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.