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Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES)

Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES). What is PRES?. Survey exclusively for Postgraduate Researchers Feedback about your experience Why do PRES? Identify what we do well Identify what we need to improve Enhancing your experience. What does PRES ask?.

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Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES)

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  1. Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES)

  2. What is PRES? • Survey exclusively for Postgraduate Researchers • Feedback about your experience Why do PRES? Identify what we do well Identify what we need to improve Enhancing your experience

  3. What does PRES ask? • Rate key aspects of your PGR programme • Supervision • Skills development • Infrastructure • Intellectual climate • Goals and standards • Thesis examination • Professional development and career • Roles and responsibilities • Write comments

  4. What you said in 2010 • Supervision • Key to success of project • Excellent subject knowledge • Concerns about availability • Infrastructure • IT • Intellectual Climate • Integration • Further enhance the research community

  5. What you said in 2010 • Goals and Standards • Communication of regulations and requirements • Demonstrating • Skills Development • More, improved PGR training • Better publicising of training • PT training • Career and PDP • More career guidance

  6. What we are doing • Supervision • Named contacts for raising concerns early • Confidential support • Enhancing supervisor training • Infrastructure • IT Forums • Intellectual Climate • Graduate Conference • Social events • Facilitating external conference attendance

  7. What we are doing • Goals and Standards • Web development: Information in one place • Demonstration monitoring • Skills Development • Training Needs Tools • Expanding range of courses and workshops • Careers • Working with Careers Services

  8. PRES and REF • REF - Research Excellence Framework • Broken down into subject panels • Assesses quality of research being undertaken in terms of: • Outputs (60%) • Impact (25%) • Research environment (15%) • PGRs influence all 3 categories of REF • Outputs • Impact • PRES and the research environment. • `

  9. Why is REF important • Funding from Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and other sources • Subject scores • Research excellence • National and international league tables • Attracting PGRs from UK and abroad • `

  10. What next? • Live from 01/03/2011 – 17/05/2011 • PRES is completed online in 10 – 15 minutes or less • Confidential (Favourable Ethical Opinion from Ethics Committee) • Email with your user name and password • Incentive/Thank you – £2 off at WHSmith • Updates on Surrey’s response to PRES

  11. Contact • Shane Dowle • Ext 2330 (01483 682330) • S.Dowle@Surrey.ac.uk

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