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The course will:

• Provide teaching and learning opportunities of the knowledge and skills that underpin and are at the forefront of the successful implementation of an advanced health-focused data science project;

• Equip learners with current data science tools and techniques to manage and analyse very large diverse datasets across healthcare systems;

• Advance learners’ programming and analytical skills for performing meaningful and reproducible analysis;

• Develop, create and upskill healthcare data experts with the necessary expertise, and originality of application, to pursue and expand their roles in the context of the rapidly evolving environment of electronic health data;

• Promote a comprehensive understanding of the practical and ethical considerations relevant to health data, informatics and innovation.;

• Provide work relevant learning opportunities and practical expertise in the context of a critical awareness of current problems, best-practice, challenges, and potential solutions in the use of health data;

• Provide students with advanced knowledge and skills required for design and execution of the health data science project capturing: the entire process from initial curiosity driven database queries, through to data analysis, statistical inference and visualization in an impactful and reproducible output. All Master's students will receive supervision to develop the required elements for leading a project in a work-relevant and practical manner delivered via their research dissertation.

The programme provides the advanced skills and knowledge required to work and play an effective role in a rigorous health focused data science project.

The course will:

• Provide teaching and learning opportunities of the knowledge and skills that underpin and are at the forefront of the successful implementation of an advanced health-focused data science project;

• Equip learners with current data science tools and techniques to manage and analyse very large diverse datasets across healthcare systems;

• Advance learners’ programming and analytical skills for performing meaningful and reproducible analysis;

• Develop, create and upskill healthcare data experts with the necessary expertise, and originality of application, to pursue and expand their roles in the context of the rapidly evolving environment of electronic health data;

• Promote a comprehensive understanding of the practical and ethical considerations relevant to health data, informatics and innovation.;

• Provide work relevant learning opportunities and practical expertise in the context of a critical awareness of current problems, best-practice, challenges, and potential solutions in the use of health data;

• Provide students with advanced knowledge and skills required for design and execution of the health data science project capturing: the entire process from initial curiosity driven database queries, through to data analysis, statistical inference and visualization in an impactful and reproducible output. All Master's students will receive supervision to develop the required elements for leading a project in a work-relevant and practical manner delivered via their research dissertation.

The programme provides the advanced skills and knowledge required to work and play an effective role in a rigorous health focused data science project.

The Department of Haematology is located on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Research in the department falls into three main areas with major relevance for human disease: The Haematopoiesis and Blood Cancer Group, the Structural Medicine and Thrombosis Group, and the Transfusion Medicine Group.

Those Haematology research groups belonging to the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute moved into a brand new purpose-built facility on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in 2019. The other Haematology groups are based at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, the NHS Cambridge Blood Centre and the Sanger Institute.

The department offers this PhD programme of research to students under the individual supervision of a Principal Investigator based in the Department of Haematology. A full list of Haematology Principal Investigators can be found on the department's website.

During their PhD, students are based in a research group, supported by their Principal Supervisor and associated laboratory staff, as well as the Department Postgraduate Education Committee and Postgraduate Student Committee.

There is no taught / examined coursework, but students are encouraged to attend all seminars and events run within the Department, in the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, and elsewhere on the Biomedical Campus.

PhD students write a thesis, which is examined via an oral examination (viva).

We welcome applications from postgraduates wanting to work towards a PhD in any of the labs belonging to the Department of Haematology. Successful applicants must meet the University's minimum academic admissions criteria. Applicants are required to contact potential supervisors before submitting an application to discuss their application and funding possibilities.

A list of Haematology Principal Investigators can be found on the Department of Haematology website.

The PhD introduces students to research skills and specialist knowledge. Its main educational aims are:

• to give students with relevant experience at a first-degree level the opportunity to carry out focused research in the discipline under close supervision;
• to give students the opportunity to acquire or develop skills and expertise relevant to their research interests.

The programme provides students with a toolkit of concepts, methods, and approaches to understand and mitigate global risk. The programme will:

Provide a rigorous understanding of the emerging transdisciplinary field of Existential Risk Studies

Train students in critically engaging with a wide range of interdisciplinary research on risk drivers, multipliers, and mitigation challenges, including the core skills required to interpret and apply scientific research into unprecedented and extreme future risk.

Provide the opportunity to put these to work in both a focused individual study of specific global challenges and a group futures thinking systematic exercise.

Give students an understanding of the variety of mitigation opportunities and challenges, focusing on the reality of policymaking in relevant areas (which may include but are not limited to AI, biosecurity, climate change, and nuclear policy) and the different impact strategies or theories of change that can influence these.

Familiarize students with, and cultivate an appreciation for, standards of rigorous and responsible research in this area, highlighting both the need for high quality research and the pitfalls of irresponsible practices.

Enable students to recognize opportunities for applying insights from this research to related disciplines (which may include but are not limited to Science and Technology Studies, Disaster Studies, Philosophy, Economics, International Relations, and Computer Science) and to various risk or technology focused careers across sectors such as government, industry, academia, and civil society.

The educational aims of the MPhil in Global History of Art and Architecture are as follows:

• provide an overview of current interdisciplinary research and challenges in the global history of art and architecture;

• provide critical and analytical tools to engage with the forefront of academic knowledge, methods and applications in this area;

• develop the skills and abilities to identify, address and approach practical cross- and interdisciplinary research challenges, particularly with regard to collections-based work.

• Prepare students for further research, e.g. at doctoral level, and equip them with transferable skills relevant to the workplace.

The German Section is one of the very few departments in the UK that can offer postgraduate supervision in literary and cultural topics across the full historical range from the medieval period to the present day. It also has significant coverage of topics in intellectual, social, and political history and the history of the German language.

Many members of the Section also have comparative and interdisciplinary interests, and combinations of German studies with other disciplines are welcomed. The Section has a dynamic research culture, with lecture and seminar series, frequent invited speakers, and a lively postgraduate research seminar.

The Section also has partnerships with the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School (Freie Universität, Berlin) and the German Department of the University of Chicago, with joint events and exchanges. It offers generous funding for postgraduate research travel, conference participation, and the organisation by its postgraduate students of research activities and events.

In British universities, the PhD (Doctorate of Philosophy) is traditionally awarded solely on the basis of a thesis, a substantial piece of writing in English that reports original research into a closely defined area of enquiry. The completion of the PhD thesis is generally expected to take three to four years, and most funding is based on this assumption. It's also possible to take a part-time route through research degrees, and the expected timeframe would be four to seven years.

During the PhD, you will have the opportunity to work closely with a Supervisor who is a specialist in your research area. In addition to your Supervisor, you will normally also be able to draw on the help and support of one further academic advisor and consult other academics working in related fields. You might reasonably expect to see your Supervisor fortnightly or at least three times per term.

In addition to providing specialist supervision, the Faculty runs 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 and specialist linguistics training. 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. In German, we aim to give you the opportunity to teach language (translation into English) and to give a lecture in your area of expertise; and you are likely to gain further experience of small-group teaching in Colleges.

The MPhil in Geography is a 12-month full-time programme of research that introduces students to research skills and specialist knowledge.

The course aims to develop general transferable skills and act as a bridge between first degree and PhD. Through the supervision process and the writing of an MPhil thesis students develop their skills in assessing contrasting theories, explanations and policies; collecting, critically judging, evaluating and interpreting varied forms of evidence; preparing maps and diagrams; employing various methods of collecting and analysing spatial and environmental information; combining and interpreting different types of evidence to tackle specific problems; and recognising the ethical and moral dimensions of study.

Its main aims are:

• to give students with relevant experience at a first-degree level the opportunity to carry out focused research in the discipline under close supervision;
• to give students the opportunity to acquire or develop skills and expertise relevant to their research interests;
• permit close analysis of existing original research data.

The Department of Geography welcomes applications from well-qualified candidates with previous training in geography or a related discipline and, normally, a relevant master's qualification. The PhD is a full-time, three-year research degree (or four-seven years part-time) examined by a thesis.

In the first year, students attend a training programme based around seminars and workshops dealing with the debates in geography, the practice of developing and designing research projects, and the methods and techniques required to undertake the empirical elements of research. Research in geography embraces both natural sciences (physical geography) and the social sciences and humanities (human geography). This PhD can, in principle, be taken in any of the topics covered by the Department of Geography and may, in part, be delivered through cooperation with other departments in social sciences, humanities, and physical sciences depending on each student's individual needs. The University also offers a comprehensive range of training courses for personal and professional career development.

The MRes in Genomic Medicine addresses the perceived skills deficit in data science and computational skills that is common in many postgraduate students. The MRes in Genomic Medicine allows students to complete a research focussed degree incorporating a large element of data science-related teaching. The MRes will first equip research students with the skills necessary to undertake computational genomics projects through a taught programme. Students then utilise these skills to plan and complete a research project.

It is hoped the MRes in Genomic Medicine will contribute to the training of scientists in data science skills to work within the framework established by Genomics England and the NHS Genomic Medicine Service.

By contract the MPhil in Medical Science (Medical Genetics) is entirely by Research and does not include these taught elements.

The overall educational aims of the programme are to:

provide a research environment where students can learn the practical skills required for performing research in Genomic Medicine;

prepare and upskill students with the most up to date computational and bioinformatic knowledge for performing genomic research;

develop students independent research skills and understanding of research methodologies and clinical opportunities relevant to genomic medicine;

develop researchers competence in using genomic and data science technologies for biomedical research;

prepare students for either higher study (PhD/MD) or career roles in a research-intensive environment in genomic medicine-related fields;

develop a cohort of students who are proficient in the wide variety of research skills necessary to plan and deliver Genomic Medicine research projects;

encourage a commitment to intellectual challenge and evidence-based clinical practice informed by the latest conceptual and theoretical knowledge of genomic medicine;

develop students' intellectual, practical and transferable skills related to genomic medicine;

encourage critical thinking related to genomic medicine;

develop good scientific practice and record keeping;

increase employability in the local genomics industry centred around Cambridge, where data science skills are highly valued;

provide professionally relevant teaching and learning informed by research in an integrated clinical and research environment;

conduct systematic literature reviews relevant to their research areas;

equip students for entry into health care professional training schemes including postgraduate entry medicine courses;

provide training for clinician scientists who wish to work on data produced from Genomics England and the NHS Genomic Medicine service as part of the diagnostic and treatment pathway.

The programme of study aims to:

provide professionally-relevant teaching and learning informed by research in an integrated clinical and research environment;

develop and create a cohort of doctors and other professionals allied to medicine able to pursue and develop their roles in the rapidly-changing and challenging environment of genomic medicine;

prepare healthcare professionals for the adoption of genomic technologies and the increasing use of genomic information as part of the diagnostic and treatment pathway;

develop researchers competent in the use of genomic technologies for biomedical research;

develop a cohort of health care professionals with the ability and confidence to lead service improvement for safe and high quality patient care;

develop a cohort of health care professionals allied to medicine with an understanding of research methodologies and clinical opportunities relevant to genomic medicine;

encourage a commitment to intellectual challenge and evidence-based clinical practice informed by the latest conceptual and theoretical knowledge of genomic medicine;

develop students' intellectual, practical and transferable skills related to genomic medicine;

encourage critical thinking related to genomic medicine;

equip students for entry into health care professional training schemes including graduate entry medicine courses;

prepare students for undertaking research degrees (PhD) in genomic medicine-related research fields;

provide students from the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other industries with an understanding of the relevance of advances in genomics for current and future health care.