The MPhil provides a foundational education in prominent criminological theories; research methods; and areas of criminological knowledge.

The primary aims of the MPhil programme are:

To offer an up-to-date and high-quality degree course, introducing students to some of the most important theory, methods and research in criminology

To offer a sound academic foundation to those who aspire to undertake a PhD or a career in teaching and research in criminology or related fields

To provide a sound foundation of knowledge and methodological skills to those who wish to work in a wide range of criminal justice agencies, the legal profession, or other professional or voluntary organisations.

Compulsory modules on Criminological Theories, Criminological Research Methods and Introduction to Quantitative Analysis familiarise students with historical and contemporary criminological thinking and research methods.

Each year, a variety of Optional seminar courses covering a wide range of criminological topics are offered. This does vary each year, but in recent years it has included topics such as: Policing; the Sociology of Prison Life; Punishment and Mercy; Socio-critical Perspectives on Criminal Justice; History of Violence; Global Perspectives on Violence; People, Places and the Explanation of Crime; and Organised Forms of Crime.

The MPhil in Criminology also includes practical training in advanced criminological research methods, provided in-house and through Cambridge Research Methods (CaRM). In addition to the criminological research methods course, all students will have to take at least two CaRM modules. These can be chosen by the students from all courses offered by the Cambridge Research Methods (CaRM) and by the Institute.

The PhD in Criminology is an advanced research degree awarded on the basis of a thesis and an oral examination (viva voce). The PhD's primary purpose is to prepare and present a substantial piece of independent and original academic research. Completion usually requires three to four years of full-time study and four to seven years of studying part-time, which includes a probationary period.

• Full-time students are required to be in residence in Cambridge during their studies.

• Part-time students have no residence requirements but are required to attend the University on a regular basis as prescribed by their Degree Committee. Generally, we expect part-time research students to be physically in Cambridge for around 45 days per year, spread throughout the year.

The Institute of Criminology has a worldwide reputation for excellence in both teaching and research. PhD candidates benefit from close links with the Institute's six dedicated research centres, providing them with unrivalled opportunities and the support to develop as independent researchers while being part of an integrated community of criminologists working at different levels and through multidisciplinary approaches.

Every PhD student in the Institute of Criminology is supported by a Supervisor. Supervisors are experts in their field of study and support students throughout the PhD. PhD candidates will also benefit from the advice and support of other academic members of staff who will be involved in the progression through the various stages of the PhD, from the registration assessment exercise at the end of the first year to the completion of the thesis. All students are allocated a thesis adviser once they start their PhD; this is a decision that is made jointly by the Supervisor and each student.

In addition to specialist supervision, the Institute provides a comprehensive training, support, and development programme for its PhD students. Frequent seminars are designed to develop research skills, technique, and thinking. The School of Arts and Humanities organises a Researcher Development Programme covering a range of topics, from PhD skills training to language training and writing and editing skills.

The Institute welcomes applications from suitably qualified applicants of all nationalities. Proposals for doctoral research on any criminological topic will be considered. Applicants should contact potential supervisors before submitting a formal application and are advised to consult Supervisor profiles for details on their research interests. Prospective students are advised to reflect carefully on which staff member best matches their academic interests.

The overall aims of the MSt in Creative Writing are to:

• 1. Enable students to develop high levels of expertise in creative writing;
• 2. Facilitate student's exploration and development of their creative practice;
• 3. Provide opportunities for the application of students' imaginative abilities, and the refinement of students' ability to bring creative ideas to fruition in an original and impactful manner;
• 4. Assist students in developing and demonstrating comprehensive understanding of skills and techniques deployed in creative writing;
• 5. Teach students to articulate a comprehensive account of the literary and social contexts in which their work is produced;
• 6. Develop students' abilities to give incisive, well-informed feedback to other writers;
• 7. Refine students' abilities to receive and make use of constructive feedback;
• 8. Identify and consolidate existing strengths in students' own writing;
• 9. Offer students an insight into publishing and literary promotion and an opportunity to practice skills and demonstrate abilities of relevance to careers in these areas;
• 10. Ensure that students finish the MSt with a portfolio of creative work demonstrative of advanced ability in the field, and an awareness of how they may further their writing careers.

The Cambridge MCL is a nine-month taught master's programme commencing at the beginning of October each year and ending in June the following year. It is designed for students wanting to pursue further legal studies after completing their first degree in law, catering in so doing both to those intending to practise in the area of corporate law and to those considering an academic career. The MCL has been structured so as to combine academic rigour with a diverse and flexible curriculum, enabling each student to tailor their MCL course selection to their own specific requirements.

MCL students take a combination of full-year courses and one-term modules during the academic year. All students take the compulsory full-year MCL-specific Deals course, which focuses on the legal and economic structuring of corporate transactions. They also choose one full-year LLM paper from a selection of corporate papers on offer to MCL students (possible examples include Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance and International Financial Law). In conjunction with the full-year papers, students take four one-term MCL-specific modules, usually two in the Michaelmas Term and two in the Lent Term. The modules enable students to conduct a more detailed study of certain specialist areas of corporate law, such as shareholder activism, international merger control and the law firm as business, than a general master's degree can offer.

