PRQC
- To advise the Quality Assurance & Enhancement Committee (QAEC) and where appropriate the College Education and Student Experience Committee and/or University Research and Enterprise Board on all matters relating to the development of postgraduate education and research as regards PhD, MPhil, EngD and MD(Res) degrees, including any impact on MRes degrees, including collaborative programmes
- To advise the QAEC and where appropriate the College Education and Student Experience Committee and/or University Research and Enterprise Board on developments in UK and international policy on postgraduate education and research
- To advise the QAEC and where appropriate the College Education and Student Experience Committee and/or University Research and Enterprise Board on the College's research culture and the research environment, from a student perspective
- To support and promote innovations in postgraduate research quality, including where requested by QAEC and/or the University Research and Enterprise Board
- To determine the standards and framework by which departments operate for postgraduate education and research
- To propose and advise on modifications to College regulations and procedures that affect postgraduate research students
- To oversee the processes of quality assurance for postgraduate research degrees (including those for collaborative programmes) including the development and dissemination of precepts for postgraduate research programmes and the sharing of good practice
- To oversee precept and periodic reviews of existing research degree programmes, including collaborative programmes, and to provide an annual summary of outcomes arising from the reviews to QAEC/Senate
- To consider proposals for new research degree programmes, major changes to research degree programmes, the suspension and withdrawal of research degree programmes, including those for collaborative programmes, and make recommendations to QAEC as appropriate
- To receive minutes from collaborative Postgraduate Research Degree Programme Committees
- To receive minutes of Graduate School committees, including the CDT/DTP Governance Committee and the Postgraduate Development and Experience Committee
- To oversee processes relating to the appointment of postgraduate research examiners and to consider matters arising from their reports
- To appoint the Special Cases Panel for research programmes and to oversee all special cases, for example for registration, extensions, appointment of examiners and restriction of access to theses
- To advise on the format and presentation of theses
- To advise on matters relating to the recruitment and registration of postgraduate research students
- To oversee the professional skills development programme for postgraduate research students
- To engage with and recommend action as appropriate to address key themes emerging from internal and external surveys of students, including annual review of Faculty action plans for the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) and College summary reports
- To receive and consider statistics for research students on admissions, completion rates, withdrawals, referral and failure rates, destination statistics, examination irregularities (including cases of plagiarism), student appeals and disciplinaries, making recommendations for action as appropriate.
- To report regularly to QAEC
Constitution
- Graduate School Director (Chair)
- Graduate School Deputy Director (Deputy Chair)
- Vice Provost (Education and Student Experience)
- Academic Registrar (or nominee)
- One College Consul
- Graduate School Deputy Director (Professional Skills)
- Graduate School Head of Strategy and Operations
- One Faculty Senior Tutor (PGR) representative
- One representative from each department (normally the Director of Postgraduate Studies)
- One representative from the Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication/Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship
- One representative from the Business School
- ICU President, ICU Deputy President (Education), PGR Representation Chair plus up to 3 student representatives as elected by the ICU; with the power to co- opt.
- An Assistant Registrar (Secretary)
The Heads of collaborative research degree programmes will be invited to attend for relevant items.
Name | Role |
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Professor Xiao Yun Xu | Director of the Graduate School (Chair) |
Professor Laki Buluwela | Deputy Director of the Graduate School (Deputy Chair) |
Professor Jennifer Quint | Deputy Director of the Graduate School (Professional Skills) |
Professor Peter Haynes | Vice Provost (Education and Student Experience) |
David Ashton | Academic Registrar |
TBC | College Consul |
Dr Jeffrey Vernon | Faculty Senior Tutor (PGR) representative |
Laura Lane | Graduate School Head of Strategy and Operations |
Dr Chris Cantwell | Aeronautics |
Dr Choon Hwai Yap | Bioengineering |
Professor Cleo Kontoravdi | Chemical Engineering |
Professor Ahmer Wadee | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Dr Dalal Alrajeh | Computing |
Dr Mazdak Ghajari | Dyson School of Design Engineering |
Professor Saskia Goes | Earth Science and Engineering |
Professor Pier Luigi Dragotti | Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
Professor Christopher Gourlay | Materials |
Dr Salvador Navarro-Martinez | Mechanical Engineering |
Dr Enrique Martinez-Perez / Dr Alexis Barr | Institute of Clinical Sciences |
Professor Kevin Murphy | Departments of Brain Sciences; Immunology and Inflammation; Infectious Disease; Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction |
Professor Mike Lovett | National Heart and Lung Institute |
Dr Abbas Dehghan | School of Public Health |
Professor Charlotte Bevan | Surgery and Cancer |
Dr Yiannis Kountouris | Centre for Environmental Policy |
Dr Rüdiger Woscholski | Chemistry |
Dr Sally Leevers | Crick Doctoral Centre |
Dr David Mann | Life Sciences |
Dr Ryan Barnett | Mathematics |
Professor Ben Sauer | Physics |
Professor Alex Michaelides | Imperial College Business School |
Dr Jo Horsburgh | Centre for Higher Education research and Scholarship / Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication |
Robin Mowat | Centre for Academic English |
Yi Yang | ICU Deputy President (Education) |
Camille Boutrolle | ICU President |
Jordon Millward | PGR Representation Chair |
TBC | Postgraduate Research Academic & Welfare Officer (Engineering) |
Michaela Flegrova | Postgraduate Research Academic & Welfare Officer (Natural Sciences) |
Nan Fletcher-Lloyd | Postgraduate Research Academic & Welfare Officer (Medicine) |
Emma Rabin | Assistant Registrar as Secretary |
Committee dates 2024/25 | Submission deadlines 2024/25 |
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Wednesday 9 October 2024, 14:10-16:30 | 25 September 2024 |
Wednesday 26 February 2025, 14:10-16:30 | 12 February 2025 |
Wednesday 21 May 2025, 14:10-16:30 | 7 May 2025 |
Agenda items (including papers) should be submitted to the committee secretary two weeks prior to the committee meeting. Papers will normally be circulated to members one week prior to the committee meeting.
Minutes
Academic year 2023-24
Academic year 2022-23
Academic year 2021-22
- 3 November 2021 [pdf]
- 16 February 2022 [pdf]
- 10 May 2022 [pdf]
Academic year 2020-21
- 21 October 2020
- 10 February 2021 [pdf]
- 12 May 2021 [pdf]
Academic year 2019-20
- 23 October 2019 [pdf]
- 12 February 2020 [pdf]
- 13 May 2020 [pdf]
Academic year 2018-19
- 24 October 2018 [pdf]
- 20 February 2019 [pdf]
- 15 May 2019 [pdf]
Academic year 2017-18
- 25 October 2017 [pdf]
- 21 February 2018 [pdf]
- 11 May 2018 [pdf]
Academic year 2016-17
- 26 October 2016 [pdf]
- 22 February 2017 [pdf]
- 10 May 2017 [pdf]
Academic year 2015-16
- 04 November 2015 [pdf]
- 04 March 2016 [pdf]
- 10 May 2016 [pdf]
Academic year 2014-15
- 7 November 2014 [pdf]
- 10 February 2015 [pdf]
- 15 May 2015 [pdf]
Academic year 2013-14
- 25 October 2013 [pdf]
- 3 February 2014 [pdf]
- 30 May 2014 [pdf]
Academic year 2012-13
- 26 October 2012 [pdf]
- 14 February 2013 [pdf]
- 4 June 2013 [pdf]
For committee minutes prior to 2012/13, please contact the committee secretary.
Committee Secretary
For more information please contact Emma Rabin, Assistant Registrar (Partnerships, Monitoring and Evaluation)