Quality control
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YCEDE Participant Information Sheet: PGR Applicants and Pre-Applicants
This document was created by YCEDE and contains the participant information and consent sheet provided to people involved in our WS1 pre-applicant activities such as advocacy and internships, who participated in interviews conducted by our evaluation team (WS4) based at Sheffield Hallam University. This document can be used as a tool to enhance evaluation and impact management for research projects and teams.
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YCEDE Participant Information Sheet: Programme Lead Interview
This document was created by YCEDE and contains the participant information and consent sheet provided to members of staff participating in interviews conducted by the YCEDE evaluation team (WS4) based at Sheffield Hallam University. This document can be used as a tool to enhance evaluation and impact management for research projects and teams.
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Challenges in Evaluating Collaborative Postgraduate Widening Participation Work
These slides, developed by YCEDE and presented at a NEON conference in 2022, outline the challenges faced when institutions and projects attempt to evaluate cross-institutional WP programmes – particularly at postgraduate level.
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Confidentiality of PhD Theses in the UK
This report is based on a survey conducted in March 2010 aimed at establishing an overview of current trends in practice among UK institutions with respect to addressing issues of confidentiality as they pertain to PhD theses in the UK
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Quality and Standards of Postgraduate Research Degrees
This paper seeks to identify the current context within which doctoral level education is being undertaken in the UK and review the kinds of developments that are taking place that affect the quality of that education.
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Access to Doctoral Examiners’ Reports
This 2007 report contains analysis and discussion of the responses to a questionnaire distributed on the issue of access given to doctoral examiners’ reports.
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Confidentiality of PhD Theses in the UK
The report gives some background to the issue of confidentiality of theses, outlines the nature and scope of the survey and then reports and discusses its findings before setting out some conclusions.
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The Award of PhD by Published Work in the UK
This 2004 report is concerned with the award of a doctorate on the basis of published works submitted by a candidate.
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Quality and Standards of Postgraduate Research Degrees
This paper seeks to identify not only the current context within which UK research level education is being developed but also a number of thematic matters which we believe require further consideration by the sector.