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The Kennedy Institute is a world-leading research institute that carries out basic and translational research into chronic inflammatory and degenerative diseases. Each year the Institute awards up to six Kennedy Trust Prize DPhil Studentships to outstanding candidates of any nationality. The DPhil programme aims to provide world-class scientific training in a supportive and collaborative environment. Students get to select from a range of exciting research projects in the areas of immunity and microbiome, inflammation, and tissue remodelling and regeneration. Many of these projects span two or more research groups, and provide an opportunity for multidisciplinary and innovative research applying state of the art technologies to novel biological problems. The programme provides 4 years of funding that includes a highly competitive stipend (over £22,000 per annum) as well as tuition and college fees, and allowance for laboratory expenses and conference travel.

ABOUT OUR 4 YEAR DPHIL DOCTORAL TRAINING PROGRAMME

  • Funding for 4 years, with awards covering stipend (over £22,000 per annum), as well as tuition and college fees, and including allowance for laboratory expenses and conference travel.
  • Outstanding supervision from academics with world-class reputations, and an excellent management and mentoring programme, together with multi-disciplinary research and strategic links with industry.
  • Exceptional research facilities in a new state-of-the-art medical research institute, with close links to the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Wellcome Trust funded Structural Genomics Consortium.
  • First-rate track-record for thesis submission (100% of students complete and submit their theses within 4 years), with additional measures of training success including publications and successful grant applications.
  • Career support and training in core and transferable skills, to ensure eventual establishment of graduates as independent investigators in national and international research laboratories (over 85% of students who graduated in the last 4 years have progressed to post-doctoral research, clinical posts or healthcare-related work).
  • Students undertake a core curriculum of 20 lectures in the first term of year 1 to provide a solid foundation in musculoskeletal sciences, inflammation, immunology and data analysis.