Postgraduate research supervision (PGR/MPhil)
Colleagues who are on teaching and research contracts, or research only contracts are expected to undertake postgraduate research supervision within the School. You may be allocated students who are already registered in the school and you will also be invited to express an interest in supervising new PhD students who apply to the School for admission.
Additional Resources
Becoming a supervisor
Information on student admissions, funding and help on how to become a supervisor.
Admissions and recruitment
The Recruitment and Admissions section on the Humanities PGR intranet site houses key information and guidance to support SoSS colleagues. This section provides support on:
- Pre-application stage when communicating with potential applicants
- Admissions process to follow when reviewing formal applications
- PGR funding allocation processes including guidance on funding competitions
- Transfer process for incoming applicant transfers
- Visiting PGR process
- Split-site process.
Please visit Recruitment and Admissions for more information.
Funding
The School of Social Sciences receives money from a range of sources to help our postgraduate researchers fund their studies.
Information about postgraduate research funding on the School website.
How do I become a supervisor?
All of our postgraduate researchers are allocated a main supervisor and co supervisor. We generally try to ensure that both supervisors have some expertise in the subject matter of the thesis but this is not always possible or necessary. The allocation of work between a main and a second supervisor is recorded in Campus Solutions and may be 50:50; 60:40; 80: 20 etc.
Colleagues are generally expected to have no more than four full-time PhD students at any time where they are acting as main supervisor. Where you are acting as a co-supervisor with joint responsibility for a research student, you are expected to have no more than five students.