Doctoral and Research Track
A research-led track for exceptional candidates. Tuition and awarding arrangements are being finalised.
A research-led track for exceptional candidates, by invitation and review. Supervision, awarding and residency arrangements are being finalised; we admit only where we can support genuinely rigorous research.
No passive lectures. A curriculum built for how the mind actually learns.
Every course runs as a live, high-intensity seminar. Preparation happens before class; class time is spent thinking, defending ideas and applying them. Progression is governed by demonstrated mastery — never by age or time served.
Engage independently with curated readings, problems and worked examples before every seminar.
Small live seminars built on structured discussion, argument and immediate faculty feedback — no lecturing.
Transfer each concept to real problems — ventures, research, systems and civic projects grounded in your own context.
Advance only when you can explain, defend and use what you know. Recorded oral explanation is central from the earliest years.
- Advanced methodology
- Literature and problem framing
- Supervisory fit and proposal
- Original, supervised research
- Milestone reviews
- Dissemination and defence
Transferable habits of thought, practised in every course
Rather than memorisation, Simo trains a durable set of thinking skills that transfer across subjects, industries and a lifetime. They are introduced early, revisited deliberately, and assessed continuously.
Logic, quantitative and algorithmic thinking to frame, decompose and solve problems.
Framing hypotheses, designing evidence, reading data and reaching defensible conclusions.
Writing, speaking, visual and multilingual expression that persuades and clarifies.
Multiple causality, trade-offs and second-order effects in complex human and technical systems.
Combining ideas across disciplines to produce original, useful and beautiful work.
Judgement under real stakes — responsibility, fairness and the human consequences of decisions.
- Research design
- Methodology
- Supervised research
An original, defended body of research. Tuition and awarding arrangements are confirmed individually as part of admission.
Research and academic careers.
By invitation and review.
We are actively building supervision capacity for African researchers. Express interest and we will contact you as places and funding are confirmed.
- Tuition to be confirmed until supervision, awarding, residency and partner costs are finalised.