The Chemical Synthesis for a Healthy Planet Centre for Doctoral Training (CSHP CDT) is a new EPSRC-funded centre focused on training the next generation of synthetic chemists, developing a sustainable, innovative chemistry culture that equips students to address major emerging and future global challenges in Human Health, Energy & Materials, and Food Security.

We offer a fully-funded four year PhD programme, delivered jointly by the Universities of Oxford and York, comprised of taught courses and a substantive research project. Student cohorts will work together in a 4-month training period at both Oxford and York, before embarking on their main PhD projects. These substantive projects will be industry co-supervised, and based at either the Department of Chemistry in Oxford, or the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence at York.

Our CDT brings together over forty academics across two universities, ten industrial partners that have been substantially involved in the design of the programme and will co-develop and co-supervise every PhD project, and ten SMEs who will offer complementary expertise and training opportunities.