FORM A - Student
School of Life Sciences
Research Student’s Annual Review Report 2013-14
Please answer the following questions carefully.
It is essential that this report be completed and submitted together with a printed copy
of your written project report NO LATER THAN 2nd June 2014
PRINT and give a copy each to:
 Deeptima Massey (Research and Enterprise Co-ordinator)
Chemistry Office Arundel 305
 Main Supervisor (if you wish them to have access to this)
 Co-supervisor/Assessor (if you wish them to have access to
this)
NOTE First year students who started during or after January 2014 need only to
complete this Form A. Your full project report will be due in October 2014.
Your responses to the question on this form are intended to provide information to help
assess your progress; they are also intended to provide an indication of any areas where
your department and/or school might provide additional support in order to assist you.
Please enter text, or click with the mouse, the relevant boxes below. Please note you
can ‘tab’ through this document to complete your answer in each box.
Please indicate if you wish your supervisor/s to have access to this report?
YES
NO
If no, then give your supervisors a copy of just your project report and
return this form to Deeptima Massey
Name:
Degree: MPhil
DPhil
Current address for correspondence:
Date of starting research:
Current registration status:
Full-time
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Part-Time
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Continuation
Main Supervisor’s name:
Co-Supervisor’s name:
Please list dates of any periods of
intermission:
1. Please state your source of funding (even if your main source of funding
has now expired)?
2. What stage has the work on your thesis reached? Please relate this
account to the plans given in your research outline, explaining any changes
from those, and including the most recent developments. If you are on
fieldwork, or have completed it in the past year, please outline progress so far,
and any problems that have arisen.
Please attach any supplementary
statement or materials regarding your progress as specified by your School
Progress to date:
Areas of strength:
Areas of weakness (if any)
Comment on the quality of the supervision /support you have received. It
would be helpful if you could make positive suggestions about where
improvement might be made, especially where this relates to specific actions
that you or your supervisor could take to improve matters.
Please comment on general facilities and support, as well as support specific
to your research project
3. Do you have any recognised disability which has been formally assessed?
YES
NO
If YES, has this been adequately supported?
4. If you are on continuation, do you now have a job?
YES
NO
If YES, what are its hours of work?
5. (a) Has work on your thesis been significantly impeded by any nonacademic factors (e.g. illness or financial)?
YES
NO
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If YES, please give details:
Please list dates of any periods of intermission:
Main Supervisor’s Name:
Co/Second Supervisor’s Name:
(b) Do you expect it to be so in the next few months, or the year ahead? (e.g.
by job change, childbirth)?
YES
NO
If YES, please give details:
6. When do you at present realistically expect to submit your thesis?
7. Are there any training requirements, identified at previous meetings or
during meetings with your supervisor/s, that you feel have not been met?
YES
NO
If YES, please state:
(b) Is there any further training which you feel you need?
Please note that training in transferable skills is now taken very seriously by
the research councils and University. Please identify at least one skills course
that you will be taking during the next academic year
8. How many times have you been in contact with your main supervisor, and
has that been satisfactory (in the case of joint supervision, please indicate the
frequency of contact with both supervisors)?
9. Do you feel that you have been receiving adequate and appropriate
feedback and advice from your main supervisor?
YES
NO
Please state any ways in which you feel this might be improved.
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10. Please indicate any further areas in which you feel the support provided by
those involved in your supervision might be improved (e.g. including support
provided via additional supervisors, or other members of your supervisory
team).
11. Is it clear to you who you should go to if you encounter problems with your
research, or difficulties with a supervisor?
YES
NO
If NO, please indicate where clarification is required?
12. Are there any further specific areas relating to your research where you
feel you are in need of additional support or guidance?
YES
NO
If YES, please indicate the area/s and any suggestions as to what might be
provided.
13. Please indicate any areas where access to resources – e.g. via the library
or availability of computing resources – might be improved in order to assist
you with your research.
14. Are sufficient opportunities available to you for contact and interaction
with other research students?
YES
NO
Please state any ways in which you feel this could be improved.
15. Does your School and/or Graduate Centre provide a sufficient range of
activities to enable you to discuss your research, and related areas of interest,
with others engaged in similar fields of study?
YES
NO
Please indicate any suggestions you may have for how this might be improved.
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16. FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ONLY:
Was the programme of events arranged by your School/Graduate Centre to
support your induction to the University satisfactory?
YES
NO
Please state any specific areas in which this could have been improved, or
anything additional you consider that should be provided in future years.
17. Please indicate any further comments you may have, or any further
suggestions for how your experience as a research student could have
been/could be enhanced further.
Please enter the date of completion of this report:
Student Signature
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My Portfolio (2013-14)
(All students should complete this form for the current year only)
Please print or type. Use additional pages if required.
Specialist training/workshops/courses attended:
Transferable skills training/courses attended:
Talks given at conferences:
Poster presentations:
Teaching undertaken (including seminars, demonstrations, tutorials, marking):
Publications:
Honours and Awards:
Membership of Committees/Professional Societies/Voluntary Work
Comments from Research Degree Convener (for office use only)
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FORM A - Student
Associate Tutors Monitoring Report
Please complete this section if you did any form of tutoring/demonstrating this year
Name
Department
How may hours have you (or will you) have taught this academic year?
Please specify the mix of teaching, tutorials / seminar / demonstrating?
Has the amount of teaching you have been asked to do matched your expectations?
Was teaching payment correct and received promptly?
Did you do the full associate tutors training course or the cut down version, the
demonstrating course.
Was this course useful, did it adequately equip you for what was to come?
Is there any other training (or changes for next year) which would you would regard as
a priority to assist / prepare associate tutors in LifeSci, please comment.
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