In addition to the formal conditions of your award to comply with the appropriate regulations of your home institution, CHASE DTP has the following expectations of you in relation to your training and to your participation in our researcher community. CHASE aims to support all doctoral researchers across the Consortium, and so, as a recipient of public funds in the form of your studentship, you have a particular responsibility to contribute actively to supporting and sustaining researcher-led networks and events. Engaging in these ways will also serve your own professional development as a researcher through your doctorate. The following is an indicative list of ways you can get involved:
Contributing to your researcher community: we expect you to engage with your peers in the researcher community both within your institution and across the consortium. We offer support for researcher networks and for developing mentoring schemes to help doctoral researchers support one another. We understand that researchers will engage with their peers in different ways, and you should do so in ways that are comfortable and appropriate for you.
Encounters conferences: we expect you to attend and participate actively in all biannual Encounters conferences, unless you are unable to with good reason. You should present at or contribute to organising Encounters sessions at least twice during your studentship.
Training and development: we expect you to engage in a minimum of 10 days of training and development pro rata per year, in line with the Researcher Development Concordat. CHASE and your institution will provide a range of opportunities, and you can also look for training from other sources. You must complete an annual Training Needs Questionnaire based on the Vitae Researcher Development Framework, which will help you and your supervisors to focus on your training and development, and to reflect on your progress. You must always, without fail and as soon as reasonably possible, notify the organisers of any training events if you are unable to attend; repeated failure to attend booked training sessions without good reason may affect your ability to access support funds, as costs will be deducted from your allowance.
Communications: we expect you to check your emails regularly and read the monthly bulletin circulated by the CHASE team with news and opportunities. We expect you to provide information for your profile on the CHASE website. We will let you know in induction how to keep this up to date.
Reporting to AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council): we expect that you will acknowledge the support provided by AHRC and CHASE when presenting your work externally, and when publishing your research. We expect that you will keep us informed of any activities supported by your studentship via activity report forms and an annual activity survey, and share these with peers via blog posts, presentations at Encounters, and other methods.
Engagement, influence and impact: we expect that you will actively seek to work with others and ensure the wider impact of research. This might include serving as a representative either on the CHASE Student Committee or through institutional representative bodies; peer mentoring; teaching; public engagement activities; engagement with enterprise or policymaking; or other ways of participating in global academic citizenship.