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Dear all,<br>
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Please see below a message from the Science faculty for PGR
supervisors regarding Covid-19. PGR students have been reminded to
sign up for the <span style="color:black">Doctoral School MyPlace
page if they have not already done so.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Gordon<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear Heads and PGR
Tutors,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We are keen to get
the following Faculty-level message to all PGR supervisors.
Please consider how best to do that in your Department and take
the necessary action.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">There are a number of
complex issues concerning PGRs resulting from the Covid
lockdown. The Principal recently addressed a Doctoral Zoom call
with over 200 PGRs and official communications are flowing from
Associate Principals and Deputy Associate Principal, supported
by a dedicated Doctoral School MyPlace site. Within the Faculty
we want to try and ensure that all supervisors know where to
look for the latest official information. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We need supervisors
to be actively passing on information to their own students,
personalising the above communications to the situations of
specific PGRs. It is very important that supervisors who are
unsure on the current policies consult with Heads of Department,
or the relevant AP/DAP as appropriate, to try and eliminate
mixed messaging. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Important points to
be known by all supervisors:</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:black">All students should be encouraged to sign up
for the Strathclyde Doctoral School MyPlace site, looking to
collate communications and advice: <a href="https://classes.myplace.strath.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=24920"><span style="color:black">https://classes.myplace.strath.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=24920</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:black">A comprehensive message regarding
information from UKRI was recently emailed to all supervisors of
current </span>final year (finishing 1/3/20-31/3/21) <span style="color:black">UKRI-funded student</span>s<span style="color:black"> by Prof. Kerr and a University-wide
announcement relating to non-UKRI PGR studentships is
forthcoming. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:black">Regarding Friday recuperation days; PGRs can
take these as well as staff and if Friday does not suit, they
should have flexibility to take other time for recuperation in
consultation with their supervisor. Our recommendation is that
supervisors don’t schedule meetings with PGRs on Fridays (unless
students request it). </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:black">We recommend that supervisors continue to
advise students to take a ‘do what you can, when you can’
approach, listening to the student’s assessment of what can
realistically be achieve. The following are some examples of
what PGRs may be able to progress; writing introductory sections
to their theses, reviewing already collected data and preparing
figures, drafting manuscripts, writing and planning
experiments/models, updating their skills on relevant
software/stats/referencing tools/etc., looking out for useful
webinars (e.g. those from professional societies, equipment
companies and NPL), etc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span>We appreciate
the hard work everyone is doing in supporting their PhD students
and keeping the research going where possible. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Rob & Iain</p>
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Dr. Gordon Robb
Department of Physics & SUPA
University of Strathclyde
John Anderson Building
107 Rottenrow
Glasgow, G4 0NG,
Scotland, U.K.</pre>
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