We are aiming to open the application process for Masters students in February 2021 and wish to encourage applicants from a wide breadth of disciplines and institutions across the UK (including computer science, data science, economics, geography and business analytics).
Typically business supervisors and their student liaise once every two weeks during the research phase (either through meetings, telephone conversations or email exchanges), although contact hours vary by case to case. Some partners have preferred their student to work from their office throughout the summer for example. We ask each supervisor to provide a small £500 sponsorship for the student, plus necessary travel subsidies, to be paid upon project completion. In addition, the CDRC will fund three student prizes – these will be presented at an academic conference in October, to which all participants in the scheme are invited.
For more information, please have a look at
https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/education-and-training/masters-dissertation-scheme/information-for-businesses/ or email
projects@cdrc.ac.uk.