Postgraduate Research Experience Survey now open
04 Mar 2015
This week saw the launch of the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES)
As the only national survey of its kind, PRES allows us to gain insight into students’ experience of being a research student here and also compare that with the national picture. Perhaps more importantly, the survey is an opportunity for students to voice their opinion and help further develop and improve the experience of being a postgraduate researcher.
If you work directly with postgraduate research students please encourage them to complete the survey. A great way to do this is by giving examples of real changes made in response to previous PRES results. This helps demonstrate to students how important their feedback is and how it is used. There will be central communications to remind students to complete the survey, but personal messages from staff students know with local messages can really help improve response rates.
Please reiterate that the survey is anonymous and cannot be traced back to individual students. This will not only encourage students to complete the surveys, but also to give their honest feedback.
The Students eligible to take the survey have been contacted via email and can also access the survey via My Manchester and E Prog.
The survey remains open until 14 May.
Further information
Find out more about PRES, including previous results and find resources to help with the promotion of the survey: