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Graduate School

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Core team

• Clare Warren – Graduate School Director – [email protected]
• Sara Spencer – Head of PGR Services
• Soraya Hussain – Personal Assistant, RIS Directorate
• Terri Portas – PGR Assistant
• Rebecca Nicholls – PGR Assistant

PGR Services (registry and administration)

For: visa letters, transcripts, railcard/Oyster stamps, registration/fees, upgrade, progress reporting and examination.

• (TBC) – Senior Manager, PGR Operations
• Jane Wilson – Senior Manager, Partnerships
• Nicola Boyce – Manager, PGR Operations
• Alannah Brien – Manager, PGR Operations
• Ellie Milnes-Smith – Manager, PGR Operations
• Darsini Raghavan – Manager, PGR Operations

Research Degrees Coordinators

Jeanette Chandler · Ellie Dickinson · Monika Bown · Gabriela Costa · Lynne Fahey · Louise Fulk · Sara La Roca · Briggitta Silva · Rob Simpson · Emma Todd · Louise Topley

Data and systems

• Mate Szenyan – Systems and Data Manager

Training and Development (researcher development)

For: training, career development, skills support and programme input.

• Helen Howard – Senior Manager, Research Development Programme
• Helen Bowes-Catton – Lecturer
• Judith Taylor – Lecturer
• Julia Molinari – Lecturer
• Michelle Amesbury – Manager
• Rebecca Wilson – Team Assistant

Groups and committees

• Christopher Heath – Chair, Affiliated Research Centre Management Group
• Pallavi Anand – Chair, Research Degrees Committee
• Jennifer Barratt – Secretary, Research Degrees Committee

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)

Leadership

• Eleni Andreouli – Director of Research Degrees

Arts & Humanities (A&H)

• Anna Plassart – Postgraduate Convenor (PGC) Representative 

Discipline PGCs:

• Art History – Margit Thofner
• Classical Studies – Marchella Ward and Jasmine Hunter-Evans
• English & Creative Writing – Samuel Sargeant and Edmund King
• History – Anna Plassart
• Music – Helen Barlow

Social Sciences & Global Studies (SSGS)

• Kim Kullman – PGC Representative

Discipline PGCs:

• Economics – Cristina Santos
• Geography & Environmental Studies – Kim Kullman
• Politics & International Studies – Dan Taylor
• Sociology – Marie Gillespie
• Social Policy & Criminology – Rossana Perez-del-Aguila
• Philosophy – Alex Barber
• Development – Mark Lamont and Frangton Chiyemura
• Religious Studies – David Robertson

Psychology & Counselling (P&C)

• Zoe Boden-Stuart – PGC
• Ailsa Strathie – PGC
• From 2026–27: Rose Capdevila

UKRI academic leads

• Steve Pile – Grand Union DTP Lead
• Luc-Andre Brunet – AHRC Doctoral Programmes Lead

Faculty of Business and Law (FBL)

Leadership

• Alexandra Bristow – Director of Research Degrees
• Caroline Derry – Deputy Director (Law)
• Richard Godfrey – Deputy Director (Business)

Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)

PGR core team

• Severine Hubscher-Davidson – Director of Postgraduate Research Studies
• Jane Cullen – EdD Programme Leader
• Gillian Ferguson – DHSC Programme Leader

PGR Research Convenors (PGRC)

Helen Owton · Jon Rainford · Jennifer Agbaire · Jackie Tuck · Mara Fuertes-Gutierrez · Rob Farrow · Chris Kubiak · Sarah Vicary

Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) leads

• Steve Pile – Grand Union DTP Lead
• Margaret Ebubedike – Learning in Innovation Pathway Lead
• Justin Rogers – Health & Wellbeing Pathway Lead
• Mara Fuertes-Gutierrez – OOC Language Pathway Lead
• Luc-Andre Brunet – AHRC doctoral focal awards

Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

PGR core team

• Sarah Sherlock – Director of Research Degrees

Postgraduate Research Tutors

SPS: Anita Dawes · Jesper Skottfelt · Richard Greenwood
KMI: Alexander Mikroyannidis · Angelo Salatino
C&C: Alistair Willis · Daniel Gooch · Soraya Kouadri
M&S: Fadlalla Elfadaly
LHCS: Kate Nixon · Katja Rietdorf
E&I: Rachael Luck · James Bowen · Dimitar Valchev · Katerina Alexiou
EEES: Susanne Schwenzer

DTP leads

• Julia Semprich – CENTA DTP Lead
• Stephen Sergeant – DISCnet DTP Lead
• Jim Hague – EPSRC DTP Lead
• Rachel Hilliam – EPSRC Maths DTP Lead
• Stephen Lewis – STFC DTP Lead
• Salih Gungor – Nuclear Energy Futures CDT Lead
• Francesco Crea – ILESLA Lead