…71 research fellows across our 15 university partners. Fellows led cutting-edge research in areas including boarder policing, cancer therapies, wind turbines, and gardening as a treatment for people with dementia! Our community of international alum come from 27 nations and have published over 150 academic manuscripts and presented at over 200 conferences. The Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) team coordinated over 50 in-person and online events,…
…e professionals – and would be a very useful tool when social distancing is required, as during the pandemic, where traditional one-to-one therapy becomes difficult”….
…ce on Energy and Sustainable Futures, collaborated across the cohorts to co-deliver at The Street-Level Bureaucracy Conference, as well as a whole host of other dissemination activities. Our new DTA videos provide a small sample of the Fellows’ enthusiasm for tackling real world challenges and their drive to make a difference. The energy and passion they put into their research, training and networking is inspiring. It was wonderful to see Surya i…
…central to the hope that this country’s recovery will be driven by cutting-edge research and innovation. Through our focus on applied research, knowledge exchange and innovation, we are working towards ensuring a fairer, greener, healthier, more prosperous, and resilient UK. Alliance universities are home to some of the most talented, dedicated, and innovative researchers in the country, and many are already working to respond to the immediate an…
…diences for Tweet Your Thesis and submitting an image representing their research for the DTA Exhibition of Research. The participants were also encouraged to share the images that captured the wonderful moments they have had during the summer schools. These images were later considered for the DTA Photo Competition. This video provides an overview of the training opportunities offered by the Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA). On the first day, we…
…right place unless there is a joint effort to effect a change. Coordinated delivery Delivering an ambitious workforce plan in a financially challenging environment will require new creative ways of working – how can the existing workforce be reskilled, or services be reorganised? The renewed emphasis on prevention will necessitate new healthcare and non-healthcare roles. To deliver on the plan’s promise, workforce planning at every level must invo…
…ugh these they can then create the informal connections to receive the peer-to-peer support that may become vital for their wellbeing. Develop strong representation systems While it is great that Student Unions (SUs) cover postgraduate representation, I know from my own experience that undergraduate-focused SUs are not the best place for PhD issues to be actively listened to. PhD students need dedicated representation systems and the issues they r…
…sector, this speculative atmosphere has been compounded by the successive delays of the ‘Post-18 funding review’. Arriving as it did in a “political vacuum”, following the resignation of its chief proponent, the report’s release provided few assurances. In fact, I believe if implemented it would return HE access to the preserve of the most privileged in society, at a time when we should be championing higher participation rates, not lower. Headli…
…ved it has provided us the chance to interact and collaborate with other researchers from different countries and research areas across different universities. The various training programs, workshops and summer/winter/autumn schools conducted by DTA had always encouraged and facilitated such interactions. Also, being a part of H2020 program means all the projects are directly addressing the major societal challenges. The programme constantly work…
…ummer School, we received advice on topics such as grants and funding, post-doctoral opportunities, research impact, generating public engagement and community involvement in research, transitioning to industry, and developing start-ups. These events also offer the opportunity to network and collaborate. At the Spring School earlier this year I was able to witness this first hand, meeting a student from UCLan who is looking into the relationship b…
