Doctoral training

The Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science Doctoral Training Centre is based in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. Research encompasses all aspects of the materials science and engineering of composite materials.

The Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences (BCCS), a major collaboration across four faculties, aims to nurture the next generation of scientists and engineers in the most challenging areas of the emerging sciences of complexity.

The Doctoral Training Centre for Chemical Synthesis, based in the School of Chemistry, is aimed at creating better, greener and more efficient processes for making new drugs and medicines, and new materials, polymers and nanomaterials.

The interdisciplinary Centre for Doctoral Training in Communications combines the strengths of the University’s Centre for Communications Research with its world-leading mathematics capability and its strengths in interactivity to address challenges in safety-critical systems.

The Doctoral Training Centre in Functional Nanomaterials aims to train a new generation of scientists in the area of functional nanomaterials to connect fundamental nanoscience with real-life applications, coupled to economic and social benefits, in areas including healthcare, computing and pharmaceuticals.

The Industrial Doctorate Centre in Systems provides a research and training environment designed using 'systems thinking' principles to develop tomorrow’s leaders in the heart of UK industry and to deliver industrially relevant research and commercially successful innovation.

Through the MRC Doctoral Training Grant, we provide funding for a number of four-year PhD studentships with a focus on the interface between basic science and clinical science. This funding is comprehensive, and covers all tuition fees as well as providing a maintenance stipend for living costs.

The SWDTC is a partnership between the universities of Bristol, Exeter and Bath and is one of the UK’s largest centres of postgraduate research training for social scientists.

The South West Doctoral Training Partnership is led by the University of Bristol, with the Universities of Exeter and Bath, and Rothamsted Research. Together, these institutions provide outstanding interdisciplinary research training in Food Security and World-Class Bioscience.

The Wellcome Trust PhD in Dyanmic Cell Biology programme brings together the skills and expertise of 30 internationally recognised cell biologists, who provide training in the broadest range of cell biology topics and techniques.

The Wellcome Trust PhD in Neural Dynamics is an interdisciplinary, four-year graduate programme at the University of Bristol. It trains a new generation of neuroscientists who can combine experimental with mathematical and computational approaches to study dynamics of neural systems.