Child Health MPhil/PhD

UCL (University College London)

Our PhD research degree provides excellent research training, giving you comprehensive opportunities in fundamental and translational research aligned with childhood health and disease. The UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) aims to produce highly employable post-doctoral graduates with an ambitious outlook and experience in transferable research skills, leadership, collaboration and networking. UCL GOS ICH is a world-class institute, together with its partner, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH), forming the largest concentration of children’s health research in Europe. Our close relationship with GOSH means that much of our research and teaching is carried out jointly and is translationally relevant. You will benefit from excellent facilities in UCL GOS ICH and the adjacent Zayed Centre for Research, a world-leading centre of excellence dedicated to discovering new ways to treat and cure children with rare diseases. You will also benefit from joining one of the largest research student cohorts at UCL, allowing you to participate in institute-level skills training as well as the world-class training provided by the Doctoral School. The UCL doctoral school values candidates with a desire to challenge the status quo openly and freely but rigorously; an openness to pushing frontiers of disciplinary knowledge within and beyond conventional disciplines; a desire to make impact with the fruits of research; to work with integrity; to be sensitive to diversity; and to engage with society beyond academia.