Doctoral Services

The Doctoral Student Leadership team is responsible for implementation of the student strategy.

Justine Abbott, Head of Doctoral Services

Charlotte Wood, Doctoral Services Operations Manager

Dr Dominic O’Brien, Doctoral Student Development and Training Manager 

Dr Michael Gallagher, Doctoral College, Faculty Head (Health and Education)

Dr Kirstie Andrews, Doctoral College, Faculty Head (Science and Engineering)

Dr Helen Wadham, Doctoral College, Faculty Head (Business and Law)

Dr Anna Bergqvist, Doctoral College, Faculty Head (Arts and Humanities)

The Development and Training team can provide support and guidance in the following areas:

• Doctoral student training and development programme
• Coordination of induction
• Coordinating doctoral student development across the University
• Horizon scanning
• Monitoring Vitae and UKRI
• Doctoral student wellbeing
• Liaison with Research & Innovation, University Teaching Alliance, Student Wellbeing Services, Faculty Doctoral Student training

Dr Dominic O’Brien,Doctoral Student Development and Training Manager 

Contact: [email protected]

The Assessment and Progression team can provide support and guidance in the following areas:

• Coordinating Annual Progress Reviews and student exams
• Assessment boards and awards (including transfer to lower award)
• Oversight of compliance with supervisory arrangements
• The research phase of Professional Doctorates
• Supervisor and examiner training
• Liaison with Disability and Inclusion Service

Rosie Hardwick, Research Degrees Manager (Assessment and Progression)

Contact: [email protected]
 

The Student Records team and Engagement & Concessions team can provide support and guidance in the following areas:

• Student records / Moodle / QLS units
• Admissions and enrolments
• System set up for programmes
• Phase A of Professional Doctorates
• Change of mode
• Extensions
• Interruptions
• Exceptional factors
• Presumed withdrawal
• Student progress procedure
• Liaison with Student Billings, Student Case Management

Fiona Commons, Research Degrees Manager (Student Administration)

Contact: [email protected]

The Curriculum Management team can provide support and guidance in the following areas:

• Quality assurance of the doctoral student provision
• Regulations, codes of practice and guidance
• Concession requests
• Doctoral student programme approval and collaboration
• Doctoral student programme review process
• Coordination of committee meetings
• Liaison with International partnerships, Governance and Secretariat

Rosie Hardwick, Research Degrees Manager

Contact: [email protected]

The Doctoral Services Funding and Development team can provide support and guidance in the following areas:

• Providing advice, guidance and support with doctoral student funding and studentships
• Administrative liaison with Doctoral Training Partnerships
• Doctoral student data and reporting
• Doctoral student mobility
• The development of the doctoral student provision
• Horizon scanning
• Staff training
• Liaison with Strategic Planning Office, departments in Research & Innovation

Contact: [email protected]

If you are a prospective student, please email [email protected]

• Manchester Fashion Institute: Dr Prabhuraj (Prabu) Venkatraman
• Manchester School of Architecture: Professor Yamuna Kaluarachchi
• Art and Performance: Professor Susannah Thompson
• Design: Dr Jea Na
• English: Professor Berthold Schoene  
• History, Philosophy and Politics (HPP): Dr Kathryn Hurlock
• Sociology: Dr Caitlin Nunn
• Language, Information and Communication (LIC): Dr Piotr Jagodzinski 
• School of Digital Art (SODA): David Jackson

Faculty Research Degrees Team

The Faculty Research Degrees Team can be contacted at [email protected]

If you are a prospective student, please email [email protected].  

• Law - Dr Senthorun Raj
• Marketing, International, Business and Tourism -Dr Rebecca Abushena
• Operations, Technology, Events and Hospitality Management - Dr Mandy Tom Diek
• People and Performance - Dr Andrew Rowe
• Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability - Dr Mohammad Roohanifar
• Finance and Economics - Dr Geofry Areneke

Faculty Research Degrees Team

The Faculty Research Degrees Team can be contacted at [email protected]

If you are a prospective student, please email [email protected].  

• Nursing and Public Health - Dr Gary Witham
• Health Professions - Dr Peter Goodwin
• Psychology - Dr Joseph Keenan
• Social Care and Social Work - Dr Caroline Leah
• Education (standard PhD and EdD) - Dr Harriet Rowley and Dr Samantha Wilkinson
• PhD Education Research - Dr Christopher Hanley

Faculty Research Degrees Team

The Faculty Research Degrees Team can be contacted at [email protected]

If you are a prospective student, please email [email protected].  

• Department of Engineering - Dr David Sawtell
• Department of Natural Sciences - Dr Emma Coulthard
• Department of Computing and Mathematics - Dr Wei Bai
• Department of Life Sciences - Dr James Pritchett
• Department of Sport and Exercise Science - Dr Dave Smith and Dr Zoe Franklin

Faculty Research Degrees Team

The Faculty Research Degrees Team can be contacted at [email protected]