Focussing on making changes to policy and process on what makes “good Supervisory Practice” an in-person event has been announced.

As a contributor, you’ll gain valuable experience and knowledge from attending, whilst being able to contribute your ideas in a way that will have a direct impact very quickly.

The PGR Improvement Initiative aims to produce a University of Nottingham framework for good supervisory practice. This will outline expectations and good practice in line with our aspirations to train and support the next generations of amazing researchers, as well as meeting the Quality Assurance Agency and funder expectations.

The dates for this Rapid Improvement Event are Monday 16, Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 May 2022. It is appreciated that this may not be the best time for all, but having explored different times, this is the week most suitable for the majority.

If you’d like to be involved, please email the PGRInitiative@nottingham.ac.uk to register your interest.  This is your chance to influence our policy and practice in this important area – please apply, we want to hear from all areas of the university, academic, PGRs, PGR support and welfare staff are all welcome.

If you can’t get involved directly, but would like to contribute, especially if you are a current supervisor, please complete this form. If you are a current PGR at any stage, please complete this form.

We encourage everyone not involved in the RIE to send in your views. Your opinions and feedback on supervision are very important, will directly feed in to and influence the work in the RIE, and will compliment views from PGRs themselves on supervision.

If you would like to know more about what a Rapid Improvement Event is, please take a look at the Getting in Shape SharePoint site.

And finally

A very large number of colleagues have been involved in the Getting in Shape enabled improvement events on PGR Enquiries and Admissions and PGR Progression Reviews – the time and effort that you have given to helping improve our PGR experience and journey has been appreciated. Many thanks to those of you who have contributed so far, we couldn’t have effected such changes without you.

If you haven’t yet been able to get involved with the programme supporting our PGRs, and you’ve been interested enough to read this far, please consider getting involved now  – by emailing PGRInitiative@nottingham.ac.uk or filling in the form.