[Cdtwebsciencealumni] Join a focus group and share your experiences of your doctoral training

[websciencecdt]

Dear all,
If you’d like to contribute to the EPSRC’s Doctoral Review by sharing your experiences as DTC / CDT students, see below for further details about their focus group.
All best
Alison
=============
Dear DTC / CDT alumni,
EPSRC is looking to invite recent alumni to participate in a focus group (small discussion group) about their experiences as EPSRC funded doctoral students and its impact on their careers. If you completed your EPSRC funded doctorate in the last five years, we would like to hear about your experience.
The focus group is being held on the 15 July 2021, 15.00 – 16.30.
If you would like to participate, please provide your contact details here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/EPSRCfocusgroup<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.surveymonkey.co.uk%2Fr%2FEPSRCfocusgroup&data=04%7C01%7Ccdtwebsciencealumni%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C0fc052f0abea4d3d03fe08d9317cf789%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0%7C0%7C637595235330892538%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=%2F8wp5sa6Q7mcdhX%2Bo8NVzB9y6cZRRXev5amnKE%2Bano4%3D&reserved=0>
The focus group is being run by Vitae and they will be in contact with participants. If you have questions about the focus group, please email enquiries at vitae.ac.uk<mailto:enquiries at vitae.ac.uk>
This focus group will feed into EPSRC’s review of doctoral education, which is looking to understand the current state of play regarding how EPSRC support doctoral researchers and make recommendations for the future (more information below). Your input to the focus group will be a valuable contribution to the review.
Kind Regards,
Shyeni Paul
Senior Portfolio Manager – EDI & People
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Pronouns: She/Her
[cid:image001.png at 01D76359.56303CC0]


Review of EPSRC’s Doctoral Education Support

EPSRC is carrying out the review in order to check that the doctoral education we support, enables the recipient to acquire the skills and knowledge needed for the careers, that doctoral student’s take-up, now and in the future.
The review itself will be covering the following five areas:

  *   The value of doctoral education: to the individual and their career, to the research landscape and to employers
  *   Skills and Experiences: What skills and experiences should be provided by a doctorate
  *   Student Population: how to enable a more diverse student population, including increased mobility between academia and industry
  *   How the doctorate is provided: including different qualifications, ways of providing the doctoral experience and how support is provided.
  *   Ways of identifying, developing and responding to strategic priorities: how can the landscape respond to changing directions and needs.
The review is being carried out in two phases. The first phase is to understand what outcomes in terms of knowledge, experience and skills should be supported through EPSRC doctoral training investments. This phase of the review is mechanism agnostic to ensure that EPSRC is developing recommendations which are truly forward looking and not bound by the constraints of the current mechanisms. We are also not looking to develop research-area specific priorities or recommendations as we want to ensure that the recommendations are inclusive and future proofed.
The second phase will develop recommendations for EPSRC’s future approach to doctoral investments, in the context of direction in UKRI and the national funding landscape. This will occur over the second half of 2021.
During the first phase EPSRC is gathering evidence from the community to help us develop recommendations for what outcomes in terms of knowledge, experience and skills should be supported through EPSRC doctoral training investments regardless of investment mechanism or topic area.  Methods include workshops, a community survey, data analysis, literature survey and strategic conversations. The recommendations will be developed in consultation with members of EPSRC’s Strategic Advisory Network and Council and will be released in the summer of 2021

This email and any attachments are intended solely for the use of the named recipients. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, copy or distribute this email or any of its attachments and should notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise risk of this email or any attachments containing viruses or malware but the recipient should carry out its own virus and malware checks before opening the attachments. UKRI does not accept any liability for any losses or damages which the recipient may sustain due to presence of any viruses. Opinions, conclusions or other information in this message and attachments that are not related directly to UKRI business are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of UKRI.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/cdtwebsciencealumni/attachments/20210617/8b3681e1/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 21890 bytes
Desc: image001.png
Url : http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/cdtwebsciencealumni/attachments/20210617/8b3681e1/attachment-0001.png