Competence standards are set for the MCL to identify the competences and abilities that students are required to demonstrate in order to successfully complete a programme of study. The competence standards relating to MCL courses are available on the Faculty of Law website. Please note there are distinct competence standards for MCL modules and for Deals because of the different methods of assessment. With respect to the LLM course MCL students take, the competence standards relating to LLM courses are available on the Faculty of Law website.

The aim of the course is to equip leaders as agents of change to transform the construction industry.

The course is a two-year part-time degree designed for professionals in the construction and infrastructure development sector. Candidates should have exhibited clear progression within their career and have already attained a leadership role or have been identified as potential leaders in their organisations. The course will enhance technical knowledge and managerial skills with the expectation that those completing the course return to their respective companies ready to redefine the way in which infrastructure serves society. The part-time format of the course permits students to continue with their professional careers while studying.

Course Themes

The course focuses on the following themes:

• the built environment;
• design for value;
• research, innovation and digital transformation;
• advances in construction technology and materials;
• advances in construction management;
• finance, planning and procurement;
• the future of construction (including thought leadership and policy development)

Sustainability, digitalisation, zero net carbon emissions, leadership, innovation, whole-life performance and systematic thinking are topics interwoven throughout the course. The course is continually evolving in order to stay current and meet the needs of participants.

Students are first given an understanding of the current context and challenges faced by the construction industry. They then critically evaluate the latest research in design, management, and construction techniques and processes. The programme encompasses a broad view of the construction industry from the high-level financing requirements of mega-projects through to innovations in analysis, design and materials technology. Throughout the course, students are given leadership, presentation and communication training that will give them the skills and confidence to develop and deliver their own vision of the future of the construction industry.

The Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership is a ground-breaking course that equips students with the applied leadership and management skills needed to create positive change in conservation. A unique feature of the course is its delivery by a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and ten leading conservation organisations, which together comprise the Cambridge Conservation Initiative. The Masters in Conservation Leadership is designed for applicants with at least three years of relevant professional experience and clear leadership potential.

The curriculum of this 11-month, full-time degree combines taught modules with hands-on experiential learning through a group consultancy and an individual professional placement hosted by a conservation organisation. The course aims to train students to address the challenges of biodiversity conservation in an integrated and interdisciplinary manner. The goal is not only to develop conservationists with greater awareness of the complex drivers of biodiversity loss, but to develop the ability to act and lead effectively. This includes the development of applied conservation leadership skills across three levels; Leading Self (e.g. personal resilience, self-awareness, career planning), Leading People and Organisations (e.g. strategic planning, human resources, fundraising, project management) and Leading Systems (i.e. how to bring about change in the wider world through incentives, communication, governance and other tools). The course develops the leadership skills of its students by promoting their capacity to understand the links among the drivers of biodiversity loss, and to think innovatively about conservation solutions across organisational and political boundaries and economic sectors. All students also receive 1:1 professional mentoring from a senior conservation leader selected on the basis of their fit to the needs of each student.

The programme aims to:

• develop the ability of its students to think creatively about conservation problems and solutions across disciplinary, organisational and political boundaries and economic sectors;

• foster and to develop the leadership potential of its students by promoting their capacity to understand the links among the drivers of biodiversity loss and, by developing their confidence and maturity of judgement, to lead the implementation of conservation more effectively than hitherto.

In particular, the programme will:

• Address the challenges of conservation in an integrated and interdisciplinary manner, focused on an understanding of the root causes of ecosystem change and biodiversity loss.

• Equip conservation leaders with the strategic skills that they need for effective action by their organisations.

• Offer professional management and leadership skills including strategic planning, finance and HR management/planning, innovation, and the management of change.

• Develop communication skills such as advocacy, lobbying and presentation, as an integral part of the learning programme.

• Provide participants with first-hand exposure to conservation leadership challenges in the real world by working in group consultancy and individual professional placements alongside conservation professionals.

• Provide participants with experiential learning through interaction with leaders in conservation organisations, businesses and governments across a wide range of sectors from around the world.

• The course is based in the David Attenborough Building, where it has its own dedicated teaching space, offering students outstanding facilities and constant access to world-leading conservation practitioners and researchers.

• Graduates join the highly active University of Cambridge Conservation Leadership Alumni Network, comprising alumni from 92 countries. Alumni receive ongoing support from the course team, and a fund is available to support alumni projects. Alumni are already making a global impact for conservation.

The PhD is the primary research degree that can be taken in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. The PhD is a three to four-year full-time (five to seven-year part-time) programme of individual research on a topic agreed upon by the student and the department, under the guidance of a staff member as the student's Supervisor.

All research students are admitted to read for the PhD degree on a probationary basis and will be registered for the Certificate of Postgraduate Study (CPGS) in the first instance. During this year, students may do some additional coursework and will write a research report that is likely to form the foundation of the eventual PhD thesis. The CPGS will involve four components:

• research skills training
• practical work
• research report of no more than 10,000 words
• attendance at research workshops and research seminars

At the end of the third term and on completion of the CPGS, students whose performance indicates that they would be able to complete a PhD in a reasonable time will be upgraded to PhD status. A student who is not upgraded to PhD status and who has completed three terms of study will normally be awarded the CPGS alone. They will not submit a thesis for the PhD degree.

