{"id":1584,"date":"2024-02-23T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T10:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2024-02-23T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T10:55:05","slug":"you-said-we-did-acting-on-your-enrolment-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/2024\/02\/23\/you-said-we-did-acting-on-your-enrolment-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"You said, we did: Acting on your enrolment feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In November 2023, YGRS ran focus groups and a survey with current PGRs to gather your suggestions for improving the support for PGRs from offer to enrolment. Three main themes emerged: problems with finding accommodation, not feeling connected to the University or the University community, and a lack of understanding on starting a PGR degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some of the changes that are being implemented because of your input:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Changes to the offer letter to better signpost support around accommodation and arrival, as well as making the end of date of programmes clearer with regards to the \u201cwrite-up year\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>YGRS is overhauling the central university induction to better inform, welcome and connect new PGRs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The central training programme will be structured into development pathways to help clarify which stage of the PhD training sessions should be undertaken.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New training sessions are being planned aimed at helping PGRs when they start their programmes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We also have some longer term changes which we are working on which will start building a sense of community and belonging for York\u2019s PGR offer holders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>YGRS have designed a series of newsletter emails which will be sent to PGR offer holders.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The International Recruitment Team is creating a social media group for international PGR offer holders to connect with one another.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Student Hub and new Student Housing Advisor will work on improving guidance around searching for private sector accommodation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to all those who participated! Because of your input, we have been able to make changes that will hopefully make a real difference for future PGR offer holders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2023, YGRS ran focus groups and a survey with current PGRs to gather your suggestions for improving the support for PGRs from offer to enrolment. Three main themes emerged: problems with finding accommodation, not feeling connected to the University or the University community, and a lack of understanding on starting a PGR degree. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/2024\/02\/23\/you-said-we-did-acting-on-your-enrolment-feedback\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You said, we did: Acting on your enrolment feedback<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[542],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university-news","tag-enrolment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/YGRS-1300px.gif?fit=1300%2C954&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"custom_fields":{"_edit_lock":["1708687241:9"],"_last_editor_used_jetpack":["block-editor"],"_thumbnail_id":["32"],"_jetpack_related_posts_cache":["a:1:{s:32:\"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb\";a:2:{s:7:\"expires\";i:1780128474;s:7:\"payload\";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:1174;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:1194;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:1297;}}}}"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}