TRANS-DOC Closing Seminar 15 th October 2012 The PhD in Europe Dr Conor O’Carroll

Piled higher and deeper!

Principles of Innovative Doctoral Training 1) Research Excellence 2) Attractive Institutional Environment 3) Interdisciplinary Research Options 4) Exposure to industry and other relevant employment sectors 5) International networking 6) Transferable skills training 7) Quality Assurance – PhD Life Cycle

PIDT - Background Steering Group on Human Resources and Mobility + Stakeholders (EUA, ESF, LERU, EURODOC) Report published in 2011 The mapping study will continue this year with a series of site visits looking at existing practice Pilot programmes in Marie Curie Actions – European Industrial Doctorate – Innovative Doctoral Programmes

This workforce is necessary to support our capacity to out- innovate, out-create,and out-think the rest of the world and to create jobs of the future for the American populace. It is people — highly skilled people — that provide the competitive advantage across industries and sectors around the world. The highly skilled intellectual talent needed to fuel the U.S. competitive advantage in the global economy is prepared in our nation’s graduate schools.

... yet the perceived value of a graduate degree is tied to insufficient information about viable careers.

Science PhD Career Preferences: Levels, Changes, and Advisor Encouragement Henry Sauermann1*, Michael Roach21 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 2 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America PLoS ONE | 1May 2012 | Volume 7 | Issue 5 | e36307

Bottom Line Based on Salzburg I & II Principles It is important to be clear at this point that the core component of doctoral training is the advancement of knowledge through original research.

Principles of Innovative Doctoral Training 1) Research Excellence 2) Attractive Institutional Environment 3) Interdisciplinary Research Options 4) Exposure to industry and other relevant employment sectors 5) International networking 6) Transferable skills training 7) Quality Assurance – PhD Life Cycle

PIDT in Action Structured PhD’s – do they work?

Irish Universities Study Response to question, “Before you began your PhD, did you have an in depth discussion with your primary supervisor or co-supervisor regarding your project?” against year of PhD (2010)

Likelihood of Producing the Following PhD Outputs in a Structured PhD Programme compared to ‘traditional’ PhD Irish Universities Study

Bio-Analysis & Therapeutics Structured PhD Programme Bio-AT Provision of high quality, flexible graduates for entry into nationally significant sectors of the economy Mainstreaming of structured graduate training at the partner institutions

International Doctorate in Global Health (Indigo) Run by International Doctoral School in Global Health Coordinated by Centre for Global Health Directed by Prof Malcolm MacLachlan Centre for Global Health & School of Psychology Managed by Dr Ogenna Uduma Centre for Global Health

Partners University of Malawi (Malawi) The Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa) The Council on Health Research for Development (Switzerland) Harvard University (USA) Columbia University (USA) Makerere University (Uganda) Ibadan University (Nigeria) Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) Centre for Global Health, TCD (Ireland) Nursing, Medicine, Computer Science, Natural Science, Psychology Centre for Global Health, TCD (Ireland) Nursing, Medicine, Computer Science, Natural Science, Psychology UK Cochrane Centre/Oxford University (UK) now Queens University Belfast UK Cochrane Centre/Oxford University (UK) now Queens University Belfast

- To focus on and take steps to build an explicit international dimension into arrangements for examination, supervision and the doctoral experience. - For the key output of the doctorate to be the researcher themselves and for there to be an explicit focus on personal and professional development throughout the doctoral period. - For this to be supported by the production of a doctoral supplement where the doctoral candidate will reflect on their development and where broadening elements of the doctorate will be recorded, including training and other professional development activities * Excellence in European Doctoral Training - Towards a Common Understanding Aarhus University University of Edinburgh

Future Application of PIDT through Structured PhD programmes provide a higher quuality outcome for the student, the university and society Well established in a number of countries and aspired to in others Already piloted in FP7 in the Marie Curie Actions – Initial Training Networks (Innovative Doctoral Programmes, European Industrial Doctorate) Integrated into Horizon 2020

The PhD in Europe

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