Introduction to the MPhil and PhD programs
Postgraduate students can study for either a PhD degree or the MPhil degree.
Students who remain uncertain as to which course is most suitable for them are advised to contact the Applied Mathematics Postgraduate Director, Prof. A. Zinober, detailing their history and requirements, in order to get his advice.
email : Postgraduate Director
While studying for a research degree a student is expected to be in continuous attendance except for reasonable holidays.
Course structure
The normal period of study for a candidate for the degree of MPhil is one year for a good Honours graduate. Candidates without a good Honours degree will be required to pass a diploma course, which lasts for one year, before being considered for the MPhil course. Candidates for the MPhil degree must present a thesis.
The normal period of study for a candidate for the degree of PhD is three years (full-time). The degree is awarded on the basis of a Thesis embodying the result of a candidate's research and must form an addition to knowledge and be worthy of publication in full or abridged form.
Students studying for research degrees are individually supervised by a member of staff. Where a project involves considerable use of numerical methods, a member of staff in numerical analysis may also act as joint supervisor.
The Department actively encourages suitably qualified students with a good mathematical background who wish to work in an engineering or other university department on a project with a strong mathematical bias.
Students whose first degree is in mathematics and who work in an Engineering department may be eligible for an EPSRC research award in Engineering Mathematics. Students on such awards work on a project supplied by an engineering department under joint supervision from the engineering department and the Department of Applied Mathematics.
The Department also provides joint supervision for other students working in engineering departments. CASE awards, involving an industrial or laboratory interest in the projects, may also be available.
Research Training Programme
The University of Sheffield requires all research students intending to proceed to the degree of PhD to take an approved programme of Research Training (RTP).
All full time research students who intend to complete the PhD are required to undertake 35 credits of RTP over the first 2 years of their research. It is recommended that you take at least 20 credits in your first year in order to aid your upgrade to PhD from MPhil.
Please consult the Research Training Programme pages for details and current offerings.
Graduate Research website
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