OCTOBER 2026 ENTRY IS OPEN

Change what we can see. See what we can change.

Innovations

A PhD by Structured Components

students undertake at least two Internship projects with partner organisations and an international lab visit project.

An illustration showing three maps of Britain, each colour coded to represent the concentration of archaeological sites. The first is in shades of green and shows total sites, the second is in shades of red and shows Roman sites, and the third is in shades of yellow and shows tumuli.

Interactive notebook and digital thesis

students progressively document their research in computational notebooks that support visualization, analysis and reflection.

A network of red lines representing travel routes between urban areas, labelled A to G. To the left of the image is a red bar chart showing number of journeys plotted against distance travelled.

Cohort-based study

students collaborate through shared documents, reflective activities and Action Learning Sets.

Graph composed of coloured dots with time from 10:00am to 6:30am in a scale at the top - each dot representing the predicted timing an individual result on election night in the UK. Dots are colour coded by party of the standing MP and sized according to the MP's prominence. The image is labelled "should I go to bed?" implying that the content could help an individual decide at which time a key event that they may be interested in is likely to have occurred.

Diversity

Diverse CDT provides academic, financial and practical support to enable students from backgrounds underrepresented in PhD study to succeed.

Twelve images showing maps of the world with the landmasses in orange red and black. Each image shows the map on a different 2 dimensional shape.
A four-year academic timeline chart shows taught modules, placements, international laboratory visit, residential event, synthesis, examination, and showcase of own thesis, organised by months from October to September.