EPSRC University Doctoral Landscape Awards 2025 - 2027 - Assurance Questions

What the assessors are looking for in your response:

For this criterion, provision does not need to be specific to this award or coordinated across all EPSRC funded students, but institutions should ensure all students receive this experience.

Explain how you will use your university doctoral landscape award to:

• deliver the vision outlined for this doctoral training programme
  • what measures you have taken to create a student-centred programme
• embed a holistic approach to doctoral training and development that delivers high quality doctoral research, integrating in-depth subject knowledge, research and methodological skills, and wider skills development opportunities through collaboration with other partners
  • this should be in line with the UKRI statement of expectations for doctoral training
  • catalyse student research, and provide doctoral training and development of excellent quality and importance within, or beyond, the discipline, field or area
  • in-depth subject area training
  • deliver appropriate, tailored and innovative training, guidance and opportunities to enhance students’ wider research skills development. As appropriate for individual students, this should cover:
    • responsible research and innovation, ethics, reproducibility, research integrity and open research methodology
    • environmental sustainability
    • inclusive research and innovation culture
    • responsible and appropriate use of AI in research and innovation
    • data management and analytical skills
    • communication and project management skills
    • interdisciplinary working
    • public engagement skills
    • routes to impact including knowledge exchange, commercialisation, entrepreneurship
• prepare researchers to operate across interdisciplinary, collaborative and challenge-led environments
  • enable different routes for partners to participate in the collaboration, co-creation and delivery of student training
  • foster interdisciplinary collaboration and expand networks both within and beyond the research organisation disciplines and sectors, both nationally and, if applicable, internationally
• develop globally competitive researchers, able to use their skills to thrive across a diverse range of sectors and career paths
  • provide high-quality professional development options and careers advice to students throughout their training which recognises and promotes the diversity of careers
  • enable students to actively manage and direct their research and project training as well as their own professional and career development, working with and beyond their supervisory team, leading to improved awareness of the skills and experiences that would benefit their careers in a range of working environments across different sectors