Identifying a Supervisory Team
You are not expected to have secured a supervisory team before applying to the GW4-HP2 programme. However, we strongly recommend that, by the application and interview stages, you have identified potential supervisors within the partner institutions of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter and Swansea University, whose expertise aligns with your research interests and can provide the specialist knowledge, guidance and support required to deliver an interdisciplinary, biomedical, discovery sciences PhD.
Each cohort will attend a compulsory introductory afternoon to be arranged a few weeks following appointment and will use this time to discuss their project ideas with the GW4-HP2 Board of Directors who will work with newly appointed fellows to support the development of their PhD projects and agree the most suitable supervisory team that meets their career and research ambitions.
Fellows will choose a team of supervisors and appropriate collaborators from across the GW4-HP2 institutions in order to embrace the interdisciplinary and inter-institutional ethos of the Programme. It is expected that all GW4-HP2 fellows will have a supervisory team that spans at least two of our four institutions.
Justification of Supervisory Team
To engender a robust research culture, team science approach and an understanding of how the supervisory team will work with the fellow for the duration of the PhD fellowship, we ask for a written statement that justifies the inclusion and roles of all supervisors and collaborators. The fellow will adopt the principles of good research practice in developing the supervisory team and produce a document outlining the agreed roles and responsibilities, including an agreed plan regarding publication authorship.
Director Approval of Supervisory Team
The GW4-HP2 fellow will be interviewed on their PhD project and supervisory team prior to starting their PhD. The Director and Co-Directors will work in an advisory capacity when preparing the PhD project and will have the final say on the choice of supervisory team.