The DTP Management Board has overall responsibility for the effective governance of the Training Partnership and its funding from BBSRC. The current Management Board is comprised:
- Dr Eric Hewitt (Director and Chair of Management Board, Leeds)
- Dr Daphne Ezer (Co-Director & Senior Academic, Leeds)
- Prof Stuart Wilson (Senior Academic, Sheffield)
- Anthony McDonald (DTP Co-ordinator, Leeds)
- Prof Ivana Barbaric (Management Board member & Senior Academic, Sheffield)
- Prof Andrew Peden (Management Board member & Senior Academic, Sheffield)
- Prof Gideon Grogan (Management Board member & Senior Academic, York)
- Prof Gavin Thomas (Management Board member & Senior Academic, York)
- Dr Megan Wright (Management Board member & Senior Academic, Leeds)
- Dr Qian Wu (Management Board member & Senior Academic, Leeds)
- Gary Jones (Management Board member and Senior Academic, Leeds Beckett)
- David Smith (Management Board member and Senior Academic, Sheffield Hallam)
- Safwan Akram (Management Board member and Senior Academic, Teesside)
- Julie Thornton (Management Board member and Senior Academic, Bradford)
- Sherif El-Khamisy (Management Board member and Senior Academic, Bradford)
- Jen Bright (Management Board member and Senior Academic, Hull)
- Robert Knell (Management Board member and Senior Academic, Hull)
- Rebecca Male, Tasmin Spurgeon & Holly Smith (Student Reps, Leeds)
- Alessandra Sabatini & Aanandita Kothurkar (Student Reps, Sheffield)
- Greg McNeil, Barwin Viswanathan & Jake Henry (Student Reps, York)
The Management Board reports on progress to the White Rose University Consortium Executive Board, ensuring that the Partnership has clear visibility to Vice Chancellors and Pro Vice Chancellors.
Each partner has an effective monitoring system for student progression and reports to the Management Board via the relevant administrative offices, so that financial and strategic consequences can be monitored. All student projects have an academic supervisory team, comprising a principal supervisor and co-supervisors, and also receive input from others (technicians, post-doctoral fellows etc.).
The consortium operates formal progression monitoring, where the student and project are assessed by a committee comprising the supervisory team and independent assessors. Partner mechanisms for monitoring student progression check that the student is well engaged with the project within the first few weeks of arrival, which is followed by an assessment occurring between 9 and 15 months of study associated with transfer to full PhD status. There are regular checks on progress thereafter.