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This document provides information about the Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA) and new Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships (CDP) schemes run by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). It describes the key elements of CDA studentships including genuine collaboration between universities and non-academic partners. It then highlights two example CDA projects and provides statistics on CDA awards from 2005-2012. The rest of the document outlines the new CDP scheme, eligibility requirements, timelines and contacts for questions.

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Collaborative Doctoral Awards
and
Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships

Paul McWhirter
Portfolio Manager
Cultures and Heritage Team

What is a CDA?
• 3yr FT or 5yr PT Doctoral studentship

• Genuine collaboration between University and Non-
academic partner

• Importance of the partnership beyond the
studentship itself

• Not just enhanced access to collections; Not a way of
doing cataloguing on the cheap!

The Historic Landscape of Arnos Vale
Cemetery, Bristol – University of Bristol
• Creating a Geographical Information System (GIS)
database using cemetery plans, site surveys, OS
Surveys and fieldwork, to match burial data,
surviving monuments and field ecology.

• Involvement in recent Research for Community
Heritage project: Know Your Bristol; engaging with
local understandings and contemporary uses of the
site; crowd sourcing social and oral history material
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Historic Dye Analysis: Method Development and New
Applications in Cultural Heritage – University of
Edinburgh

• Awarded under joint AHRC/EPSRC Science and
Heritage Programme
• In partnership with National Museums of
Scotland/Glasgow Museums
• Seeks to sample and identify dyes and dye sources
used in the Burrell Tapestry collection
• Outcomes including new methods of extraction and
identification, reference database of non-European
and early synthetic dyes

CDA Scheme stats 2005-2012
• 2005 – 64 Applications – 41 Awards
• 2006 – 86 Applications – 49 Awards
• 2007 – 125 Applications – 58 Awards
• 2008 – 111 Applications – 60 Awards *1
• 2009 – 177 Applications – 67 Awards
• 2010 – 183 Applications – 74 Awards
• 2011 – 210 Applications – 77 Awards
• 2012 – 227 Applications – 69 Awards *2

*1 does not include strategic CDA calls
*2 higher proportion of awards with multiple studentships

What’s new for 2013?
• Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme launched;
operates alongside the CDA scheme; estimated
60/40 split of awards

• Interaction of the CDA and CDP schemes;
Universities should seek to develop partnerships as
normal

• Cap of 2 applications to the open CDA scheme per
RO; multiple studentships allowed per app; CDP
projects outside of this cap

Collaborative Doctoral
Partnerships
• Developed in response to feedback from applicants
and assessors

• Opportunity to change relationship with major Non-
HEI partners; to develop enhanced programmes of
doctoral study

• Non-HEI partners are the applicants/award holders,
but funding is routed to the Universities which host
the studentships

Collaborative Doctoral
Partnerships
• Non-NEIs need 5+ awards through the CDA scheme
between 2008-12 to be eligible to apply

• Non-HEIs can form consortia to meet eligibility
requirements, but only where there is a coherent
case for such a partnership

• CDP bids for min. of 3 studentships per yr over 3yrs;
nominating Universities to hold CDA studentships

Timeline for CDA/CDP 2013
• Aug. ’12 CDA/CDP call goes live in Je-S
• Oct. ’12 CDP call closes in Je-S
• Jan. ’13 Notification of CDP outcomes
• Feb. ’13 CDA call closes in Je-S
• CDP Award Holders agree which projects go
forward to nomination
• May ’13 Notification of CDA outcomes
• June ’13 CDP projects nominated via Je-S
• Oct.’ 13 CDA/CDP studentships commence

CDA contacts at the AHRC
• CDA/CDP Scheme guidance on AHRC website (
www.ahrc.ac.uk) - Postgraduate Funding Opportunities

• Natalia Rowlands – Programme Coordinator, Cultures and
Heritage Team (n.rowlands@ahrc.ac.uk)

• Paul McWhirter – Portfolio Manager, Cultures and Heritage
Team (p.mcwhirter@ahrc.ac.uk)

• Susan Hanshaw – Strategy and Development Manager,
Cultures and Heritage Team (s.hanshaw@ahrc.ac.uk)

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