Doctoral Education Strategy

UCL's unique global position

UCL is uniquely placed as one of the world's great comprehensive Universities to be an outstanding place to train researchers:

• a strong tradition of working across disciplines and tackling Grand Challenges facing society, seeking fair solutions to global problems
• a longstanding tradition of radical thought dating back to Bentham
• a very wide spread of academic disciplines and specialisms within a strong Faculty structure with world-leading experts in their fields
• Doctoral programmes in all areas of our activity, including a growing number of professional doctorates and the largest number of funded Centres for Doctoral Training funded by UK Research Councils and charities
• Located in one of the world's great cities with its rich diversity of cultural and scientific institutions, other strong Universities with whom we collaborate, a diverse population, a vibrant economy of knowledge-intensive industries, proximity to the organs of UK government, and very convenient to the home of European Union institutions in Brussels and other European capitals through excellent transport networks
• A record of providing input to policy leadership in Europe and beyond
• Central services providing support for wide career aspirations and the development of necessary technical and generic skills
• A very international community of staff and students
• A Global Engagement Strategy which seeks to strengthen UCL's global impact
• A clear long term strategy, UCL2034 which includes the aim to close the gap between research and teaching