Key Dates
Application deadlines for home candidates:
22nd November 2024, 12.00 midday UK time. (December interviews)
31st January 2025, 12.00 midday UK time. (February interviews)
Application deadline for international candidates:
31st January 2025, 12.00 midday UK time. (February interviews)
Programme Overview
The Rosalind Franklin Institute (The Franklin) is the national institute for technology development for the life sciences in the UK – funded by the government through UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The principal goal is to bring about transformative changes in technologies which will allow us to see the biological world in new ways: from single molecules to entire systems. The insights generated will speed up drug design and development and push forward our understanding of human health and disease.
Students on the EPSRC-funded Franklin PhD Programme are fully funded for four years, including stipend, tuition fees, training and consumables. Franklin PhD students are immersed at the Franklin hub as a cohort where they experience a vibrant, cross-disciplinary research environment that draws strength from a network of UK academic partners and industrial collaborators. This combination of features (the immersion, the cohort, the cross-disciplinarity, the hub network) is unique.
The main programme aims are:
- To achieve an outstanding student experience marked by excellence in science, technology, training and mentorship
- Graduation of doctoral students with a technology focussed skillset leading to employment in high-value academic and industry positions
- To make factors-of-ten difference in the technologies used to study life.
The Franklin consists of a hub at Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire with partner spokes at leading UK Universities, including University of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh are our training partners for the first year of the PhD programme.
