DEPARTMENTOFHISTORY
    GRADUATEPROGRAMMEINHISTORY
    MPhil/PhD
    STUDENTHANDBOOK
    2012/2013
   Please read this handbook now andrefer to it
   throughouttheyear
   This handbookisonlyavailableonline
                         TABLEOFCONTENTS
       MESSAGEFROMPROFESSORMARIALUDDY,CHAIROFTHEDEPARTMENTOFHISTORY....3
       INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................ 4
       ORIENTATION.................................................................................................................. 5
        DepartmentalOrganisation................................................................................................................. 5
        ResponsibleStaff................................................................................................................................. 5
        Communications.................................................................................................................................. 6
        Staff-Student Liaison Committee........................................................................................................ 6
        ThePostgraduateCommittee............................................................................................................. 7
       FACILITIES........................................................................................................................ 8
        ResearchandWorkAccommodation.................................................................................................. 8
        CommonRoom.................................................................................................................................... 8
        Study Space......................................................................................................................................... 8
        Facilities and Equipment ..................................................................................................................... 8
        University Library................................................................................................................................. 9
        IT Induction Session for Postgraduates............................................................................................... 9
        LanguageLearningFacilities................................................................................................................ 9
        FromManuscripttoPrint.................................................................................................................... 9
        ResourcesandTechniquesfortheStudyofRenaissanceandEarlyModernCulture......................10
        Health and Safety Policy.................................................................................................................... 10
        TheKinetonHundred........................................................................................................................ 12
        TheCallumMacDonaldMemorialBursary........................................................................................ 12
        AnnualBursaryinSocialHistory........................................................................................................ 12
        ModernRecordsCentreResearchAwards........................................................................................ 12
        OtherFunding.................................................................................................................................... 12
        HardshipFunds.................................................................................................................................. 13
        Car Parking......................................................................................................................................... 13
       COURSEINFORMATIONFORMPHIL/PHDSTUDENTS...................................................... 16
        Dissertation ....................................................................................................................................... 16
         GuidetoExaminationsforHigherDegreesbyResearch............................................................... 16
        Historical Research: Theory, Skill and Method (TSM)....................................................................... 16
        AttendanceatDepartmentalSeminars/StudyGroups.................................................................... 16
        TheGraduateResearchForum.......................................................................................................... 17
        PostgraduateConference.................................................................................................................. 17
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       Auditing Courses (optional)............................................................................................................... 18
       Supervision........................................................................................................................................ 18
        Responsibilities of Supervisors...................................................................................................... 18
        Responsibilities of Research Students........................................................................................... 19
       TheProgressReviewPanel................................................................................................................ 19
       Ethics in research............................................................................................................................... 20
       Progress and ReviewProcedures...................................................................................................... 20
        Full-time MPhil/PhD Students....................................................................................................... 20
        Part-time MPhil/PhDStudents...................................................................................................... 22
       ResearchProposalGuidance............................................................................................................. 25
       UndergraduateTeaching................................................................................................................... 25
        PostgraduateTeachingSkills Course Outline................................................................................ 25
       Plagiarism .......................................................................................................................................... 26
       Appeals.............................................................................................................................................. 27
      POSTDOCTORAL............................................................................................................. 29
      APPENDICES................................................................................................................... 30
       ResearchInterestsof Current Staff................................................................................................... 30
       FormsandOtherUsefulDocuments................................................................................................. 33
        PostgraduateResearchFundApplicationform............................................................................. 33
        Study Space Application form ....................................................................................................... 34
        Supervisory Record of Progress..................................................................................................... 35
        Skills Update Form......................................................................................................................... 36
        Progress Review Form................................................................................................................... 37
        Ethics Review Form........................................................................................................................ 38
       Booksavailable for Consultation and Loan in H3.40......................................................................... 40
       DatesofTerms................................................................................................................................... 42
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             MESSAGEFROMPROFESSORMARIALUDDY,CHAIROFTHE
             DEPARTMENTOFHISTORY
             Welcome to the History Department and to the Graduate Programme in History. We hope that your
             period of study in the Department will be rewarding, intellectually stimulating and happy. We are
             looking forwardverymuchtoworkingwithyouduringyourprogrammeofstudy.
                     TheWarwickHistoryDepartmentisalargeandbroadly-basedresearchcommunitywithahigh
             international reputation in British, European, Global and Comparative American history.            The
             Departmentsupportsthreemajorresearchcentres:theCentresforEighteenth-CenturyStudies,Global
             History and History of Medicine. Strong core research groups in British social history, women’s history,
             and Renaissance and early modern British and European history complement the Department’s other
             strengths in the modern history of Germany, Eastern Europe and Russia; we also have a strong cohort
             of historians of Asia. The Department includes a unique concentration of US, Caribbean and Latin
             Americanhistoriansofahighinternationalreputation, groupedtogetherinthe School for Comparative
             AmericanStudies(orCAS).
                     The History Department provides a lively and friendly environment for graduate study. In
             addition to any formal programmes you are following, there is an array of research seminars and
             informal reading groups in the Department, and in the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, in which
             wehopeyouwillparticipate. Youcanalsoavailyourselfofopportunitiesfortraininganddevelopment
             in the Faculty of Arts.  Your most direct contact with the staff is likely to be with your research
             supervisor and tutors on taught courses, but please feel free to approach any member of staff who
             maybeabletohelpyouwithyourwork. Youwillfindafulllist of staff and their research expertise at
             the back of this booklet.
                     The following members of staff are responsible for the Research Master’s Programme; their
             contact details can be found on page 6:
             Director of Graduate Studies                            Professor RebeccaEarle
             PostgraduateandResearchCoordinator                      MsPaulinaHoyos
                     I look forward to meeting you at the Reception for new postgraduate students on Wednesday
             3Octoberat5.00pmintheGraduateSpace.
             Professor Maria Luddy
             Chair, Departmentof History
             University of Warwick
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