We seek to award projects to the best applicants, based primarily on academic merit and the candidate fit with each project listed below.
Secure and governed multi-agent AI for home insurance claims and pricing PhD Studentship
This is a four-year PhD studentship, fully-funded and co-designed with Lloyds Banking Group. It will develop a multi-agent decision framework that leverages agentic AI for home insurance claims and pricing, with a focus on secure cloud-native pipelines.
| Deadline | 23:59, 18 June 2026 |
| Value | £25,000 for academic year 2026-27, increasing by 5% annually over three years. |
| Eligibility | All applicants |
Sequential foundation model for customer behaviour with uncertainty-aware pricing decisions PhD studentship
This is a four-year PhD studentship, fully-funded and co-designed with Lloyds Banking Group. It will investigate a foundation model pre-trained on customer event sequences as a shared representation layer for tasks like risk assessment, pricing guidance, and customer behaviour prediction.
| Deadline | 23:59, 18 June 2026 |
| Value | £25,000 for academic year 2026-27, increasing by 5% annually over three years. |
| Eligibility | All applicants |
Sequential Foundation Model for Customer Behavior & Uncertainty-Aware Pricing PhD Studentship
College Research Awards
The Business School will be offering a College Research Scholarship for students joining in September 2026.
| Deadline | The deadline for this scholarship has now passed |
| Value | The award provides full tuition fees with an annual stipend for 3 years. Funding is available for 4 years if the programme of study is the 4-year Economics (PhD with Integrated Study) or a 4-year Integrated PhD in the Business School |
| Eligibility | All offer holders |
Edinburgh Doctoral College Scholarships
One fully-funded scholarship is available for study within the Business School doctoral programmes.
| Deadline | The deadline for this scholarship has now passed |
| Value | Full tuition fees (UK or Overseas) with an annual stipend equal to the UKRI minimum rate for the relevant academic year of study |
| Eligibility | All offer holders |
ESRC Open Competition
We welcome applications from students interested in joining us on a PhD (3 year) or a Masters by Research and PhD (1+3 year) programme.
| Deadline | The deadline for this scholarship has now passed |
| Value | This award covers the cost of UK or Overseas tuition fees plus a generous stipend |
| Eligibility | Must meet ESRC residency requirement |
Student loans
A number of options are available for student loan funding, for both UK/EU nationals and overseas students. Find out more on the University's Financial Support site.