Doctoral Research College
The Doctoral Research College (DRC) is a non-academic department within Birmingham City University whose primary purpose is to ‘Enable Excellent Research’. The DRC do this by working in partnership with Postgraduate Research (PGR) students, Faculty research colleagues, other professional service groups within the University, to support the doctoral research journey from application to graduation.
The DRC is a fundamental part of the Research Office and DRC staff are also embedded within each Faculty, so support is always available for Postgraduate Research Students
How do we help researchers?
- PhD Enquiries
- Applications, admissions and enrolment
- Advice on Scholarships/Fees/stipend payments/contracts
- Registration and Induction
- Attendance monitoring and progression/Annual Monitoring
- PG Certificate Research Practice (and other research training)
- Suspensions/extensions
- PGR support/Drop-in sessions
- Thesis submission/Examination/Award
FAQs
Are you a current student or prospective applicant with a questions for the Doctoral Research College? Our FAQs are designed to provide initial guidance to our most frequent queries.
If you need further assistance, please use the relevant contact details below. Our PhD area is a hub of information for current and prospective postgraduate researchers, including PhD blogs, news, finance information, details of studentships and more.
Contacts
Faculty of Health, Education, and Life Sciences
Faculty of Arts, Design and Media
Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences
blssdoctoralresearchcollege@bcu.ac.uk
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment
Cross-faculty