Infection and Immunity represent an incredible challenge to global health and wealth and this programme offers exceptional training in this subject area. Recent advances in genomics and proteomics have emphasized how the pathogen:immune interface shapes the host environment and identified both host and pathogen genes implicated in disease. By studying these interactions, and the autoreactive potential of the immune response, we aim to improve our knowledge and understanding of the pathogenesis of immune and infectious disorders, and develop therapeutic strategies to benefit human health. No single student can be experienced in all these areas, but by providing rigorous training in a well-resourced scientific environment this programme will equip the next generation of scientists with the necessary skills and broad academic insight to bring novel and innovative approaches to the study of immunity and infection.

The aim of the four year PhD Programme in Immunity and Infection is to provide students with the training, cutting-edge skills and broad academic insight and expertise to bring novel and innovative approaches to the study of immune and infectious disorders. The 2019 opening of The Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID) provides a new and unique opportunity for postgraduate student training in immunity and infection - CITIID combines clinical and scientific expertise with state-of-the-art flow cytometry, proteomic, imaging and CL3 facilities.

The Programme is offering three fully funded studentships at the Home fee rate, for projects commencing in October 2026. International students may apply to the Programme, but will need to obtain funding and should therefore also apply to the University’s funding competition, by the relevant deadline. In addition to excellent research facilities, students will have access to a wide variety of training and researcher development activities, many of which are offered through the Postgraduate School of Life Sciences and the wider University.

The aim of ISMM is to equip numerate graduates with the academic skills, personal development and industrial experience to be immediately effective in their early careers in the industry. ISMM is very different from any other academic course: it combines traditional academic teaching material with a series of industrial visits, industrial seminars, skills development and projects in the industry. ISMM is a very intensive programme that gives a direct experience of many different industries, cultures and working environments. In addition to the lectures, the industry-based projects present real challenges in genuine industrial and business environments.

ISMM will broaden students' perspectives and experiences and open doors to a wide range of industrial careers. Many firms recognise the value of the course and target our graduates. Equally, for those who want to work in a smaller company, ISMM gives the confidence to start directly in a manufacturing engineering or management role. Those with entrepreneurial flair go on to set up their own companies.

The programme is structured around taught modules, company visits and in-company projects solving live business or technical problems. An intense industrial study tour offers a broader industry context, and the individual research dissertation allows for greater depth of study in a specific area of manufacturing.

The programme aims to:

• provide Industry with highly motivated and effective potential managers capable of accelerated promotion
• provide course members with the skills and knowledge to be immediately effective in their industrial careers

This MPhil in Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence is designed to equip the next generation of AI researchers, technologists, and leaders with the skills needed to develop human-centred, human-compatible, responsible and socially and globally beneficial AI technologies.

The course offers a foundational module in human-inspired AI and several elective modules that students can select according to their interests and learning needs. Elective modules include skills modules covering technical and computational skills. These are useful for students with preliminary technical training who wish to consolidate skills. For students with a strong computational background, they can offer the opportunity for more advanced technical and interdisciplinary methods training. Elective modules also include specialist modules that offer learning opportunities in areas such as fundamental human-level AI, social and interactive AI, cognitive AI, creative AI, health and global AI, and responsible AI. The course also includes a period of supervised research where students work individually with supervisors to produce a research dissertation.

The MPhil is directed by the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) within the Institute for Technology and Humanity (ITH). CHIA is dedicated to investigating the innovative ways in which human and machine intelligence can be combined to yield AI which is capable of contributing to social and global progress. It offers an excellent interdisciplinary environment where students can explore technical, human, ethical, applied and industrial aspects of AI.

The course aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge to contribute critically, practically and constructively to interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research, scholarship and practice in human-inspired AI. It introduces students from diverse backgrounds to technical and research skills and specialist knowledge of AI applications and issues from a range of academic disciplines and provides them with the opportunity to carry out focused research under close supervision by domain experts at the University.

The programme will equip the next generation of researchers and leaders in AI by:

• providing an overview of current interdisciplinary research and challenges in the development of human-inspired AI.

• providing the critical tools to engage with the forefront of the academic knowledge, methods and applications in this area.

• developing the skills and abilities to identify, address and approach practical interdisciplinary research challenges.

