28th February 2012, 10:30am to 1:30pm

PGC Practice Sharing Workshop

Picking the right students for research degrees

  • Organised By: Graduate Research School
Picking the right students for research degrees

 This PGC Practice Sharing Workshop will bring together Postgraduate Coordinators, supervisors and GRS staff to share their approaches to considering and assessing admission and scholarship applications in different disciplines.

Tuesday 28 February

10.30 – 12.30 Practice sharing session

Introduction 
Laura Poole-Warren – Dean of Graduate Research

Issues for international admission
Margaret O’Byrne – Director of the Graduate Research School

Assessing applications in the Humanities
Stephen Fortescue - Director of Postgraduate Research for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Experiences in Engineering scholarships ranking
Evatt Hawkes – Faculty of Engineering, Scholarship assessment School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering

Assessing admission applications in Engineering 
Alistair Sproul - Postgraduate Coordinator in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering

Discussion and questions

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

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