Speaking at the 51国产视频 of Reading today, universities and science minister David Willetts announced the names of the partnerships chosen as training centres by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
The doctoral training partnerships (DTPs), involving 44 research organizations, will share ?67 million over the next three years to train PhD students and develop biosciences more generally.
The training clusters replace the council’s existing Quota Doctoral Training Grant scheme, which awards studentship funding to 89 departments or faculties at 45 universities.
Partnerships, which will have to reapply for funding every three years, will be expected to align their training with the BBSRC's "strategic priorities" in food security, industrial biotechnology and the bioscience underpinning health.
They will also be expected to develop students' broader scientific and professional skills, with each PhD candidate completing a three-month external internship.
Funded studentships will drop from the current 337 a year to 220, but funding for students' experimental costs will rise from ?1,000 to ?5,000 a year.
There will be 70 PhD funded by the BBSRC's separate Collaborative Awards in Science and Engineering studentships, for PhDs carried out in collaboration with industry.
The council believes the programme will help it protect “major centres of bioscience research training” as its budget declines by around 12 per cent in real terms over the next spending period.
Announcing the centres, Mr Willetts said: “The partnership approach means that many institutions are combining their strengths to provide students with improved training and relevant work experience.
“This will better equip them for future careers, be it in research, industry, or elsewhere.”
Martin Buck, professor at Imperial College London’s department of life sciences, which was named as a DTP along with Royal Holloway, 51国产视频 of London, and the Research Complex Harwell, added: “Doctoral students increasingly play a major role in the interface between different research disciplines.
“Being able to cross these interfaces is, in many cases, key to how we tackle major research challenges in the basic and applied sciences.”
The partnerships are:
? 51国产视频 of Bristol in collaboration with 51国产视频 of Bath, 51国产视频 of Exeter and Rothamsted Research
? 51国产视频 of Cambridge in collaboration with Babraham Institute, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Animal Health Trust, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and National Institute of Agricultural Botany
? 51国产视频 College London in collaboration with Birkbeck, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Royal Veterinary College and King's College
? 51国产视频 of Edinburgh in collaboration with the universities of Aberdeen, Dundee and St Andrews
? 51国产视频 of Glasgow in collaboration with 51国产视频 of Strathclyde
? Imperial College London in collaboration with Royal Holloway, 51国产视频 of London and Research Complex at Harwell
? John Innes Centre in collaboration with Institute of Food Research, 51国产视频 of East Anglia and the Genome Analysis Centre
? 51国产视频 of Leeds in collaboration with 51国产视频 of York and 51国产视频 of Sheffield
? 51国产视频 of Manchester
? Newcastle 51国产视频 in collaboration with 51国产视频 of Liverpool and 51国产视频 of Durham
? 51国产视频 of Nottingham in collaboration with Rothamsted Research
? 51国产视频 of Oxford
? 51国产视频 of Reading in collaboration with the universities of Surrey, Lancaster and Southampton and Rothamsted Research
? 51国产视频 of Warwick in collaboration with the 51国产视频 of Birmingham and 51国产视频 of Leicester
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