1. 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

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. The current MRC cohort at LSHTM/SGUL
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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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)

9. How to access your funding
RTSG and travel/conference allowance
GBP 5, per student per year (pro rated for part year registration)
GBP 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:

10. 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
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)

11. 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.
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