Research for Innovation Translation and Enterprise

Doctoral training that delivers cross-sector integration, spanning academic research and innovation, centred around infectious diseases and One Health.

This new approach to doctoral training to training seeks to address future needs of industry, academia and third sector organisations for an innovative, entrepreneurial and translation-ready, expert workforce. 

The aim is to nuture transdisciplinary researchers that can deliver implementable, practical and cross-cutting solutions to the wicked problems posed by infectious diseases across human, animal and environmental sectors.

Key to this approach is co-creating PhD projects with stakeholders (in industry, funding bodies, policy offices, innovation engines, advocacy organisations, third sector organisations, scholarly communications, outreach groups) to meet their priorities, and across traditional academic disciplines.

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Programe concept

More details about the aims, remit, and structure of the Research for Innovation Translation and Enterprise (RITE) doctoral training programme are available in the concept note.


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