ESW Seminar Series
CHEER
Monday 28th January, 5pm
Room 104, Fulton
Speaker
Dr David Mills, Director of Graduate Studies,
Department of Education, University of Oxford,
presents:
Managing (or trying to manage) Uncertainty:
Making sense of Doctoral Training ‘Centres’
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In this seminar, Dr Mills will address the changing ways in which the UK’s
research councils organise and fund research training in universities, with a
particular focus on Doctoral Training Centres (DTCs) funded by the Economic
and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Responding to the policy targets and funding constraints placed on them by
Government, the UK research councils now define themselves not just as
funders but as ‘empowered’ partners, actively working with their chosen
‘network’ of universities to reshape research training provision nationally.
Engaging with recent work on the governance of science to explore the role of
complexity in this policy process, Dr Mills will draw on interviews with academic
managers of the ESRC DTCs, describing their diverse responses to fluidity
and unpredictability, and the implications for institutional autonomy and
national doctoral training ‘policy’.
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This seminar can be joined remotely by logging on to:
https://connectpro.sussex.ac.uk/cheer_dmills28jan13
This seminar will also be recorded and available to view retrospectively
at:
www.sussex.ac.uk/education/newsandevents/events/seminarscurrent