Step 1: Ensure your qualifications meet our entry requirements.
Please see above, for more information about our entry requirements.
Step 2: Find a PhD project or find a potential supervisor
Click her for current PhD opportunities
Step 3: Compile initial application.
If you are responding to an advertised project, please contact the supervisor directly. In some cases, you may be invited for an informal chat before they advise you to submit an application.
If you are proposing your own research project, please contact potential supervisors directly with your outline proposal and the source of your funding. If you are uncertain about who to contact as a potential supervisor, please contact the postgraduate admissions tutor Dr Jet Veldhuijzen van Zanten (veldhujj@bham.ac.uk) who will advise you.
Step 4: Submit your application to the University
You can submit your application online by clicking on ‘Apply to study here’ on the following link.
You will be directed to an application portal where you will create your account with the University and submit your application and supporting documents online. Your application is specifically designed for the programme you choose to apply for and it is sensitive to the answers you provide as you proceed through the application. In order to apply, please indicate the project you would like to work on or your research interests. Also mention the names of one or more potential supervisors.
For further information, please contact the admissions office: pgadmissions@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Within the School, please contact the Postgraduate Programme Administrator: pg-ses@contacts.bham.ac.uk