PhD and EngD opportunities

Postgraduate Centre

Postgraduate Centre

Heriot-Watt University provides an outstanding environment to undertake postgraduate research leading to a PhD or EngD. The university currently hosts around 600 PhD and EngD students. First class training in both specialist and generic skills is provided that focuses on providing the necessary support for career development. Research projects are on offered with supervisors working at the cutting edge of contemporary topics from the fundamental to the applied in all of our disciplines. Projects often involve working in research teams, with industry involvement, and many with collaborations with other leading research laboratories around the world.

A new £7M Postgraduate Centre provides a hub that combines facilities for training, outreach, and social interaction with other postgraduate students from across the university.

Research degrees:

  • PhD and EngD
  • DBA
  • MRes, MPhil

Research opportunities and scholarships

School, Research Institute, and Research Centre web pages provide detailed information on research and potential research project opportunities for PhD and EngD studies. The university offers a number of competitive funded scholarships for research degree studies. Full or partial support may be available for well qualified candidates from UK research councils, research pools, charities, industry or the university's own scholarships.

The university offers annual James Watt Scholarships (80 in 2012/13) for well qualified applicants. Other competitive funding is available such as RCUK funded Doctoral Training Awards.

Inter-university doctoral training centre schemes

 Heriot-Watt participates in a number of inter-university doctoral training centre schemes: