do differential pay and salary enhancements support recruitment in research?
Implications for PhD programmes Professor Louise Ackers, Director, Centre for the Study of Law and Policy in Europe, University of Leeds, and Rosie Beales, RCUK Research Careers and Diversity Portfolio Manager, RCUK One of the key findings arising from the Roberts Report SET for Success – was that the UK is suffering from a critical shortage of skilled early career researchers in some of the most important areas across the science and engineering base. To close this skills gap and build new capacity, additional funding was made available to the Research Councils to provide enhanced PhD stipends and enhanced postdoctoral salaries in targeted shortage areas. A study of the impact of this additional funding and the Research Councils response to the study has recently been published. The study confirms the importance of pay as one of the single most important factors shaping attitudes towards academic careers. It emphasises the relational quality of pay in career decision-making. The sessi
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