Global Risk and Resilience University of Cambridge

Overview

The Global Risk and Resilience from University of Cambridge will necessitate introducing students from diverse backgrounds to research skills and specialist knowledge from a range of academic disciplines.

This PhD will train the next generation of researchers and leaders in global risk and resilience by:

• providing them with a world-leading interdisciplinary research and education environment,

• providing them with critical tools to engage with the forefront of academic knowledge, methods and applications in global risk and resilience,

• developing advanced skills and abilities to identify, approach and address practical interdisciplinary research challenges,

• providing them with opportunities to develop leadership skills, and

• developing the ability and initiative to identify, address and approach relevant and complex challenges across industry, government and society.

The PhD provides students with the opportunity to carry out focused research under close supervision by domain experts from a wide set of disciplines at the University. At their core, the projects will be deeply embedded in global risk, catastrophic risk and existential risk. The students will have access to a wide variety of disciplinary expertise, afforded by the networks and collaboration their supervisors, the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), and the Institue for Technology and Humanity (ITH), hold across the University and externally.

In addition to the world-class educational experience students will enjoy and to set them up for success after they finish their PhD, they will have opportunities to interact with visiting and affiliated researchers and engage in collaborative research and policy projects (where applicable). Finally, PhD students will be encouraged not just to attend events and conferences they find valuable for their own professional development, but to actively and independently organize research workshops or knowledge exchange activities themselves.