4Ward North PhD Programme for Healthcare Professionals (360G-Wellcome-223521_Z_21_Z)

Our programme will deliver excellent doctoral training for all healthcare professions. We are building a comprehensive inter-disciplinary programme across biomedical discovery and experimental medicine, reaching into our leading skills in physical sciences, engineering and computational/data science. We have fully refreshed our partnership across the Universities of Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield; seven out of eight new directors are new. We have forged fresh partnership with the Alan Turing Institute, integrated our comprehensive ties with industry, and deepened our links to the Francis Crick Institute. We have coalesced features that define our best research culture and developed a thoughtful approach to equality, diversity and inclusion to ensure we capture talent, regardless of background or profession. The training will be valuable to fellows, supervisors and directors alike and set best-practice that will permeate our partner organisations. We are particularly proud of a new initiative with the Nuffield Foundation/STEM Learning to host 16-19 year olds as part of widening participation in higher education and scientific research. This programme is important to us. We need a research-intensive workforce trained to the highest standards equipped to innovate for a surrounding population with some of the greatest health needs and reduced life expectancy in the UK.