Structures and Strategy in Doctoral Education in the UK and Ireland

Structures and Strategy in Doctoral Education in the UK and Ireland offers an insight not only into current practice in graduate schools or equivalent as set out in contemporary priorities, activities and targets, but also into the shared challenges graduate schools face and their ambitions for their future and the future of doctoral education across the sector. This most recent report builds from previous UKCGE publications that have charted changes in structures that support doctoral education, to include a new focus on institutional strategies, priorities and commitments which shape the work of graduate schools across the UK and Ireland.

The 2022 report draws on the detailed responses from 74 higher education institutions, additional research on trends in national and international policy and practice in doctoral education and comparator data from the previous reports in this series, to offer readers an insight into the policy drivers, changing markets and the major challenges and opportunities which have driven decision-making in the doctoral space in the UK and Ireland in the last six years.