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Postgraduate Study

Research Student Handbook

 

1. PGR Support Team

1.1. PGR Support Office
1.2. Directors of Postgraduate Research (DPGRs)
1.3. Communication (University/Student) 

2. Registration, Induction, Attendance, Change of Status    

2.1. Registration
2.2. Attendance and Workloads
2.3. Absence from Campus
2.4. Annual leave
2.5. Off campus Students
2.6. Change of status (mode of attendance, interruptions, withdrawals) 

3. Research Supervision  

3.1. Supervisory teams
3.2. Initial supervisory meeting
3.3. Frequency of contact
3.4. Mode of contact 
3.5. Records of supervision meetings 
3.6. Reviewing progress and training 
3.7. Research leave of supervisor 
3.8. Change of supervisor 
3.9. PGR Pastoral Support 

4. MyPGR 

4.1. About MyPGR  

5. Progress monitoring and completion

5.1. Progression
5.2. Annual Monitoring
5.3. Dealing with unsatisfactory progress and engagement
5.4. Maximum period of study and completion     

6. Transfer from MPhil to PhD

6.1. Initial registration status
6.2. Timing of of the upgrade
6.3. Applications for deferral of upgrade
6.4. PFailure to apply for or have a period of deferral approved
6.5. Membership of the upgrade panel
6.6. Upgrade requirements - for students who began their studies before August 2019
6.7. Upgrade requirements - for students who began their studies after August 2019

7. Transfer of registration from MA by Research to PhD   

7.1 Transfer from MA by Research to PhD Process

8. Research Training  

9. Ethics Approval 

10. Insurance for Research Undertaken Outside the UK

10.1. Travel insurance

11. Research, Writing and Thesis Requirements

11.1. Requirements of a research thesis
11.2. Regulations
11.3. Format of the thesis
11.4. By Practice submission thesis
11.5. Research misconduct
11.6. Research Data Management and Open Access    

12. Submission and Examination Processes

12.. Nomination of examiners
12.2 Appointment of examiners - By Practice
12.3 Examination - the viva
12.3 Outcomes of the viva

13. Student participation, seminars, conferences and teaching opportunities

13.1 Student participtation
13.2 Attendance at discipline-specific seminars
13.3 PGR annual conference
13.4 Discipline Postgraduate Research Liaison Forums (PGRLF)
13.5 Postgraduate Teaching Assistants

14. Student support and facilities (including personal allowances and study spaces)

14.1 Research students' allowances
14.2 Library facilities
14.3 Workstations and computers
14.4 College social spaces
14.5 Research Commons - bookable desks
14.6 English Language support
14.7 Equality and diversity
14.8 Other Sources of help and support
14.9 Problems and complaints
14.10 Harrassment