ACCE+ offers students on programme a chance to undertake placements as follows. Placements undertaken should be separate to the PhD project and no output from a placement can be used in the final PhD thesis:
- Bridge placement. This is a compulsory placement for all students (normally one month) that creates bridges between academic research and public engagement. These placements should produce a tangible outcome, e.g. large-scale outreach events; policy briefing note; or a commercialisation plan.
- Skills placement*. This is an optional placement for students (one to two months) and can follow one of two pathways:
- CV enhancement: students gain skills beyond their PhD area, enhancing interdisciplinarity and employability. Placements generate a discrete outcome of strategic relevance to the placement host partner;
- PhD skills placement: this is training within another research group, developing skills required to pursue exciting novel research directions arising as studentships progress.
*For international students on programme, there may besome restrictions on completing optional skills placements. Please contact your local ACCE+ lead (see the ACCE+ partner universities and contacts section) for further information.
Students undertaking any placement (maximum three months as noted above) will receive additional stipend and tuition fee support up to the three-month maximum. Students may also apply for additional funds, for example for travel and accommodation costs whilst on placement; where possible ACCE+ encourages placement hosts to contribute to these incidental costs.
More information on placements will follow shortly!