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PRES 2025

PRES is an online survey, co-ordinated by Advance HE, and conducted by institutions across the UK and globally. 

The survey will launch at the University of Wolverhampton on 24 February, and close on 16 May 2025.

The University is promoting the survey to encourage as many eligible students as possible to complete it online and to give their feedback. We’re keen to make sure research students have the best possible experience while studying at the University of Wolverhampton. To do that we need to know what you think we are doing well and what we can do better.

Win Amazon Vouchers

To thank you for your time, if you complete PRES, you will be entered into a prize draw to win Amazon vouchers:
•    1st prize £100
•    2nd prize £50 
•    10 runner-up prizes of £10

 

Have Your Say

PRES is your chance to tell us your thoughts about your course. The results help us compare how we are doing with other institutions, to make changes that will improve what we do in future and to keep doing the things that you value.

This will help improve the experience of students like you now and for the future. 

Don't take our word for it, see what our current research students have to say about completing PRES..

Frequently Asked Questions

If you’re thinking about taking part this year, these are the answers to some of the questions students often ask:

All current students registered for an MPhil, PhD, PhD by Published Work or Professional Doctorate before 1 January 2025 are eligible to take part.

The following students will not be included:

  • Students taking a leave of absence during the survey period (you will have an opportunity to take part next time).
  • Students who are dormant (i.e. have no enrolment record for 2024/25 this may be due to no engagement, or are in the process of withdrawing etc.)

The survey is carried out by the University and the questionnaire hosted by Jisc Online Surveys (OS). On 24 February, all eligible research students will receive a personalised email from OS asking them to complete the survey via their own unique link. 

Please note that emails from the OS software will be sent to university student email addresses and additional University emails will be sent to your registered contact email. 

If you do not complete the survey within the first couple of weeks you will receive reminders from OS, the Survey Officer and your Faculty, until the survey closes. Once you have completed the survey, your participation is recorded and the reminders stop.

When you receive an email from OS, simply click on your own personal link and complete the survey. Your personal survey link is recorded against your anonymised demographic information therefore please do not send your personal link to other students.

The survey takes no more than 15 minutes to complete.

PRES concentrates on your course and includes:

  • Supervision
  • Resources
  • Research culture
  • Community
  • Progress and assessment
  • Responsibilities
  • Support
  • Research skills
  • Professional development
  • Opportunities
  • Overall experience
  • Motivations

Within these categories, you are asked to agree or disagree with statements, or indicate how often a learning style or behaviour is encouraged. You are encouraged to take an overview of your experience of the whole course and take into account the balance of what constitutes a ‘better’ and ‘worse’ experience. 

Your survey response is confidential to the Survey Officer and as only anonymous aggregate data will be supplied to Faculties they will not be able to identify you from any results. The survey asks that any comments you make should not identify yourself or any specific members of staff.

Before you start the survey, please read the PRES Privacy Notice 2025 which tells you how any personal data you submit with your response to this survey will be utilised and protected, and the rights you have in relation to it.

Your feedback is important.  Over one hundred universities and colleges take part in PRES. This means we can compare your experience against similar postgraduates at other institutions to see if we are supporting your learning as we should. We use the findings to improve our courses and the experience for future students. 

The results of institutions aggregated together are published by Advance HE. Institutions own their results and can decide whether to make them public. Detailed results will be made available to Faculties by the Survey Officer.

National results

The Advance HE PRES 2024 Report presents national data from the 2024 survey, exploring the PGR journey, their personal outlook and presenting recommendations and implications for enhancing the PGR experience.

Archive Reports:

For more information

Please contact the Survey Officer - Jill Morgan, Research & Enterprise Directorate by email: j.morgan4@wlv.ac.uk