All parts of the course, the Postgraduate Certificate, the Postgraduate Diploma, and the Master of Studies are delivered with the following overarching educational aims to:

The MB/PhD Programme leads to the MB, BChir and PhD degrees and is designed for medical students who are interested in academic or research careers by enabling them to integrate a three-year period of research with their clinical education.

The clinical component of the curriculum is designed to equip students for a lifetime of medical practice in a changing world with an emphasis on the acquisition of clinical skills by direct patient contact. At the start of the programme, students follow the Standard Course Year 4 curriculum up to and including the Year 4 Student Selected Component (SSC). (More information on the new clinical teaching programme can be found on the Standard Course website.) In general this SSC will be conducted in the prospective PhD host laboratory. After Part 1 of the Final MB examinations, and subject to satisfactory progress, a three-year period of full-time research follows, combined with regular clinical education, including weekly clinical supervisions and monthly clinical seminars. It concludes with students re-joining the clinical course to complete their studies.

During the research component, students are based mainly in the laboratory or department of their choice at the Addenbrooke’s complex or at one of the University sites in central Cambridge, or at a University-affiliated research institute.

Detailed Educational Aims are also outlined on the Course website

**Please note that this process is only for students who have already applied and been accepted on to the MB/PhD Programme and are in year 4 of the Clinical Course. If you have not already been recommended for the MB/PhD programme, please go to https://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/clinical-school-mbphd-course-information for more information on the application process**

This is a research-based course. Students receive training in scientific laboratory skills and methods appropriate to the PhD project.

Students undertake a specific research project of a three to four year duration (or part-time equivalent) and submit a thesis which is examined for the PhD. In principle, the research project can be in any area of interest to Principal Investigators based in the IMS-MRL. View the Principal Investigators page on the IMS-MRL website for details. Between them, groups encompass skills in genetics, cell biology, cell signalling, neuroendocrinology, bioenergetics, human and animal physiology, as well as experimental medicine and clinical trials.

Postgraduate students at the IMS-MRL are expected to attend IMS lectures, regular seminars by local, national and international speakers, and are encouraged to attend appropriate training courses provided by the University Postgraduate School of Life Sciences to widen their experience further.

Our students receive expert training in state-of-the-art technologies through our core research facilities. They also have diverse opportunities to communicate their research findings and develop collaborative networks at, for example, the IMS-MRL research retreat and the Cambridge Metabolic Network.

Students also arrange a student symposium each year, which gives valuable experience in all aspects of organising a scientific meeting, including managing budgets, arranging catering, scheduling the day and marketing the event.

Students wishing to apply for a PhD in Clinical Biochemistry at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) should investigate opportunities via the Study at CIMR page on the CIMR website.

At the core of the Master is the concept of sustainability transformations, which is addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective. Participants will learn how to analyse sustainable transformations using tools from complementary areas of knowledge, mainly:

1. economics and public policy;
2. law and governance;
3. urban planning; and
4. complex systems.

These components lay the foundations for the analytical lenses offered by the course, and they are offered from an international (e.g. the changing geopolitics of energy or climate change negotiations), transnational (e.g. energy markets, carbon trading, contractual practices and innovation strategies) and domestic perspective (e.g. regulatory frameworks, the macroeconomic implications of certain energy options for a given State, and urban planning).

· This is a one-year postgraduate course in Classics (Advanced Diploma) focused on the intensive learning of ancient Greek and Latin.

· Students will acquire a sound understanding of these ancient languages: their syntax, vocabulary, and the styles of some major authors.

· The course will allow students to broaden their general knowledge of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds through teaching informed by current developments in scholarship and research.

· The course will introduce students to tools and resources for further study and research and equip them to use them effectively.

· The course will provide opportunities for successful students to apply for research degrees, including our own MPhil and PhD degrees for which there is a requirement to be able to work confidently with evidence in the original ancient languages.

· The course bridges a gap between undergraduate degrees in cognate disciplines (History, Philosophy, English, Classical Civilisation) and postgraduate research degrees in Classics.

The course will also lead to careers in secondary education, usually via a PGCE, that may involve teaching Greek and/or Latin.

The PhD is a three to four-year research degree, examined by a thesis of up to 80,000 words. Candidates work independently and closely with their Supervisor, a senior member of the Classics Faculty, and also have an academic advisor. Classes are provided in specialist research skills (e.g., epigraphy, palaeography, numismatics, Linear B and German). When appropriate, students are encouraged to work away from Cambridge, perhaps to undertake fieldwork or study manuscripts in libraries abroad.

