PhD opportunities
Doctoral studies at the Natural History Museum
E.huxleyi Coccolithophore imaged in an electron microscope.
In addition to the 80 PhD students at the Natural History Museum, there are over 300 researchers and curators, all having fingertip access to more than 70 million specimens, of which 800,000 are type specimens. With excellent technological, molecular and analytical facilities, worldclass staff and unparalleled libraries, the Museum can offer researchers resources unavailable elsewhere.
The Natural History Museum does not have university status and is therefore unable to award degrees. Consequently, postgraduate studies have to be in collaboration with a university. All of the researchers at the Museum work with British and overseas universities. In addition, many researchers have visiting lectureship status.