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Associate Dean, Postgraduate Studies

Professor Emma Rose

As Associate Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Director of the Faculty Graduate School, I would like to extend a warm welcome to the Faculty's Graduate School web-site. Ours is a new Faculty, created in August 2005 to bring together academic departments in the arts and humanities and the social sciences. Our Graduate School is even newer, having come into existence for the first time in August 2007.

Lancaster University prides itself on its interdisciplinarity, and our Faculty is no exception. The Graduate School aims to promote this interdisciplinarity through the provision of a range of support, training and other activities specifically designed for our postgraduate community. These activities are designed to both support and go beyond that which is offered within those Departments that makeup the Faculty. Full details of all these activities are on the linked Graduate School web pages.

In August 2007 the Faculty had approximately 1600 postgraduate students, over 750 of whom were research students. We have a significant body of postgraduate students from overseas with over 350 of them coming from outside the European Union. Our aim is to give all our students an enriching experience of study. With this in mind, we would encourage any student who has an interesting idea about how the Graduate School could be further developed to support the needs of its postgraduate community to contact me at the e-mail address below.

Tel: (01524) 593179
Location: Bowland Annexe, B12

Research Training Programme (RTP) Director

Dr Uta Papen

The RTP is a special programme, designed to meet the needs of YOU, the postgraduates in our faculty. The RTP is there to help you develop the kind of research skills that you will need to successfully complete your PhDs. Many of the skills we teach are also indispensable if you will be seeking work in the academic or other research- and communication-related sectors once you have obtained your degree. We have lots of courses on offer, including general research skills, qualitative and quantitative methods, thesis writing and conference presentations. All modules are taught by research active staff from throughout the Faculty - have a look through the modules on offer this year. PhD students can take all the courses they want - for free. Attending some of our modules will not only help you to equip yourselves with crucial research skills, it will also allow you to meet up with PhD students from Departments across the Faculty. Learning together is more fun and more productive. The PhD may be thought of as a ‘lonely business’ but there is much you can do to link up with others and make the experience more enjoyable. If you have any questions about the programme, please get in touch. E-mail is the best way to reach me.

Tel: (01524) 593245
Location: County South, C71

RTP Administrator

Michaela Scott

Tel: (01524) 510852
Location: B10, FASS Building
Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. I am available to talk to students at 10.00-12.00 on these days.

Faculty Postgraduate Admissions Officer

Sarah Purcell

Tel: (01524) 510864
Location: C09, FASS Building

Sarah has day-to-day responsibility for admissions in the following departments:

Applied Social Science
Educational Research
History
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)
Politics, Philosophy & Religion
Sociology (PPR)
Centre for North-West Regional Studies
Ruskin Research Centre

Deputy Postgraduate Admissions Officer

Michaela Scott

Tel: (01524) 510852
Location: C09, FASS Building
Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons, and all day Tuesday and Thursday

Michaela has day-to-day responsibility for admissions in the following departments:

English & Creative Writing
European Languages & Cultures
Law School
Linguistics & English Language

Faculty Postgraduate Admissions Co-ordinator

Charlotte Smith

Tel: (01524) 510880
Location: C09, FASS Building
Monday and Wednesday all day, and Tuesday and Thursday mornings

Faculty Postgraduate Admissions Co-ordinator

Angela Stead

Tel: (01524) 510880
Location: C09, FASS Building

Student Web Profiles

Registered MPhil and PhD students may opt to publish a personal profile detailing your research interests. You will also be able to associate keywords with your profile. This will enable you to identify other students working in similar areas outside your department.

Please contact your department postgraduate director for further information.