IFR Postgraduate Opportunities

Postgraduate training plays an integral part in IFR's culture of encouraging both learning and knowledge transfer across its user communities; we offer PhD students a stimulating 3-4 year period of study which prepares them well for a career within or outside the research community.

Being based on the Norwich Research Park gives students the added advantage of easy access to student life on the University of East Anglia's campus.

For further details of current opportunities and how to apply, visit the IFR's student webpages at www.ifr.ac.uk/students/

Undergraduate Opportunities

Many laboratories at IFR welcome undergraduates to work on research projects during the summer vacation. Students typically work in a laboratory for around eight weeks during the summer vacation. This provides an excellent opportunity to gain first hand research experience in an internationally respected laboratory and is particularly useful for undergraduates who may be considering taking up a PhD studentship after they graduate. The ideal time for this experience is during the summer vacation following the second year of an undergraduate course.

For further details of current opportunities and how to apply, visit the IFR's student webpages at www.ifr.ac.uk/students/undergrad_bursaries.html

School students

 ‘Inside Science’ enables the Norwich BioScience Institutes, funded by BBSRC, to invite gifted and talented science students from around the region to spend three days on an intensive workshop, hearing about the research we do first hand, meeting students, post-docs andresearch assistants hearing exactly what it’s like to work in science.

We are following the ‘graduands’ to see what impact spending time in a real science environment has on their future career decisions.

Each year, IFR hosts Nuffield Foundation scholars, undertaking research projects during their A level studies. 'Work experience' Placements are also available for younger students, designed to give gifted students a taster for life at the bench.

For further information on opportunities for gifted school students contact ifr.communications@bbsrc.ac.uk

Related links

IFR's student webpages

Richard Bailey, a 3rd year PhD student at IFR received a British Poultry Council Scholarship Award for his work on investigating enteric health in poultry, focusing on a condition called dysbacteriosis, which is a syndrome of growing importance to animal welfare and industry economics since the EU ban on the use of antibiotic growth promoters. He was presented with his award at a dinner in the Houses of Parliament in December by Dame Deirdre Hutton, Chair of the Food Standards Agency.

In 2008 Vijay Narbad studied with IFR as a Nuffield Foundation scholar, undertaking research projects during his A level studies. Based on his work has been awarded a ‘Gold’ Crest Award by the British Association for the Advancement of Science.