Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES)

Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2023, a megaphone graphic and Power to the Postgrads

The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) is a national survey, co-ordinated by Advance HE which allows postgraduate research students to feedback on their experiences. This is an opportunity for you to tell us what went well and what could have been improved. Knowing what you think allows us to address issues and keep doing what is valued. 

As an incentive, the first 50 London Met students to complete the PRES survey will be eligible to claim a £10 Amazon voucher. Also, all students who complete the PRES will be entered into a prize draw and six students will be picked at random to win £50 vouchers once the survey has closed.  

The survey opens on Wednesday 13 March and closes on Wednesday 24 April 2023. 

  • There are 27 questions about your studies that relate to the postgraduate student experience 
  • Another 13 questions are demographic information 
  • It should take under 10 minutes to complete
  • Answer the survey honestly and truthfully 
  • Give full answers where needed and requested – the more detail you give the more helpful this is to London Met 

PRES concentrates on your course and includes: 

  • Your experience of staff, learning materials, working with other students, workload, and feeding back on experience 
  • Engagement and course challenge 
  • Assessment and feedback, including supervisor support for dissertation or major project 
  • Organisation and management, including induction and involvement in course decisions 
  • Resources and services, including learning resources and overall support 
  • Skills development, including independent learning, research skills and career skills 
  • Overall satisfaction and motivation for taking the programme, and information provided by the institution to help course choice 

Your feedback is important. Over 100 universities and colleges take part in PRES, which 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 learning experience for future students. 

Your survey response is confidential to the team processing the results and no reporting outside of this team will identify any individual. Any results communicated to teaching staff will be anonymised. 

The survey asks that any comments you make should not identify yourself or any specific members of staff. 

You will receive an email during the week starting 13 March which will prompt you that the link to the survey has now become live. It will remain open until 24 April.

  1. Complete your survey
  2. Forward your email confirmation of completing the PRES to surveyreward@londonmet.ac.uk   
  3. Once you forward your confirmation email an Amazon Voucher will be sent to you! 
chat loading...