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📢 PGR Students' Voices: Share, Connect, and Be Heard! 🎓

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📢 PGR Students' Voices: Share, Connect, and Be Heard! 🎓

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How would you like to hear about PGR activities such as training, funding schemes and DocFest?

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Have we considered holding really obvious events that directly place the idea of a PhD in front of undergraduates, or make students acknowledge that they are surrounded by PGR's and its not a horrible boring endeavour that requires you to be a genius in everything. All I hear from undergraduates is I'm not smart enough and that is too difficult. Presenting the benefits directly in front of them and projecting a PhD in a light and fascinating manor may spark them to even consider it as an opportunity rather than dismissing it straight out of the gate when 90% of them do not know what a PhD actually consists of, or the support in seeking one.

Possibly, requesting 10 minutes of a lecture to present research and explain the journey to students in an enthusiastic and interesting manor to spark curiosity or that some aspects can be fun and a great opportunity.

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We don't have enough resources that are easy to use in our training in AI tasks. And the supervisor also didn't provide a suitable laptop for our research but just an old computer. And is there any support from the school if we need to use some charged but good cloud access like google colab as we don't have good GPU in the labs or offices

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It took the IT personnel (I think there is just one guy) six months to obtain a PC for me. Given that my topic is machine learning, this was extremely disappointing and a complete embarrassment for a Uni trying to attract talent in the area.

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More PGR events and gatherings with food please :)

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A teams channel which has basic notifications that aren't so frequent it turns into spam. We get so many emails from all over the university, organisations, and other research forums reaching 50+ emails a day for irrelevant notices. A localised place where we can scroll through instantly without searching junk, we can hold surveys, we can mute if we need to but always know exactly where to look. This will also provide an improved platform in which PGR's can communicate without being bombarded with pure research, work and stress based notifications.

Possibly having multiple channels for different things such as employment, socials, etc will also allow us to filter out what we are interested in, however never forget its there as it disappears into a junk or other folder.

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There should be a visual timeline with key milestones included for both full time and part-time programmes, as the text documents are very difficult to follow because you need to piece things together leading misunderstandings.

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Hello PhD students!

We are Hadil Alsaieri, Hannah Oh, and Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu, PGR Committee Representatives for 2025/2026. As fellow PhD researchers, we understand the challenges and opportunities that come with doctoral study, and we want to ensure that your voices are heard.

In this role, we will be representing the interests, concerns, and feedback of our peer Postgraduate Researchers PGRs (Doctoral Researchers and tutors) body to ensure effective communication between the PGRs and the Sussex Researchers School (SRS). We aim to foster a conducive learning environment and address any issues or suggestions arising during the academic year.

It is all about PGR students' voices! Our role as PGR reps:

1. Talking to our peers and gathering feedback.

2. Attending Sussex Researchers School Committees (PGR Experience sub-committee, PGR Recruitment and Funding Sub-Committee).

3. Working with staff and connectors.

4. Passing on feedback to make change happen.

We will be the key link between PGRs and SRS. Representing PGRs in meetings with senior university staff is an opportunity. We're looking forward to working closely with SRS members to achieve 4 goals:

1. Contribute to making our PhD journey easier.

2. Enhance our learning process's efficacy and efficiency.

3. Support and build up a stronger research community.

4. Use our voice, energy and influence to make a difference.

Your voice matters.

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Training to supervisors with neurodivergent PGR must be made compulsory

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Training to supervisors with neurodivergent PGR must be made compulsory

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I was surprised to know that supervisors with neurodivergent PGR never got trained on how to work with and support neurodivergent PGRs. My supervisor never got trained on, and it's hard for me to really articulate what I need because to be honest, sometimes I don't know. I need to test out and see what work for me. But at the same time, I'm afraid by doing that, the supervisor may just be annoyed, so I refrain from sharing candidly until I figure out what I need. A training session where neurodivergent PGR and their supervisors are gathered together to discuss the neurodivergent-friendly way to support PGR should be made compulsory across all departments, including mine (Psychology).

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I'm very concerned that the university seems to consider reasonable adjustments to be an optional extra as opposed to a legal requirement. In the email we got from our school (ESW) the professor said that they don't yet have reasonable adjustments in place. University staff putting this in writing shows they do not understand their legal responsibilities in relation to disabled students.

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Practicing talking about reseach to get interdisciplinary feedback. This would help with getting used to speaking and also new insights from different departments.

Practice receiving and giving feedback

Practice with others talking about structure of thesis and have dialogue around that to understand better your overall picture and if it makes sense to someone who comes to your thesis cold