This collaboratively-funded doctoral training programme aims to bridge the gap between human and veterinary infectious diseases research by building a cohort of students in the area of One Health, One Medicine. Covering a range of human and animal pathogens, it brings together the expertise of our partners across the South of England to provide a broad, cross-institutional training and research experience for students. Each researcher will be supervised by two of our partners and will benefit from cohort-building activities designed to build their networking and presentation skills.

Our Partner Institutions: University of Surrey (Guildford), University of Sussex (Brighton), The Pirbright Institute, (Woking), and The Defence Science Technology Laboratory (DSTL) (Porton Down).

We are pleased to invite applications for PhD scholarships across our the partners of our Doctoral Training Partnership for the projects below.

Our scholarships cover UKRI level stipend (currently £18,622), PhD fees and research costs for 3.5 years and are open to UK applicants only. Dstl partnered studentships are open only to UK nationals who do not have dual nationality. Applicants are expected to have a good honours degree (first or upper second) or a masters degree in an appropriate discipline.