Anglia Ruskin is like a brilliant type of student community theres so many cool people here so why do I love my uni I love it because as an international student I felt like I was welcomed and I fitted in straight away There were lots of societies for me to get involved in and a lot of support from the SU

As a PhD student it would be easy to feel isolated and overwhelmed, but ARU really makes an effort to include its PhD students in its community. From the start there are welcome meetings, regular network events, wellbeing peer support, training events, and regular social events for post graduate researchers plus a fabulous post graduate only socialising and study area - brand spanking new and fully equipped. There is a comprehensive post graduate training programme and my experience of supervision has been great - super responsive supervisors who are keen to work with you. The only negative experience is that you could easily spend your entire three years doing training webinars, there's so many to choose from!

As I'm doing a PhD I'm determining my own content - though as I'm on a VC scholarship, the research project was advertised and I have to stick to completing what was advertised - but I am encouraged to add my own ideas and my supervisors are very supportive. Contractually I only have to meet my first supervisor once a month, but for the first three months she met with me every week and now it's gone down to twice a month, much more than I was expecting. I have a team supervision meeting every 6 months.

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