 

• Algorithms and Complexity
• Formal Methods 
• Programming Languages 

Glasgow Interactive SysTems (GIST aka HCI) 

• Animal-Computer Interaction 
• Behavioural AI  
• Care Computing Group 
• Future Immersion Interaction Group
• HIWA: Human Interactions With Artificial intelligence
• MIG: Multimodal Interaction Group 
• SIRIUS: Secure and prIvacy RespectIng Ubiquitous Systems
• Social AI group 

GLAsgow Systems Section (GLASS) 

• GPG: The Glasgow Parallelism Group
• Glasgow Carbon-Conscious Computing Lab
• Glasgow Cyberdefence Lab 
• Glasgow Intelligent Computing Lab 
• Glasgow Internet Protocols Lab
• Glasgow Programming Language Implementation Lab
• Networked Systems Research Lab (Netlab) 

Information, Data and Analysis (IDA) 

• Knowledge & Data Engineering Systems Group
• Information, Dynamics and Interaction
• Information Retrieval
• Computer Vision and Autonomous Systems 

Centre for Computing Science Education (CCSE)

Education and Practice (EAP)

• Computing Science Education
• Software Engineering
• Professional Skills and Competencies
• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We also undertake research in the following cross-cutting themes: 

• Computing Technologies for Healthcare 
• Cyber Security 
• Media and Data Science 
• Understandable Autonomous Systems 
• Programming Languages

We are seeking research students who are creative and passionate about their subject.  Entry requirements are normally an upper second class honours undergraduate degree (or equivalent), or a master’s degree, in computing science or a related discipline. 

Students can apply for admission to PhD study at any time, but to be considered for the studentships we are offering at this round, we must receive your application by 31 January 2027.  For more information, see the following web pages: 

• List of suggested projects 
• How to apply: advice from the School and University 
• Search for a potential supervisor 
• Details of the funding available 

For further information please email socs-pgr-enquiries@gla.systa-s.com.  We can help to match you to a potential supervisor if you describe your general area of interest.