MRes and PhD Research Programmes

The Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment (GEE) offers research-intensive MRes programmes and PhD programmes. The Department carries out world class research on diverse topics and fosters an integrative approach to understanding biological systems at the genomic, functional and population levels. Research strengths include: biodiversity and environmental biology, biology of ageing, computational biology, evolutionary genetics, evolution and development, human genetics and human evolution, systems biology (see Research page). We have a very active research training community. There are usually ~ 100 postgraduate students working in the department for MRes and PhD research degrees. Studentships are offered by the Department through a number of postgraduate research programmes as well as individual studentships.

MRes Research

GEE runs and contributes to several MRes research programmes. An MRes provides research-intensive training in specific fields. The emphasis is on individual research projects, but these are accompanied by a small number of specialist courses given by world-class researchers. The courses cover subject-specific material as well as general and transferable skills relevant to research. In PhD programmes, an initial MRes year is followed by three years of independent PhD research.

PhD Research

UCL’s Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment (GEE) has a diverse community of post-doctoral students undertaking research across many biologically related disciplines led by internationally recognised researchers. To find out more about the research currently being undertaken by our students, please look at our current research student’s site.

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