Following up on PRES 2008

Red pencil ticking voting ballot boxPRES 2008 identified areas that you'd like us to work on but even where results are good we want to make them better.  Here's just a few a things we're doing at the moment.

If you'd like to share your views or find out more contact Elizabeth Adams.


Further improving supervision and clarity on standards and procedures


Building a community of researchers

  • Cross-university events and courses - including
  • Graduate School team building events and away days - have a look at your Graduate School homepage to see what they're doing.

Better access to facilities

  • New Postgraduate space in engineering
  • Postgraduate rep invited to onto planning committee for new STEM centre

We know there’s more to be done here!


Training and development opportunities that meet the needs of all our researchers

  • New courses in Graduate Schools (such as project and risk management)
  • Increased number of cross university courses  (Effective Researcher, MBTI and enterprise courses)
  • Personal development planning workshops and e-portfolio tool (Mahara)
  • £20k available in 08/09 for researcher-led training
  • Improved communication of opportunities through researcher development website
  • Email updates and online booking

 


Giving you the chance to teach
We know this is important to you!   Where teaching opportunities are not available within the College, other opportunities, such as Top Up tutoring or public outreach are being highlighted.