Postgraduate Research Supervisor Resources
Development and Guidance for PGR Supervisors
PGR Supervisor Development Programme
The PGR Supervisor Development Programme will be introduced from September 2024 and will be mandatory for all colleagues wishing to undertake PGR supervision.
Doctoral College Fellowships
The Doctoral College welcomes applications for conferment of Doctoral College Fellow, Associated Fellow, Honorary Fellow, and Associated Fellow (Professional Services) Status.
Get informed on postgraduate research processes and learn how to support your students to achieve their potential.
Supporting your students’ wellbeing
As a supervisor, you can play a key role in your students’ wellbeing. As well as taking supportive action yourself, you can point students towards the University’s range of wellbeing services.
Find out more about health and wellbeing services for postgraduate research students.
Wellbeing Workshop for Supervisors
Empower yourself to support students’ wellbeing and mental health. On this workshop tailored for supervisors, you’ll learn:
- the key wellbeing issues affecting postgraduate research students
- how mental wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) intersect
- what health and wellbeing services are on offer to postgraduate research students
- how to deal with distressed students
- where your responsibility begins and ends
Supporting personal development and employability
A wide range of personal development and employability opportunities are available to your students. Take some time to get familiar with them, so you can explain to students what’s on offer.
Opportunities include:
- faculty research development programmes
- careers support
- teaching opportunities
- competitions and events
Visit the Personal Development and Employability landing page to find out more.
Sharepoint also offers advice for supporting students who want to work on campus.
Things you need to know as a PGR Supervisor
If you need information on admin processes for postgraduate research students, visit the Student Progress pages on Sharepoint.
You’ll find information tailored for supervisors, including:
- how independent chair processes work and your role in these
- how to deal with applications from prospective occasional students, including guidance on decision-making
- links to information on key postgraduate research publications, regulations and activities
PGR Educational Partnerships
The University has established policies and procedures for the approval, oversight and renewal of educational partnerships. In addition specific guidance for particular types of partnerships has been developed to help staff through the process of developing new partnerships and managing existing provision.
For Doctoral programmes the Framework for PGR Educational Partnerships is a guide for the development of PGR Educational Partnerships and should be read in conjunction with Newcastle University’s Code of Practice for Research Degree Programmes and the Educational Partnership Policy.
Any queries regarding already approved educational partnerships, or the establishing of new partnerships, should be directed to Education Policy and Governance Service on educational.partnerships@ncl.ac.uk
In addition, the Principles for the Appointment of an External PGR Advisor and Development of Joint Supervision Arrangements provides guidance where:
- A student’s research programme would benefit from specialist expertise which is not available internally, the appointment of an External Advisor could be considered.
- The institution (or an individual academic unit) would like to develop links with another institution or an external partner (e.g. industrial partner) without entering into a formal Joint/Dual PhD, the development of joint supervision arrangements could be considered.
Any queries regarding the above should be directed to your Graduate School or to the Doctoral College (doctoralcollege@ncl.ac.uk)
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/student-progress/pgr/
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/student-progress/pgr/covid-19-mitigations/
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/doctoral-college/current-research-students/doctoral-college-funding/