Postgraduate opportunities

The School of Dentistry offers postgraduate teaching and research in the form of professional doctorates. These doctorates enable students the final accreditation and training needed to pursue their career in dentistry. Professional doctorates combine taught elements with a research project rooted in the candidate’s profession. While they include lectures and seminars, the doctorate is awarded based on a thesis assessed using criteria similar to a PhD. The professional doctorate is a qualification that contains professional skills training. Students who successfully complete the DDSc programme in the relevant subject area and will be awarded the DDSc (endodontic/orthodontic/paediatric dentistry) from the University of Liverpool. GDC specialist curricula and the Royal Colleges membership examination are mapped and embedded into the DDSc programme. This allows our students to sit the Royal College exams and obtain both the professional doctorate and Royal College membership.

Our research culture is friendly, supportive, and collaborative, fostering partnerships within the university and beyond.

European Union or international students whose first language is not English are usually required to provide an IELTS (or equivalent) test score to demonstrate their proficiency in English. See here for full details.

We welcome and support prospective students who are either able to self-fund their PhD studies or are planning for or have already secured a funded PhD scholarship. Interested candidates please email ilcamspgradmin@liverpool.ac.uk Information about the level of funding needed to self-fund is available here.