Roles and responsibilities
Dr Admos Chimhowu
Associate Dean (AD) for Postgraduate Research
The Associate Dean leads the Faculty PGR Committee in developing and achieving a strategy for postgraduate research in accordance with the University’s overall strategy, provides leadership to academic and administrative colleagues in the furtherance of the strategy, contributes to the development and implementation of the University's strategy via the Manchester Doctoral College and other fora and of the Faculty’s portfolio of postgraduate research programmes. The Associate Dean's key responsibilities are:
- To develop and implement the Faculty strategy for postgraduate research and the training of postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.
- To provide overall direction for the Postgraduate Research and the Skills Training & Development Teams and contribute to the development of training provision for postgraduate research students and postdoctoral staff, as well as supervisor training for academic staff.
- To work with colleagues in partner universities in the leadership of the ESRC NWSSDTP, and, in collaboration with the Director to ensure effective direction and leadership of the AHRC NWCDTP.
- To oversee quality assurance mechanisms including the review of progress monitoring and the annual and periodic review of all school PGR provisions.
- To work with the Associate Vice-President for Graduate Education and Heads of School to identify opportunities for the development of new initiatives in postgraduate research and the training of postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.
- Working with Heads of School and appropriate professional service colleagues, to develop local strategies for postgraduate research student recruitment.
Dr Stuart Shields
Deputy Associate Dean (DAD) for Postgraduate Research
The Deputy Associate Dean reports to the Associate Dean and works in close collaboration with School PGR Directors. The DAD assists with and promotes the development and achievement of strategies regarding postgraduate research (including researcher development for postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers) in the Faculty of Humanities. The DAD's key responsibilities are:
- To develop, strategically align and promote researcher development and methods training provision within the Faculty and in relation to the inter-institutional doctoral training centres of which the Faculty forms a part. She works with the Faculty Researcher Development Manager as well as directors of artsmethods@manchester and methods@manchester.
- To act as Director of Methods North West, chairing the executive committee and the advisory board and working closely with the Methods leads at partner universities and to lead on the implementation of key methods training commitments made to the ESRC by the NWSSDTP.
- To consider, on behalf of the Associate Dean for PGR, applications for special permissions (including interruptions, extensions and word limit extensions) and to develop and promote practice and policy to reduce the impact of special permissions on PGR achievement.
Anne-Marie Walsh
Doctoral Academy Manager
Email: anne-marie.walsh@manchester.ac.uk
- PGR Team Leader, reporting to Head of Research, Planning and Business Engagement.
- Chair to PGR Forum.
- Regulations and policy development, implementation and monitoring
- Planning and strategy activity working alongside the AD PGR.
- Working with Schools and Departments where appropriate to ensure that strategy and operational priorities are aligned and service expectations are being met.
- Projects/actions relating to PS Leadership Group Programme approvals (including joint degrees, split-sites, external collaboration).
- Annual monitoring and PGR review.
- Dissemination/delegation/coordination of tasks received via Postgraduate Research Management Group (PRMG) and Manchester Doctoral College Strategic Group (MDCSG).