i) To provide students with training in the practical skills needed to become a painting conservator through practical work guided by specialist supervision and by participating in/performing of research on art works treated in the Hamilton Kerr Institute’s commercial studio;

ii) To educate students of proven aptitude to become painting conservators of the highest standard and to provide them with the means to contribute to research in the field of easel paintings conservation, technical art history, heritage science and preventive conservation;

iii) To provide a stimulating environment in which students can reach their full practical and intellectual potential;

iv) To provide students with academic research and writing skills;

v) To enable students to develop a wide range of intellectual abilities and skills which will enable them to make a significant contribution to research and communication/dissemination of their professional work.

Please contact Carmen Neagoe for information regarding this programme.

Note: Applications directly to the PhD are only accepted from students who are completing (or have completed) a CJBS research MPhil, or from students completing the MPhil Economics Research at Cambridge (please see departmental website for the specific MPhil needed for each PhD pathway).

The educational aim is to teach students to undertake research and produce papers for publication in top-tier journals in one of the management disciplines:

• Finance
• Marketing
• Operations & Technology Management
• Business Economics
• Organisational Behaviour
• Organisational Theory & Information Systems
• Strategic Management
• Accounting

The first year of the PhD course is probationary. Students are assessed on the basis of a first-year report or comprehensive examination, and a series of coursework modules.

The MRes in Management Studies is offered by Cambridge Judge Business School as a full-time period of study and research, during which students with experience at master's level will receive training in research methods and the foundations of their chosen discipline. The goal of the MRes programme is to lay the foundations that will enable students to contribute to the academic debate in their discipline through publications in leading journals, which they will develop during their PhD.

The intensive advanced study introduces students of this interdisciplinary programme to core concepts, techniques and debates in management. You take a total of 11 core courses and electives. The programme is aimed at students who have just finished their degree (in any discipline except business or management-related majors), who have achieved the equivalent of a first-class, and who have less than one year of professional experience at the start of the programme.

Educational aims:

• to give students with a strong performance in other disciplines at the first-degree level an understanding of the academic discipline of management; and
• to give students the opportunity to acquire and develop skills and expertise relevant to high-level management practice.

This is achieved by:

• providing students with the guidance necessary to acquire a deep understanding of the theory and practice of management;
• analysing, in lectures, discussions and written work, the key techniques, conceptual issues and debates in the academic management literatures and in the practice of management;
• supporting students in the development of an understanding and a critical perspective of management;
• providing teaching in a range of technical/specialist subjects central to the study of the different branches of management; and
• examining students formally on their knowledge of the theory and practice of management.

This is an 11-month MPhil programme, taught from within our Information Engineering Division, with a unique, joint emphasis on both machine learning and machine intelligence. The course is split into five specialised pathways, which define the area in which the dissertation will fall, and which each have different compulsory and permissible module combinations. The five pathways are: (i) Machine Learning; (ii) Speech and Language Processing; (iii) Computer Vision and Robotics; (iv) Human-Computer Interaction; (v) Biological Learning. The course aims to teach the state of the art in machine learning and machine intelligence; to give students the skills and expertise necessary to take leading roles in industry; and to equip students with the research skills necessary for doctoral study.

This MPhil provides students with the critical and theoretical tools to enable them to undertake an in-depth study of specific aspects of European literatures and cultures and/or Latin American and Francophone contexts. The course introduces students to a broad range of critical theory concepts, allows for in-depth study of specific cultures and contexts, and includes writing a dissertation based on original research.

The MPhil is offered by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics (MMLL) as a full-time programme and introduces students to research skills and specialist knowledge of specific cultural areas.

The course aims:

• to offer students with relevant experience at degree level a self-contained 9-month course in which they have the opportunity for in-depth study of specific aspects of European and comparative literatures and cultures (and in some cases film, history, and the visual arts) and critical theory
• to provide foundations for continuation to PhD research

These aims are achieved by:

• offering an overview of central aspects of modern literary/cultural theory and critical approaches to develop a general understanding of the field
• offering an opportunity for in-depth study of two areas in critical theory and approaches and for the development of skills to write on theory and to use theory or palaeographical and bibliographical techniques as a tool in the study of literary or other cultural texts
• offering an opportunity for expanding knowledge of the literature and culture of specific periods and language areas beyond the undergraduate level
• offering an opportunity for in-depth and sustained work on the individual essay and dissertation topics
• offering the opportunity either to specialise in one European language area or to continue work in several languages (in the latter case, offering guidance in developing comparative research projects)
• offering an opportunity to give seminar papers to a specialist audience in order to develop skills in presenting work and discussing the issues that arise from it with other MPhil students and senior members of the Faculty
• offering an opportunity to learn to work to tight deadlines (time management)
• offering practice in writing shorter essays with a strict deadline (4,500 words)
• offering experience in independent research and training in developing a realistic research project and writing it up as a dissertation (15,000 words) within a limited period of time
• offering an opportunity to develop bibliographical, editorial and other research skills
• offering an opportunity to work under the supervision of specialists in relevant areas
• offering the opportunity to participate in the research culture of the Faculty and to attend postgraduate seminars and reading groups

In addition to these subject-specific skills, the following general transferable skills are also acquired:

• the relatively intense timetable of the MPhil demands that students develop exemplary time-management skills
• they work in collaboration with their supervisors to devise appropriate plans of study and have to ensure that they meet all deadlines, both formal and informal.
• Students are expected to make regular presentations in seminar settings to develop their oral presentation skills.

