[Postgrad] RDP Reflective Essays

[Neil Hunt]

FAO: PhD students enrolled on PGCert in Researcher Professional Development only (Specifically, students entering their 3rd year)

Dear All,

It's come to my attention that not all of you are aware that you rare required to complete and upload a 'reflective essay' for each of the 5 streams of the RDP programme once all of your claims for credit have been logged and approved. This will appear as a new button at the bottom of the stream on Spider once I have approved your credits - which should now have been done.
This has caused some consternation because the guidelines mention 1-2000 word essays. In actual fact, what is required is a short document that shows you have undertaken an element of reflection regarding how your activities have met the written 'learning outcomes' of the RDP stream. The word counts are a maximum and in many cases it looks like a lot of that is taken up with a basic summary of the activities so the 'reflective' part of the exercise will not need anything like this amount of effort.

Although I will be approving these in the first instance, they will be looked at by the RDP team so please do complete these but I would counsel you to look carefully at the guidelines and deal with the specific needs of the exercise  - doing so should limit the amount of time/effort that is needed.

If anyone has any questions, I am happy to discuss.

Best wishes,
Neil
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