PGR Feedback: Impact and Implications

Postgraduate Education Practitioners Network Workshop 2024
  • Workshop
Date(s)
17 May 2024 
Location
King’s Manor, York
Price
£195–295
View of a street in York, England, with the Minster in the background.

The 2024 Postgraduate Education Practitioners Network workshop provides the opportunity to join colleagues from HEIs across the UK, in person, to discuss some of the pressing issues affecting their roles.

This in-person meeting of the PEP network will focus on eliciting, reviewing and acting on PGR student feedback. The session will include reflections on direct and indirect feedback, managing the supervisory relationship and setting expectations, and the use of surveys. We will hear from Dr Kirsty Holley from the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) about what can happen when feedback mechanisms are ineffectual and importance of taking learnings from OIA rulings; about a recent cross-institutional project looking at mediation and informal resolution; and from a range of network members on other related topics.

Schedule

09:40

Registration with refreshments

10:00

Welcome & Icebreaker Discussion

Susanna Broom | University of Sussex and co-chair of the PEP Network

Kerri Gardiner | University of Cambridge and co-chair of the PEP Network

Duration
20 mins 
10:20

PGR Complaints

Dr Kirsty Holley | OIA

Duration
60 mins 
11:20

Refreshments

Duration
20 mins 
11:30

Supervisor Relations and Managing Expectations

Emma McAndry | EM Solutions

Duration
60 mins 
12:30

Lunch

Duration
45 mins 
13:15

Establishing Mediation for PGRS

Emma McAndry | EM Solutions

Duration
45 mins 
14:00

Refreshments

Duration
60 mins 
14:15

PGR Surveys

Pete Mills | LSE
Rachel Moody | University of Sheffield
Beccy Boydell Birmingham City University

Duration
60 mins 
15:15

Closing Discussion and Summary

Duration
15 mins 
15:30

Close & Departure

Session Leads & Speakers

  • Susanna Broom

    co-Chair PEP Network & University of Sussex
  • Kerri Gardiner

    co-Chair PEP Network & University of Cambridge
  • Dr Kirsty Holley

    Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA)