Course Handbook - Faculty of History

8 CONTACT POINTS IN THE FACULTY
8.1 The MPhil Office
Your main point of contact in the History Faculty (on West Road) will be the MPhil Office.
This is on the 4 th floor of the History Faculty building. Miss Tessa Blackman in the MPhil
Office is in charge of administering this MPhil. 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: medieval@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).
8.2 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
http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/graduate_students/latest.html It is important that you read the
MPhil Update regularly because it contains up-to-date information regarding funding, events
and issues that have been notified to the Degree Committee Office.
8.3 MPhil Student Representation in the Faculty of History
The students on each MPhil course in the Faculty will be asked to select a representative, who
will act as liaison between the students and the Academic Secretary for that course (the
academic responsible for the day-to-day running of the course; see Sections 9.2 and 9.5
below), although all students can approach the Academic Secretary at any time. One of the six
MPhil representatives will serve on the Faculty’s Graduate Teaching and Learning Committee
together with the representatives of the PhD students.
9 ADMINISTRATION OF THE COURSE AND RESOLVING PROBLEMS
9.1 Role of the Supervisor
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. Your supervisor will be
responsible for overseeing your overall progress during the year, although the supervisors
appointed for the particular piece(s) of submitted work will oversee that work. However,
your appointed supervisor is the person to whom you should go first if in any difficulties
or doubt.
9.2 Option Directors and the Academic Chairman and Secretary
If there are any queries your supervisor is unable to answer, you should consult the Director
for your Option, who are as follows:
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
Dr J Grove Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, (35079, email
jpg15@cam.ac.uk)
Dr C Watkins, Magdalene College (40287, email: csw14@cam.ac.uk)
Prof M C Carpenter, Faculty of History (35314, email:
mcc1000@cam.ac.uk)
(The above telephone numbers are those of the University telephone network: from a BT
phone add; 3 for numbers beginning with 3, 7 for numbers beginning with 6 or 4.)
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