PhD studentship scheme to be made competitive
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society's scheme for funding PhD students in schools of pharmacy is to be amended to make it competitive, the October
Council meeting agreed.
The Society’s scheme of PhD studentships began in 1999, when the
Council agreed that it should run initially for five years. Funding was
offered to all UK schools of pharmacy, with each head of school, on a
three-year rolling basis, given the opportunity to nominate a PhD student
for funding.
Following a review, the Society’s research and development division
recommended to the Council that the scheme should be relaunched on a
competitive basis and that it should fund two students each year, rather
than the previous four or five. The reduced number of students would
allow the Society’s research team, within its current budget,
to manage the competitive process and to provide the sort of oversight
and governance processes that are in place for the Society’s other
funded projects, grants and bursaries.
After debate, the Council voted to accept the recommendation.
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