DTA Blog
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The DTA Rep committee: who are we and how can we help?The new DTA reps introduce themselves and explain how they can help fellow DTA researchers. |
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Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) case study: Ana Tendero CañadasIn this video, Ana tells us about her project on the ageing of the human bladder, and how she has found the DTA network beneficial in advancing her professional skills […] |
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Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) case study: Surya MaruthupandianIn this video, Surya tells us about her project turning waste into construction materials and the benefits of being part of the DTA community “I am Surya […] |
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DTA Summer School 2022 – Three days of Celebration, Collaboration and Community“After two years of online events, the Doctoral Training Alliance brought together cohorts from its four interdisciplinary (Applied Biosciences for Health, Social Policy, Energy and Future […] |
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DTA Tweet Your Thesis 2022To mark the start of the Summer School week, on Monday 4 July DTA held the 2022 Tweet Your Thesis competition. […] |
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DTA Exhibition of Research 2022 – Winners and Runners UpAlongside the 2022 Summer School, DTA held an Exhibition of Research […] |
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The DTA Rep Committee 21/22: We talk with you; We talk for youInnovating PGR Representation for the DTA programmes […] |
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DTA National Director Elected to Charity BoardProfessor Elena Gaura, lead for Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences research at the university, joins the board […] |
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DTA Rep Committee 2021/22The DTA Rep committee for 2021/22 have now been appointed. The DTA Researcher Representative Committee play an important role in enhancing the DTA community […] |
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How to deal with PhD uncertainties and become a resilient researcherWhen I started my PhD in 2019, my dream was to be out in the field. I was delighted to have been selected for a DTA3 MSCA funded project that included international fieldwork […] |
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DTA Summer School 2021 – coming together to explore interdisciplinarityUniversity Alliance’s Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) delivers structured PhD training opportunities to attract and nurture research talent across Alliance universities and partner institutions […] |
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From Bengaluru to Middlesbrough: what it’s like to start a PhD during a pandemic as an international researcherIn March 2020, I was due to move from Bengaluru to Middlesbrough, where I would be studying at Teesside University, to start my PhD. Needless to say, this didn’t go to plan […] |
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How volunteering for the NHS helped me become a pandemic-resilient PGR (and introduced me to the Queen!)As a doctoral researcher, I found myself in a lonely place at the beginning of the pandemic, wallowing in self-pity about the impact the pandemic was having on my research, […] |
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The DTA celebrates International Women’s Day 2021 with an ‘in conversation with’ talkTo celebrate International Women’s Day 2021, the DTA brought together four women in leadership roles within the programme, who are at different stages of their career. Following […] |
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Groundhog Day: Managing motivation when working from HomeKatheryn Margaret Pascoe DTA3 Social Policy Researcher and DTA Rep Committee Co-Chair Ulster University @PascoeKm Like many of us completing PhDs here in the UK, I have been working from […] |
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The DTA Rep Committee: Amplifying the voice of PhD researchersBy Social Policy Reps Katheryn Margaret Pascoe & April Murray Cantwell During the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic, elections were held to establish the very first representative committee for DTA […] |
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DTA3 Year in Review2020 – A third extraordinary year for DTA3 Written by Heather Bennett, Deputy Head of Doctoral Training programmes It might be a cliché to define 2020 as an extraordinary year, […] |
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We need more than workshops to support the wellbeing of PhD researchersThis blog first appeared in the Higher Education Policy Institute on 27 November 2020. It is written by University Alliance’s programmes Administrator Dr Ellie Crabtree, who supports the […] |
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DTA Images of Research Awards winners reflect on their achievementsThe Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) recently held its Images of Research 2020 competition awards, showcasing the very best of Alliance universities early career research talent and creativity in […] |
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3 Years in 3 minutes: DTA student success in the 3MTIfrah Mussa, a third year DTA student from Kingston University, shares her experience in taking part in the Vitae 3 Minute Thesis competition and reaching the semi finals. I first […]
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The DTA is Intersectoral – Part 4Dr Vladimir Vukovic, Deputy Director of the Energy research stream within UA’s Doctoral Training Alliance relates his experience working across both academia and industry, and the benefits this has […] |
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The DTA is Intersectoral – Part 3UCLan DTA3 researcher, Arantza Cobela Garcia, discusses her research and how the Doctoral Training Alliance has helped her apply it to real world problems, crossing the boundary between academia […] |
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The DTA is Intersectoral – Part 2Doctoral Training Alliance researcher SreeHarsha Bandaru writes about his experience of crossing the divide between academia and industry, at the Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp, and how being part of […] |
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The DTA is Intersectoral – Part 1In part one of the series hear from two of our researchers on their experience working with industry and the benefits this has brought to their academic careers […] |
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The DTA is International – Part 2Second year DTA student Ifrah Mussa, outlines her experience of studying internationally, on placement in China, during her PhD. |
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The DTA is International – Part 1In the first part of our DTA is International series, hear from some of the DTA’s current students on why the international element of the programme is so important. |
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The DTA Biosciences Summer SchoolAna’s thoughts on her first DTA Biosciences summer school. |
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A Snapshot of ScienceDTA Bioscience researchers describe their PhDs in just one image. |
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The DTA on ScreenUniversity Alliance launches a film about its flagship programme the Doctoral Training Alliance. |