Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2008 - Results

Some of you might remember filling in the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) sometime in April or May of last year. Maybe you've been wondering what happened to all the information that you provided, or maybe you just forgot about it immediately, but either way - the results have now been analysed, written up, presented at committee meetings, and a variety of changes and new initiatives are being put into place as a result of the comments you made.

A summary of the results, recommendations and actions taken can be downloaded here.

I apologise for the length of time it has taken to get this information to you, but as you will probably know my predecessor, Cara Owens, left QM soon after PRES 2008 ran and I wasn't appointed until the autumn, so there was a long delay before the results were analysed.

Despite that, I hope you can see that the information you gave was very useful to the college and the Graduate Schools, and has led to some significant changes being made. If you have any comments about anything in the report, or would like more detailed information about any of the results, please let me know.

PRES 2009 will be starting in March this year, and I will be sending more information out about that nearer the time. Last year's survey had a response rate of around 20%, but it would be great if we could get a much higher percentage this year and ensure that the views of all PhD students are being considered in decisions that are made about the college.