Research Environment. The TEEME consortium is committed to a structured, ‘needs‐based’ approach to its doctoral programme, recognizing the necessity for formal, high‐level generic and subject‐specific training accompanied by personal development plans to enable doctoral candidates to pursue effective, independent and original research. Training and coursework are fully integrated in the organization of the programme which is built on the wide experience within the consortium of doctoral supervision, co‐tutelle arrangements, and international postgraduate communities. Two of the partners (Kent and FU Berlin) have Graduate Schools which provide a supportive and stimulating interdisciplinary environment for early career researchers. The Kent Graduate School offers a transferable skills development programme and further funding and study opportunities through links with research councils and other national and international organizations. All TEEME students will benefit from this in semester 1. The Xxxxxx Research School in Berlin provides a unique context for postgraduate students and a systematic training programme in disciplinary, transdisciplinary and transferable skills, as well as further career development measures. Porto and CU Prague have a longstanding tradition in producing top‐class Humanities graduates and an excellent track record in research supervision. The consortium combines four exceptionally strong research environments that represent centres of national and international excellence, evidenced in the number and frequently cited publications, in many distinguished collaborative projects, and in external assessments: The Schools of English and History at Kent have been placed among the best in their country in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise, with over 50% of their research classified as ‘world‐ leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’; FU Berlin is one of only nine German universities successful in all three funding lines of the national ‘Excellence Initiative’; both Porto and CU Prague head their nations in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. At all four sites staff collaborate in interdisciplinary, cross‐faculty research centres: the ‘Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies’ at Kent; the ‘Interdisciplinary Research Centre Middle Ages – Renaissance – Early Modern Times’ at Berlin; the ‘Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Culture, Space and Memory’, and the ‘Centre for English, Translation and Anglo‐Portuguese Studies’ at Porto; and the...
Research Environment. Specify: Operational expectations, including, frequency of student-supervisor meetings, group meetings, reports, record keeping, contribution to general duties, assistance from and to other personnel/students. Expected attendance at journal clubs, seminars, etc, aside from official requirements of the Graduate Program. Signatures* *I am aware of and understand the content of this document including the general responsibilities of graduate students supervisors, and the University defined by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Student: Signature: Supervisor: Signature: Date: Date: Joint Supervisor (if any): Signature: _ Date: Co-Supervisor (if any): Signature: Date: Unit Head: Graduate Program Director or Departmental Chair: Signature: Date: Adapted from the Integrated Program in Neuroscience RESPONSIBILITIES OF STUDENTS, SUPERVISORS, GRADUATE PROGRAM AND THE UNIVERSITY (Adapted from: Supervisory Guidelines, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Draft March 2014)
