Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The Nottingham BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership recognises and prioritises its responsibility to operate in a way which creates equality of opportunity for all of our applicants and students, supporting the recruitment of a diverse student cohort and running an inclusive programme.To support this: 

  • we offer an applicant mentoring scheme, AMPlify, to support applicants from black and black mixed backgrounds
  • we offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for applicants from black and black mixed backgrounds
  • we ensure the anonymisation of name, gender, age and previous institution of study in application assessments
  • we focus on motivation and potential in our application assessment criteria
  • we advertise PhD opportunities as widely as possible, aiming to eliminate jargon from our advertising and showcase diverse role models in our imagery
  • we ensure all interview panellists have undertaken unconscious bias training
  • we include equality, diversity and inclusion focussed training in our programme, for students and supervisors
  • we monitor our EDI data closely, including data on socio-economic background of candidates and caring responsibilities
  • we listen to our students' feedback and involve them in the governance of the programme through a Student Forum
  • we provide questions in advance of interviews for all applicants
  • there is a dedicated Welfare & EDI Officer working in the DTP team.

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Doctoral Training Programme

The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

Tel: +44 (0) 115 8466946
Email: bbdtp@nottingham.ac.uk