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 for 2026 now closed.
Applications for the current intake are now closed. Please keep an eye on our recruitment page for details of the next application round for a 2027 start, including available PhD projects and application guidance.
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...
