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Origin

Senate delegates responsibility to the Doctoral College Committee for leading and directing the development of the Postgraduate research student experience and environment at the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. ÌýThe Doctoral College Professional Development Subcommittee reports to the Doctoral College Committee on matters related to the professional training and development of Postgraduate research students.

Purpose

• The Doctoral College Professional Development Subcommittee maintains university-wide oversight of the implementation, delivery, evaluation and enhancement of doctoral researcher professional training and development provision.
• The Chair is responsible for ensuring that any equality impacts against each project/policy/process/procedure have been considered as part of the decision-making process.

Responsibilities and activity

• Planning and oversight of central training and development activities.Ìý
• Keeping an overview of Faculty/Academic Unit programmes and encouraging opening out where appropriate.Ìý
• Developing generic technical training and fostering greater visibility and coordination of discipline-based technical training.Ìý
• Overseeing the training for postgraduate research students engaged in teaching/demonstrating (working with the Centre for Higher Education Practice).Ìý
• Planning and advice re. support for supervisors and their professional development (working with the Centre for Higher Education Practice).Ìý
• Planning and oversight of support for postgraduate research career management and employability (working with Careers).Ìý
• Contributing to postgraduate research induction and facilitating other postgraduate research events and activities.

Reporting arrangements

• The Doctoral College Professional Development Subcommittee reports to the Doctoral College Committee.

Constitution

The Terms of Reference and Constitution are reviewed annually to ensure that the composition of the Subcommittee reflects those Faculties and Professional Services that have responsibilities for postgraduate research professional development.

• Chair: Doctoral College Professional Development Programme Manager
• Director of the Doctoral College (or nominee
• Faculty representatives for postgraduate research development, usually Deputy Directors of Faculty Graduate School
• Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP) for supervisor training representative
• Doctoral College Academic Developers (CHEP
• Head of Doctoral College Training Centres and Partnership
• Head of Doctoral College Research Cultur
• Training leads of Doctoral Focal and Landscape awards representativ
• Professional Services representatives
  • Careers and Employabilit
  • Digital Learnin
  • Librar
  • Research and Innovation Service
  • Wellbeing Service
• Other representation
  • Elected SUSU PGR Faculty Officer (or Nominee)

• University Institutes representative
• Managers of Doctoral Training Centres and Partnerships representative
• Doctoral College Administration teams representative
• Doctoral Focal and Landscape awards additional representatives

Quorum and frequency

Quorum

The Doctoral College Professional Development Subcommittee will be quorate with one third of the membership plus one in attendance.

Frequency of meetings

The Doctoral College Professional Development Subcommittee will meet at least four times per year (aligned with the Doctoral College Committee).

Resources

Secretariat support is provided by the Centre for Higher Education Practice.

Terms of Reference review

Date of last review:....... November 2025

Date of next review:...... November 2026

Governance reporting line

The Doctoral College Professional Development Subcommittee reports to the Doctoral College Committee .

Document owner

Doctoral College Committee .