Postgraduate Education and Apprenticeships
HDR UK and its partners offer a variety of postgraduate options including master's degrees and doctorates as well as degree-equivalent apprenticeships that allow you to stay at work while you learn instantly useable new skills.
Our masters, PhD and apprenticeship programmes aim to upskill early career data scientists, providing the best possible foundation for a career in health data science and to develop future leaders in health data science. Find out more below.

HDR UK Big Data for Complex Diseases PhD Programme
Applications are open until 15 June for six new PhD opportunities to use the power of large-scale data to address some of healthcare’s most pressing challenges

South West Analytics and Infrastructure in Healthcare (SWAIH)
A one-day event is being held to discuss the opportunities and challenges for health data research within the South-West.

HDR UK-Roche PhD summer school
This PhD summer school is being convened by Health Data Research UK in partnership with Roche. It is being led by Professor Christopher Yau, our PhD Programme Director, enabled through the UKRI Turing AI Fellowship. It is part of the immersion week series of the HDR UK-Turing-Wellcome PhD programme in Health Data Science.
Summer school topic:
The purpose of this Summer School is...

Respiratory Health PhD Opportunity
Applications are invited by 31 May for a fully-funded non-clinical PhD studentship at Imperial College London to study health inequalities in people with chronic respiratory diseases.

Characterising Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) PhD Opportunity
Applications are invited by 31 May for a funded PhD project to work with world-renowned experts on characterising respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in electronic health records and investigating the association between RSV infection and asthma in children

Master’s Degree Scholarships
Apply by 30 June for master's degree scholarships with £10,000 of funding for up to 10 students with an interest in dementia or diabetes research