Institutional structures

From August 1st 2025, higher education institutions in England will be required by the regulator, the Office for Students, to comply with a set of conditions around tackling harassment and sexual misconduct.

This guidance and support from The University of Leeds as a portion of the Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE) addresses the legal and practical things to consider when proposing or implementing positive action within doctoral recruitment.

Presented by Generation Delta, these training resources emerged directly from the Workshops organised by this project and held around the country between 2022 and 2025 to understand and enhance the experience of racially minoritised women students at the postgraduate research level. They are designed with the needs of these women in mind, but we hope they will help all those wishing to pursue a research career in higher education.

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.

This document was created by YCEDE and outlines the constraints and enablers to improving equity in doctoral admissions, as well as suggesting potential initiatives to address these challenges. There is a separate document available for CDTs/​DTPs.

This paper was developed by the Accomplished Study Programme in Research Excellence (ASPIRE), one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and widening access to postgraduate study.

These slides, developed by YCEDE and presented at a NEON conference in 2022, outline the challenges faced when institutions and projects attempt to evaluate cross-institutional WP programmes – particularly at postgraduate level.

This report allows readers to see inside the structures and strategies which shape institutional approaches to doctoral education in the UK and Ireland.

This paper investigates whether there are centrally-set numerical limits on numbers of doctoral candidates per supervisor

The UK Council for Graduate Education issued this guidance to assist institutions who, in the light of Covid–‐19, were rapidly adapting to making online vivas available to larger numbers of candidates who by necessity could not attend a face to face assessment with examiners.