PhD Training

We have 3 main Doctoral Training Partnerships providing PhD training programmes;the White Rose Social Science DTP accredited by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) the White Rose DTP in Mechanistic Biology with investment from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC); and the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH) supported by a large award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

Additionally we support our DTPs through a studentship network scheme. You can see the networks we have funded below:

Doctoral Training Partnerships

The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities

Studentship Networks

The White Rose Studentship initiative was set up in 1997 to encourage collaboration between the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. Since 2005 the studentships have been awarded as networks to promote collaboration across the three institutions.
You can see more details about the Studentship Networks scheme here, or contact Dr Craig Walker who will be happy to help with any enquiries

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Cultures of Consumption in Early Modern Europe

The Network will investigate aspects of the biological consequences of RNAprotein/ligand interactions using multidisciplinary approaches. One of the projects addresses an essential feature of the assembly, and by implication the disassembly/uncoating, […]

Reshaping Multiculturalism Through Cultural Practices

25th October 2013

Academic Lead – Professor Richard Phillips (University of Sheffield) The network investigates the ways in which multiculturalism – as a set of ideas and ideals, practices and policies – is being […]

The Urban Housing Experience in the Age of Austerity

25th October 2013

Academic Lead – Dr Stuart Hodkinson – (Leeds) The project will explore the changing social, spatial and institutional contours of the urban housing experience in an age of austerity. It responds […]

Biotic constraints to crop production: biochemical and molecular basis of plant interactions with pests, parasites and symbionts

16th June 2013

Academic Lead – Sue Hartley (York) The focus of the network is understanding the biotic interactions which impact on crop production at the biochemical and molecular level. Crops are […]

New single molecule techniques for understanding the physics of living systems

17th April 2013

Academic Lead – Jamie Hobbs (Sheffield) “Understanding the Physics of Life” has been identified as a “Grand Challenge” by EPSRC. To meet this challenge we need to develop new physical […]

Classical Heroism in War and Peace 1914-24 :

17th April 2013

A study of the receptions of classical heroism in wartime and in the cultural legacies of war in communities of Yorkshire, Britain and regional Europe. Academic Lead – Elizabeth Pender […]

Teaching Bacteria to Eat Grass: genetic engineering of Escherichia coli for complete degradation and utilisation of Miscanthus hemicellulose

17th April 2012

Academic Lead – Gavin Thomas (York) The HUB network (Hemicellulose Utilisation by Bacteria) project provides a unique opportunity to bring together three separate pieces of research ongoing in the White Rose […]