Leeds Trinity reports 88% overall satisfaction in PRES 2025

Updated Sep 07, 2026

Leeds Trinity University’s 26 February 2026 announcement reported 88% overall satisfaction in PRES, compared with an 83% sector figure. The announcement links to PRES 2025: the publication year should not be confused with the survey year. Leeds Trinity announcement; Advance HE’s PRES 2025 page.

What the institution reported

Leeds Trinity said it achieved its highest ratings for research skills, professional development, responsibilities, support, and progress and assessment, placing in the top quartile for each. It also reported improvement in 10 of 11 development-opportunity areas and a strong result for confidence in timely completion.

These are the university’s reported results. The announcement does not provide its respondent count, response rate, uncertainty estimates or a design that identifies the causes of change. Confidence about completing a degree is also different from an observed completion outcome.

The university connected the results to its research ambitions. That is institutional interpretation, rather than evidence that a particular supervisory practice, intervention or comment-analysis method produced the scores.

Questions for a PGR results review

Our suggestion is to examine theme-level results alongside coverage and relevant local evidence. Ask whether the same population and questions were used when presenting a trend, and how much confidence the response base supports.

Use comments to investigate experiences and formulate follow-up questions. Avoid presenting every explanation offered by respondents as a proven cause of a score, or treating a favourable institutional average as evidence that all groups had the same experience.

Choose actions with responsible teams and a plan for later review. Where reporting small groups, apply appropriate disclosure controls. The governance checklist and postgraduate research theme guide can support that planning.

Correction and review note, 7 September 2026: corrected references to “2026 PRES results” to distinguish the 2025 survey from its 2026 announcement, retained attributed results, and removed unsupported causal explanations of improvement.