We strongly recommend you view the DDP Portal.  DDP is a flexible training plan which can be tailored to your individual needs. For example, with the agreement of your supervisor, you can attend departmental modules.  For Autumn semester modules, to ensure you do not miss any lectures, we strongly recommend you contact your supervisor prior to your arrival and confirm when the sessions are running.  It is also essential you read the Code of Practice for Research Degree Programmes.   New starters should take particularly notice of the TNA here,  the definitive link and instructions will be made available down the line.  

The compulsory elements of DDP are attendance on a Research Ethics and Integrity module and completion of a short presentation during your first year combined with attendance at our Departmental lunch-time seminar series.  

For an overview of departmental modules view here.

Please do contact your supervisor to arrange a first meeting - contact details are here.

The main point of your first supervisory meeting is to welcome you into the Department, get you more acquainted with expectations and first steps in your research.  This will be a good time to arrange a schedule of meetings with your supervisor.  The second supervisor should also be confirmed at this meeting.  

Please do think of any questions, information to share, etc and bring these notes along to your meeting.

Other staff:

PGR academic guidance within the department is provided by Dr Hugh Willmott.  Hugh oversees the supervisory processes and departmental guidance. 

PGR administration support is provided by TBC (new starter 25 September).  X will be your day to day contact throughout your programme issuing requests and reminders for supervisor reports, organising confirmation reviews and the PGR conference. Please contact X at pgr-arch@sheffield.ac.uk.

PGR Faculty support is provided by Sarah Boyer-Condon .  Sarah is the Graduate School Manager and along with the Faculty Lead for PG Affairs and Faculty Director of Operations works closely with our PGT and PGR students. The post is key to ensuring that postgraduate students have access to first-class support, and excellent academic provision and that processes and procedures enable them to progress through their programme of research. 

First month you should

• Complete registration and obtain a UCard (for more information, the registration process is outline here)

• Attend Faculty briefing

• Attend the induction meeting with the Head of PGR Programmes

• Elect a First Year Academic Representative

• Meet with your Supervisor and submit your first meeting report  agree regular supervisory meetings/summary of planned work   (confirmed via submission of first month report)

• Attend the health and safety induction & facilities tour  on 20 October and complete the follow-on actions here.

• Arrange out-of-hours access by completing the actions here.

• Complete the information security and protection courses here.

• Read the Code of Practice for Research Degree Programmes here and the Faculty Graduate School site here.

• Once you have registered with the University we also ask you to submit  a PhD abstract to appear on our webpages to arts-it@sheffield.ac.uk. 

• Complete training needs analysis (for DDP) and the course on research ethics policy.

• Complete your first month's progress report and submit to pgr-arch@sheffield.ac.uk