Induction: Research Students

The department provides a comprehensive induction for all new graduate students and incorporates the following elements as detailed in the Policy on Research Degrees.

1. facilities available for students within the department or faculty;
2. relevant health and safety practices within the group and department or faculty;
3. introduction to staff and their roles and an opportunity to meet socially and informally with other students and staff in the department, especially the DGS;
4. orientation to the degree programme i.e. transfer of status, methods of assessment and examination, regulations and other requirements, as well as general processes such as annual registration;
5. supervision arrangements, including establishing appropriate working patterns, the minimum frequency of supervision meetings and the purpose of such meetings, evaluation, monitoring and reporting procedures;
6. wider academic opportunities (seminars, journal clubs, research networks) including opportunities for meeting other research students and staff and opportunities to present research to peers;
7. teaching opportunities (where appropriate);
8. skills training available within and outside the subject (see Section 6 of this policy);
9. student welfare (in the departmental or faculty context);
10. academic expectations of students and responsibilities of students (see Section 5 of this policy);
11. typical challenges which may face the research student and sources of support and guidance including support for developing academic skills for research;
12. integrity in research, intellectual property rights, and guidance on good academic practice and the avoidance of plagiarism;
13. ethical research review processes (where appropriate);
14. English language provision available via the Language Centre (where appropriate);
15. how to raise concerns and/or make a complaint.