Happy Thursday! Read on for an upcoming PGR teaching forum, postgrad wellbeing drop-in sessions, an opportunity to present your thesis in three minutes for a prize, the online summer researcher development programme, and the new Next Steps PG career series. We have details of a few changes to campus as we celebrate our graduates and host a Commonwealth Games Athletes' Village this summer. And get a free victoria sponge baking kit to mark the Jubilee!
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PGR News
Foundations for Wellbeing
Take a break in the Postgrad Hub with Wellbeing Support Services, and learn some simple things you can incorporate into your day in order to stay active! Upcoming drop-in sessions are held on Wednesdays between 2-3pm and include: Eating Well on 25 May, Keeping Active on 1 and 15 June, Sleep, Rest and Relaxation on 15 and 29 June. Find out more here.
PGR teaching forum
Three Minute Thesis (3MT)
Just a few days left to enter this year’s competition! With an opportunity to present your thesis to an audience in just 3 minutes, a chance to win one of our prizes and be entered into the Vitae final. Submit your entry and we will let you know if you have been shortlisted. You will then get some training ahead of the Warwick final on 15 June. If you have any questions, please contact doctoralcollege@warwick.ac.uk.
Researcher Development Online
The Summer RDO programme is here and bookable. To support you through the next few months we have continued the Research Methods series, PhD in Second language, Writing series, and support for your wellbeing, creativity and productivity. So have a look, it's all still delivered online.
Next Steps Careers Series
We have a new career series called Next Steps! Next Steps is a blend of both in-person and online events to support you through your decision making for your career. There will be weekly themes starting 30 May. To name a few: Get your career discussions started, Post PhD - Staying in academia, Preparing for Leadership, and many more. All sessions are bookable on SkillsForge, why not find out more here.
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Summer event preparations
Commonwealth Games
At the start of term we let you know that we’ve been chosen to host a Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Athletes’ Village over the summer, and we’ll also be co-hosting the International Children's Games.
As part our preparations for the Commonwealth Games, there will be an accreditation zone in operation on campus from 14 July – 11 August which will consist of a secure perimeter fence around certain buildings on campus. From mid-June we will start work preparing the Accreditation Zone, it will be fully operational from 14 July.
Once the zone is in operation, access within the accreditation zone will be controlled at all times and only accessible to authorised personnel and those with accreditation passes. Once the accreditation zone has been completed (14 July), students in some areas of central campus will need to use alternative walking routes to access their residence and campus facilities. We will be in touch with more information soon.
We will also facilitate alternative departure arrangements for students from some of the residences on campus that will have limited vehicle access due to the location of the accreditation zone. Students living in these residences will receive more information from the Accommodation team in the coming weeks.
Graduation Celebrations
In July, in addition to degree congregations for this summer’s graduates, we’ll also be hosting Warwick Celebrates, a graduation celebration for our graduates who missed the chance to celebrate the completion of their degrees during the pandemic.
Preparations will also shortly begin for graduation celebrations, starting with a temporary Igloo structure being built on Cryfield Village car park for the Warwick Celebrates event from 9 June. This means that the car park will be temporarily closed from 9 June until mid-August. You can see details for alternative car parks during this time.
We will keep you updated throughout term 3.
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Learning, teaching and research
Alternative Exams Portal (AEP) - temporary issue on Monday 16 May
We’re aware that some of our students were temporarily unable to access the Alternative Exam Portal (AEP) on Monday morning. Our IT team has completed a full investigation and concluded that this temporary outage was as a result of a manual restart that took longer to complete than planned. There are no other planned AEP manual interventions scheduled over the remaining exam period, so this was an unfortunate but isolated incident. We would like to reassure all students that we’ve looked into the issue and are confident that this will not happen again.
We appreciate that the exam period is a challenging time, so we apologise to those students who were impacted and wish you all the best of luck for upcoming exams and assessments. For any queries relating to online or in-person exams, have a read of our FAQs.
Mitigating circumstances for assessments and exams
We support you to succeed with a number of options based on your personal circumstances when it comes to sitting assessments and exams. Mitigating circumstances are unforeseen circumstances which are outside your control and have a detrimental effect on your studies. Find out more about your options, inlcuding submitting mitigating circumstances, deferral and self-certification. |
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Student Opportunity and Events
Open now: Join the Warwick Award pilot this term!
Student Opportunity is looking for students to be part of the pilot for the Warwick Award – a brand-new programme helping you recognise and develop the employability skills across everything you’re doing here at Warwick. It also highlights training and development opportunities to help set you up for a fantastic start to life after graduation. The Award is open to and free for all undergraduate, taught postgraduate, exchange, and degree apprenticeship students. Find out more and join the Warwick Award pilot!
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Campus and Community
Warwick Presents: Jubilee victoria sponge baking kit
We’re bringing a taste of the Jubilee to you! Want to try your hand at making a victoria sponge? We’re offering free recipe kits that will contain all the ingredients you’ll need. Simply fill out the online form and be sure to collect your kit on Wednesday 1 June, between 1-5pm at Rootes Grocery Store. Gather your friends and flatmates to show off your baking skills and share the love.
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Best wishes,
and the Student Communications Team
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