Doctoral Services

The Academic Leadership team is responsible for implementation of the student strategy.

Professor Anya Ahmed, Academic Director of the Doctoral College

Charlotte Wood, Head of Doctoral Services

Dr Michael Gallagher, Doctoral College, Faculty Head (Health and Education)

Dr Dave Megson, Doctoral College, Faculty Head (Science and Engineering)

Dr Helen Wadham, Doctoral College, Faculty Head (Business and Law)

Dr Derek Bousfield, Doctoral College, Faculty Head (Arts and Humanities)

Dr Joseph Keenan, Doctoral College, Deputy Faculty Head (Health and Education)

Dr Fiona Wilkinson, Doctoral College, Deputy Faculty Head (Science and Engineering)

Dr Mandy tom Dieck and Dr Senthorun Raj, Joint Doctoral College, Deputy Faculty Heads (Business and Law)

Professor Antony Rowland, Doctoral College, Deputy Faculty Head (Arts and Humanities)

If you are a prospective student, please email [email protected]

• Manchester Fashion Institute: Dr Prabhuraj (Prabu) Venkatraman
• Manchester School of Architecture: Dr Angela Connelly
• Art and Performance: Dr Alison Slater
• Design: Dr Jea Na
• English: Professor Berthold Schoene  
• History, Philosophy and Politics (HPP): Dr Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío
• Sociology: Dr Caitlin Nunn
• Language, Information and Communication (LIC): Dr Piotr Jagodzinski
• School of Digital Art (SODA): Dr Jenny Baines

Faculty Research Degrees Team

The Faculty Research Degrees Team can be contacted at [email protected]

If you are a prospective student, please email [email protected].  

• Law - Dr Zainab Naqvi
• Marketing, International, Business and Tourism -Dr Rebecca Abushena
• Operations, Technology, Events and Hospitality Management - Dr Marina Papalexi
• People and Performance - Dr Sean Brophy
• Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability - Dr Mohammad Roohanifar
• Finance and Economics - Dr Geofry Areneke

Faculty Research Degrees Team

The Faculty Research Degrees Team can be contacted at [email protected]

If you are a prospective student, please email [email protected].  

• Nursing and Public Health - Dr Gary Witham
• Health Professions - Dr Peter Goodwin
• Psychology - Dr Joseph Keenan
• Social Care and Social Work - Dr Caroline Leah
• Education (standard PhD and EdD) - Dr Harriet Rowley and Dr Samantha Wilkinson
• PhD Education Research - Dr Christopher Hanley

Faculty Research Degrees Team

The Faculty Research Degrees Team can be contacted at [email protected]

If you are a prospective student, please email [email protected].  

• Department of Engineering - Dr Zaenab Abd-Allah
• Department of Natural Sciences - Dr Emma Coulthard
• Department of Computing and Mathematics - Dr Wei Bai
• Department of Life Sciences - Dr James Pritchett
• Department of Sport and Exercise Science - Dr Dave Smith and Dr Zoe Franklin

Faculty Research Degrees Team

The Faculty Research Degrees Team can be contacted at [email protected]

The Assessment and Progression team can provide support and guidance in the following areas:

• Coordinating annual progress reviews and student exams
• Assessment boards and awards, including transfer to a lower award
• Oversight of compliance with supervisory arrangements
• The research phase of professional doctorates
• Supervisor and examiner training
• Liaison with Disability and Inclusion Service

The Student Records team and Engagement & Concessions team can provide support and guidance in the following areas:

• Student records / Moodle / QLS units
• Admissions and enrolments
• System set up for programmes
• Phase A of Professional Doctorates
• Change of mode
• Extensions
• Interruptions
• Exceptional factors
• Presumed withdrawal
• Student progress procedure
• Liaison with Student Billings, Student Case Management

The Curriculum Management team can provide support and guidance in the following areas:

• Quality assurance of the doctoral student provision
• Regulations, codes of practice and guidance
• Concession requests
• Doctoral student programme approval and collaboration
• Doctoral student programme review process
• Coordination of committee meetings
• Liaison with International partnerships, Governance and Secretariat

The Doctoral Services Funding team can provide support and guidance in the following areas:

• Providing advice, guidance and support with doctoral student funding and studentships
• Administrative liaison with Doctoral Training Partnerships
• Doctoral student data and reporting
• Doctoral student mobility
• The development of the doctoral student provision
• Horizon scanning
• Staff training
• Liaison with Strategic Planning Office, departments in Research & Innovation

The Development and Training team can provide support and guidance in the following areas:

• Doctoral student training and development programme
• Coordination of induction
• Coordinating doctoral student development across the University
• Horizon scanning
• Monitoring Vitae and UKRI
• Doctoral student wellbeing
• Liaison with Research & Innovation, University Teaching Alliance, Student Wellbeing Services, Faculty Doctoral Student training

You can contact Doctoral Services by emailing [email protected], or by calling 0161 247 5329 between 10am and 4pm, Monday to Friday.