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Train With Us

We train the neuroscientists of the future.

Our neuroscientists contribute to training at all levels. This covers undergraduates to early career researchers. It also includes through our flagship Neuroscience PhD Studentship Scheme funded by the Newcastle Neuroscience Fund.

Undergraduate degrees

Several degree programmes at Newcastle contain neuroscience-related modules, including:

These courses benefit from expert, research-led neuroscience teaching. You can find out more about these programmes in our prospectus.

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Master’s degrees

We offer master’s programmes in neuroscience, or that feature a neuroscience component. These include research-based and taught master’s programmes:

Doctoral training

We have a vibrant postgraduate research culture where research students receive high-quality research training.

PhD students tackle a wide range of research questions in fundamental, translational, and clinical neuroscience. Each student has two subject-expert supervisors to support them.

Every student also has a panel comprising two additional staff members who provide them with advice and mentoring over the duration of their studies.

Students can attend regular seminars delivered by local and external experts in neuroscience.

The centre organises social events to enable postgraduate students in different parts of the university to meet one another. We also support postgraduate students to organise their own community events.

PhD Studentships

In addition to PhD studentships funded by UKRI, NIHR, and medical research charities, the Centre for Transformative Neuroscience offers a suite of Neuroscience PhD studentships, with the next round to be advertised later in 2026. 

The Newcastle Neuroscience Fund studentships support projects across a broad range of neuroscience research, using advanced biological and computational approaches.

All projects are supervised by established and emerging research leaders from across the University, and all studentships will be awarded through open competition.

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