Wessex One Health Doctoral Landscape Programme
Welcome to Wessex One Health
Welcome to our new BBSRC-funded Wessex One Heath (WOH) Doctoral Landscape Programme. If you are interested in learning how to combat infectious disease threats to humans and animals, a WOH PhD will provide you with a broad training experience in interdisciplinary approaches to infection biosciences and the opportunity to join a national cohort working at highest containment.
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Fully funded studentships available for a 2026 start
Visit our recruitment page for information on the available PhD projects and the application process.
Explore our programme
Wessex One Health (WOH) offers:
- A wide range of research projects to choose from
- Cross-institutional supervisory teams
- Opportunities to train at high containment
- Cohort training in genomics, bioinformatics, applied AI
- Cohort-building activities across all partners
- Opportunities for studentships working with industry (CASE)
- Wide range of short industrial placement opportunities.
Wessex One Health Director
Professor Gill Elliott
Professor of Virology
After a degree in Microbiology at Queen's University Belfast, I obtained my PhD working with Bert Rima on the molecular biology of the RNA virus mumps virus. I subsequently worked as a postdoc with Sue and Alan Kingsman in Oxford where I studied molecular aspects of HIV transcription. My herpesvirus research began when I obtained a Wellcome Trust Junior Fellowship to work at the...