All research students are strongly encouraged to contribute to teaching in the department, for which some training will be provided. Research students will submit a log of teaching activities annually at the end of June.

Students are expected to complete the substance of their research by the end of their third year, submitting their thesis then or within a few months.

Applicants wishing to apply to undertake a PhD on a part-time basis should refer to the department's admissions advice for potential part-time students.

Linguistics at Cambridge is unique in the United Kingdom in that the study and research in theoretical and applied linguistics are integrated within a single academic unit. We provide great variety and flexibility in course contents, as well as subject-specific training and diversity of intellectual interactions.

The PhD in Computation, Cognition and Language is a doctoral track for students who conduct basic and applied research in the computational study of language, communication, and cognition in humans and machines. This research is interdisciplinary in nature and draws on methodologies and insights from a range of disciplines that are now critical for the further development of language sciences, including (but not limited to) Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Psychology and Neuroscience. Irrespective of the discipline from which the applicant is progressing into the PhD in CCL, substantial background in linguistic theory is required. A variety of PhD topics that fall within this remit are accepted. Our current primary areas of research are:

• natural language processing
• computational and corpus linguistics
• computational models of human language acquisition and processing
• information extraction, mining, and presentation
• multilingual technology
• educational and assistive technology
• text data technology for health
• computational digital humanities
• computational approaches to the analysis of speech
• digital forensic speech analysis

In British universities, the PhD is traditionally awarded solely on the basis of a thesis, a substantial piece of writing which 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 is also possible to pursue a part-time route, and the expected timeframe is usually four to seven years.

While the PhD is not a taught course, students will benefit from the availability of courses and seminars offered both within the MMLL Faculty and by other departments concerned with language science in Cambridge (e.g., Computer Science and Technology, Education, Engineering, Psychology, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit). All research students also benefit from a programme of professional training run at various levels within the University and enabling cross-disciplinary interactions. The programme includes seminars and workshops on, for example, giving conference papers, publishing, writing applications and interviews, developing teaching skills, and acquiring specialist linguistic training. If you wish, you are likely to be given the opportunity to lead small group teaching for Colleges. There may also be opportunities to gain some experience in teaching at the Faculty level.

The development of new materials lies at the heart of many of the technological challenges we currently face, for example creating advanced materials for energy generation. Computational modelling plays an increasingly important role in the understanding, development and optimisation of new materials.

This four-year doctoral training programme on computational methods for material modelling aims to train scientists not only in the use of existing modelling methods but also in the underlying computational and mathematical techniques. This will allow students to develop and enhance existing methods, for instance by introducing new capabilities and functionalities, and also to create innovative new software tools for materials modelling in industrial and academic research.

The first year of the doctoral training programme is provided by the existing MPhil course in Scientific Computing, which has research and taught elements, as well as additional training elements. The final three years consist of a PhD research project, with a student-led choice of projects offered by researchers closely associated with the CDT. (https://ljc.group.cam.ac.uk)

This four-year Doctoral Training Programme on computational methods for material modelling aims to train scientists not only in the use of existing modelling methods but also in the underlying computational and mathematical techniques. This will allow students to develop and enhance existing methods, for instance by introducing new capabilities and functionalities, and also to create innovative new software tools for materials modelling in industrial and academic research.

The first year of the doctoral training programme is provided by the existing MPhil course in Scientific Computing, which has research and taught elements, as well as additional training elements.

The MPhil in Scientific Computing is administered by the Department of Physics, but it serves the training needs of the Schools of Physical Sciences and Technology. The ability to have a single master’s course for such a broad range of disciplines and applications is achieved by offering a range of lecture courses on high performance computing and advanced scientific models and algorithms for numerical simulation at continuum and atomic-scale levels.

In this way, it is possible to generate a bespoke training portfolio for each student without losing the benefits of a cohort training approach. This course will offer a degree of flexibility in allowing each student to liaise with their academic or industrial supervisor to choose a study area of mutual interest.

The final three years consist of a PhD research project, with a student-led choice of projects from those offered by researchers closely associated with the CDT. Visit the Centre for Scientific Computing website for more details; https://www.csc.cam.ac.uk/academic-programmes/cdt-cmms/

The MPhil in Computational Biology course is aimed at introducing students in the biological, mathematical and physical sciences to quantitative aspects of modern biology and medicine, including bioinformatics. The course was developed by the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute (now C2D3 Computational Biology) and is run by the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

The course is intended for mathematicians, computer scientists and others wishing to learn about the subject in preparation for a PhD course or a career in industry. It is also suitable for students with a first degree in biosciences as long as they have strong quantitative skills (which should be documented in the application).

Core modules include bioinformatics, scientific programming with R and genomics. All students joining this course are required to attend an introductory course in molecular biology (usually scheduled at the start of the academic year, just before formal lectures commence). Courses are delivered in association with several departments from across the University and neighbouring institutes. The course concludes with a three-month research project in a university or industrial laboratory.