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Introduction to ARRC and the DTC

Introductory meeting and reception y g p October 20 2011

Professor Andrew Webster Academic Coordinator Social Sciences

• 1. Alcuin Research Resource Centre

(ARRC)

Primarily a research facility accommodating PhD students, academic and support staff and a range of research facilities and equipment, as well as space for short‐term visiting researchers equipment, as well as space for short term visiting researchers

Will be ‘home’ to the DTC Academic Lead Department membership across the social sciences on campus with free access to facilities (CHE, CRD, Economics, Education , Health Sciences, Politics, SPSW (including its main centres – CHP, SPRU), York Management School, Sociology and Law External parties can book facilities for a fee Provide site for doctoral students to attend seminars ( l d 17 thi t ) d th ti d f ilit ti (already 17 this term) and other meetings, and facilitating the further development of inter‐disciplinary social science across the DTC.

Links to ARRC Links to ARRC

through an alignment of: …through an alignment of: the Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS at UoS) and the Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI ) ( ) Students/staff will be able to participate in a range of activities, networking and conference events and to access facilities, such as international videoconferencing, through visiting student status at the collaborating institutions A Virtual Graduate School will be developed across the 3 sites

• 2. The White Rose Doctoral
• 2. The White Rose Doctoral

Training Centre

B k d Background The ESRC has awarded 48 Studentships per annum for h fi h Whi R D l T i i the next five years to the White Rose Doctoral Training Centre – a collaboration between the Universities of L d Sh ffi ld d Y k ith Sh ffi ld th Leeds, Sheffield and York, with Sheffield as the administrative lead. A d i l d hi i j i t ll 3 i tit ti Academic leadership is joint across all 3 institutions. The WR bid was commended by peer reviewers for its t t i i i lid ll b ti f d ti d strategic vision, solid collaborative foundations, and the high quality of our research base and training l plans. The WR Social Sciences DTC is one of the largest DTCs g in the ESRC’s network of 21 centres.

Strategy and Vision St ategy a d s o ‐ train social sciences doctorates to meet the demands of future global challenges whether g g working within industry, academia or government t bli h t l f ibl hi h lit ‐ establish a catalogue of accessible high quality advanced, core and skills training provision across th Whit R i iti d th i the White Rose universities and the region ‐ co‐ordinate a range of events, activities and virtual communities of scholarship across our Universities

• ffer a structured pathway centred training

‐ offer a structured pathway‐centred training provision which address students’ needs, both methodologically and substantively methodologically and substantively

E i f P d T i i d Environment for Postgraduate Training and Development ‐ provide excellent virtual learning environments. This ill i l d t th Whit R i iti ’ will include access to the White Rose universities’ libraries and their exceptional collections and archives t t h to support research Whit R R h O li R it i f th ‐ White Rose Research Online Repository is one of the main regional research repositories in the UK… library di t t l l t f th ll b t directors meet regularly to further collaborate on collection management.

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Disciplinary Pathways Politics and International Relations Relations Sociology Social Policy Human Geography Human Geography Psychology Management and Business, A ti d Fi d Accounting and Finance, and Work Psychology

Disciplinary pathways Economics Education Socio-legal Studies Language-based Area Studies Social Work

Interdisciplinary Clusters International Development Planning Environment and Sustainability Linguistics and Language Sciences Social History Communication and Media Studies Communication and Media Studies

ESRC Challenge Clusters H lth d W llb i (2011 ) Health and Wellbeing (2011 -) Security, Conflict and Justice (2011- ) Science and Technology Studies (2012- ) Social Work (2012-) Demographic change & future challenges (2012 ) Demographic change & future challenges (2012-) Social order & urban unrest (2012- ) Advanced Quants – 4 per annum Blue = networks [ four new ones to start 2012 as shown above]

Three levels of training activity for PGRs: Three levels of training activity for PGRs: Generic cross DTC package of activity (summer

• Generic cross-DTC package of activity (summer

schools etc)

• Generic training programmes that each WR

university provides as a matter of course to students (e.g. one day events on impact, developing research grants, dissemination of results etc)

• Pathway specific activities mentioned in the

Pathway specific activities mentioned in the proposal (existing research training and subject specific modules at M-level) subject specific modules at M level)

Links to ARRC (2) re employability Links to ARRC (2) re employability…

through an alignment of: …through an alignment of: the Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS at UoS) and the Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI ) ( )

Systematically audit existing KE partners and work y y g p with partners to develop a catalogue of placement and internship opportunities for social science PGRs