PGR Support Team

PGR Support Office

PGR Support Office

As a postgraduate research student you will be looked after by the PGR Support Team, which takes primary responsibility for the administration and progress of your studies.

The PGR Support Team working with Humanities students based at Streatham are Elizabeth Noon (PGR Student Support Officer) and Sophie McGuire (PGR Support Administrator).  For students based at Penryn the PGR Support team are Jo Shepherd (PGR Support Officer) and TBC (PGR Administrator).

The PGR Support Team for the College of Humanities are responsible to the interim College Director of Postgraduate Research, Dr James Lyons, and to the Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Transfer, Professor Adam Watt.

The PGR Support Team are available to provide support for both prospective and current postgraduate students. We are always willing to answer queries and provide help wherever possible. The PGR team can be found at the Doctoral College Hub in the Old Library on the Streatham campus, and, the Peter Lanyon Building on the Penryn Campus.

Humanities PGR Support Staff

PGR Manager
Morwenna Hussey
Email: humanities-gradschool@exeter.ac.uk
Telephone: Please contact your PGR Support Officer in the first instance

 

PGR Support Officer – Streatham
Elizabeth Noon
Email: humanities-gradschool@exeter.ac.uk
Telephone: 01392 72 6295 - select option 2

 

PGR Support Administrator – Streatham
Sophie McGuire
Email: humanities-gradschool@exeter.ac.uk
Telephone: 01392 72 6295 - select option 2

 

PGR Support Officer – Penryn
Jo Shepherd
Email: Cornwall-pgr@exeter.ac.uk
Telephone: 01392 72 6295 - select option 4

 

PGR Support Administrator – Penryn
TBC
Email: Cornwall-pgr@exeter.ac.uk
Telephone: 01392 72 6295 - select option 4

Directors of Postgraduate Research (DPGRs)

Each discipline has a Director of Postgraduate Research who is there to provide support to students in their discipline and who is responsible for promoting a rich academic environment for postgraduate research students within their discipline.

This list is correct at the time of writing, but individuals may change due to study leave, etc. – please check the PGR intranet for the most up to date information.

 

For details about discipline areas and their academic staff please see the Humanities webpages at http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/.

Communication (University/Student)

It is vitally important that we have secure and reliable means by which we can contact you. Primary responsibility for ensuring this is accurate and up to date lies with you.

You must ensure that the University’s Student Records Office and the PGR Support team has accurate information about your whereabouts and the best means to contact you if necessary, for example if you are away on fieldwork. You are responsible for keeping your contact details up to date via iExeter.

Administrative and academic staff make every effort to reply quickly to enquiries, and we expect that students will in turn make sure that they check their University of Exeter email account regularly for communications and reply promptly to emails.

Email is the main form of communication that we will use to contact you. All registered students automatically receive an email account and an @exeter.ac.uk address which can be accessed anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Your University of Exeter email can be accessed via Office 365 or iExeter.

It is University policy that communication with students via email can only be conducted via their University email address. No alternative email address will be used. Therefore it is very important that you check your University email regularly. If you normally use a different email address then you should set up an email forwarding action to ensure that you do not miss any important messages from the University.

When emailing the Humanities PGR Support Team, please only use the office email address, humanities-gradschool@exeter.ac.uk.  We ask that you DO NOT email individual colleagues as this can result in a delay to any responses. 

Letters and telephone contacts

We may also need to write to you at a home address or to telephone. This is particularly important when students are absent from the University or based at a distance from the campus. For this reason it is absolutely vital that you maintain accurate and up to date contact details through iExeter.