Trinity College and the University of Cambridge’s new £48 million programme enabling fully-funded PhDs has been launched. It is seeking the brightest minds from across the world to conduct ground-breaking research, creating the next generation of pioneering treatments, technology and services.
The Trinity Cambridge Research Studentships (TCRS) have been created to respond to declining funding opportunities for PhD research, both in the sciences and the humanities. In the next decade, the programme will support up to 300 fully funded PhD studentships, depending on the breakdown between home and international students.
"PhD students are the lifeblood of new research, making breakthroughs in all areas of science, and it is very important that we be able to attract the best brains to Cambridge wherever they may be from. The Trinity Cambridge Research Studentships Programme will greatly facilitate that goal,"Dr Venki Ramakrishnan, Trinity Fellow and Nobel Laureate
The first students funded by the new programme will begin in October 2025; anyone applying to join a PhD programme in 2025-26 will be considered for this funding.