1. Supervisor Awareness Training Session One Faculty of Humanities May 2009

2. National context QAA Code of Practice (Sept 2004) HEFCE link PGR funding to QAA QAA RDP review (Feb 2006) (RDP = Research Degree Programme)

3. Organisational Context University of Manchester 2020 agenda: Goal 1; KPI 6: “ Annual increase in PGR students successfully completing their PhD programme, consistent with a doubling to the period 2020.”

4. More specifically: our creed We believe that research and knowledge of internationally recognisable quality are at the core of a Doctoral project and that this quality is evidenced by the PhD thesis. While the PhD thesis is an outcome of the Doctoral process its main output are people – highly able researchers that can be employed by the top research organisations in the world. Hence: We see our strategic task as providing the organisational conditions to enable our postgraduate research students to become highly able professional researchers.

5. Issues for supervisors selection and admissions panels & progression research training examination

6. Issues for supervisors skills audit PDPs supervisor’s agreement

7. Issues for supervisors networking post-doctoral path publication

8. Submission and Completion Double the number of PhD completions Increase the proportion of PhD completions