School Directors of Postgraduate Taught Studies (PGT Directors)
Overview
Each School has a Director of Postgraduate Taught Studies to act as the key focal point for co-ordinating and championing PGT programme initiatives. Key features of the role will include:
- Liaison and cooperation with colleagues, both within the School and across the University more widely, to develop PGT provision and promote recruitment.
- To maintain oversight of the PGT programmes offered within the School and to ensure that quality assurance procedures are functioning effectively.
- To provide leadership in the development and enhancement of PGT provision within the School, and to be actively involved in championing initiatives designed to:
- Improve the level of student recruitment onto postgraduate taught programmes;
- Increase levels of student satisfaction with postgraduate taught provision;
- Promote a more diverse student body, including the provision of programmes that are more easily accessible to in-career professionals seeking part-time and/or on-line modes of study;
See Responsibilities of PGT Directors for a full description of the role and responsibilities.
Lunchtime Meetings
At least once a semester lunches are organised for PGT Directors and the agenda for each meeting is agreed in advance. Join the PGT Community of Practice (CoP) to get notice of meetings and to make any suggestions for future meetings. To be added to the CoP membership, please contact Tony Churchill (a.j.churchill@reading.ac.uk).
Current PGT Directors
Agriculture, Policy & Development:
Sarah Cardey
Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Science:
Anne Verhoef
Jess Neumann
Mary Lewis
International Development - Andrew Ainslie
Agri-Food Economics & Marketing - Sanzidur Ramen
Food & Nutritional Sciences - Stella Lignou & Jeremy Spencer
Crop Science - Gillian Rose
Arts & Communication Design:
Gerry Leonidas
Dominic Lees
Christine Ellison
Film Theatre and Television - Matthew McFrederick
Built Environment:
Maria Vahdati
Construction - Emmanuel Essah & Amna Shibeika
Architecture - Oliver Froome-Lewis & Penelope Plaza
CIPPET - Barbara Mason
Construction Management & Engineering - Shabnam Kabiri, Martin Green & Shu-Ling Lu
Chemistry, Food & Pharmacy:
Chemistry - Paz Vaqueiro
Food - Afroditi Chatzifragkou & Gunter Kuhnle
Pharmacy - Kat Hall
CIPPET - Barbara Mason
Humanities:
Classics - Andreas Gavrielatos
English Languages and Applied Linguistics - Tony Capstick
History - Rebecca Rist, Rohan DebRoy
Languages & cultures - Federico Faloppa
English Literature - David Brauner, Peter Robinson, Conor Carville, Karin Lesnik-Obersteinm, Mark Nixon, John Scholar
Institute of Education:
Simon Floodgate & Jo Anne Reed Johnson - educationpgtpd@reading.ac.uk
Rachel Roberts
Law:
Ruvi Ziegler
Mathematical, Physical & Computational Sciences:
Carmen Lam
Chris Holloway
Philosophy, Politics & Economics:
Economics: Nigel Wadesdon, Alan Cromartie, Giovanni Razzu, Steven Bosworth, Kerry Goettlich, Michael Joseph, Stefania Lovo
Philosophy - Si Schroeder, Walter Veit
Politics & International Relations - Amanda Hall
Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences:
Psychology Postgraduate programmes - Paul Jenkins
Charlie Waller Institute - Hannah Vickery
Henley Business School:
Business Informatics and Accountancy - Yin Leng Tan
Finance - George Alexandridis
Business Informatics and Accountancy -Renata Stenka
Leadership Organisation and Behaviour - Keith Heron
Real Estate and Planning - Eamonn D'Arcy
Finance - Dina Ghanma
Marketing and Reputation - Ruby Zhang, Rodrigo Perez Vega