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1 CONTACT POINTS IN THE FACULTY 1.1 The MPhil Office Your main point of contact in the History Faculty (on West Road) will be Miss Tessa Blackman, the administrator for the MPhil in Economic and Social History, in the MPhil Office. This is on the 4 th floor of the History Faculty building. You will visit this office quite often; all essays and dissertations as well as titles are handed in here. Tel. (7)48152 or e-mail ecsoc@hist.cam.ac.uk. The office is open Mondays to Thursdays: 9am to 5pm and Fridays 9am to 4.30pm. THE MPHIL OFFICE IS CLOSED FROM 1PM – 2 PM (Monday – Friday). 1.2 The MPhil in Economic and Social History – administration The Sub-Committee for this MPhil consists of senior academics. It is the body which oversees the running of the programme, under the ultimate authority of the Degree Committee for the Faculty of History. The current Academic Secretary is Dr N. Mora-Sitja. If you need to contact her, you should do so through the MPhil Office. Most members of the sub-committee, including the Academic Secretary, are based in their Colleges. Professor MJ Daunton, Chairman Dr N Mora-Sitja, Academic Secretary Dr JC Muldrew Dr S Horrell Dr L Shaw-Taylor Miss T Blackman, Administrative Secretary Faculty of History / Trinity Hall Faculty of History/ Downing College Faculty of History / Queens’ College Faculty of Economics Faculty of Geography Faculty of History, MPhil Office (email ecsoc@hist.cam.ac.uk) 1.3 MPhil Update The Degree Committee Office regularly produces an MPhil Update, which is circulated by email only, to all MPhil students. A copy of the MPhil Update is also put on the Graduate Noticeboard (located in the Faculty's Graduate Research Room) and on the Faculty’s website. Previous editions of the MPhil Update can be viewed on the History Faculty's website. It is important that you read the MPhil Update because it contains up-to-date information regarding funding, events and issues that have been notified to the Degree Committee Office. 1.4 Postgraduate Administration within the Faculty of History The Faculty of History has two officers responsible for Graduate Studies, the Director of Graduate Studies and the Director of Graduate Training. The Director of Graduate Studies is the executive officer in charge of the Degree Committee Office and the Director of Graduate Training is the executive officer in charge of the MPhil Office. The latter is responsible for monitoring all MPhil courses administered by the Faculty of History. He oversees matters relating to MPhil students from admission through to examination. He reports directly to the Degree Committee of the Faculty of History, which is the ultimate authority for all decisions affecting graduate students. The current Director of Graduate Training is Dr Carl Watkins. Chairman, History Degree Committee Director of Graduate Studies Director of Graduate Training Dr M Goldie Dr J Chatterji Dr C Watkins, email: graduatestudies@hist.cam.ac.uk 1
Senior Secretary, History Degree Committee Miss S M Willson – tel. 335305 email: degree-committee@hist.cam.ac.uk The Degree Committee Office deals with all matters relating to postgraduate funding (both PhD and MPhil) therefore, queries and questions about funding for MPhil and PhD courses should be addressed to the Degree Committee Office: History Faculty Building, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9EF. 1.5 How the administration works for the MPhil in Economic and Social History; whom to contact about what and when Normally, you are expected first to approach your supervisor about matters relating to your academic work at Cambridge. If you have not already done so, you should contact your supervisor to arrange a meeting as soon as possible. The supervisor’s responsibility is to work closely with you to prepare you for writing your MPhil dissertation. Non-academic questions should be addressed to the Graduate Tutor of your College, who will normally be the best person to approach about visa and passport problems, dealings with grant awarding bodies, and housing and financial problems in general. The Degree Committee does not deal with these sorts of issues. Queries about the Faculty’s Graduate Training Course should be addressed to the Faculty’s Director of Graduate Training, Dr C Watkins (graduate-studies@hist.cam.ac.uk). The administration of the MPhil in Economic and Social History is managed by the MPhil Sub- Committee, but under the general oversight of the History Faculty Degree Committee, which has responsibility for all the Faculty’s postgraduate programmes. As Academic Secretary for the MPhil, Dr Natalia Mora-Sitja handles the day-to-day administrative work of the programme, and there may be occasions during your time here when an informal conversation with the Academic Secretary of the MPhil may lead to the quick solution of some of the problems affecting your work. The Academic Secretary is here to give you advice about your work in addition to assistance available to you from the academic personnel with whom you are in direct contact. However, many important items of business such as a change of supervisor, approving dissertation titles, leave to continue to the PhD, appointing examiners and scrutinizing examination results are formal, and must be handled by the MPhil Sub-Committee and/or the Degree Committee. Because Sub-Committee meetings take place only two or three times a term, it is important for you to deal with administrative requests in a timely manner. Other questions about Faculty matters can be addressed to Miss T Blackman, the Administrative Secretary in the MPhil Office who will be happy to try to answer questions. Please e-mail her with your questions in the first instance on ecsoc@hist.cam.ac.uk. If you do not yet have access to e-mail (although all research students are allocated an e-mail address and expected to use it), the office’s telephone number is 748152 (or 48152 if you are using the university telephone network). Finally, in some delicate cases you might wish to seek the help of an Ombudsperson, see the General Graduate Handbook for information. 2 THE COURSE 2.1 Residence Requirements The academical year in Cambridge is divided into three terms, Michaelmas, Lent and Easter; in each term, the teaching takes place only in the nine-week period known as ‘Full Term’. The dates for the current year are Michaelmas Term: Tuesday 5 October - Friday 3 December 2010; Lent Term: Tuesday 18 January - Friday 18 March 2011; Easter Term: Tuesday 26 April - Friday 17 June 2011. The University requires that all students ‘keep’ three terms of residence before they can be awarded a degree. 2
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