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  1. Reflections on the DTA programme, fellows and new videos

    September 28, 2022

    …ave developed in their skills and their passion for their project work. Recruiting internationally has brought together researchers from across the world; our DTA3 cohort has representation from 27 different countries. The global reach of the programme has grown and grown as our student body has gone from strength to strength. With lives turned upside down by the pandemic it has been an extraordinarily difficult two years for most people, and the…

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  2. University Alliance ‘20 in 2020′

    December 17, 2020

    …which was signed by 70 universities and businesses and covered in-depth on BBC Newsnight. 5. The Doctoral Training Alliance went virtual, delivering four online residential events and 55% more elective workshops than previous years (21 in total) on a range of subjects, including research skills, wellbeing, motivation, presentation and influencing skills to name a few. DTA researchers were given the opportunity to showcase their research to the wid…

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  3. Why degree apprenticeships deserve your attention

    February 5, 2024

    …gland and Wales and delivered mostly by universities (including the ground-breaking Police Education Consortium). However, this has been destabilised through a frustrating policy disconnect within government following the Home Office decision to end the compulsory roll-out of police degrees and statements promoting non-degree routes for policing. 2. There are choppy waters ahead We should not assume that on the current trajectory, the growth or ma…

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  4. We must support the diversification of academia’s media face

    August 30, 2021

    …t direction, says Professor Vini Lander The recent appearance on the BBC’s Newsnight programme of Stanley Johnson, the prime minister’s father, as an “environmentalist” caused quite a stir. After all, the UK’s universities are full of academics admirably well qualified to comment on the climate crisis. Why hadn’t the BBC given one of them a call? But even if it had, it is likely that the figure the producers plumped for, while better qualified tha…

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  5. Stronger Together: Building A University Alliance For The Future

    May 10, 2019

    …y platform, setting out a bold agenda. We’ve got a history of working constructively with policymakers behind the scenes, while advocating, arguing and lobbying hard for our 21 full and programme members. And we run great initiatives, including our Doctoral Training Alliance, which has supported hundreds of PhD scholars since 2015. But we can’t stand still. I want to get away from the old-fashioned, hierarchical outlook within higher education, wh…

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  6. How Coventry University Group are driving ‘challenge-led innovation’

    February 23, 2024

    …ected in our mission of creating better futures. Identifying emerging real-world challenges and delivering innovative solutions to the world’s societal and economic needs is vital in us achieving this. Embracing Coventry University Group’s commitment to impactful, transdisciplinary and challenge-led research is therefore of paramount importance. As Director of the Innovation Ecosystem, I lead a specialist team dedicated to supporting pre-commercia…

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  7. The DTA is Intersectoral- Part 2

    January 14, 2020

    …en from over 150 PhD students and early career researchers from around the world. Participants attended from the world’s leading universities and industrial organisations including Berkley, MIT, Imperial, Rolls Royce, Mitsubishi and the International Atomic Energy Agency. The two weeks kicked off with an icebreaker challenge, to construct the tallest possible spaghetti structure, which could hold the weight of a marshmallow, which my team won. At…

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  8. AUGAR: Our CEO Vanessa Wilson Sets Out Her Initial Thoughts

    May 30, 2019

    …not be at the cost of HE. Universities are not awash with cash, with many finance departments walking a fine tightrope. It only takes one upset to see institutions face financial ruin. One of the greatest fears is that it could do just that, if students decide to defer entry to take advantage of a £7,500 fee in future. So University Alliance will be making the joint-case for sustained funding across the board, targeting funding where it is needed…

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  9. Celebrating the very best of DTA creativity and research talent at the Images of Research Awards

    October 21, 2020

    …for older adults. Cecilia Gialdini (Social Policy, Ulster University) was runner up for the judges with ‘Linguistic justice for the world’ which conveyed her research about how states implement just and fair language policies. The winner of the People’s Choice was Ifrah Mussa (Energy, Kingston University), whose image ‘The snow never bothered me anyway!’ (pictured below) taken while at the WinterWind 2020 conference in Sweden, was inspired by her…

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  10. Our welcome note to the new Prime Minister

    July 23, 2019

    …study work visas. Our university system is world-class and the envy of the world. It educates and has educated the world’s greatest leaders including of course you and almost every politician, across every party. It has enabled some of the world’s greatest brains and creative talents to thrive and inspire the world over. But it’s important to remember that this talent comes not just from the towering spires of Oxbridge but from campuses and classr…

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