ESRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) Student Survey 2025

Data Protection and Privacy Notice 

All personal data collected via this survey will be handled in line with UK data protection legislation and managed securely. If you would like to know more about how UK Research and Innovation processes personal data, including how to exercise your Rights, please see our privacy notice - Privacy notice – UKRI. 

The survey is anonymous, with only the name of your institution/CDT being requested. We do not collect any personal data that will directly or indirectly identify yourself as an individual. In addition, please do not include any personal data that will directly or indirectly identify another individual in your free text responses. We encourage you to take part in the survey, however, participation is optional. 

You do have the option to request a copy of your responses at the end of the Survey by sharing your email address with Citizen Space (the survey platform). This information will not be shared with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).  

An anonymised versions of the responses will be available to ESRC on Citizen Space in order to conduct our national level research and analysis. ESRC will then share an aggregated and anonymised version of the results of the survey with CDTs for the purpose of providing feedback and identifying any priority areas for future engagement. CDTs are informed of the number of responses per institution and the number of responses per year of study in order to add some context to the feedback that is provided. Individual responses to the survey are not fed back to the CDTs.  Aggregated data may be published on the ESRC website.