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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust UCL Institute of Child Health
 

Education and training

Research degrees

Supervision and progress

Part of the process of deciding whether an applicant can be accepted for a research degree is ensuring that there is a member of staff who can provide adequate supervision for the proposed field of study. All students have at least a principal and subsidiary supervisor who are responsible for their supervision, and all supervisors and students receive guidance notes detailing their responsibilities.  All students are required to maintain a Research Log, which:

a) records key supervisory meetings

b) prompts the student, in consultation with their supervisors, to carry out a self-audit of relevant generic, academic and project-related skills, and

c) maintains a comprehensive account of the student’s research training and experience.

At the end of each year, the Institute undertakes a formal review of each student based on named but confidential questionnaires sent to both the student and their supervisors and an agreed progress report. Each student then has a one to one chat with a member of the Postgraduate Team which has special responsibility for monitoring student progress and reports to the Institute’s Research Degrees Committee.