• supporting students to construct a thorough understanding of the technical, ethical, human and human aspects of AI.

• developing the ability and initiative to identify, address and approach relevant challenges across sectors and society.

This PhD in Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence will train the next generation of AI researchers, technologists, and leaders in the development of human-centred, human-compatible, responsible and socially and globally beneficial AI technologies. The course offers research training in areas such as fundamental human-level AI, social and interactive AI, cognitive AI, creative AI, health and global AI, and responsible AI. Students will be educated in an interdisciplinary environment where they can get access to expertise not only in the technical but also human, ethical, applied and industrial aspects of AI.

This programme is distinct from other PhD programmes in that it takes a strongly interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach to technical AI. It will be based at the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) within the Institute for Technology and Humanity (ITH) where PhD students will have access to both a large community of scholars and students tackling similar questions and to the active research events programme that constitutes a key part of CHIA’s work. The course addresses the broader need for experts equipped to develop more responsible and human-centred AI as academia, industry, government and non-profit sectors increasingly recruit AI specialists and is a logical next step for students moving through AI-related master’s programmes and wishing to specialise in human-inspired AI. The interdisciplinary nature of human-inspired AI means that the programme will also involve working closely also with other units of the University, including co-supervision arrangements, access to research seminars, and access to facilities.

The PhD in Human-Inspired AI aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge to contribute critically and constructively to research in human-inspired AI. It introduces students from diverse backgrounds to research skills and specialist knowledge from a range of academic disciplines and provides them with the opportunity to carry out focused research under close supervision by domain experts at the University.

The programme will train the next generation of researchers and leaders in AI by:

• providing them with educational infrastructure and interdisciplinary research environment and world-leading training in human-inspired AI,

• providing them with the critical tools to engage with the forefront of academic knowledge, methods and applications in this area,

• developing the advanced skills and abilities to identify, approach and address practical interdisciplinary research challenges,

• supporting students to develop a broad and deep understanding of the technical, ethical, applied and human aspects of AI,

• developing the ability and initiative to identify, address and approach relevant and complex challenges across sectors and society.

• The course will benefit

• students wanting to engage with human-inspired AI by enabling them to hone critical, methodological and technical skills, develop new approaches and test them out, and specialise,

• students locating themselves in other home disciplines who wish to develop advanced projects including CHIAs approaches and orientations,

• students entering into or returning to careers in academia, tech industry, and other sectors by giving them the advanced skills, critical perspectives, and methodological insights to pursue these pathways.

The MPhil in Human Evolutionary Studies is a demanding interdisciplinary programme of study and research that enables students to obtain in-depth knowledge across human evolutionary studies and specialist research training over a relatively short time frame. The aims of the course are to:

provide students with the opportunity to study substantive issues and debates in human evolutionary studies;

give students the opportunity to learn aspects of current research in human evolutionary studies through lectures, seminars and discussions from an international team of researchers with expertise and strengths in these areas;

enable students to acquire the critical thinking and intellectual skills necessary for undertaking independent research in some aspect of human evolutionary studies;

create an intellectual environment and platform that encourages students to learn from each other, particularly in seminar discussions, and one in which students benefit from the lived and learnt experiences and knowledge from peers from across the world;

prepare students for research at doctoral level and equip them to be future leaders in evolutionary approaches to the understanding of humans today.

· The purpose of this course is to enable access to postgraduate study in history of art and visual culture on a part-time basis;

· The audience for whom it is intended are those who are progressing from undergraduate level study and/ or those intending to go on to doctoral level research or careers in the arts or heritage sectors;

· The course covers both theory and methods in parallel, offering a grounding in the approaches to studying visual culture as well as a practical approach to carrying out one’s own study within it.

The MSt takes place over two years, running typically from October of the first year to June of the second.

The taught elements of the syllabus, Year 1, are offered in three intensive study blocks, each of which is examined by an assessed essay to be submitted at the end of each term .

In Year 2, the focus is on the dissertation. You will work independently on your chosen topic under the supervision of an expert in your chosen field. You will have five supervisions between May 2027 and May 2028 (you can agree with your supervisor whether these will be face-to-face or online). There will also be three day-schools across the academic year, where you give a short presentation on your research to date. There will also be some research training in dissertation research and writing.

