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Encouraging more female PhD students

Jen Muggleton

Hi, I am one of the Co Investigators on a Centre for Doctoral Training in an engineering discipline, spanning the universities of Salford, Bristol, Sheffield and Southampton. We are trying to encourage more female PhD applicants. Does anyone have any suggestions of where we could advertise or promote our programme ? Many thanks

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    Apologies if it's stating the obvious to suggest LinkedIn - but I think that's where my colleagues in industry would be most likely to spot it.

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    Thank you - we have tried, but we are still not reaching everyone we'd like

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    I would half be tempted to suggest the universities themselves, since its most likely you do a PhD after your degree. Although I guess your issue there is that the other univerisites want to promote their own PhD programmes.

    It might be worth reaching out through early careers and outreach/diversity groups within different engineering institutions.

    I think those already in industry are less likely to take up PhD's since you are on a reducing cost/benefit slope at that point. I do know of a couple of people that completed a PhD at the same time as working (but that is a lot of work).

    It would be interesting to see if the current UK situation has impacted the number of people going on to a masters following their bachelors (let alone PhDs).

    Are your PhD's geographically constrained? If they are, they advertising in the local community maybe is an idea? If you want a completely off the wall answer, why not something like mumsnet? For those taking a career break, already having a masters and have the will power to do the PhD. But you would need a very flexibile program to support them.

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