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Doctoral Training Partnerships

Excellent postgraduate training supporting BBSRC's strategic mission for the biosciences, delivered through a balanced and manageable number of key training partnerships, and enhanced by engagement with BBSRC

Next application deadline: TBC opening October 2013, closing date June 2014

Summary

Institutions or multi-institutional collaborations can apply to become Doctoral Training Partners with us. Our Doctoral Training Partners will provide PhD training to support our Strategic Plan (see related link), and will receive a Training Grant to support three cohorts of 4-year studentships.

Our Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) scheme is a revision of the previous Quota Doctoral Training Grants scheme, and is one of a number of our schemes to support doctoral training. 

Funding available

The partnerships work with us to ensure PhD students are trained in areas aligning with our Strategic Plan, and that strategically-important skill areas are addressed.

The current awards support a total of 220 four-year studentships p.a. for three intakes from October 2012 and are awarded as single profiled training grants. The funding for each student's experimental costs has increased from £1k to £5k annually. Each student will take a three-month internship during their PhD, to experience working in an area not directly related to their PhD project.

The normal flexibility of research council training grants applies, enabling institutions to part-fund studentships from other sources.

Eligibility

• Research Organisations either individually or in collaboration must be eligible for BBSRC funding
• Research Organisation(s) must hold a minimum of £5M annual BBSRC research grant spend
• Proposals must be either institution-wide or multi-institutional, where it is anticipated that the majority of DTPs awarded will be multi-institutional and that a Research Organisation can only submit one proposal as lead applicant

For more information see 'eligibility criteria overview and eligible organisations' in related links.

DTP allocations 2012-2014

Lead research organisation	Partner research organisation(s)	Name of lead applicant	Nominal total number of studentship awards per year	Number of studentships by strategic research area (per year)
				Food Security	Bioenergy & Industrial Biotechnology	Basic Bioscience Underpinning Health	World Class Underpinning Bioscience	Enabling theme: Exploiting New Ways of Working (underpins all strategic research areas)
Bristol	Bath, Exeter, Rothamsted	Professor Alistair Hetherington	14	5	0	0	9	14
Cambridge	Babraham, EMBL-EBI, Animal Health Trust, WT Sanger Institute, NIAB	Professor Sir David Baulcombe	20	5	3	3	9	16
Edinburgh	Aberdeen, Dundee, St Andrews	Dr Caroline Victoria Proctor	24	6	4	2	12	12
Glasgow	Strathclyde	Professor Margaret MacLean	10	3	1	1	5	9
Imperial College	Royal Holloway, Research Complex at Harwell	Professor Martin Buck	15	3	5	1	6	14
John Innes Centre	IFR, East Anglia, TGAC	Professor Mike Merrick	13	6	3	0	4	12
Leeds	York, Sheffield	Professor Nigel Mark Hooper	20	4	5	0	11	18
Manchester	none	Dr Anna Lawless	21	0	8	1	12	21
Newcastle	Liverpool, Durham	Professor Barry Hirst	15	5	0	3	7	13
Nottingham	Rothamsted	Professor Jerry Roberts	19	6	7	0	6	10
Oxford	none	Professor Mark Sansom	10	2	2	1	5	6
Reading	Surrey, Lancaster, Southampton, Rothamsted	Professor Richard Tiffin	6	6	0	0	0	5
University of College London	Birkbeck, LSHTM, Royal Vet College, King's College, School of Pharmacy	Dr John Carroll	18	2	3	1	12	14
Warwick	Birmingham, Leicester	Professor Jacqueline Labbe	15	6	3	0	6	11
		Total	220	59	44	13	104	172

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