CDT Governance Committee
The Committee acts as a forum in which to share good practice across Research Centres and to provide oversight of and help to coordinate the additional training provided to students by these Centres. The value of establishing peer groups and cohorts has been identified by this committee and is now one of the College’s research degree precepts which departments are assessed against.
The Graduate School is also able to gather information from this committee to inform its own training programme and to ensure that students who do not belong to a CDT or DTP are given a comparable learning experience and support. Likewise, the Graduate School shares good practice and provides training support and advice for tutors on the design and delivery of CDT/DTP run professional development courses.
CDT/DTP Governance Committee
Terms of Reference
- To provide support and share good practice across doctoral training programmes (DTPs) and centres for doctoral training (CDTs).
- On an annual basis, to receive and ratify the membership and terms of reference of CDT and DTP industrial/external advisory boards.
- To coordinate the programme of support for new CDT and DTP bids and renewal applications for existing programmes. This includes:
- the provision of College-level information to support applications
- organisation of specific meetings to address queries on the submission process and applications
- coordination of a critical review draft submissions – Directors will be invited to critically review one application each and to provide feedback
- coordination of mock interviews
- To consider feedback from mid-term and annual reviews
- To support the CDT Festival of Science and receive an annual report on this from the Student Organising Committee.
- To enhance the experience of postgraduate students on DTPs and CDTs.
- To receive relevant papers and minutes from the Graduate School’s Postgraduate Professional Development Committee (PPDC) and the College’s Postgraduate Research Quality Committee (PRQC).
- To report to the PRQC, the Graduate School’s Course Quality and Strategic Development Committee (CQSD), the Research Councils and funding bodies as appropriate.
Constitution
Deputy Director of the Graduate School as Chair, Director and Deputy Director (Professional Skills) of the Graduate School, Vice Provost (Education) or nominee, Vice Provost (Research) or nominee, Chair of the Postgraduate Professional Development Committee (PPDC), Academic Registrar (or nominee), a representative from each DTP and CDT to be nominated by the Director of each, two student representatives, Head of Strategy and Operations at the Graduate School and Deputy Manager of the Graduate School as Secretary.
Representatives from DTPs and CDTs where Imperial is not the lead institution will also be invited to attend.
Membership
Position |
Name |
|---|---|
| Deputy Director of the Graduate School (Chair) | Professor Laki Buluwela |
| Director of the Graduate School | Professor Yun Xu |
| Deputy Director of the Graduate School (Professional skills) | |
| Vice Provost (Education) | Professor Peter Haynes |
| Vice Provost (Research) | Professor Mary Ryan |
| Chair, Postgraduate Professional Development Committee (PPDC): | |
| Academic Registrar | Mr David Ashton |
| Student Representatives: | |
| ICU Deputy President (Education) | Jason Zheng |
| Representative from the Research Office: | |
| Funding Strategy Manager | Dr Suzanne Husein |
| Graduate School Representatives: | |
| Head of Strategy and Operations, Graduate School | Mrs Laura Lane |
| Head of Pedagogy | Dr Magdalena Jara |
| Senior Teaching Fellow - Research Computing & Data Science Programme Lead | Dr Katerina Michalickova |
| Manager of Graduate School Administration (secretary) | Ms Bethan Ritchie |
A representative from each of the College’s CDTs/DTPs or nominee: | |
| EPSRC: | |
| Director, STREAM IDC | Dr Mike Templeton |
| Director of CDT Nuclear Energy | Professor Luc Vandeperre |
| Director, CDT in Physcial Sciences Innovation in Chemical Biology for Bio-Industry and Healthcare | Dr Oscar Ces |
| Director, CDT in Theory & Simulation of Materials | Professor Arash Mostofi |
| Director, CDT in Plastic Electronics Materials | Professor Ji-Seon Kim |
| Director, CDT in Controlled Quantum Dynamics | Professor Ben Sauer |
| Director, CDT in Mathematics of Planet Earth | Professor Dan Crisan |
| Director, CDT in Fluid Dynamics Across Scales | Professor George Papadakis |
| Director, CDT in Neurotechnology for Life and Health | Dr Simon Schultz |
| Director, CDT in High Performance Embedded and Distributed Systems | Dr Wayne Luk |
| Director, CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering | Professor Chris Cheeseman |
| Director, CDT in Advanced Characterisation of Materials | Professor Martyn McLachlan |
| Director, CDT in BioDesign Engineering | Dr Geoff Baldwin |
| Director, CDT in Next Generation Synthesis & Reaction Technology | Professor Mimi Hii |
| Director, CDT in Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning | Professor Axel Gandy |
| Director of the CDT in Nuclear Energy Futures | Dr Mark Wenman |
Membership Continued
| Wellcome Trust: | |
| Director, PhD Programme in the Molecular & Cellular Basis of Infection | Dr Brian Robertson |
| Wellcome Trust Glaxosmithkline Translational Medicine Training (TMT) Programme | Dr Vincenzo Libri |
| Wellcome Trust CRF Programme | Professor Jeremy Levy |
| BBSRC: | |
| Director, Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) DTP | Professor Bernadette Byrne |
| NERC: | |
| Director, DTP in Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP | Professor Ralf Toumi |
| Director, CDT in Science for Humanitarian Emergencies & Resilience (SHEAR) | Dr Wouter Buytaert |
| British Heart Foundation: | |
| Director of the BHF Centre of Research Excellence | Professor Michael Schneider |
| MRC: | |
| Director, MRC DTP | Professor Laki Buluwela |
| MRC Clinical Sciences Centre PhD Programme | Dr Enrique Martinez-Perez |
| United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI): | |
| Director, UKRI CDT Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare | Dr Aldo Faisal |
| STRATiGRAD Programme: | |
| Porgramme Director | Professor Gary Frost |
| Representatives from DTPs and CDTs where Imperial is not the lead institution: | |
| Interdisciplinary Social Science (LEISS) | Dr Arnab Majumdar |
| Diamond Science and Technology CDT | Professor Paul French |
| Future Power Networks and Smart Grids CDT | Professor Tim Green |
| Medical Imaging CDT | Professor Nicolas Long |
| Geometry and Number Theory at the Interface CDT | Professor Alessio Corti |
| Mathematics of Random Systems CDT | Professor Rama Cont |
| Oil and Gas CDT | Professor Al Fraser |
| Future Innovation in Non-Destructive Evaluation (FIND) CDT | Professor Nick Long |
| Multi-scale Aerosol and Droplet Science CDT | Dr Marc Stettler |
| Prosthetics and Orthotics CDT | Professor Anthony Bull |
| Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence (STAI) CDT | Professor Alessio Lomuscio |
2002/23 dates & deadlines
| Date of committee meeting | Submission deadline |
|---|---|
|
Wednesday 16 November 2022, 10.00 – 11.30, MS Teams |
Wednesday 02 November 2022 |
|
Wednesday 22 February 2023, 10.00 – 11.30, MS Teams |
Wednesday 08 February 2023 |
|
Wednesday 24 May 2023, 10.00-11.30, MS Teams |
Wednesday 10 May 2023 |
| Submission queries can be sent to the Secretary, Bethan Ritchie - b.ritchie@imperial.ac.uk | |