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The Doctoral Training Centre

Our ground-breaking 4 year inter-disciplinary programmes are preparing a new generation of scientists to undertake quantitative and predictive research at the interface between the mathematical and physical, and the biological and medical sciences.

Foundation Building

We offer a broad range of intensive modules, designed to equip students with the skills they need for interdisciplinary doctoral research and taught by world-leading academics.

Rotation Projects

Students can choose from a wide number of research groups in different disciplines, in over forty departments in mathematical, physical and life sciences.

Doctoral Research

Upon completion of their rotation project, students spend three years of in a research group of their choice.

Continual Training

We offer a structured professional and personal development programme to support your future career. Extensive industrial placements and internships are available, and many students undertake their projects in collaboration with industry.

Intelligent Earth CDT

The Intelligent Earth CDT is a four-year PhD programme designed to equip a new generation of PhD students with advanced AI skills to tackle some of the most pressing environmental issues using AI through five closely connected themes.

ILESLA - Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science Landscape Award

The world faces unprecedented challenges, from climate change and food security to infectious diseases, biodiversity declines and sustainability. The Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science Landscape Award (ILESLA) will train a new generation of creative, collaborative and entrepreneurial researchers who are equipped to meet these complex, cross-disciplinary challenges.

EIT CDT in Fundamentals of AI

Fundamentals of AI (EIT CDT) is a research-based DPhil course focused on foundational AI, machine learning, and computational statistics. Students will help shape the future of AI and Machine Learning with a view to real-world impact. The CDT's aim is to develop AI technologies with the potential to drive transformative impact across key global challenges aligned with the missions of Ellison Institute of Technology.

Transformative Technologies in Pharmaceutical Science

The BBSRC GSK TTPS Doctorral Programme is a collaboration between world-leading researchers and supervisors at GSK and from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Southampton, developing novel methods in pharmaceutical sciences.

It provides four years doctoral training leading to a DPhil at Oxford or a PhD at Cambridge (from 2026) or Southampton (from 2027). We will open shortly for applications to commence study in Autumn 2026.