NHLI Tutors

The Postgraduate Tutors are responsible for the overall smooth running of the Institute's postgraduate affairs. Along with the Heads of Sections, they form the NHLI Higher Degrees Research Committee, chaired by the Director of Postgraduate Studies.

Their duties and responsibilities include the following:

• Pastoral and administrative responsibility on the Institutional level for all research students.
• The arrangement of induction sessions for research students.
• Ensuring that proper supervisory arrangements have been made for all research students.
• Monitoring the initial stages of each student's research and the arrangements for subsequent degree assessments.
• Postgraduate Tutors will act as mediators in cases of dispute between a student and a supervisor.

In some of the larger Schools/Institutes or Departments, the pastoral and administrative responsibilities of the Postgraduate Tutor are shared amongst two or more people or by the Postgraduate Tutor and the Director of Postgraduate Studies respectively.

You can arrange to have a meeting with the postgraduate tutor at any time during your PhD/MD(Res). Please note all meetings will be completely confidential.

It is important that you contact the postgraduate tutor if:

• You are having problems with your supervisor, particularly if you feel that you are not being adequately supervised.
• You are in financial difficulties
  You have problems outside of work that are affecting your ability to complete your PhD/MD(Res).
• You have health issues. Please remember the postgraduate tutor must be informed if you take more than a week off your studies through ill health.

The postgraduate tutor may be able to offer practical solutions to the problems you are experiencing, they can certainly offer advice and if necessary can act as a mediator between you and your supervisor.

Formal meetings with the postgraduate tutor:

• You will meet some of the postgraduate tutors with other new postgraduate students at the induction session.