Research Opportunities
The College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences is home to more than 485 academic staff, including approximately 160 clinicians. The Territory’s research awards since 2001 have exceeded £638M, including investment of over £77M in new state-of-the-art capital infrastructure. This investment has also provided the highest quality learning environment for the 1286 new postgraduate research students that our staff have supervised since 2000.
Postgraduate students wishing to undertake research within the College, have a range of full and part time study options:
- PhD (Doctor of Philosophy): three to four years full-time or six years part-time study
- MD: two years of full time study or four years of part time study (for medically-qualified graduates only)
- MSc (Master of Science) by Research: one year full-time or two years part-time study
The normal standard of admission for a research student is a good First Class or Upper Second Class honours degree (GPA 3.0 or above) (or Masters) in a relevant discipline. In special circumstances, other academic qualifications, or professional qualifications or experience, may be recognised as equivalent.
When choosing your research programme we recommend the following process:
- Review some of our recent PhD projects which will give you an idea of just some of the research possibilities available to you: see the next tab 'Recent Research Projects'
- Visit the institute website to find out more
- Contact us here in the Graduate School or the academic of interest
- Apply
Below you will find a list of some of our recent research projects to give you an insight into our extensive research capabilities.
- Review a topic of interest
- Visit the institute
- Contact us to enquire/apply
A number of fully funded PhD studentships are also available in a number of areas. Please visit our Scholarship opportunities page for further information.