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For Full and Part-time Students

This page provides information on certain topics such as Faculty events (such as the annual postgraduate poster day), training and travel bursaries, administered by the Director of Postgraduate Studies, Professor Clive Edwards.

Contacts

Your initial contact for all issues concerning the management of your research career at Liverpool is/are your supervisor(s). For advice of matters of a Departmental or faculty nature, your contact point is your Departmental Postgraduate manager, see below:-

School of Biological Sciences: Dr Brian Merry
Department of Chemistry: Dr Andrew Carnell
Department of Computer Sciences: Dr Michele Zito
Department of Earth Sciences: Prof. Dave Prior
Department of Mathematical Sciences: Prof Peter Newstead
Department of Physics: Dr Christos Touramanis
Department of Psychology: Dr. Sophie Wuerger
Surface Science Research Centre: Dr Ronan McGrath


The Postgraduate administrator in the Faculty Offices is Mrs Jo Granger.

Training

The University is investing significant time and resources in its Postgraduate Training Programme and details are provided on courses at both Departmental and Faculty Level, via the Research Training Manual website. Each Department has similar compulsory annual training requirements that must be fulfilled in order to progress to your next year of study. Any applications for exemption from specific aspects of the training programme (usually on the basis of documented equivalent prior training) are to be made well ahead of the course(s), directly to the Faculty Director by letter, countersigned by your supervisor(s), with supporting evidence.

Postgraduate Travel Bursaries

The Faculty Director of Postgraduate Studies awards a number of conference travel bursaries each year, following two closing rounds (these are April 01 and October 01). Application is via the form below, which is routed via your supervisor to your Departmental PG Manager (NOT directly to Professor Edwards). Successful applicants are notified within 3 weeks of the closing date.

Submission of Thesis

Science faculty has strict rules concerning thesis submission. The ‘Intention to Submit’ form (see below) has to be completed by student, supervisor and HOD and submitted to the Faculty Office generally two months before thesis submission. Please note that completion of the PhD thesis is intended to be a 3-year endeavour and that the University permits a 4th year of writing up time as an ‘insurance year’. Consequently, extensions to the 4-year deadline for submission of PhD theses are never granted, except in very exceptional circumstances, for which documentary evidence must exist in the student’s annual progress statements or as official medical papers.

PDF documents (available to download)

1. Travel Bursary Form
2. Intention to Submit Form


Poster Day

This year the Graduate School is launching an integrated ‘research days’ workshop where second year ft (or pt equivalent) PhD students from all faculties and affiliated institutions (Chester College and Liverpool Hope College) will present posters over a single 2-day period in March 2004. An abstracts volume will be produced, for distribution at the meeting.

Venue: Mountford Hall, Guild of Students

Date: Thursday March 18th and Friday March 19th, 2004, 10.00 – 16.00

DEADLINE FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS IS FRIDAY 20TH FEBRUARY.

Abstracts from 2003 are available in PDF format.

 
       

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