PhD in Medical Science (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

About this programme

The primary aim is for our postgraduate students to develop the skills required to submit an excellent PhD thesis in either three or four years (five to seven years if part-time), depending upon the duration of their funding. To that end, our students design and conduct robust and high-quality experiments and then analyse the results. Alternatively, students may apply sophisticated analyses to existing ‘big data’ sets from large cohort studies. In both cases, an important aim is for our students to learn to communicate their findings in writing and orally to academic or lay audiences. We also