{"id":670,"date":"2018-10-25T13:50:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T12:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduateschoolnews\/?p=670"},"modified":"2018-10-25T14:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:19:46","slug":"the-launch-of-kents-global-challenges-doctoral-centre-dcgc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/2018\/10\/25\/the-launch-of-kents-global-challenges-doctoral-centre-dcgc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Launch of Kent&#8217;s Global Challenges Doctoral Centre (DCGC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and students are invited to the launch of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/researchservices\/gcdc\/\">Global Challenges Doctoral Centre (GCDC)<\/a> on Monday, 5 November 2018, from 3-4pm in Darwin Lecture Theatre 3 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/timetabling\/rooms\/room.html?room=DLT3\">DLT3<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The University of Kent has established the GCDC to serve as the nucleus for <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/researchservices\/gcrf\/\">Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)<\/a> PhD training activities at Kent. The GCDC is therefore dedicated to doctoral research addressing the challenges of economic development and well-being faced by developing countries on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) list.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this new initiative, the University of Kent is offering\u00a0<strong>eight GCDC doctoral scholarships <\/strong>(covering an annual stipend at UKRI rates, tuition fees and a research training support grant), and applications can be both student-led and project-led. The first four GCDC-funded doctoral students commenced their studies in the academic year 2018-2019, and the 2019-2020 call for applications can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/scholarships\/search\/FNAD00GCDC01\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are interested in learning more about the GCDC and its work, please join us at the launch event on Monday, 5 November<\/strong>. At the event, the four current GCDC students will present their research projects, and the GCDC academic lead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/canterbury\/bode.html\">Dr Ingvild Bode<\/a>, will provide further information and be available for questions regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/scholarships\/search\/FNAD00GCDC01\">2019-2020 GCDC scholarships calls for applications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please confirm your attendance for the GCDC launch event by emailing Grace Grussenmeyer at <a href=\"mailto:graduateschool@kent.ac.uk\">graduateschool@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and students are invited to the launch of the new Global Challenges Doctoral Centre (GCDC) on Monday, 5 November 2018, from 3-4pm in Darwin Lecture Theatre 3 (DLT3). The University of Kent has established the GCDC to serve as the nucleus for Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) PhD training activities at Kent. The GCDC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/2018\/10\/25\/the-launch-of-kents-global-challenges-doctoral-centre-dcgc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Launch of Kent&#8217;s Global Challenges Doctoral Centre (DCGC)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50482,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[204320],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/graduate-researcher-college-studenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}