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ESRC Doctoral Training Centres and Advanced Training

ESRC Doctoral Training Centres and Advanced Training. Dr Paul Meller, Economic and Social Research Council. Overview. The DTCs – a quick introduction The Advanced Training Network: Background and aims Progress Consultation Next steps and how you can help. The DTC Network.

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ESRC Doctoral Training Centres and Advanced Training

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  1. ESRC Doctoral Training Centres and Advanced Training Dr Paul Meller, Economic and Social Research Council

  2. Overview • The DTCs – a quick introduction • The Advanced Training Network: • Background and aims • Progress • Consultation • Next steps and how you can help

  3. The DTC Network Doctoral Training Centre (single institution) Doctoral Training Centre (collaborative)

  4. The Network: Key Facts • 21 DTCs • 47 institutions • Nearly 300 pathway clusters • Nearly 700 individual pathways • Institutional accreditation and DTG payment • ‘Investment management’ approach • Key aims: • Excellence in training (core, advanced, transferable) • Flexibility and innovation in use of funds • Collaboration (between institutions and with non-academic organisations) • Embedding transferable skills

  5. The first cohort… • Students started October 2011 • Received Start Up Reports November 2011: • 600 notionally allocated • 645 actually awarded for 2011/12 (8% increase) • Over half the network awarding above their allocation • Steers to DTCs generally met or exceeded • Benchmarks for Economics, AQM and Interdisciplinary PhDs met or exceeded • Evidence of successful collaborations and generation of co-funding • New pathways • Flexibility • Innovation

  6. ESRC Advanced Training Network • Aims of the Advanced Training Network • Linking investments together • Opening up and facilitating access • Encouraging greater scope and variety • Encouraging innovation • Engagement with the wider academic community

  7. ESRC Advanced Training Network • What has been achieved so far? • ATWG • Mapping of investments • Bursary and guidance • Online portal (NCRM)

  8. ESRC Advanced Training Network • Next steps? • Consultation • Analysis • Commissioning • Ongoing development of the Network

  9. Further information • To take part in the ESRC Advanced Training Consultation please Google ‘ESRC Advanced Training Consultation’ or visit our website • The survey itself can be completed at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ESRC_Advanced_Training_Consultation • For further information about the resources available to postgraduate researchers please visit: • http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/guidance/postgraduates/ • Or please email me: Paul.Meller@esrc.ac.uk

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