Doctoral students spend most of their time working independently, researching their own specialist topic, but there is a wide variety of postgraduate seminars offered in the various subject areas (Greek and Latin Literature, Philosophy, History, Art and Archaeology, Philology and Linguistics, and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Ancient World). Students will be encouraged to participate actively in one or more each term. If a student needs to acquire any further specialist skills, they will be entitled to attend any lectures they wish from the University's extensive undergraduate lecturing programme in Classics or any other discipline. The Faculty currently offers specialist research training (see above) and classes in a range of ancient and modern languages.

The Classics MPhil is intended to give students with relevant experience at first-degree level the opportunity to carry out focused research in Classical subjects and acquire or develop skills and expertise relevant to their research interests. These objectives are achieved by:

Giving students the experience and guidance necessary for them to be able to formulate a realistic research proposal and to prepare written work based on such a proposal to a strict timetable.

Showing students how to marshal and understand relevant bibliography (including the use of computer technology) to broaden their appreciation of the principal issues that shape a given field and to encourage them to develop insights which might form the basis of an original contribution to the debates in question.

Giving students the experience of attending and contributing to at least one weekly postgraduate seminar to present their own work and discuss the issues that arise from it with an audience of senior and junior members of the Faculty.

Where relevant:

providing teaching in a range of technical/specialist skills central to research in the different branches of Classics (e.g., numismatics, epigraphy) and giving students the opportunity to base some of their essay work or an assessed exercise on the knowledge so acquired

providing students with the teaching necessary to bring an elementary knowledge of Greek and/or Latin to a standard adequate for research purposes and giving them the opportunity to take an appropriate examination

providing students with the opportunity to learn the basics of ancient languages related to Greek and Latin (e.g., Linear B), and to take an appropriate examination

encouraging students to improve their knowledge of the modern languages in which research relevant to their principal field of interest is normally written

This degree is also designed to complement, extend and complete undergraduate study in Classics. More information is available on the MPhil in Classics page on the Faculty of Classics website.

The Department of Chemistry offers the PhD as a full-time or part-time research period and introduces students to research skills and specialist knowledge.

Please note: part-time study may not always be viable and will be considered on a case-by-case basis, so please discuss this option with your proposed Supervisor before applying for this mode of study. There are attendance requirements, and part-time students will need to live close enough to Cambridge to meet these requirements.

Students are integrated into the research culture of the department by joining a research group, supervised by one of our academic staff, in one of the following areas of chemistry:

Biological Chemistry

• Life is the chemistry that goes on inside every one of us. We seek to understand this chemistry, both the physical processes occurring at the molecular level and the chemical reactions, and we also seek to control the chemistry as a way to treat diseases. Biological Chemistry at Cambridge comprises several research groups with additional contributions from many more. The major themes are biological polymers, proteins and nucleic acids: How they interact with each other and with small molecules. How do proteins fold to a defined structure, and why do they sometimes not fold properly but aggregate, causing neurodegenerative diseases? How do proteins catalyse the reactions that they do and can we make small molecules that inhibit these processes? What structures can nucleic acids adopt? How can we detect them, and what is the role of modifications of individual nucleotides? How can we target medicinally active compounds to where they are needed in the body? By addressing these questions, we seek to improve human health and the treatment of diseases.

Materials Chemistry

• The technological devices we depend on, from aeroplanes to mobile phones, rely upon ever-increasing structural complexity for their function. Designing complex materials for these devices through the art of chemical synthesis brings challenges and opportunities.
• Members of the Materials RIG invent new materials in view of potential applications. Modern materials chemistry is a wide-ranging topic that includes surfaces, interfaces, polymers, nanoparticles and nanoporous materials, self-assembly, and biomaterials. Its applications include oil recovery and separation, catalysis, photovoltaics, fuel cells and batteries, crystallisation and pharmaceutical formulation, gas sorption, energy, functional materials, biocompatible materials, computer memory, and sensors.

Physical and Atmospheric Chemistry

• Physical Chemistry at Cambridge has two broad but overlapping aims. One is to understand the properties of molecular systems in terms of physical principles. This work underpins many developing technological applications that affect us all, such as nanotechnology, sensors, and molecular medicine. The other is atmospheric chemistry, where the interactions between chemical composition, climate and health are studied using a range of computer modelling and experiment-based approaches. Together, these two areas form a richly interdisciplinary subject spanning the full range of scientific methodologies: experimental, theoretical and computational. It is a research area with something for everyone.

Synthetic Chemistry

• Synthetic research at Cambridge is focused on developing innovative new methods to make and use molecules of function. Our interests range from innovative catalytic strategies to make small molecules to supramolecular assemblies or the total synthesis of biologically important compounds and natural products. Our research is diverse, pioneering and internationally leading. The dynamic environment created by the research groups working at the field's cutting edge makes postgraduate research at Cambridge the best place for outstanding and motivated students.

