Postgraduate courses

Postgraduate courses

Taught courses
Research programmes

Develop your pharmacy career with Medway

Postgraduate taught courses

The Medway School of Pharmacy’s postgraduate taught programmes are specifically designed for a range of healthcare professionals in active clinical practice. You can train as a non-medical prescriber, develop your career as a newly qualified clinical pharmacist, gain a qualification in Medicines Optimisation or take a series of short courses for CPD and career development. You will be taught and guided by a group of dedicated academic and clinically active healthcare professionals who are experts in their fields.

Postgraduate fees

Postgraduate research

We welcome PhD applications across all research areas within the School. Our world-class academic staff provide research students with excellent supervision.  

Contact the Director of Graduate Studies in the school where you wish to study. You should also contact the potential supervisor directly to discuss the research project, before applying via KentVision.

Research programmes

Research projects and supervisors

We are currently accepting applications for the following self-funded PhD projects:

Project title: Sleep, circadian rhythms and wellbeing - from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications

Supervisors: Dr Gurprit Lall, Dr Aiste Steponenaite


Project title: Selection and evaluation of new universal influenza vaccine candidates using monoclonal antibodies and digitally designed HA and NA libraries & pseudotype virus screens

Supervisors: Dr Nigel Temperton, Dr Simon Scott, Prof Jonathan Heeney (University of Cambridge)


Project title: The Creation of Anti-Viral Plastic Nanobodies for Diagnostics and Therapeutics via Molecular Imprinting of Synthetic Polymers

Supervisors: Dr Andrew J Hall, Dr Nigel Temperton


Project title: Cross-talks of immune checkpoint pathways determine the abilities of human malignant tumours to suppress cytotoxic attacks and escape immune surveillance

Supervisors: Dr Vadim V Sumbayev


Project title: Understanding the link between head injuries and Alzheimer's disease

Supervisors: Dr Romina Vuono


Project title: Using advanced machine learning strategies to map early osteoarthritis changes and predict disease progression in preclinical models 

Supervisors: Dr Sadaf Ashraf