The MPhil in Development Studies seeks to provide students with a critical and reflexive programme that encourages them to examine closely the role of the main development actors, institutions, and policies and ask who actually benefits from development interventions designed and implemented within global and national power structures. The emphasis on critical reflection in this MPhil privileges analytical approaches to development as opposed to more practice-based or vocational strategies.

The MPhil will offer students:

• knowledge of the individual disciplines relevant to development studies and a conceptual understanding of the need for interdisciplinary research
• knowledge of a range of theories and methodologies from different fields in development with a particular focus on applying theory to empirical data
• engagement with a wide range of academic and policy debates in the field of international development and the ability to think about development beyond prescribed technical solutions

This PhD course is part of the EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training (CDT) in Developing National Capability for Materials 4.0 led by the University of Manchester.

The goal of this PhD program is to develop leaders in the field of Materials 4.0 and ambassadors for a broader cultural shift in the practice of materials science. Working across boundaries between fields, the students will develop and advocate for new capabilities (methods and techniques) to drive forward the digitalisation of materials research and innovation.

A critical aspect of the CDT will be its ability to deliver change at scale, through both the activities of students themselves and first hand through extending training packages to other CDTs and to existing researchers in academia and in industry at all career stages.

The CDT will draw upon the skills and facilities of academic partners in the Royce Institute from across the UK and be created in partnership with the National Physical Laboratory (building on their success with remote training) and in collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute (ATI).

Specifically, our objectives are to:

1. Develop our students as leaders in the emerging field of Materials 4.0 and enable them to become advocates for new methods in industry and academia.

2. Create a national centre for doctoral training in Materials 4.0 to basic and proficient level, bringing together experts and facilities from across the UK.

3. Train our students as trainers so that they can cement their own learning by delivering training to other students and to existing researchers.

4. Provide mechanisms and support for a distributed cohort to engage deeply with industry and each other, to form lasting relationships for their future careers.

5. Enable our students to rapidly develop mentoring, coaching and leadership skills by incorporating inter-cohort learning and interaction as a core feature of our CDT and by involving the students in key aspects of the running of the centre.

6. Drive the application of new methods, developed by our PhDs, in industry and academia. Use the existing networks of Royce, NPL and Alan Turing to disseminate the collective learning from our CDT cohorts more widely across the UK academic and industrial community.

The programme aims to develop:

• an individual's ability to adopt an informed and critically reflective stance to their own and to others practice as dental educators, whether working in academic or practice settings;
• an individual's own teaching practice (including approaches to the design, implementation and evaluation of teaching);
• a strong rationale for approaches they adopt, drawing on contemporary learning literatures, within and beyond dental education.

The course has been designed to reflect professional standards for dental educators, in particular COPDEND (2013) standards for dental educators and the Academy of Medical Educator (2021) Standards for Medical, Dental and Veterinary Educators.

The programme's aim is to:
- develop individuals’ ability to adopt an informed and critically reflective stance to their own and others practice as dental educators and leaders;
- invite consideration of strategies to create and sustain safe working and learning environments, including supporting and developing faculty to deliver high quality dental education and training;
- establish the features of high quality formative and summative assessment practices and how these are used to assess performance and support the development of learners, foundation programme participants and trainees (including differentiation of performance and supporting trainees who are failing to progress);
- support a focus on curriculum and course design at two levels i.e. firstly, to enable an informed critique of adopted curriculum, their limits and potentials and secondly to familiarise participants with core curriculum design skills.

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

The UKRI AI CDT in Decision Making for Complex Systems is a programme offered in conjunction with the University of Manchester that aims to enable students to develop new fundamental AI capabilities in the context of a diversity of complex systems. Rather than working in isolation, as is usual in AI, the students will learn to develop these in a collaborative manner tied to a specific application domain. The CDT is focused on three areas, Uncertainty in complex systems, Decision-making with humans in the loop and Decision-making for ML systems. Model interpretability and explainability will be transversal to the three topics. Decision making with AI needs to be interpretable and explainable to facilitate interrogation of decision processes such that trust can be built by the human, and it is essential for understanding and meeting ethical and legal implications.

This CDT programme requires students to complete one year of training at the University of Manchester leading to award of a Postgraduate Diploma in Artificial Intelligence, followed by research for a PhD degree at either the University of Manchester or Cambridge. Applications for admission to the CDT programme are made to the University of Manchester in the first instance. Successful applicants who chose a research project at the University of Cambridge will be invited to apply for admission to this PhD. Further information about the course and how to submit an application can be found here https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/admissions/phd.

Important: Applications to this PhD programme will only be considered from students who are registered on the UKRI AI CDT in Decision Making for Complex Systems at the University of Manchester.

The course responds to the growing:

• demand for highly trained research scientists to design and implement data analysis pipelines for the increasingly large and complex data sets produced by the next generation of scientific experiments;
• societal demand for data science and data analysis skills in the industry, especially when applied in strategic domains (science, health) and economic areas (finance, e-commerce);
• need to train postgraduate students with a deep understanding of data science techniques and algorithm building for modern computer architectures and utilising industry best practices for software development;
• importance of open science in research, specifically reproducibility of scientific results and the creation of public data analytic codes.

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.