Our EaStCHEM Joint Research School was formed by the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews in 2004 to combine the research activities of two of Scotland’s leading schools of chemistry. EaStCHEM now provides the largest chemistry research unit in the UK.In the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), EaStCHEM was one of only three chemistry units to achieve a 100% ''world-leading'' score for our research environment. This result rewards our:provision of state-of-the-art facilitiesrecruitment of high-quality academic, research and professional services staffcollaboration across disciplines and with industry partnerssupport for career developmentnurturing of talentREF 2021 also assessed >99% of our research outputs as either ''world-leading'' or ''internationally excellent'' and 100% of the economic, social and environmental benefit in our impact case studies to be ''outstanding'' or ''very considerable''.In addition to gaining research skills, making friends, meeting eminent researchers and being part of the research community, a research degree will help you to develop invaluable transferable skills which you can apply to academic life or a variety of professions outside of academia.