Course summary

Based at the School of Chemistry, our alternative to the traditional PhD offers a unique training period designed to strengthen your research techniques and introduce new technologies for Chemical Synthesis through lab rotations. You will benefit from developing a range of transferable skills (including presentation, teamwork and problem-solving) to enhance your employability. After successfully completing the training element, you will embark on a lab research project in Chemical Synthesis. During this time, your scientific development will continue to be enhanced by entrepreneurship training and further professional and academic courses provided by our industrial partners. As a result, you will end your PhD as a well-rounded candidate for both industry and academia. We are seeking applications from students covering the whole breadth of the synthetic chemistry spectrum. We encourage applications from students whose interests include:

• Metal catalysed transformations

• New scaffolds for medicines and agrochemicals

• Designer ligands for catalysis

• Computational modelling and automation

• Design and synthesis of new bioactive and functional molecules

• Main group chemistry: from molecules to materials

• Development of expedient new synthetic methodologies

• Chemistry, synthesis and activity of natural products

• Cleaner synthesis and reactor technology.