Apply using the Applicant Portal
The Apply Now button on the right will take you to the Applicant Portal. There, you can create and submit your application and supporting documents, and you can also request your references.
An application is only complete when:
- you have submitted your application and supporting documents via the Applicant Portal
- you have paid the application fee if applicable. For further information on application fees, and which courses require an application fee, see here.
- your referees have provided their references.
Offers made for this course are conditional on clearing any security checks the University deems necessary. Security checks are routinely required for all individuals involved in research activities that include working with sensitive information; working with children and vulnerable adults; working with live animals or with tissues supplied from live animals or working in an environment in which such work is pursued by others; working with dangerous pathogens or in a category 3 containment laboratory; or working with some other sensitive technologies.
Where necessary the University will ensure that applicants are not disproportionately impacted by the requirement for any security checks by allowing new students to take up places and start appropriate areas of their work prior to check-in other areas being completed.
Selection Process
Applications are considered on a rolling basis, taking into account funding deadlines and proposed starting term. If you wish to apply for funding, you must apply by the appropriate funding deadline for applications as given on the right-hand side of the page. Approval of centralised funding is not guaranteed so it is important that you and supervisors work together to secure funding.
Applicants should expect to hear whether they have been selected for an interview within four weeks following the funding submission deadline. For those applying after the funding deadline, selection for interview will be made on a rolling basis, each term and you should hear within twelve weeks of submission. Outcomes will be communicated within one week from the date of the interview.
Things You'll Need
You should start preparing the things that you'll need when you apply. These will be mandatory, unless specifically flagged as optional.
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Two referees willing to give you a reference
Either academic or professional – please see our References guidance for more information about which type you need. Your referees will need to have submitted their reference by the course deadline. - Transcript
- CV/resume
- Evidence of competence in English
If required - please see our Competence in English guidance for more information. - Medical Science - Clinician
- Core - Multiple Proposed Supervisors (200 characters) (mandatory)
Only applications supported by an IMS-MRL PI will be considered and you must name the proposed supervisor (principal investigator), who you have contacted. Please see below.
Gates Cambridge Scholarships
If you wish to be considered for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship you will also need to provide the following:
See Gates Cambridge for more information.
How to Find a Supervisor
Before applying formally, you should contact individual PIs at the IMS-MRL, whose work interests you, to enlist their support for your MPhil research application and for them to be your proposed Supervisor. Principal Investigators | Institute of Metabolic Science
Please note: Only applications supported by an IMS-MRL PI will be considered and you must name the proposed supervisor (principal investigator), who you have contacted, on your application form otherwise your application will be rejected.