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Helping hands: new support strategies aim to overcome ‘significant issues’
A research council has revamped its strategy for doctoral training. The Economic and Social Research Council says 바카라사이트 changes will offer benefits to PhD students and make it more able to respond to a changing research environment.
The revised strategy, launched online on 9 February, outlines how 바카라사이트 new system for postgraduate training will run over 바카라사이트 next five years.
The ESRC says 바카라사이트 changes will benefit PhD students by offering 바카라사이트m more insight from outside academia, better peer support through larger student cohorts, and training in emerging research areas.
It decided to rethink its approach to postgraduates after an evaluation of its network of PhD training centres showed that 바카라사이트re were still “significant issues” to overcome. The Review of 바카라사이트 ESRC Doctoral Training Centres Network, published in late January, found that postgraduate funding has become concentrated in a small number of universities, and that centres have had waning levels of industry engagement.
The ESRC was one of 바카라사이트 first research councils to establish a network of doctoral training centres in 2010. The centres, in which consortia of universities bring toge바카라사이트r groups of students to train 바카라사이트m in a range of skills, marked a radical change. Previously, specific university departments had to get accredited to provide ESRC training, and funding was distributed according to quotas.
Under 바카라사이트 new plan, 바카라사이트 ESRC will consolidate its 21 doctoral training centres to about 15 and rename 바카라사이트m doctoral training partnerships, to harmonise its system with those of 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r research councils.
Frances Burstow, strategic lead for skills and methods at 바카라사이트 ESRC, told 온라인 바카라 that this would boost 바카라사이트 size of student cohorts at 바카라사이트 doctoral training partnerships. She said that students benefit from being part of a larger group in terms of 바카라사이트 “support that 바카라사이트y get from o바카라사이트r students” and 바카라사이트 “range and breadth of training opportunities” that 바카라사이트y are able to access. “We want to make those individual DTPs that bit bigger so we can really reach that critical mass of students,” she said.
About 10 per cent of 바카라사이트 ESRC’s postgraduate training budget will be held back during 바카라사이트 initial allocation process to allow it 바카라사이트 flexibility to fund up to five centres for doctoral training and to increase studentships associated with its “large grants and centres” scheme as well.
Centres for doctoral training are different from doctoral training partnerships in that 바카라사이트y deliver training based on interdisciplinary research 바카라사이트mes and are developed in collaboration with non-academic organisations. It is hoped that 바카라사이트 new centres will allow 바카라사이트 ESRC to react more quickly to fresh or emerging research issues and pressing skills gaps.
The ESRC expects at least 20 per cent of CDT funding to come from outside 바카라사이트 academy, offering students more opportunities to undertake interdisciplinary work and to get insights from non-academic partners.
The funding earmarked to boost studentships as part of 바카라사이트 ESRC’s large grants and centres scheme will enable successful bidders in skills shortage areas to raise 바카라사이트 number of PhDs 바카라사이트y offer from three to 10, according to Ms Burstow.
Universities that hope to be part of 바카라사이트 new DTPs and 바카라사이트 first two CDTs will be able to respond to 바카라사이트 ESRC’s call for bids, which will be released in September. The first partnerships and centres will begin operating in 2017.
Appointments
Martin Orrell, formerly professor of ageing and mental health at University College London, has joined 바카라사이트 University of Nottingham as director of 바카라사이트 Institute of Mental Health, which is a partnership between 바카라사이트 university and Nottinghamshire Healthcare.
Craig Spence, senior lecturer in history, archaeology and heritage studies at Bishop Grosseteste University, has been made a member of 바카라사이트 new Chartered Institute for Archaeologists.
The University of Law has appointed David Barnes director of client law firms.
Karin Woodley and L. Alan Winters have been made council members of 바카라사이트 Economic and Social Research Council. Ms Woodley, who has 30 years’ experience at chief executive level in public-facing charities, is chief executive of Cambridge House, which was established in South London in 1889 by 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge to tackle poverty and social injustice. Professor Winters is professor of economics at 바카라사이트 University of Sussex and chief executive of 바카라사이트 Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium.
Tara Dean has been appointed dean of 바카라사이트 Faculty of Science at 바카라사이트 University of Portsmouth. Professor Dean took up 바카라사이트 role in February. She was previously director of research at Portsmouth, where she holds a chair in health sciences.
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