TL;DR¶
This document is Release: v2022.0 / Version: gfcc1242 / Including 3 updates since this release / Dated Apr 26, 2023.
Join PGR Discord Server 4.
Read the PGR Handbook. Look at it for elaborations on everything to do with PGR.
Get help, advice, clarification or sign-posting from the Mentors or Senior PGR at the drop in session; when you don’t want to talk with the academic or PS staff. Drop in changes - ask via the PGR Discord Server 4
You are a Postgraduate Researcher (PGR) not a PhD Student.
You will get a PGR Newsletter the ‘Research School Irregular’ every week or so - read it.
You should expect supervision meetings once per week (you must attend these).
Advisor Meetings are compulsory (attendance is taken), you can request to switch advisor at anytime and for any reason.
Your Research Training Support Grant is £3000 over your PhD (to pay for conferences and open access publications etc). If you need more ask!
You will also be provided with a Computer (choose from the list) and laptops get peripherals.
You can get an extended hours pass to work after the building ‘closes’ (you need to complete the Health and Safety Training Online for this).
Your first semester will be in PGR Home, you will then move to a room which has other PGRs and PDRAs in your area of specialism / Research Group.
The Rooms Database will tell you where you should be sitting.
You get 6 weeks Holiday per year.
Our preferred thesis format is ‘Journal format’.
You have a 9 month review in your first year.
You have End of Year progression viva’s which you must pass each year.
You have one training course per year which you must attend, complete, and pass to progress.
You must attend the Computer Science Summer Symposium to present your work.
There is a Mercury Seminar Series in which you should expect to attend and present your work.
There is an Atlas Seminar Series of visiting academics which you should attend.
We have a regular monthly social event.
You must complete compulsory online training including PGR Student Health and Safety, Research Integrity, Understanding Export Controls, Unconscious Bias - Equality and Diversity, and Data Protection Training (GDPR).
You must complete your studies in 3 years and 6 months (+ extension and interruptions).
If you are having unexpected issues such as health problems, care issues, mental well-being, then discuss these with your supervisor and apply for an extension or interruption to study.
Always contact Oliver Rhodes (HoPGR) 2 or Dr Bijan Parsia (DHoPGR) 3 before any problems get out of hand.
Consider becoming a Graduate Teaching Assistant to help with teaching and gain training and an additional salary.
You can go on internships and we will interrupt your programme for up to 6 months.
You are in the Dept of Computer Science, in the School of Engineering, in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, in the University of Manchester.
Contact Student support (Faculty Doctoral Academy Support 1) for any query’s your supervisory team cannot answer.
Emergencies¶
The First Aid and Mother Baby room is on the top floor of Kilburn on the Oxford Road Collidor.
In the event of any emergency, contact the emergency services by calling 9999 internal or 999 external line. The University Security Office must also be informed once the emergency services have been alerted by calling 69966 internal or 0161 306 9966 external line. This number can be found on the reverse side of your University Staff/Student card. The School Health and Safety Advisor must be notified of any emergency (contact above).
On hearing the fire alarm, evacuate the building immediately by the nearest available exit.
The audible alarm for Kilburn building is a two stage system: Stage 1 An intermittent alarm - be prepared to evacuate the building. Stage 2 A continuous alarm – evacuate the building immediately.
The audible alarm for IT building is a single system. Upon hearing the fire alarm it is necessary to evacuate the building.
First Aid Current in 2023¶