LRI PhD Programme Application Instructions 2010

Applications for our 2010 PhD Programme have now closed. Applications for our 2011 programme will open in October 2010.

Eligibility and selection criteria

We are looking for talented and motivated recent graduates or final year undergraduates who have decided that they want to do a PhD and:

• have or expect to gain a first/upper second-class honours degree or equivalent in a relevant subject;
• have laboratory or research experience (either as part of or outside of a university degree course);
• are able to satisfy the English language requirements of University College London, where our students are registered.

How to submit an application

You must register online before you can fill in the application form. Registering will also allow you to save and resume your application.

You will be asked to provide a valid email address - please type this in carefully as your email address will be your log-in username.

Please make sure that your email address is the one that you will check regularly throughout the application process as this will be our main way of contacting you.

Use the Apply Now button at the end of these instructions to commence registration.

Completing the application form

The online application form has 6 sections; all fields marked with an asterisk * are compulsory.

The information you provide on your education, skills and experience plus the information given by your referees will be the only facts used in deciding whether you will be invited to interview.

Once you have completed Section 1, you can save your progress so you can return to and complete the form at a later date.

When you are not working on the form, the system will time-out after 20 minutes of inactivity and you will lose any information entered. If you are going to stop working on the form, please use the 'Save' button and log in at a later time to complete your application.

The deadline for applications to the 2010 LRI PhD programme is 12.00 midnight (GMT) on Monday 23 November 2009. However, you are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible, to allow sufficient time for your referees to supply their references.

Completing "Section 1 - Personal Details"

Fill in your name in the correct format, capitalising the appropriate letters (e.g. Joe Bloggs or Ronald McDonald), as this will be used in all future correspondence.

We will ask for your preferred group leaders on the application form. However, if you are invited to interview, you will have the opportunity to change your group leader preferences, as you hear more about the different labs and projects. You can select group leaders at our Clare Hall (CH) laboratories, at our Lincoln's Inn Fields (LIF) laboratories, or at both laboratories - please see FAQs for information on what happens if you are interested in group leaders at both sites.

Before completing the application form, please read PhD Projects 2010 for information about the Group Leaders recruiting PhD students to start in September 2010 and their PhD projects.

When you complete the application form:

• you will be asked to select the 3 group leaders that you are most interested in doing a PhD with (non-ranked list);
• you will be asked to indicate if you are particularly interested in one of these 3 group leaders (your first choice at time of application);
• you will be asked to indicate if you also are interested in doing a PhD with any of our other group leaders (non-ranked list, up to 3).

Completing "Section 3 - Education and Lab Experience"

Please complete carefully, giving as much information as possible. Pay particular attention to the section on your research lab experience.

Completing "Section 4 - Research and Career Aspirations and CV Upload"

Please pay particular attention to this section and tell us why you want to do a PhD and are applying to the LRI PhD Programme.

You will be asked to upload a copy of your CV - this must be a Microsoft Word document (.doc) or a Rich Text file (.rtf) that is no larger than 2MB.

Completing "Section 5 - Other Details"

This section is to provide us with additional information about yourself and to help us advertise our PhD programme in the future.

If you have any questions not answered on our webpages, or have any difficulties in using the online application form please contact lristudentships@cancer.org.uk.

Important Dates

Applications open - Thursday 1 October 2009

Applications close - 12.00 midnight (GMT) on Monday 23 November 2009.

References due in - 12.00 noon (GMT) on Friday 27 November 2009.

Invitations to interview will be emailed to shortlisted candidates by: Friday 18 December 2009.

Clare Hall laboratories PhD Interviews will be held from: Sunday 24 January to Tuesday 26 January 2010.

Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories PhD Interviews will be held from: Wednesday 27 January to Friday 29 January 2010.