Barely half of postgraduate researchers in the UK and Australia feel like they are part of a community of PhD students, a major survey on graduate life has found.
Responding to the annual Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES), only 57 per cent of graduate researchers said they felt part of a community, while 62 per cent said they felt a sense of belonging.
The poll is the largest annual survey of postgraduate researchers in the UK and this year’s draws on responses from 37,661 graduate students at 101 UK universities and four Australian higher education institutions.
Just 59 per cent said they felt there were sufficient opportunities to interact with other postgraduate researchers, according to the survey, conducted by Advance HE and published on 22 November.
