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Doctoral Services
Find out about services and support for doctoral students across the University. Get contact details for faculty and topic leads.
Intro
Doctoral Services provide operational support and guidance for the University’s doctoral activities, with the needs of our students at the heart of everything we do. We provide expertise on:
- The administration and quality assurance of doctoral degrees
- Skills development for doctoral students and supervisors
- Enhancements to the student experience
- The promotion of doctoral study and funding opportunities.
Please see below for Doctoral Services and Faculty contacts. Questions regarding the administration of your doctoral studies can be directed to our enquiry helpline for non-academic matters - give us a call on 0161 247 5329 between 10am and 4pm, Monday to Friday.
You can also get in touch with us at assist.mmu.ac.uk. Face to face or Teams appointments can also be made in the Appointments section of Moodle
Doctoral Services
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Doctoral student leadership team
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)
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Training and development
The Training and Development 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]
Doctoral Services Operations
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Assessment and progression
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
Fiona Commons, Research Degrees Manager (Assessment and Progression)
Contact: [email protected]
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Student administration
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
Hannah Shaw, Research Degrees Manager (Student Administration Management)
Contact: [email protected]
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Curriculum management
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 Officer (Curriculum Management)
Contact: [email protected]
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Funding and development
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]
Doctoral College, department leads
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Faculty of Arts and Humanities
If you are a prospective student, please email [email protected]
- Manchester Fashion Institute - Dr Prabhuraj Venktraman
- Manchester School of Architecture - Professor Yamuna Kaluarachchi
- Art - Ms Fionna Barber
- Design - Dr Jea Na
- History, Politics and Philosophy (HPP) - Dr Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío
- English - Dr Andrew Moor
- Sociology - Dr Helene Snee
- Languages, Linguistics Information & Communications - Dr Marijana Macis
- SODA - Dr David Jackson
Faculty Research Degrees Team
The Faculty Research Degrees Team can be contacted at [email protected]
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Faculty of Business and Law
If you are a prospective student, please email [email protected].
- Law - Dr Senthorun Raj
- Marketing, International, Business and Tourism - Professor Paul Smith and Dr Costas Theodoridis
- 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]
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Faculty of Health and Education
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]
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Faculty of Science and Engineering
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]
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