Bangor University Reviews

- supervision process is a joke with absurd and arbitrary completion targets and little to no collaboration with competent student/staff - Highly toxic environment for students not supervised by senior staff - progess review teams do not have the necessary expertise to supervise project completion - teaching duties mostly disorganised. lecturers assemble teaching materials/datasets IN CLASS while undergrads wait - flood-level weather warnings and dire personal health concerns apparently not appropriate reasons for cancelling useless classes. undergraduates could easily cover material by themselves if adequate preparation went into teaching. - ceaseless emphasis on publication targets only to service supervisor's CV. Publication does NOT guarantee degree completion for students - please stop spreading this harmful message to students

-Witnessed bullying by different members of staff, with no direct ways of reporting this/unclear guidance of how to support staff affected -Funding delegated to projects for junior researchers was taken and spent by managerial/higher research staff -Unorganised departments - often requested IT support/finance support and would wait weeks for proper responses or for it to be dealt with. Also with ethics applications to conduct work, would take months if you didn't chase it up. Trying to access support from postgrad services seemed to depend on whether staff could be bothered to respond. - Reviews of work often undertaken by the wrong/inappropriate staff, e.g., PhD reviews conducted with staff who had no previous contact with students and didn't know their project - Lack of direction from supervisors of what aims and objectives of roles are, what's expected of you, what extra training/services you can access. - Advancing career seems to depend on who you know (which I have benefited from so am not speaking as a bitter employee!) -Have to pay for staff parking permits which are never checked