The Doctoral College supports a research culture of discovery and enterprise to ensure that your time at City St George's is positive and inspiring.
Why choose City St George's, University of London?
We have been involved in pioneering research for more than 250 years and continue to develop new areas of national and international importance.
We have a community of over 850 doctoral researchers.
You will become part of a university community that is passionate about developing world-leading research, committed to academic excellence, focused on business and the professions, and dedicated to providing extensive support for doctoral researchers.
We offer a variety of research programmes across our six Schools and research centres.
Our programmes encourage creativity, critical reflection, conceptual development, professional competence, judgement and confidence.
A global university with international collaborations
City St George's has a highly international outlook, with around 25% per cent of our students coming from outside the UK, drawn from more than 170 countries.
Our research programmes are supported by European, US, Chinese and Japanese partners in business, industry and professions. City St George's researchers collaborate on research projects with academics from universities around the world.
Campuses across London
The location of City St George's Clerkenwell and Moorgate campuses in central London puts you at the heart of business, finance, the creative industries, law and government.
They are located minutes away from the Square Mile - London's world-famous financial district - where you will find the headquarters of financial and professional institutions, major arts complexes and media offices, teaching hospitals and specialist medical research centres.
Our Tooting campus is located within St George's Hospital, one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals. We are the second oldest medical school in the UK, founded in 1733.
Researchers in London contribute to and benefit from an amazing community encompassing world-renowned experts, specialist facilities, libraries, archives, and institutions. This is enhanced by the access City St George’s doctoral researchers enjoy at partner institutions in the University of London, the Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network and our doctoral training partnerships.
Our Research Excellence
City St George's researchers produce world leading and internationally excellent research, as measured by the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Our research directly addresses major challenges facing the world at the frontier of practice.
The results of REF 2021, published by UKRI in May 2022, found:
- 86% of City St George’s research rated as world leading 4* (40%) and internationally excellent 3* (46%) quality (based on Legacy City's submission to the REF).
- A marked increase in research quality compared to the 2014 REF when 75.7% of research at Legacy City was rated as 4* (23.3%) and 3* (52.4%).
- The proportion of Legacy City research rated world–leading (4*) has almost doubled to 40% (from 23% in 2014).
- Excellence across Legacy City Schools, with all individual Units of Assessment (UoA) improving their overall Grade Point Average (GPA) compared to 2014.
- Legacy City St was 39th in the UK out of 129 universities according to the Times Higher Education rankings, an increase of 12 places since REF 2014.
Legacy St George’s Research Excellence Score for REF 2021
- Joint 8th in the country for research impact out of 129 institutions, according to scores calculated by Times Higher Education.
- 36% of Legacy St George’s research assessed as “world-leading” (4*) – an increase compared to the REF 2014 score of 30%.
- 100% of Legacy St George’s impact cases were judged as world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*).
A supportive environment
We encourage a community and culture of discovery and enterprise and provide a range of ways to support you as a research student and ensure that your time at City St George's is positive and inspiring.
- We provide a comprehensive suite of development opportunities for research students, including induction days, Researchers' Development Days, seminars, conferences, and opportunities to present your research and develop your research skills.
- We are members of the Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network which gives you access to a range of training and development opportunities provided by our network partners.
- We provide an extensive range of online training opportunities via our dedicated LinkedIn Learning environment.
- Our Research and Enterprise team can help you take advantage of opportunities for knowledge and technology transfer arising from your research and develop broader enterprise skills.
- Our Accommodation Service will help you find somewhere to live. We have special accommodation for postgraduate students.
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