Review of Wellcome Trust PhD Research Training: Career paths of a 1988-1990 Prize Student cohort

Supporting the training of the research population through PhD awards is a key feature of the Wellcome Trust's funding programme, but how effective is this training?

This is the first study in a series of three that try to answer this question.

The second study canvassed the opinions of current Trust-funded students to determine how they feel about their PhD experience. The third study asked for the opinions of PhD supervisors.

Executive summary

All members of a cohort of Wellcome Trust-funded PhD students who received Prize Studentships between 1988 and 1990, allocated through a quota system to selected UK universities, were traced in spring 1999, and provided information on completion of their PhD and on their research careers since graduation. In addition, the research publication output of members of the cohort was measured from information provided from the Science Citation Index (SCI).

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