This chapter presents results from 2023 fieldwork for PGR StudentSurvey.ie

The first section presents an overview of the demographic profile of respondents alongside the overall postgraduate research (PGR) student population.

The second section summarises national-level responses to the survey, grouped according to particular engagement aspects of the PGR student experience.

Tables containing the results for all questions are provided in Appendix 1.

These results are presented alongside aggregated results along two dimensions. The first is research degree programme type, whereby results for PGR students undertaking NFQ[24] Level 9 (i.e. Masters by research) degrees are differentiated from those of students undertaking NFQ Level 10 (i.e. Doctoral) degrees.

The results are also broken down by the size of the PGR student population in the institution. The results are presented for students in institutions with a PGR cohort of greater than 250 students, alongside results for those in institutions with a PGR cohort of fewer than 250 students (see Appendix 4 for this breakdown).  

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