Doctoral Training Centre

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Doctoral Training Centres are a recent phenomena in UK postgraduate education, which usually aim to produce interdisciplinary PhD students whose research spans multiple disciplines - something harder to achieve within more traditional University departments.

For example, the Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre or LSI DTC is an interdisciplinary programme at the University of Oxford, directed by Professor David Gavaghan. It is jointly funded by the EPSRC and MRC and aims to train students from both physical and mathematical backgrounds, as well as those from the life sciences, interested in the more theoretical aspects of their disciplines to interface with biological sciences. Its main application areas are Bioinformatics, Bionanotechnology, Medical Imaging, and Computational Biology.