Departmental programmes

The Department is involved in the running and/or administration of several different postgraduate research training programmes. These include:

• PhD programmes (3 or 4 years)

• MSc by Research (1 year)

Doctoral Training Programmes (DTPs) are cohort-based training programmes funded by External Agencies (typically Research Councils or Charities). The DTPs:

• recruit several students per year.

• involve some programme-specific cohort-based training.

• typically involve other Universities and/or Departments at York.

Individual Programmes

ACCE (NERC)

Mechanistic Biology (BBSRC)

Biomedical Science

Targeted Doctoral Studentships (TDSs) are individual studentships tied to specific projects, resulting from awards won by academic staff from a wide-variety of funding bodies. The TDSs:

• includes studentships from benefactors, departmental awards, or government-sponsored agencies.

• may have their own specialised training requirements, but typically they follow the standard training of the Biology 3 or 4 year PhD.

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Peter Mayhew

An MSc by Research (MxR) is a 1 year programme, that follows the standard training of the Biology 3 PhD in the first year.

• Typically self-funded studentships, for students applying to individual projects with academic staff members.

• It is not subject to the progression requirements of the longer PhD programmes.

Programme Coordinator: Dr. Peter Mayhew