General entry requirements

Minimum requirements

2:i undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a related subject.

English language requirements

You can find out more about our English language requirements. This course requires the following:

• Band A
• IELTS overall score of 6.5, minimum component scores not below 6.0.

International qualifications

We welcome applications from students with other internationally recognised qualifications.

For more information, please visit the international entry requirements page.

Additional requirements

There are no additional entry requirements for this course.

Our research

We are interested in hearing from people who are thinking of pursuing a PhD in areas of CEDAR’s expertise:

• Intellectual and developmental disabilities (including autism) across the lifespan
• Assessment and diagnosis
• Families, family adjustment, siblings of children with Intellectual and developmental disabilities and sibling relationships
• Mental health in children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (including autism)
• Forensic mental health in adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism
• Developmental psychology with children and adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism
• School attendance
• Early intervention
• Early development of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (including autism)
• Transition to adulthood
• Parenting skills and interventions
• Psychological and educational therapies and interventions for children, adolescents, adults and families of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (including autism)
• Training of education, health and social care staff

Full details of our research interests are listed on the CEDAR web pages.

You can also read our general University research proposal guidance.

Find a supervisor

We are interested in hearing from people who are thinking of pursuing a PhD in areas of CEDAR’s expertise:

• Intellectual disability, autism, developmental disabilities
• Children and/or adults with developmental disabilities and/or special educational needs
• Families or carers of people with intellectual disabilities, autism, developmental disabilities, special educational needs
• Early intervention
• Children at risk of adverse developmental outcomes because of behaviour problems or communication difficulties
• Service delivery and development for the above, e.g. reconfiguring services
• Ethical dilemmas of professionals

We have expertise in mixed methods; evaluation methods; secondary data analyses of big data.

If you are interested in doing a PhD with us, you can look for and contact potential supervisors using our CEDAR Staff Directory.

For informal enquiries please contact please contact Professor Kylie Gray K dot Gray dot 1 at warwick dot ac dot uk, the Director of PhD Studies.

You can also see our general University guidance about finding a supervisor.

Tuition fees

Tuition fees are payable for each year of your course at the start of the academic year, or at the start of your course, if later. Academic fees cover the cost of tuition, examinations and registration and some student amenities.

Taught course fees  Research course fees

Fee Status Guidance

We carry out an initial fee status assessment based on the information you provide in your application. Students will be classified as Home or Overseas fee status. Your fee status determines tuition fees, and what financial support and scholarships may be available. If you receive an offer, your fee status will be clearly stated alongside the tuition fee information.

Do you need your fee classification to be reviewed?

If you believe that your fee status has been classified incorrectly, you can complete a fee status assessment questionnaire. Please follow the instructions in your offer information and provide the documents needed to reassess your status.

Find out more about how universities assess fee status

Additional course costs

As well as tuition fees and living expenses, some courses may require you to cover the cost of field trips or costs associated with travel abroad.

For departmental specific costs, please see the Modules tab on the course web page for the list of core and optional core modules with hyperlinks to our Module Catalogue (please visit the Department’s website if the Module Catalogue hyperlinks are not provided).

Associated costs can be found on the Study tab for each module listed in the Module Catalogue (please note most of the module content applies to 2022/23 year of study). Information about module department specific costs should be considered in conjunction with the more general costs below:

• Core text books
• Printer credits
• Dissertation binding
• Robe hire for your degree ceremony

Scholarships and bursaries