Successful completion of the MSt at a high grade may allow students to progress to a PhD either at the University of Cambridge or another institution.

A doctoral degree at the Department of History of Art offers the opportunity for independent research under the supervision of an expert member of staff. The Department of History of Art has expertise in and therefore welcomes candidates in all periods from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Early Modern eras, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as in Modern and Contemporary art. We also encourage research on historiography and methodology. As well as the research and skills training programme offered by the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, candidates have the opportunity to attend suitable courses in associated skills, such as modern languages, palaeography, the use of bibliographic and other databases, and computer skills.

In Year 1, the course is structured around two in-person residential modules that you must attend in Cambridge. Each of these residential blocks is preceded by guided preparatory reading and other activities . A Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) offers learning support while you are on the programme, including learning resources, peer-to-peer and student-to-tutor discussion between modules to build a virtual community of practice.

In Year 2, the focus is on the dissertation. You will work independently on your chosen topic under the supervision of an expert in your chosen field. You will have five supervisions between May 2027 and May 2028 (you can agree with your supervisor whether these will be face-to-face or online). There will also be three day-schools across the academic year, where you give a short presentation on your research to date. There will also be some research training in dissertation research and writing.

The MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine is a full-time 9-month course that provides students with the opportunity to carry out focused research under close supervision by senior members of the University. Students acquire or develop skills and expertise relevant to their research interests, as well as a critical and well-informed understanding of the roles of the sciences in society. Those intending to go on to doctoral work learn the research skills needed to help them prepare a well-planned and focused PhD proposal. During the course, students gain experience in presenting their own work and discussing the issues that arise from it with an audience of their peers and senior members of the department; they attend lectures, supervisions and research seminars in a range of technical and specialist subjects central to research in the different areas of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine.

The MPhil course is assessed by two research essays and a dissertation.

The topics of the essays and dissertation should each fall within the following specified subject areas:

1. Ancient, medieval and early modern sciences
2. Ancient, medieval and early modern medicine
3. Sciences in the age of empire, c. 1750–1900
4. Modern medicine and biomedical sciences
5. Modern sciences
6. Metaphysics, epistemology and the sciences
7. Ethics and politics of medicine and the sciences
8. Philosophy of the physical sciences
9. Philosophy of biology and the life sciences
10. Philosophy of social and cognitive sciences

In addition to the individual supervisions that support work on essays and dissertations, the MPhil lectures are the core teaching resource for this course. They introduce research topics, methods, and approaches adopted by the Department's teaching officers. Each lecture is followed by a small-group seminar that explores the topics in more depth. All MPhil students attend each lecture, but they can choose which subsequent seminars to follow.

Students are encouraged to attend the other lectures, research seminars, workshops, and reading groups that make the Department a hive of intellectual activity. The Department also offers a postgraduate training programme that focuses on key research, presentation, publication, and employment skills.

The educational aims of the programme are:

• to give students with relevant training at first-degree level the opportunity to carry out focused research in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine under close supervision
• to give students the opportunity to acquire or develop skills and expertise relevant to their research interests
• to enable students to acquire a critical and well-informed understanding of the roles of the sciences in society
• to help students intending to go on to doctoral work to acquire the requisite research skills and to prepare a well-planned and focused PhD proposal

The Department of History and Philosophy of Science currently has around 70 PhD students, their thesis topics covering the full range of history and philosophy of the sciences and medicine. PhD students are part of an exceptionally lively interdisciplinary community, with unparalleled opportunities to learn from and exchange ideas with staff, postdoctoral researchers and visitors here and across the University, and to use the outstanding facilities.

Before a student can be admitted, a member of the Department's teaching staff, approved by the Degree Committee, needs to agree to supervise the PhD. The supervisor is responsible for guiding the student's studies throughout their years at Cambridge, including by giving regular and detailed feedback on written work. In addition, each student is assigned an advisor by the end of the first term who then continues as part of the supervisory team throughout the PhD.

Students are encouraged to attend the research seminars, workshops and reading groups that make the department a hive of intellectual activity. The Department also offers a postgraduate training programme that focuses on research skills and career development.