1. What administrators would like supervisors to know Alison Gould Manager, Postgraduate Research Programmes

2. Let’s work together Supervisors Student PGR Director PGR Administrators

3. What do you need to know? Degree regulations Policies –Supervision –Interruption, Extension, Withdrawal and Termination Record Keeping Review and Monitoring Completion http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/research / http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/researchoffice/graduate /

4. What is a PhD? Research training Transferable skills training Supervised research Years 1 – 3 Submission Pending

5. Supervision Weeks Supervisors Way

6. Supervision Expected standards Academic advice and guidance Pastoral advice and guidance Progress review and monitoring Reasonable access

7. Interruptions, Extensions, Withdrawal and Termination of Registration All changes to programme of study must be agreed by School Interruption means temporarily ceasing to study (and leaving UK if international student) Extension means additional time to complete No retrospective requests

8. Mitigating Circumstances Exceptional situations (limited) Personal difficulties, illness, extreme situations Interruptions, Extensions and Withdrawal/Termination from research programmes http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrar y/researchoffice/graduateeducation/p-change-to- prog-pgr.pdf

10. Record Keeping Why? PBS visas, academic reviews, complaints/appeals, references What? All supervision meetings, targets, concerns, recommendations How? As required by School. (EProg in future) Content? Detailed, specific, accurate, say what you mean.

11. Review and Monitoring Every student reviewed every 6 months Annual Review with supervisors and independent academic Annual Review is formal progression review 6 month/interim review is formative.

12. Completion KPI for 2015/2020 Agenda Expectation is for students to complete in a maximum of 4 years (3 + 1 submission pending)

13. Let’s work together Supervisors Student PGR Director PGR Administrators