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Contents
1. Orientation
2. Inductions
3. Key contacts
4. Facilities
5. Research Environment
6. Enrolment and Registration
7. Research Degree Options and Timescales
8. Forms Required for Registration
9. Working with your Supervisory Team
10. Updating your Contact Details
11. Other Forms Explained
12. University and Faculty Support for Study
13. International Students
14. Submitting your Thesis
15. Viva Voce Examination and Afterward
16. Acronym Buster and Glossary
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1. Orientation
If new to Manchester, or to MMU, here are some basic points
of reference the locations and functions of relevant university
buildings, and places to meet other research students and staff.
Bonsa
14
ll Stre
et
Boundary Lane
Cambridge Street
Cambridge Street
Church
14
13
15
Ormond Street
Royal Northern
College of Music
Cavendish Street
Sir Kenneth
Green
Library
Sidney Street
Sugden Sport
Centre
Sidney St
Great M
10
Oxford Road
Grosvenor St
Oxford Road
Manchester
Aquatics
Centre
Lower Ormond St
12
Lower Chatham St
Hulme Street
11
Business
School &
Student Hub
Chatham Street
Oxfo
Charles Street
Chester Street
2. Induction
Induction is a formal introduction to the University, proven to
be the best way to impart essential information to new students
and to answer their immediate questions. The induction
process also offers an opportunity to meet other postgraduate
researchers, and to be introduced to the Director of MIRAD,
the Faculty Research Degrees Coordinator, the administrative
team, and MIRIAD staff researchers.
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3. Key Contacts
Head of Faculty Research Degrees:
Professor Jim Aulich
Righton Building, Room 111
email: j.aulich@mmu.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 247 1928
Dr Amanda Ravetz
Righton Building, Room 108
email: a.ravetz@mmu.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 247 4606
John Walsh
Benzie Building, Room 206
email: j.m.walsh@mmu.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 247 1590
Director of MIRIAD:
Workshop Access:
Credit Control
4. Facilities
MIRIAD is located on the first floor of Righton Building. This was
purpose-built as a dress warehouse for William Righton in 1905
and preserves many original features. As with other areas of the
All Saints campus, WiFi is available throughout the building.
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Saints Building.
Building.
5. Research Environment
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(v) VITAE
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Timing: for the academic year 2015-2016, the scheduled meetings of the RDC are as follows:
RDC meetings to consider submissions
Please note that although meetings average five weeks apart, they vary between four and seven
weeks apart due to holidays and term breaks.
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Submission
36 months
72 months
Conferment
48 months
84 months
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full-time
part-time
Submission
6 months
12 months
Conferment
18 months
24 months
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full-time
part-time
Submission
36 months
72 months
Conferment
48 months
84 months
Submission
12 months
24 months
Conferment
24 months
36 months
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Submission
18 months
36 months
Conferment
30 months
48 months
Doctor of Philosophy
(Traditional route or PhD by Practice Route 3)
RD1: Application to register for the degree
of [fill in the blank]. See: www2.mmu.ac.uk/graduate-
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Annual Review
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Transfer of Registration
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You must confirm that there are no issues that change the
ethical status of the research, or else attach an approval letter
in respect of changes.
Along with the form must be submitted a Transfer Report of
5,000 6,000 words in length. For transfer from MPhil to PhD,
the criteria usually include not just an increased scale but also a
widening brief. Therefore, the report sets out:
a) the aims of your research as given in your original
application for registration (RD1) and any alterations or
additional aims that will lead to the PhD;
b) a summary of your critical literature review of practices,
theories, and/or histories (as appropriate to your field of
enquiry);
c) a description of the methods/methodology in use and to
be used;
d) a summary of work already undertaken, mapping the
results against the original aims and any subsequent
alterations;
e) your conclusions at this stage; and
f)
a description of the widening brief that is to take the
research to PhD level. This should make clear the
changes in the nature of the research that warrant
the transfer of degree status. This will usually be a
contribution to knowledge at the forefront of a discipline.
After the viva, there are three possible outcomes to the transfer
request:
(1) The transfer may be recommended without any further
requirements.
(2) The transfer may be conditionally recommended subject
to minor revisions that address any issues that have been
identified by the examiners. You will normally be expected
to complete these revisions in two weeks (four weeks
part-time).
(3) The transfer may require major revisions and resubmission for assessment by the examiners (without
or with another viva). The required amendments will be
set out with the examiners comments. These should be
completed in four weeks (eight weeks part-time).
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22
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24
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If you sense that you cannot complete the degree within the
allotted period, you may take advantage of options to extend,
suspend, or change the mode of study from full-time to parttime, as appropriate, to increase the time available. However, if
you still miss the submission date, there is a financial penalty.
After a short grace period (20 working days), a first-stage
non-submission fee of 250 will be charged. A further nonsubmission fee of 500 will be charged (second stage) if you
do not submit within six months of the original deadline. Then,
if it is still necessary for you to return the following year, 3000
will be charged (although this will be reduced to one-third if
you submit within the first six months of that year). Any further
delays will entail payment of tuition fees. Please note that for
overseas students, the rates are three times that of home
students. For everyone, it is in your best interest to submit your
thesis on time, or as soon as possible thereafter.
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2)
3)
4)
5)
27
6)
b)
c)
d)
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30
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32
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WEBSITE INDEX
Arts and Humanities Research Council, see
www.ahrc.ac.uk
Catering facilities, see
www.mmu2.ac.uk/food
Code of Practice, see www2.mmu.ac.uk/graduate-school/
graduate-school-intranet Follow link to Regulations, Code of
Practice & Supporting Material
Contact details updating, see
www.mmu.ac.uk/enrol click on update arrow
Disability disclosure advice, see www.mmu.ac.uk/sas/
studentservices/learner-development
Forms for administrative needs, see www2.mmu.ac.uk/
graduate-school/online-forms Follow link to Online Forms
Guide to UK doctorate, see www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/
InformationAndGuidance/Doctorate Pages/Doctorateguide.aspx
Images from Visual Resources Centre, see
www.flickr.com/photos/mmuvisualresources
International student MMU website, see
www.mmu.ac.uk/international
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, see
www.ktponline.org.uk
MIRIAD Online, see
www.miriadonline.info
MIRIAD, see
www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk
Oral history ethics guidance, see
www.ohs.org.uk/ethics.php
Print machines,
www.mmu.ac.uk/itservices/mmuprint
Print services contact
repro@mmu.ac.uk
RD1 and other RD forms:
www2.mmu.ac.uk/graduate-school/online-forms
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GENERAL INDEX
GENERAL INDEX
All Saints South Campus:
1, 2
4, 31
4, 23
Building locations:
Cash machine:
Catering services:
2, 6, 34
22
Child Care:
1, 8, 34
Committee dates:
11
Conferment of degree:
28, 29
15, 23, 34
12
Emergency:
18
24
24
10, 29, 32
Entry requirements:
29
Ethics check:
15, 30
29-30
29-30, 34
27-28
Examiners:
27, 30
5, 33
Extension of registration:
11, 21, 32
External advisors:
17
4, 25
8, 15-16, 29-32, 34
21
4, 8
4, 31
4
4, 8
3, 31
3, 31
22, 24, 34
Language of thesis:
12
Lockers:
MA by research:
14, 16
14
MPhil by thesis:
14, 16
Meeting room:
5, 33
21
Non-submission:
26
4, 31
7, 31
26
Period of registration:
10, 32-33
31
13-14
12-13
12
Post Offices:
Practice-based research:
12
Public engagement:
8-9
4, 23
11
10, 11, 15-16,
RD forms:
32
11, 33
10, 29, 32
8, 32
4, 31
Research environment:
7-9
4, 23
15-16
8, 15, 17, 32
7, 33
Shops, faculty-run:
4, 30, 31
Student/staff forum:
31
Studentships, MIRIAD:
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Supervisory meetings:
17-18
Supervisory team:
17-18, 21, 29
21
4, 23
Suspension of registration:
11, 21-22
Taught MA programmes:
25
Timetable (postgraduate):
29
19
20
19-20
20
Transfer report:
Transfer viva:
20
4, 21, 22, 24
36
6, 34
8
27, 33
22
6, 33
4
6, 33
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All the images selected for this issue of the Handbook come from our own Visual
Resources Centre. The Centre holds an extensive archive of images built up over
many decades of teaching in the Manchester School of Art. These reflect a plethora of
subjects that trace the changing preoccupations of art and architecture historians and
researchers during years of radical transition. Recently acclaimed as one of the most
important slide libraries in the country, curator John Davis has kept it at the forefront of
developments with popular postings on Flickr and Twitter
(see https://www.flickr.com/photos/mmuvisualresources/ and use Twitter identity
@VisResCentreMMU). On the level of postgraduate research, the collection is the
focus of attention on how the technologies of images and their physical condition shape
our understanding of the content. Analogue images are entwined with the materiality of
their presentation, and are not interchangeable with digital reproductions.