Student stories

Life in Surrey is full of opportunities. There’s a friendly, collaborative community awaiting you, preparing you for professional academic life and contributing towards your development as a researcher. Additionally, the University offers a wonderful campus experience

My first impression of the campus was that I loved it! The facilities blew me away, and all the course lecturers were so approachable and supportive.

Rosie Macpherson is a Sociology  PhD student in Sociology. Here she describes the sociology academics and how she has grown in confidence as a researcher and teacher.

I feel very lucky to have had three fabulous supervisors that regularly checked up with me, but also made me feel trusted in my abilities. My supervisors have opened many doors for me

PhD student, Fengmei Zhu, is based in the Surrey Institute of Education, carrying out research to improve students’ abilities of understanding, giving and receiving, as well as acting upon feedback to assist learning. Fengmei has conducted part of her research in the UK and is in China gathering more data. Here she explains her experience of studying as a PhD student at the University of Surrey.