PhD in Science

Location: University Park, Nottingham/nEPSRC Postdoctoral Pathway Prize 2026/nThe EPSRC Postdoctoral Pathway Prize (formerly Doctoral Prize) provides opportunities for the most outstanding EPSRC-funded PhD students to receive up to 24 months (FTE) of additional support following their PhD. It is designed to offer support and flexibility and is targeted at excellent scientists and engineers who wish to establish a research career, allowing bespoke projects to be developed that are within the EPSRC remit. The scheme aims to provide career development beyond the end of the PhD and specifically to increase the impact of the PhD in terms of publications, knowledge transfer and outreach activities as a first step into an independent research career./nApplicants must work independently of their PhD supervisor. EPSRC also encourages applicants to move into new areas of research and to organisations different from where they conducted their PhD.