Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards (DHPA) is a UK scheme to bring outstanding students from India, China, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil, Russia and the developing world to come and study for PhDs in top rated UK research facilities. The initiative was launched by the Prime Minister In November 2003.
The 2008 tranche of awards provided funding for 87 new PhD students (26 core awards and 61 additional awards).
What's new
Arrangements for 2009
The Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Research Councils recognise the great importance for the UK of being able to attract the best international research students, and we have agreed to continue to run a core paired awarding exercise for up to 58 new scholar starts in October 2009. This exercise will of course be contingent upon finding and confirming the necessary private sector sponsors and matching them to Research Council funding.
Four of the Research Councils – BBSRC, EPSRC, MRC and STFC – are participating this coming year, so we will be sponsoring core paired scholarships in the areas of biotechnology and biological sciences, engineering and the physical sciences, medical sciences, and astronomy, particle physics, space science and nuclear physics. We will not provide scholarships in the arts, humanities, social, economic or environmental sciences.
It is likely that most proposed awards from core private sector sponsors will be already strongly associated by them with particular research organisations, departments or supervisors, so EPSRC will not be operating an RAE-based algorithmic approach this year. However, it will undertake a light-touch cross-check against RAE outputs to ensure that scholarships are allocated to highly rated research organisations.
DIUS and the Research Councils have agreed that they will not offer unpaired core or additional awards in 2009 pending a review of the DHPA scheme since its inception in 2004. The main issue is to assure that the very best scholar candidates are being paired with top-rated research organisations and good private sector company sponsors through these two allocation routes.
The allocation of core awards to Research Organisations (ROs) will be completed and final grant letters issued to ROs by early in March 2009, several months earlier than in previous years. All current and forthcoming DHPA training grants will continue to be managed by EPSRC, acting on behalf of DIUS and the Research Councils.
Data Collection for Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards
We have added a new page to the Dorothy Hodgkin website which summarises all the data which is collected for DHPAs. If you are a DHPA student or a university DHPA contact, please read through this page so that you are aware of all the data that needs to be provided, who provides this data, and when this data should be submitted. Recently completion rates for this data have been quite low, so we would encourage you to read through this page and then submit the data required. Your cooperation is very much appreciated!
DHPA Report 2007
At the end of 2006 a survey was conducted canvassing the opinions of all the stakeholders of the DHPA scheme - the students, the supervisors, the university DHPA contacts, the sponsoring companies and the sponsoring research councils. They commented on how successful they thought the scheme had been, as well as the quality of the training and the quality of the students, and also made some suggestions as to how to take the scheme forward. This information, combined with student data entered through the Je-S online portal and a series of case studies, was used to write a report. You can view this report here .
General Information - Core DHPAs
When applying for DHPA funding, please bear in mind that all Rolls-Royce-badged DHPA scholars must be nationals of either India, mainland China (not the Hong Kong SAR) and Malaysia. All BT-badged DHPA scholars must be nationals of China (including the Hong Kong SAR) or India. Also, all ICI-badged DHPA scholars must be nationals of China (including the Hong Kong SAR) and have a first or master’s degree in polymer chemistry or materials science.
Further Information:
Students wanting to apply for DHPA funding should contact individual recipient universities, using the contact points provided, rather than sending applications to EPSRC or RCUK.
For general enquiries about DHPAs, please contact: studentships@epsrc.ac.uk
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/hodgkin/default.htm
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