Theoretical Chemistry

• Research in Theoretical Chemistry covers a wide range of lengths and timescales, including the active development of new theoretical and computational tools. The applications include high-resolution spectroscopy, atomic and molecular clusters, biophysics, surface science, and condensed matter, complementing experimental research in the department.
• We develop new tools for quantum and classical simulations, informatics, and investigate molecules using descriptions that range from atomic detail to coarse-grained models of mesoscopic matter. This work often begins with analytical theory, developed into new computer programs, applied to molecules and materials of contemporary interest, and ultimately compared with experiments.

The educational aims of the PhD programme are:

• give students with relevant experience at the master's level the opportunity to carry out focused research in the discipline under close supervision
• give students the opportunity to acquire or develop skills and expertise relevant to their research interests
• provide all students with relevant and useful researcher development training opportunities to broaden their horizons and properly equip them for the opportunity which they seek following their PhD studies

The Department of Chemistry offers the MPhil as a full-time research period and introduces students to research skills and specialist knowledge. Students are integrated into the research culture of the department by joining a research group, supervised by one of our academic staff, in one of the following areas of chemistry:

Biological Chemistry

Life is the chemistry that goes on inside every one of us. We seek to understand this chemistry, both the physical processes occurring at the molecular level and the chemical reactions, and we also seek to control the chemistry as a way to treat diseases. Biological Chemistry at Cambridge comprises several research groups with additional contributions from many more. The major themes are biological polymers, proteins and nucleic acids: How they interact with each other and with small molecules. How do proteins fold to a defined structure, and why do they sometimes not fold properly but aggregate, causing neurodegenerative diseases? How do proteins catalyse the reactions that they do and can we make small molecules that inhibit these processes? What structures can nucleic acids adopt? How can we detect them, and what is the role of modifications of individual nucleotides? How can we target medicinally active compounds to where they are needed in the body? By addressing these questions, we seek to improve human health and the treatment of diseases.

Materials Chemistry

The technological devices we depend on, from aeroplanes to mobile phones, rely upon ever-increasing structural complexity for their function. Designing complex materials for these devices through the art of chemical synthesis brings challenges and opportunities.

Members of the Materials RIG invent new materials in view of potential applications. Modern materials chemistry is a wide-ranging topic that includes surfaces, interfaces, polymers, nanoparticles and nanoporous materials, self-assembly, and biomaterials. Its applications include oil recovery and separation, catalysis, photovoltaics, fuel cells and batteries, crystallisation and pharmaceutical formulation, gas sorption, energy, functional materials, biocompatible materials, computer memory, and sensors.

Physical and Atmospheric Chemistry

Physical Chemistry at Cambridge has two broad but overlapping aims. One is to understand the properties of molecular systems in terms of physical principles. This work underpins many developing technological applications that affect us all, such as nanotechnology, sensors, and molecular medicine. The other is atmospheric chemistry, where the interactions between chemical composition, climate and health are studied using a range of computer modelling and experiment-based approaches. Together, these two areas form a richly interdisciplinary subject spanning the full range of scientific methodologies: experimental, theoretical and computational. It is a research area with something for everyone.

Synthetic Chemistry

Synthetic research at Cambridge is focused on developing innovative new methods to make and use molecules of function. Our interests range from innovative catalytic strategies to make small molecules to supramolecular assemblies or the total synthesis of biologically important compounds and natural products. Our research is diverse, pioneering and internationally leading. The dynamic environment created by the research groups working at the field's cutting edge makes postgraduate research at Cambridge the best place for outstanding and motivated students.

Theoretical Chemistry

Research in Theoretical Chemistry covers a wide range of lengths and timescales, including the active development of new theoretical and computational tools. The applications include high-resolution spectroscopy, atomic and molecular clusters, biophysics, surface science, and condensed matter, complementing experimental research in the department.

We develop new tools for quantum and classical simulations, informatics, and investigate molecules using descriptions that range from atomic detail to coarse-grained models of mesoscopic matter. This work often begins with analytical theory, developed into new computer programs, applied to molecules and materials of contemporary interest, and ultimately compared with experiments.

The educational aims of the MPhil programme are to:

• give students with relevant experience at the first-degree level the opportunity to carry out focused research in the discipline under close supervision
• provide all students with the opportunity to acquire or develop skills and expertise relevant to their research interests as well as to be trained in more broadly applicable skills

The course's main aims are to give students relevant experience, the opportunity to carry out focused research in their discipline under close supervision, and the opportunity to acquire or develop skills and expertise relevant to their research interests. Please note, however, that the MPhil in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology does not "convert" to a PhD. The course leads to a Master's degree only, and students wishing to pursue a PhD must reapply for admission as a PhD student.

Students progress their research projects under academic supervision for one year, and at the conclusion of their studies, they are examined by thesis and oral examination.