Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD Programs in Colchester, England? University of Essex invites online application for multiple fully funded PhD positions in various research areas. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Funded PhD Position in Fulfilling the Broken Promise of Support for Mental Capacity in an Era of Assisted Dying: A Comparative, Applied-Philosophy Approach
Summary of PhD Position:
The Essex Autonomy Project invites applications for a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Award to contribute to a research collaboration with the National Mental Capacity Forum. The successful applicant will conduct research culminating in a PhD dissertation addressing the following research question:
How should (i) lessons learned from new national programmes for supported decision-making in jurisdictions outside England and Wales, and (ii) research on extended-mind approaches to distributed cognition and distributed volition, relational autonomy, and/or the capabilities approach inform training for care-providers whose role obligations include delivery on the unfulfilled promise of sec. 1(3) of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) in England and Wales?
Application Deadline: 9 February 2026
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