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Table 4 Answers to the question: “Which of these activities do you think would be good to include in the Alumni group. Please rank in order of importance with 1 being the most important.” (n = 26 respondents)

From: Mobilising the alumni of a Master of Public Health degree to build research and development capacity in low- and middle-income settings: The Peoples-uni

Option (in order of the question)

Overall rank achieved by each option

Adding resources for further study

1

Starting new courses for further study

5

Developing collaborative research for the group as a whole

2

Developing collaborative research between just a few members

6

Developing collaborative research with Peoples-uni tutors

3

Discussions on teaching methods

7

Development of collaborative teaching programmes

8

Identifying individual mentors for each of the alumni

9

Identifying mentors for groups of alumni

10

Helping to get onto a PhD programme

4

A ‘Helpdesk’ by Peoples-uni tutors or others for advice

11