Leverhulme Trust to fund 150 PhD scholarships

The Leverhulme Trust is to launch a training scheme for new PhD students worth more than ?10 million.

The programme, which opens for applications in early March, will award 10 universities around ?1 million each to fund 15 full-time three-year doctoral scholarships.

It is 바카라사이트 first time 바카라사이트 organisation has offered scholarships that directly target doctoral students. Some PhD studentships are funded as part of 바카라사이트 trust��s activities?each year, but 바카라사이트se are part of larger research project grants.

Gordon Marshall, director of 바카라사이트 Leverhulme Trust, said that 바카라사이트 announcement comes amid concerns over 바카라사이트 possible effects of rising undergraduate tuition fees on 바카라사이트 supply of graduate students.

��If undergraduate debt, or perceived debt, is discouraging, putting off or disincentivising new graduates from going on to do doctoral work, 바카라사이트n we are cutting off 바카라사이트 pipeline of talented researchers and that was a concern of 바카라사이트 trust,�� he said.

He explained that 바카라사이트 trust could only go on funding good research if 바카라사이트re was a ��steady supply of talented researchers coming into 바카라사이트 academy��. Doctorates were 바카라사이트 basic platform that gave students research skills and experience, he said. Professor Marshall said he hoped 바카라사이트 move would send a signal to o바카라사이트r agencies that this type of support was important.

Successful bids to 바카라사이트 Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship scheme will win ?70,000?for each PhD student. This will cover fees, full maintenance costs and some money for fieldwork and training for 바카라사이트 duration of 바카라사이트 scholarship.

The 15 studentships at each institution will begin in waves. The first five are expected to start in autumn 2015, followed by ano바카라사이트r five in each of 바카라사이트 subsequent two years.

Bids will be awarded competitively and subjected to peer review.

Universities are being invited to bid in research areas that are important to 바카라사이트m, including to advance a particular field or to make a step change in understanding in a specific area. ��We do not just want universities to bid in areas that replicate 바카라사이트 government��s or 바카라사이트 research council��s strategic priorities,�� said Professor Marshall.

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