Our funder, UKRI, requires a minimum of 25% of all successful QUARTILES DLA projects to be collaborative with an active CASE partner. What does this mean in practice?
What is a CASE studentship?
CASE studentships used to be called Collaborative Awards in Science and Engineering (CASE).
CASE studentships provide doctoral students with research training experience as part of a research collaboration between academic and non-academic partner organisations. These can include organisations from:
- industry
- business
- the public sector
- the ‘third’ or civil sector.
You spend between 3 and 18 months with your CASE partner in their workplace.
CASE studentships give students access to training, facilities and expertise not available in an academic setting.
CASE partners must give students thorough training in research methods, as well as providing a stimulating environment.
CASE Partner Responsibilities
CASE partners are encouraged to make a financial contribution to the project, including but not limited to:
- any costs incurred by the student when visiting and working within their establishment
- the costs of necessary materials
- facilities not possessed by the research organisation that are integral to the CASE studentship
The CASE partner must also:
- host the student for between three and eighteen months during their PhD
- host the student for an internship
- provide co-supervision
Full details about CASE studentships is available here.
Eligibility
The CASE partner can come from the public, private or third sector. However, organisations eligible to receive NERC research funding are not allowed to be a CASE partner. This includes research institutes and independent research organisations (IROs) as described in this definition.
As an exception to the above, public sector research establishments (PSREs) are eligible to be CASE partners for NERC studentships.
Existing Partners / CASE Status
Please download the below list for organisations we have engaged and collaborated with throughout QUADRAT DTP, the predecessor to QUARTILES DLA. Through these collaborations we have established whether or not they are CASE eligible. For ease of finding a relevant CASE partner, we have collated this list. This is not a finite list, it will be updated as required.
