MRC PhD Partnership and Cohorts MRC are moving away from supporting individual students in individual HEIs and towards creating cohorts of students, supported by their supervisors and their institutional support teams across HEIs. LSHTM and SGUL have formed a partnership for MRC funded PhD training

The LSHTM – SGUL partnership Shared research priorities Global infectious diseases Causal inference from large data sets Evaluating complex interventions Collaborative research Antimicrobial resistance Genomic medicine Understanding asthma Cardiovascular disease Built environment, lifestyle and health Complementary training Genomic Medicine Quantitative skills Interdisciplinary skills

Enhanced training for future research leaders Academically excellent Highly motivated Outward looking

Who is eligible to join the cohort? Individual training fellows Population health scientist fellows Strategic skills training fellows CASE students Doctoral training programme students MRC Unit students registered at LSHTM/SGUL - MRC Gambia, MRC Uganda, Clinical Trials Unit Х Staff funded on MRC research projects

The current MRC cohort at LSHTM/SGUL 2016-2017 academic year: 35 students 11 Vaccine DTP 9 MRC LID 5 MRC CTU 3 CASE/MRC tech 2 MRC Gambia 2 Population Health fellows 1 MRC Uganda 1 MRC Farr Institute 1 Strategic skills fellow

Research Degrees Committee Research Degrees Committee Governance Student Representation Research Degrees Committee (LSHTM) Registration, performance monitoring, progression and regulation Research Degrees Committee (SGUL) Registration, performance monitoring, progression, regulation Progress monitoring reports Progress monitoring reports Annual report Board Strategic direction, programme management Supervisor and project selection Student recruitment and support Student Council Student Council Board Membership Academic Leads (Chair/Deputy Chair) Pro-director of Teaching & Learning, LSHTM Head of Graduate School, SGUL Theme leads Student representatives Secretariat: PGR admin lead, SGUL and LSHTM

Management Board Members: Eleanor Riley, ITD Mark Fisher, SGUL Suzanne Filteau, EPH Rachel Allen, SGUL John Edmunds, EPH Julian Ma, SGUL David Strachan, SGUL Neil Pearce, EPH Steve Cummins, PHP Jenny Thompson, LSHTM Jade Bearham, SGUL Academic Lead/Chair Deputy Chair For Pro-director Teaching & Learning, LSHTM Head of Graduate School, SGUL Student representatives Theme leads, Global Infectious Diseases Theme Leads, Quantitative Skills forBig Data Theme Lead, Complex Interventions

What does the studentship provide? Individual Studentship Awards Tuition Fees An annual stipend An annual RTSG (Research Training & Support Grant) An annual travel/conference allowance * Pooled Funding A flexible funding allowance (pooled across students awarded MRC LID Funding and all other MRC-funded students at both DTP institutions)

How to access your funding RTSG and travel/conference allowance GBP 5,000.00 per student per year (pro rated for part year registration) GBP 300.00 per student per year (pro rated for part year registration) These funds are passed to EPH – RDM (Jenny Fleming) ITD – Departmental Operating Officer PHP – RDM (Joanna Bending) SGUL – to be confirmed (for now check with Derilyn Frusher & Rachel Allen) You should make any requests for this funding by following their standard process. Flexible Funding Details of flexible funding and information on how to apply can be found on the MRC LID website: http://mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/

MRC reporting requirements Studentship details and outcomes of research must be reported back to the MRC. Students must comply with requests for further information and submissions. A Je-S record is created for every MRC Studentship student. Scholarships team in Registry will request a precis of your research studies every Aug/Sep. Provide details according to MRC requirements (use layman’s terms; focus on core skills areas etc) including placements, fieldwork, training researchfish enables the MRC to track research impacts http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/researchoutcomes/researchfish/ http://www.researchfish.com/. Every year (usually Feb/Mar) they will contact you for information. You must provide this during the submission period or there may be implications on future funding for both institutions. Je-S and researchfish feed into Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/,

Contacts Funding Training Administration for flexible funding (and for many MRC awards at LSHTM) is undertaken by the Scholarships team in LSHTM Registry. Training Administration for cohort training activities will be coordinated by Anne-Marie Sue-Patt, in the LSHTM TSO (Teaching Support Office) and Derilyn Frusher at SGUL. To contact us please always use the email address mrclid@lshtm.ac.uk