Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the CAM Doctoral Training Partnership will broaden routes into postgraduate education for students from under-represented backgrounds and encourage regional opportunities for research collaboration.

Professor Emily Munro, Director of the Tilda Goldberg Centre for Social Work and Social Care at Bedfordshire, said: “I am delighted that the University of Bedfordshire is collaborating with Cambridge University, Anglia Ruskin and the University of Suffolk to develop a social science training in the north and west of the Eastern region.

“The CAM Doctoral Training Partnership will support access to postdoctoral training opportunities for students from under-represented backgrounds and cultivate interdisciplinary research that has a positive impact on society.”

The partnership is an opportunity for a wide engagement with diverse stakeholders in the community, the health and social care sector, and builds on the already widely-recognised research culture within the University of Bedfordshire.

Yannis Pappas, Professor in Public Health and Integrated Care, added: “The Doctoral Training Partnership is an excellent opportunity for all research students to receive specialist training in a conducive research and knowledge exchange environment that values and promotes interdisciplinary.

“The University of Bedfordshire prioritises research with real-life impact and we will be working with our partners to ensure that this is applied as widely as possible across the CAM partnership and beyond.”

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