Studentships

Each year we offer fully funded, highly competitive PhD studentships. They enable science graduates and clinicians to conduct multi-disciplinary research. Projects are individually tailored. They are are supervised by internationally recognised teams of researchers.

Studentships are typically supported for 3-4 years. Funders include:

• Cancer Research UK (CRUK)
• Children's Cancer North
• Research Councils
• NIHR
• Other charities and through partnerships with industry

 

CRUK Black Leaders in Cancer PhD Scholarship Programme

The Newcastle Cancer Centre is participating in CRUK's new Black Leaders in Cancer PhD Scholarship Programme, which is run in collaboration with Black in Cancer and the Windsor Fellowship.

Applications are now open, click here for details

Closing date 6 December 2024, noon

 

Dedicated training schemes

We host dedicated PhD and MRes studentship training schemes in cancer. They include the annual Newcastle University Centre for Cancer and CRUK Newcastle Centre studentships.

We run the CRUK Newcastle Clinical Academic Training programme each year. It supports 1 or 2 clinical PhD fellowships and 2 Intercalating MRes fellowships. Our Children's Cancer North MRes bursary scheme supports 2 further intercalated MRes fellowships annually.  The programme supports translational cancer research hosted in the Newcastle CRUK Centre. Training is overseen by the Clinical Academic Office of the Faculty of Medical Sciences.

Doctoral research opportunities for cancer researchers working at the interface of chemistry and medicine are available through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Molecular Sciences for Medicine (MosMed) programme.

• Find out more about MosMed
• For enquiries about the CRUK Newcastle Clinical Academic Training Programme please contact us
• Apply for the NUCentre for Cancer and Children's Cancer North Paediatric Oncology studentship NUCC CCN Paediatric Oncology Studentships 2025-26
• Apply for the NUCentre for Cancer and CRUK Intercalating Bursary NUCancer CRUK Intercalating Studentship Application form 2025-26

Masters training

Additional opportunities for Masters level research include:

You might also be interested in:

• Newcastle University Doctoral College