Written work is assessed on the basis of a demonstration of scholarly research and critical analysis. That is, students are expected to present a lucid, coherent and carefully substantiated exposition of a critical viewpoint. Writing must be in clear, grammatically correct, continuous prose, and must function as a single, comprehensible, persuasive, cumulative demonstration, not as a series of disconnected insights. The organisation of the argument of the essay or dissertation and its prose style are of crucial importance.

This MPhil provides students with the critical and theoretical tools to enable them to undertake an in-depth study of specific aspects of European literatures and cultures and/or Latin American and Francophone contexts. The core course introduces students to a broad range of critical theory concepts and methods of textual analysis (and, if relevant, palaeography). The course allows for in-depth study of specific cultures and contexts and includes writing a thesis based on original research.

This MPhil by Thesis is for students who already have a substantial level of familiarity with the study of literary texts or other material in the relevant culture, who already know the area they wish to research for their thesis, and who wish to focus their studies in that area for the entire year. To be eligible for consideration, a student will need an appropriate level of linguistic and/or cultural expertise, a clear idea of the field in which the thesis will be written, and a documented record of undertaking long independent research and writing projects.

The full-time course runs from October to June, with a submission date of early June.

It is also possible to take a part-time route, in which the expected timeframe is 21 months, with a thesis submission date of early June in the second academic year of the degree.

The main aims of the course are:

• to develop and test the ability to carry out a substantial advanced project of independent research in an area of literary, cultural or film and screen studies falling under the MPhil, presented in the form of a 30,000-word thesis
• to develop and test the ability to make a significant contribution to learning via dedicated Masters-level research that reflects the course length

The PhD in Literature, Culture and Thought supports interdisciplinary projects that by virtue of their design clearly transcend or stand outside any one Section in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. Existing alongside PhD pathways in French, German, Italian, Modern Greek, Slavonic Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese, this doctoral degree offers an opportunity for students to pursue research projects that at their core traverse conventional disciplinary or linguistic boundaries, but to do so inside the rigorous and supportive environment of MMLL. Our academic community consists of scholars who produce highly specialised research in a variety of literary, intellectual, and cultural traditions, but who also drive such broader fields as critical theory, translation studies, philosophy, visual studies, intellectual history, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature. Students drawn to this PhD will have projects centred in such fields with relevant proposed supervisors, allowing for research in cultural texts and trends across a wide range of language areas beyond English, at least one of which they will be required to study in the original language.

The course aims to train students to be excellent researchers, writers, and scholars. The degree will prepare them to engage primary texts and secondary scholarship with critical dexterity, to synthesise research, and to expand the research horizons of their defined specialist area. The PhD also offers the opportunity for students to hone--to an advanced professional level--their presentation and public speaking skills. Students with an interest in pursuing careers in higher education will also be offered teaching opportunities and relevant pedagogical training. Students will graduate with the ability to produce publishable research of an excellent standard.

The Linguistics Department is unique in the UK because it integrates theoretical and applied linguistics in a single academic unit. The Linguistics Department provides great variety and flexibility in course contents, subject-specific training, and diversity of intellectual interactions. PhD topics in the range of research specialisms represented in the Department and beyond the Department in the MMLL Faculty are accepted. Students may choose to focus on a theoretically oriented study of the language sciences (e.g., interest in the syntactic organisation or sound structure of different languages or in the analysis of meaning in semantics and pragmatics) but may also be interested in a more applied direction of Linguistics (e.g. language acquisition, language processing, data mining of language corpora) or may choose to look at Linguistics from a specific language point of view (e.g., Italian linguistics).

In British universities, the PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) is traditionally awarded solely on the basis of a thesis, a substantial piece of writing that reports original research into a closely defined area of enquiry. Within linguistics, some PhD students may do most of their work in libraries, spend part of their time collecting and analysing fieldwork data, or carry out experiments in the phonetics laboratory or psycholinguistics laboratory. The completion of the PhD thesis is generally expected to take three to four years. It is also possible to take a part-time route, and the expected timeframe would be four to seven years.

In addition to providing specialist supervision, the Linguistics Department and the MMLL Faculty run a programme of professional training for the benefit of all research students. The programme includes seminars and workshops on library resources, giving conference papers, publishing, applications and interviews, teaching skills, specialist linguistics training, and film-making. The School of Arts and Humanities runs a central programme covering a range of topics from PhD skills training, to language training and writing and editing skills. If you wish, you are likely to be given the opportunity to gain experience in small-group teaching from Colleges. There may also be opportunities to gain some experience in language teaching in the Faculty.

In addition to providing special supervision, both the Linguistics Department and the MMLL Faculty run a programme of professional training for the benefit of all research students. The programme includes seminars and workshops on library resources, giving conference papers, publishing, applications and interviews, teaching skills, specialist linguistic training, and film-making. The University runs a central programme covering a range of topics from PhD research development to language training and writing and editing skills. Students also have access to a Social Sciences research methods training programme. If you wish, you are likely to be given the opportunity of gaining experience in small group teaching for colleges. There may also be opportunities to gain some experience in language teaching in the MMLL Faculty.