Recruitment and admissions experience
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Surrey Black Scholars Legacy Pack
This legacy pack from the Shine Scholars Programme at the University of Surrey — one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and access to postgraduate education — provides a concise summary of the SBS programme, distilling key findings from the overall evaluation into digestible one-page briefs on the programme delivery, stakeholder engagement, knowledges management, lessons learned, and dissemination.
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A Toolkit for Fair Doctoral Admissions for Ethnically and Racially Minoritised Applicants
The toolkit, created by the Close the Gap Research England-funded project, outlines a step-by-step guide to drive meaningful and sustainable change in doctoral admissions towards greater racial and ethnic equity.
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The case for equity-minded doctoral recruitment and selection
In this blog, Professor Paul Wakeling and Dr Bukola Oyinloye (University of York) set out the challenges to racial equity in UK doctoral admissions. They argue that how and who we select for entry to PhD degrees is a critical part of achieving a more racially just and successful research sector and outline what the Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE) is doing to address this.
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In2research System Level Evaluation Plan
The In2research programme is one of 13 projects funded by Research England and the Office for Students to address widening participation in and improve access to doctoral research.
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Reforming Doctoral Selection for Equity; Insights from the YCEDE project
This report addresses doctoral selection processes was developed by Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE), one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and widening access to postgraduate education.
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Minoritised British applicants’ experiences and perspectives on applying to a targeted, funded doctoral scheme
This report was published as a result of interviews undertaken with applicants to one of Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education’s scholarship schemes.
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Access to Academy (A2A)
This resource addressing accessing and entering into postgraduate study was created by Generation Delta, one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and widening access to postgraduate education, to address entering into PGR studies.
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Assessing the person or the project? How disciplinary ontological and epistemological assumptions shape doctoral admissions in elite UK institutions
Research suggests there are notable differences in approaches to doctoral admissions and the criteria employed to select doctoral candidates. Through interviews with 65 academic staff involved in doctoral admissions at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, this paper examines how these different approaches to admissions play out in different disciplines, driving the disciplinary divergence in conceptualisations of the PhD and, in turn, admissions practices.
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Affirmative Action in US Colleges: Learning Lessons from the Past to Build Inclusive Future
This blog post on affirmative action in US universities and colleges was written as a portion of the Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE), one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and widening access to postgraduate education.
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British supervisors’ conceptions of ideal and successful PhD attributes and their implications for equity in doctoral candidate selection
This study on conceptions of ideal doctoral attributes was undertaken as a portion of the Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE), one of the 13 Research England-funded projects on racial equity and widening access to postgraduate education.