The Faculty will provide incoming students with further details of their events scheduled for WRoCAH funded students with a start date of 1 October and a welcome event on 11 October for all PGR students in their first year. We highly recommend you view the Graduate School Intranet Faculty PGR Induction site.
All first year students are invited to attend a meeting with the Head of PGR programmes, PG admin support and student representatives. You will be briefed on aspects of the PGR programme including: Introduction to relevant staff and your fellow students, confirmation of supervisor & research topic, expectations for your first year, how to obtain relevant information and support.
The Departmental PGR handbook in the form of a Google site will also be available to you. It will be extremely beneficial for you to familiarise yourself with this information before attending the welcome meeting as this is a great opportunity to ask questions. Note - you will only be able to access this site once you have completed registration and activated your University email account.
If you are intending to remain in your usual country of residence (not UK) at the start of your programme please let us know as soon as possible (archaeology@sheffield.ac.uk) so we can inform Research Services.
Followed by...
Please join us for a welcome social event for all new and returning students and staff. A great opportunity to meet other students and staff, and enjoy yourself! Further details to be shared by email.
Meet the Department's Lab Manager (Yvette Marks) outside the Ella Armitage Building. You will be given a tour of the Department's labs in the Ella Armitage building and then taken across to be shown the PGR office in Minalloy House. The tour will include your H&S induction of these buildings. You will also be given a short presentation during the tour about safety in the lab and off campus. Please see follow-on actions here.
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.
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.
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