Lively bureaucracy? The ESRC's Doctoral Training Centres and UK universities

Journal article

This paper explores the changing relationships between the UK government, its research councils and universities, focusing on the governing, funding and organisation of doctoral training. We use the Doctoral Training Centres (DTCs) funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as a prism through which to study the shifting nature of university governance more broadly. Taking up ministerial policy 'steers' around research selectivity, knowledge exchange and collaboration, the natio...

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Authors: Lunt, I; McAlpine, L; Mills, D

• Publisher: Routledge
• Journal: Oxford Review of Education
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 151-169
• Publication date: 2014-01-01
• DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2013.862167
• EISSN: 1465-3915
• ISSN: 0305-4985
• Language: English
• Keywords: doctoral training centres; social sciences doctoral training; doctoral education; bureaucracy; ESRC; research councils