Our Team

The Student Engagement Team in the Graduate School provides advice and support for Postgraduate Students throughout their studies as well as directly engaging with students, co-ordinating training and programmes, communicating with students via emails and social media, and organising regular postgraduate community events.

The Training and Development team is responsible for delivering of the skills-based courses with the Postgraduate Development Programme. They deliver the induction sessions throughout the year, offer consultancy and support to help students prioritise their personal development plans and deliver programmes such as Master Your Leadership Programme and the CMI Level 7 certificate in Strategic Leadership and Management.

The Employability and Enterprise team offers a range of innovation, enterprise and career development programmes and workshops which include a range of methodologies such as ‘Design Thinking’ and ‘Storytelling with Impact’, to support postgraduates in understanding how their research makes an impact on local and global challenges. They also offer 1-2-1 career guidance and business mentoring sessions to support students in articulating their skills and support in their chosen career path, book via MyFuture.

The Postgraduate Awards Team are responsible for the management, administration and payment of postgraduate studentships and funding awards across the University.

The Postgraduate Research Solutions Centre (PGRSC) offers a range of services for PGR Directors and Administrators to support action at School level.  This includes the provision of statistics, advice and support throughout the academic year and the identification of bottlenecks and processes for improving turnaround times on PGR applications.

The Centre promotes the use of Course Finder to advertise projects (funded and unfunded) for potential PhD applicants and manages academic staff profiles on the University’s ‘Find a PhD’ webpages.

Going forward, the Centre will be involved in the identification and Management of new International Distance Learning PhD Projects, enhancing the growth of PGR cohorts to meet current and future strategies.

Contact the Postgraduate Research Solutions Centre: pgrsc@qub.ac.uk.