Midlands4Cities (M4C) offers you:

• Funding including tuition fees, maintenance grant, and research development, training and placement funds
  
• Supervision from experienced academics across eight universities
• Placements with regional, national and international partners
• Training in both research and career skills
• Networking and collaboration with other M4C students, our academics and research partners

Midlands4Cities is open to both home and international applicants.

There are two types of PhD awards through Midlands4Cities:

• Open Doctoral Award (ODA)
• Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA)

Open Doctoral Award (ODA)

You'll agree a research project with your supervisors. You will have a minimum of two supervisors who will offer expert guidance, support and feedback throughout your research. University of Nottingham academics are leading specialists in their fields with years of experience in successfully supervising PhD candidates.

Although you will be a University of Nottingham researcher you can also have co-supervisors from any of the other Midlands4Cities universities where their experience and expertise is an appropriate fit for your research topic.

You're encouraged to get in touch with potential supervisors as early as possible. They can use their experience to advise on suitability for M4C applications, co-supervisors and writing applications.

Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA)

We offer a number of diverse and unique project opportunities in partnership with national, regional, and local partners. Your supervision team is already set. As well as producing your thesis you also gain first-hand experience of working with an organisation outside the university environment.

Application writing workshops

Each year M4C run a series of application writing workshops, usually in November. Details for workshops taking place in 2023 are expected in October.

Explore the full Midlands4Cities offer: midlands4cities.ac.uk

Midlands4Cities funding is the only reason I'm here to be completely honest. I couldn't afford to do a PhD otherwise.

It puts everyone on a level playing field. So it's not like university where you may really feel the financial difference of different people's situations, which can feel very unfair. Now it feels like it's much more even and there's less disparity.