Queen Mary University of London DTP Mobility Pilot 2020 2023

伦敦玛丽女王大学（QMUL）提出了一个高度创新的博士流动计划，以扩大英国经济中具有数据科学和工程研究技能的科学家和工程师的数量。我们将通过拓宽准入途径和增加博士学者的多样性来实现这一目标。他们将接受培训，在学术和工业部门无缝工作，并将获得专业博士学位。他们将受益于高质量的定制培训计划，可以接触到世界一流的研究人员和设施，并将研究方法直接应用于我们的合作伙伴（包括IBM， BT和BBC）的现场工业环境中。需要数据科学技能，包括大型数据集的高级统计分析，以及人工智能（AI）技术的使用。例如，工程部门对建模和制造工程方面的技能也有很高的要求。我们的计划将扩大技能的提供，这些技能现在是科学和工程研究活动以及工业和第三部门创新的许多领域的基础。我们将为拥有数据科学和工程研究领域技能提升的专业人员的组织提供赞助模式。他们将接受培训，并在工作场所的研究由学者共同监督，同时保持受雇-我们的专业博士学者。然而，这种模式并不适合中小企业，因为中小企业通常没有现金流来支持如此大规模的投资。中小企业将受益于为我们的企业博士学者——由于经济困难或其他情况而离开高等教育的有才华的毕业生——提供工业研究岗位。他们将获得更多的津贴，减少经济障碍，并通过我们的培训计划提高技能。实习将使他们能够在学术和工业研究环境中应用他们的技能。我们将采用全新的全面招聘方法，甄别最有潜力的申请人。陶尔哈姆莱茨地方政府支持这一试点计划，该计划旨在进一步提高当地技能，并在科技城的高科技中小企业周围扩大知识区。这个试点项目自然地将我们在五个关键领域的能力联系在一起。(1)我们的科学和工程研究处于世界领先和国际优秀水平，90%的产出被列为[REF2014]。(2)我们在博士培训方面的实力得到了许多着名的博士培训中心，合作伙伴关系和我们主办的欧盟培训网络的证明-所有这些都得到了学院范围内的博士学院的大力支持。(3)我们的工业合作伙伴的范围得到高度认可，最近通过由QMUL领导的技术学院与30个行业合作伙伴的2800万英镑奖励。(4)无论以何种标准衡量，在扩大接受顶级高等教育的人数方面，我们都是英国的领先者。(5) QMUL在吸引非学术背景的人才方面是一个创新者，是英国首批提供面向行业的学位学徒制的机构之一，最近招收了25名7级课程的学生和42名6级课程的学生。这个博士流动项目提供了一个新颖、丰富和综合的应用研究经验，以培养一批新的研究人员，他们擅长在学术和工业环境中工作，并拥有令人羡慕的专业同行网络，可以在他们的整个职业生涯中利用。该试点建立了一个全面的评估框架和一条向UKRI和研究生教育的利益相关者传播结果的途径。这一试点项目的未来可持续性将是通过发展博士级别的学徒制，由雇主支付的学徒税资助，以培养职业技能。

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) proposes a highly innovative doctoral mobility programme to expand the number of scientists and engineers with data-science and engineering research skills in the UK economy. We will achieve this by widening access routes and increase the diversity of our Doctoral-Scholars. They will be trained to work seamlessly across academic and industrial sectors, and will qualify with professional doctorates. They will benefit from a high-quality bespoke training programme with access to world-class researchers and facilities, and the direct workplace based application of research methods in the live industrial settings of our partners including IBM, BT and the BBC. Data Science skills are in demand and include advanced statistical analysis of large datasets, and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. The engineering sector also has high demand for skills in modelling and manufacturing engineering, for example. Our programme will expand the provision of skills which now underpin many areas of science and engineering research activity as well as industrial and third-sector innovation. We will provide a sponsorship model to organisations with employed professionals who will be upskilled in data-science and engineering research fields. They will be trained and co-supervised in workplace based research by academics while remaining employed - our Professional Doctoral Scholars. However this model is not suitable for SMEs which typically do not have cash-flows to support such large-scale investment. SMEs will benefit by offering industrial research placements to our Enterprise Doctoral Scholars - talented graduates who left higher education due to financial barriers or other circumstances. They will receive enhanced stipends reducing financial barriers, and be upskilled through our training programme. Placements will allow them to apply their skills in academic and industrial research environments. A new holistic recruitment approach will be used to identify the applicants with the highest potential. Tower Hamlets local authority supports this pilot programme which furthers its aim of enhancing local skills, and expanding the Knowledge Quarter around the high-tech SMEs located in TechCity. This pilot naturally ties together our proven ability in five key areas. (1) Our science and engineering research is world leading and internationally excellent with 90% of our output classified as such [REF2014]. (2) Our strength in doctoral training provision is evidenced by the number of prestigious doctoral training centres, partnerships and EU training networks we host - all strongly supported by an institution-wide Doctoral College. (3) The range of our industrial partnerships is highly recognised, most recently through the £28m award of an Institute of Technology led by QMUL with 30 industry partners. (4) We are a UK leader in widening the participation of people engaging in top-tier higher education by almost any measure. (5) QMUL is an innovator in attracting people from non-academic backgrounds, and was one of the first UK institutions to offer industry-facing degree-apprenticeships, most recently recruiting 25 to its Level 7 programmes and 42 to its Level 6 programmes. This doctoral mobility programme offers a novel, enriched and integrated experience in applied research to train a new class of researcher, adept at working in academic and industrial environments, and enabled with an enviable professional peer-network to draw on throughout their careers. This pilot builds in a comprehensive evaluation framework and a route to disseminate outcomes to stakeholders in UKRI, and graduate education. The future sustainability of this pilot will be through developing doctoral-level apprenticeships, funded by the apprenticeship levy paid by employers to develop vocational skills.