Descriptor of activity

Name/role

Recruitment and Admissions:

• Marketing of PGR programmes (website/content update)
• Point of contact with PGR applicants – pre-application, making the offer, agreeing scope of the programme, liaising with proposed supervisors, UKVI, ATAS
• Funding Schemes across the Schools and DA
• Visiting students – pre-arrival academic arrangements
• Transfers In
• Split-Site programmes
• Contracts
• Costing of Studentships (indicated in grant applications etc)

Charlie Rhodes, PGR Officer (Recruitment and Admissions)

Paul Greenham (Recruitment & Admissions Coordinator)

Eliza Kent (PGR Recruitment Administrator)

Rachel Corbishley (SALC & SEED Admissions)

Mark Falzon (AMBS Admissions)

Zahra Abdalla (SoSS Admissions)

Romy Tonge (Admissions Assistant all schools)

Progression, Welfare and Experience: Activities related to PGRs relating to progression, welfare and experience (post-matriculation)

Experience

• Welcome and induction and start of programme incl laptop requests
• PGR events, conferences
• Communication (handbook, newsletter, padlet, listserv lists, LinkedIn)
• PGR representation
• Awards and prizes
• PGR surveys
• Methods@Manchester and Methods NW events and general support

Progression and welfare

• Progress reviews, fieldwork activity
• Change of circumstance (mitigating circumstances)
• PGR welfare support, stepped care
• Compliance management (research integrity, research ethics, health and safety training)
• Visa and UKVI compliance
• Research training
• Examinations and graduation
• School PGRCs

Anusarin Lowe, PGR Operations Officer (Progression, Welfare and Experience)

Jo Marsh (Student Experience)

Lynne Barlow-Cheetham (Progression, Research Training, Disability Coordination, Examinations)

Jessica Pullan (SALC Progression and Welfare)

Rachel McMenemy (SEED Progression and Welfare)

Jackie Boardman (SOSS Progression and Welfare)

Angel Shing (AMBS and SOSS Examination)

Zhichao Chen (SALC Examination)

Afifa Bano (SEED Examination)

Camila Orbeta Toledo (Hub Support and Student Experience)

Hayley Foster (Hub Support and Student Experience - Methods@Manchester)

• Payment of stipends, fees for school funded, and UKRI funded students
• Management of school RTSG /Fieldwork application process
• Record keeping for all financial activities related to school funded and UKRI funded students
• Management of Je-S activities

Jake Taylor (Postgraduate Research Funding Coordinator)

Neil Sanderson (Postgraduate Research Funding Coordinator)

Kim Hulme (Postgraduate Research Funding Administrator)

Funded/ External Programmes: Activities related to externally funded Doctoral programmes

Day to day management of programmes such as:

• Validated Programmes in Religions and Theology (With Nazarene College, Luther King, and Cliff College)
• ESRC Soc B Centre for Doctoral Training
• ESRC Data Analytics and Society
• ESRC North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
• AHRC North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership
• Professional Doctorates in Counselling Psychology
• Professional Doctorates in Educational and Child Psychology
• Visiting students (post admissions)
• Compliance, quality insurance and external reporting

NWCDTP Management: Activities related to all North West Consortium Training Partnership across 7 institutions

• Management of funding competitions
• Budget management and financial reporting
• Training and Researcher Development activities
• Management of activities related to RTSG/ Student development.

Placements

• Support to plan, develop and/or apply for a placement, internship, overseas exchange or visit (NWCTP, NWSSDTP)
• Information and support for specific Faculty funding schemes for placements and internships
• Information and guidance for placement and internship funding opportunities
• NWCDTP researcher development/training
• Faculty PGR liaison with PIP office

Carole Arrowsmith, PGR Operations Officer (Funded Programmes) and NWCDTP Manager

Leah Goldie, PGR Placements and Partnerships Officer (DA and NWCDTP)

Debbie Kubiena, Postgraduate Research Coordinator (including DASS coordination)

Francesca Roncoli, Postgraduate Research Coordinator (NWCDTP)

Sandra Bundy- Palmer, Postgraduate Research Administrator (CDTs, Validated Programmes)

Christopher Kitchen, Postgraduate Research Administrator (DEdChPsycol)

Liam Grindell, Postgraduate Research Administrator (DCounsPsych)

Lou Miller, Postgraduate Research Administrator (Prof Docs)

Farzana Timol, Postgraduate Research Assistant (Prof Docs)

Management and oversight

• Oversight for budgets and management;
• Oversight for resource allocation and management across the team;
• Working along-side the AD for PGR;
• Representing the Faculty at MDC/University level groups, and Faculty level groups (for anything that many need escalation from School Board etc) 

Jared Ruff, Head of RBE