How to apply

Application Documents

The relevant documents for a complete application:

Application form
Curriculum Vitae
Degree Transcripts (scanned copies of originals)

The application form can be downloaded here

ucl_bhf_application_form_2024.docx

Please complete the application form and submit this with an up-to-date Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a copy of any degree transcripts.

You should include details of two academic referees. If you are shortlisted, you will be asked to contact your referees and ask them to provide us with a completed reference form.

Please read all of the guidance notes for completing the application form and use the submission checklist. Incomplete applications cannot be considered. Only applicants invited for interview will be contacted beyond the submission deadline.

How to Submit the Application

Please send all relevant documents via email to bhf4yr@ucl.ac.uk

Use 'UCL BHF 4-year PhD application: [YOUR NAME]' in the subject field.

Should you be unable to submit your application documents electronically, please send them to:

UCL BHF 4-year PhD Studentships

c/o Miss Rebecca Lewis

5^th Floor, 1-19 Torrington Place

London

WC1E 7HB

Interviews

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend an online interview at UCL in February 2024. Individuals who have not received an invitation to interview must consider their application unsuccessful. This is a highly competitive programme - approximately 10% of applicants are shortlisted, and 5% of applicants are successful. In the 2024 intake we will be offering 3 places on the programme - with the possibility of 1-2 additional place funded by UCLH bimoedical research centre.

Contact Information

Download programme information (PDF)

Thank you for considering UCL and the British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Biomedicine 4-year PhD studentships programme at UCL.