Objectives

The DTC has five principal strategic objectives:

To maximize the numbers of funded studentships in the social sciences;
To maximize the quality of the research environment available to postgraduate research students;
To make a significant contribution to capacity building in the UK-wide and Welsh shortage areas;
To develop robust mechanisms for Knowledge Exchange and Knowledge Transfer;
To develop advanced methodological and theoretical/substantive provision in interdisciplinary areas.

The DTC also has the following general objectives:

To identify and promote the highest quality research training within and beyond Wales;
To enrich and extend this research training in terms of mode and reach;
To ensure the research training is in keeping with ESRC guidance and that it incorporates a breadth of skills and experiences and the development of an understanding of a wide range of methods and approaches;
To build links with organisations in the public, private and third sector which support doctoral studentships, financially and/or in kind;
To build a community of practice amongst Doctoral students so that in addition to their disciplinary and institutional identities they become members of a Wales-wide social science structure that supports them and to which they contribute.

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership