PhD

Innogen's interdisciplinary approach brings together insights on life science, innovation and industry strategies, government policy and risk regulation, and public attitudes and values.

Innogen staff are able to provide supervision to students  in the following areas:

• Translational research: the changing relationship between public and private
• The emerging new sciences of systems biology and synthetic biology
• Life science innovation and health equity
• Internationalisation of the pharmaceutical and life science industries
• Mapping global public private partnerships for neglected diseases
• Biosciences and institutional transformation of global agricultural and health organisations
• Assessing democratic governance of new life science technologies
• Multi-level governance and its limitations
• Risk and life science innovation beyond the precautionary principle
• Intellectual property and life science innovation
• Exploration of new interdisciplinary methodologies for exploring the diffusion and impact of genomics innovation
• Innovation and regulation interactions in the development of clinical stem cell therapies   

Innovative proposals for PhD research that relate to developments in genomics and society are also welcomed.

Students working at Innogen come from a range of backgrounds including social science, economics, natural science and law and co-supervision with colleagues from other departments can be arranged.

To find out more about PhD opportunities at Innogen, please contact Dr Catherine Lyall.

To find out more about current and completed PhD Projects, please follow this link.