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PGR provision: the students perspective. Committee structure. Departmental Student representatives. Medical School post graduate Students committee (MSPGSC). Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC). School Graduate Research Committee (SGRC). Role of the student committees:.
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Committee structure Departmental Student representatives Medical School post graduate Students committee (MSPGSC) Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) School Graduate Research Committee (SGRC)
Role of the student committees: • Provide a student voice to raise any concerns or issues related to PGR teaching and provision • Provide another route alongside personal and year tutors for pastoral support • Help collect data on the availability of basic student facilities, such as desk space and computing requirements • Organize socials and create a more welcoming atmosphere to new incoming students
Views on the new TNA structure and DDP’s • No compulsory credit requirements, allowing more freedom to develop over the course of the PhD • Yearly monitoring to keep up to date with training needs • Allows many personal as well as professional development opportunities • Skill based and career based options • Students may want to follow a different career from academia • Allows the student to pick up a lot more skills relevant to career development, which are not necessarily relevant to their PhD
Social aspects of a PhD • Quite a big change from undergraduate study • A huge change in life and possible culture shock A PhD is much more than just a project.
Departmental rep contacts • Cardiovascular science • Nikolay Ogryzko: mdp08no@sheffield.ac.uk • Infection and Immunity • Claudia Paiva: c.paiva@sheffield.ac.uk • Lorena PreciadoLlanes : mdp08lp@sheffield.ac.uk • Anne Robertson: mdp09alr@sheffield.ac.uk • Neuroscience • AlifiyaKapasi: mdp09ak@sheffield.ac.uk • Rohini Raman: r.raman@sheffield.ac.uk • Katie Richardson: mdp09kr@sheffield.ac.uk • Oncology • Sapna Lunj: mdp08sl@sheffield.ac.uk • Claire Timon: mdp08ct@sheffield.ac.uk • Human Metabolism • BehniaLashkari: b.lashkari@sheffield.ac.uk