Research Themes for the Clinical PhD Programme PhD

The structure of the clinical programme is built around the Faculty of Medicine’s well established strategic research themes.

 

 

Potential Supervisors for Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD

Potential PhD supervisors have been selected from the Faculty's 450 Principal Investigators on the basis of their scientific excellence, specifically with respect to offering a clinical scientist the opportunity to develop their research skills in a truly world class environment.

The faculty wishes to encourage clinicans to consider research training in a basic science laboratory. Details of basic science laboratories can he found here.

Please click on the Themes below for information on each supervisor.  Applicants are encouraged to investigate more than one theme.

Details of how to apply can be found here.

Research Theme	Theme Leader
Inflammation & Immunity	Professor Philip Ashton-Rickardt
Integrative Systems	Professor Stephen Bloom
Infection	Professor Charles Bangham
Epidemiology and Public Health	Professor Paul Elliott
Molecular & Cellular Systems	Professor Malcolm Parker
Genetics and Genomic Medicine	Professor Tim Aitman
Health Technologies	Professor Lord Ara Darzi

About the Programme

Mentoring

All Clinical PhD programme fellows will be able to choose a named mentor, independent of their supervisor, who will be able to offer career guidance, personal and academic support, and help bridge the transition from clinical work to research, and back again.

The Graduate School

All appointees to the programme will be members of the Graduate School and will have access to the training described below.

Generic and transferable skills training
The Graduate School is responsible for delivering and monitoring the majority of the generic (non-research specific) and transferable skills training for postgraduates.  This training is designed to dovetail with the subject-specific and generic research training provided by the students’ PhD laboratory and Department/Division/Centre. The range and depth of this programme allows students to develop a broad range of key skills. PhD students are required to attend a minimum of 5 workshops as part of the transfer from MPhil to PhD.  There is a choice of ten courses on the ‘core’ list, together with the three-day residential course specially designed for students on year 1 of their PhD (Research Skills and Development Course)