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We offer two routes for PhD study:

1 Open Doctoral Award

These awards invite you to design and agree a research project with academic supervisors within the M4C partnership. There is the potential to build cross-institutional supervisory teams to maximise fit and expertise.

2 Collaborative Doctoral Award

These awards are jointly developed and co-supervised between an M4C university and an external partner organisation. CDAs offer diverse and unique research projects that support the work of the partner organisation.

The application process

To find out more about writing a PhD project proposal and the M4C application process, please see below

(To ensure you access the documents for 2025 Entry please clear your browsing history)

Some additional briefings and support sessions are below:

19th Nov- M4C Applicant Imposter Syndrome Session- 12:30-13:30

25th Nov- Stuart Hall Foundation Briefing- 12:30-13:00

4th December- EDI Applicant Support Session- 11:00-12:30- All applicants with  live application have been sent a calendar invite for this session. Please contact enquiries@midlands4cities.ac.uk if you could like to join.

You will now need to contact the university of your choice directly if you have any question about their application processes for a place to study.

Please see the general writing application briefing from last year and the most recent Stuart Hall Foundation briefing.