“The UKCGE Postgraduate Funding Working Group welcomes the focus on PhD student funding in the budget announcement. The need for a sustainable future supply of excellent researchers to drive forward the UK’s knowledge economy and the concomitant need to ensure that all beneficiaries are adequately consulted in the development of that model is paramount. The working group has been gathering data and insight for the last 8 months on this subject and is in an excellent position to help the government consider how to implement a postgraduate funding model that will best support the UK’s economic strategy.”

Dr Gavin Boyce

Chair of the PG Funding Working Group and Doctoral Development Manager, The University of Sheffield