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While a detailed research proposal is not required, and we would not expect you to arrive with a fully formulated research programme in hand, we ask you to indicate the topic or research direction you might be interested in pursuing. Furthermore, when completing the online application, it is important that you indicate the research group with which you might be affiliated:

• Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics
• Statistics
• Mathematical Finance
• Pure Mathematics

Independent of section, all applications should be submitted to the programme: Mathematics Research - G1ZX

Find out more about applying to 51�Թ���. 

When we receive your application, and if a member of staff is available to supervise you, we will get in touch with you to arrange an interview - where practicable this will be in person, but sometimes, particularly for overseas students, we would arrange a phone or Skype interview.

We encourage applicants to consult the webpages of our faculty members, and email those academic staff members with whom you would like to work, to check if they are planning on taking new PhD students. 

When contacting an academic, it is important to:

• Ask if they are planning on taking a new PhD student next academic year
• Give a very brief (short paragraph) description of what research you have done in your previous degree
• Tell them briefly about your research interest that might align with their research
• Be specific and write personable emails: avoid being general with the copy-and-paste-one-message-fits-all emails
• Be brief: long emails discourage people from reading on

If you are unable to find an academic who is happy for you to indicate their name as prospective supervisor on your online application, you can still submit an application without indicating a supervisor. This will then go to a pool of applications, where all academics in the department are invited to look through and decide if there is an applicant they would like to interview. However, from previous admission cycles’ experience, those applications are very unlikely to receive a quick, positive outcome.

Our applications cycles are open all year round. Applicants with funding already in place can submit their application throughout the year.

Applicants aiming at 51�Թ��� College or any other Mathematics Department scholarships schemes are encouraged to apply between November and February to avoid disappointment.

Later applications may be considered but most likely there will be no more scholarships available, and supervisors might have already committed to their maximum number of new students.

We encourage applicants to consult the webpages of our faculty members, and email those academic staff members with whom you would like to work, to check if they are planning on taking new PhD students.

Apply online through  .On your application please chooseMathematics Research - G1ZX for this programme.

General information relating to applying to Postgraduate Taught and Postgraduate Research programmes can be found on our Postgraduate Doctoral pages.