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UK GRAD Programme: Good Practice Workshop: 8 January 2003

UK GRAD Programme: Good Practice Workshop: 8 January 2003. Michael Jubb Director of Policy and Programmes Arts and Humanities Research Board. Aims of AHRB’s Postgraduate Programme.

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UK GRAD Programme: Good Practice Workshop: 8 January 2003

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  1. UK GRAD Programme: Good Practice Workshop:8 January 2003 • Michael Jubb • Director of Policy and Programmes • Arts and Humanities Research Board

  2. Aims of AHRB’s Postgraduate Programme • to provide support for high-calibre students of proven ability to enable them to pursue high-quality courses of postgraduate study in the arts and humanities • to enable students of exceptional ability to pursue and bring to completion programmes of doctoral research that will make significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge and understanding • to support the provision of high-quality research training for students as part of a programme of preparation for an academic or other research career • to support the provision to students of high-quality training in high-grade professional, vocational, scholarly, analytical and other skills that they will use in a wide variety of employment and other contexts, enriching their own lives and the lives of others

  3. Characteristics of Postgraduate Research in the Arts and Humanities • Wide range of disciplines: philosophy, history, languages, music, art and design • Predominant individual mode of research at both postgraduate and more advanced levels • Team-based research relatively rare • Importance nevertheless of the research environment • Large numbers of part-time as well as full-time research students • Fierce competition for places and awards

  4. Institutions and Research Training in Arts and Humanities • Wide range of HEIs • ‘monotechnics’: RCM, RCA, RSAMD • pre-1992 universities: multi-faculty and research intensive • post-1992 universities; relatively stronger in arts and humanities than in many other subject areas • Large numbers of HEIs • 161 history departments/faculties • 115 art and design departments/faculties • Concentration of AHRB awards • awards at >70 HEIs • 75 per cent of awards in 18-20 HEIs

  5. Research Training in the Arts and Humanities • One of the focuses of an AHRB review of its postgraduate programme • Background context of Roberts Review, Funding Councils Review, New Route PhD etc • Traditional emphasis on student-supervisor relationship, and provision of research seminars • Increasing provision of research training courses, generic either to the arts and humanities or more widely

  6. A Framework of Research Training Requirements: 1 • Focused on twin outcomes of doctoral research • a high-quality contribution to knowledge and understanding • a person with high-level skills, competences, knowledge and understanding • Based on an assessment of needs, generic, specific and individual

  7. A Framework of Research Training Requirements: 2 • Need for • Subject and disciplinary knowledge, understanding, skills and competences • Generic knowledge, understanding, skills and competences • Need to recognise • Preparation, development and training both before and during the course of the research • Close relationships between • research and training • methodologies and content • the generic and the specific • Regular and rigorous evaluation of achievement

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