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A reading pathway

Postgraduate experience

What do taught and research postgraduates need from their learning community?

Postgraduate feedback covers distinct contexts. A taught student balancing assessments and a dissertation may raise different questions from a doctoral researcher discussing supervision, research conditions or routes for raising a concern. Keep PTES and PRES evidence attached to the question and population it describes.

A useful starting point

The readings below bring together peer support, online community and doctoral supervision. Use them to shape the next conversation with programme teams or a doctoral school, then review your own comments for the specific processes students describe.

  1. Keep taught and research survey populations distinct.
  2. Separate academic guidance, practical resources and social connection.
  3. Identify who can respond when a concern involves a supervisory relationship.

Read with a purpose

Selected reading, in a useful order.

Research briefings examine a particular study. Sector Watch articles describe developments and reported practice. The guides explain methods and working processes.

  1. Research Briefing

    Postgraduate peer support: what students valued

    Explore what participants valued in a student-led, cross-disciplinary master’s peer-support pilot.

  2. Sector Watch

    Edinburgh links PTES feedback to online community support

    Follow a taught postgraduate programme’s account of using community feedback.

  3. Sector Watch

    PRES supervision report highlights independent routes for concerns

    Review the questions raised by PRES comments about supervision and routes for concerns.

  4. Research Briefing

    Doctoral feedback: research access and social support

    Consider the distinction between academic and social integration in doctoral graduates’ accounts.

Connect the reading to your own work.

Choose one issue, identify the people who can act on it and agree how students will help interpret the evidence. Keep the original question and context with any comments you use.

If you need support analysing your institution’s comments, analyse ptes and pres comments.