Warwick Centre for Doctoral Training in Analytical Science

A new generation of Analytical Scientists

• An established integrative and cross-disciplinary research environment for delivering PhD training
• World-leading Analytical Science expertise and infrastructure (both at Warwick and with partner external facilities)
• High quality research where experimental design is linked with statistics and theory-based design and interpretation
• Problem-driven advances across agro and speciality chemicals, materials, pharmaceuticals, health and personal care
• Synergies exploited between different experimental methods, e.g., diffraction, electrochemistry, mass spectrometry, microscopy and NMR
• Rapid technology transfer between academia and industry
• Catalysis of academia-industry and industry-industry collaborations

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Course Structure

Integrated 1+3 year programme MSc + PhD or Direct start PhD with integrated training

• 1 + 3 MSc + PhD format (with PhD project choice during the MSc),

or

• integrated training offered during a 4 year PhD with certificate, with selection of a specific advertised project

These routes both offer:

• Multidisciplinary projects and modules - spanning experiment and quantitation
• Strong industrial links
• Significant emphasis on transferable skills team building, communication of science, decision making, leadership, ethics, research proposals, careers
• A strong research and training community

About the course

Training will be delivered from across physical sciences, engineering and manufacturing, statistics, life and medical sciences in close partnership with industry, with research areas including pharmaceuticals, agro-chemicals and additives, soft matter, biological systems, energy and functional materials. Each MSc or PhD research project will be aimed at the creation of new instrumentation and techniques or improvements to existing methods to solve real-world problems that cannot be tackled now.

MSc year: Rigorous MSc programme comprising of taught modules in frontier analytical techniques including electrochemistry and sensors, magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry, microscopy & imaging, separation science, X-ray and neutron that link to underpinning modules in, e.g., chemistry and statistics, together with individual-based research projects.

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We invite applications from recent graduates with a strong first degree in any related discipline, including Chemistry, Engineering, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Pharmacy, Physics and Statistics.

Studentships for UK citizens are offered with full fees + consumables budget and minimum £15k stipend. You can view all our funding opportunities on our website.

Applications are invited throughout the year.

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