Progress

Progress Meetings

You'll attend a number of one-to-one meetings with your Academic Tutor and Project Supervisor throughout the year to discuss your progress and identify any problems. Your Academic Tutor and Project Supervisor will arrange these with you, usually by email.

Initial Progress Concerns

Your academic progress will be carefully monitored to make sure that you're progressing through your programme of study in such a way as to be on track to graduate in January 2026. Any concerns about your progress will first be raised with you by your Academic Tutor, who will plan with you any adjustments needed to your studies.

We'd always rather hear about any issues or concerns you're having with your programme as early as possible, to help you get the most out of your time studying at Sheffield. If you have any welfare issues that may impact your studies, please email psypgt@sheffield.ac.uk.

Escalation of Progress Concerns

If your attendance is less than 50% by November 2024, you'll receive an email from the School warning you that we're about to begin a Progress Review for you. You'll only receive one email about this, and it's really important that you respond. In your response, you'll be asked to share if there are any welfare reasons for your low attendance. If there are, we'll be able to support you with these issues or signpost you to wider University support services.

If there are no welfare concerns, or if you don't reply, we'll then request comments from your Academic Tutor about your progress. If your Academic Tutor expresses a concern about your progress at this stage - usually where you've not been engaging with academic staff when requested, or when you've failed multiple assessments - we'll submit a Progress Concerns Report to the University's Student Engagement and Progress Team. 

This is the start of the formal University of Sheffield Progress Review process. In the first instance, they'll request the Faculty of Science to send you an email highlighting our concerns, and it's really important that you respond to that email to avoid any further escalation.

If you don't respond to the email, or if you have another Progress Concerns Report raised later in the year, further escalations will include you being invited to a meeting with a Faculty Officer to discuss the progress concerns, or being referred to a Faculty Student Review Committee (FSRC) hearing.

Progress concerns are a serious matter. It's important that you engage with this process and be aware that escalation of the process may ultimately result in you being excluded from your Faculty.