UK’s first dedicated neurodiversity focused doctoral training programme

Durham University and Kingston University are launching the UK’s first dedicated neurodiversity-focused doctoral training programme, supported by a nine-year, £5 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust. This initiative aims to transform the understanding of human difference by fostering a new generation of scholars who explore global challenges through an interdisciplinary, neurodiversity-affirming lens that values lived experience. The programme will support cohorts of PhD and master’s students alongside postdoctoral fellowships, with recruitment opening in autumn 2026 and the first cohort beginning in October 2027.

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