What do the roles entail?
Your School's PGR Staff-Student Action Meeting, held once a term, provides a valuable opportunity for you to voice your ideas on how positive changes could be made to improve the experience of you and your peers as postgraduate researchers at Royal Holloway. We would encourage PGR students from Masters by Research, MPhil and PhD programmes from all stages to get involved and help make a difference.
This is not and elected role - you simply need to volunteer
A PGR academic rep. is expected to:
- gather feedback from other PGR students and do investigative work that will lead to a positive changes to PGR provision
- attend comprehensive training provided by the Students’ Union
- attend your School's PGR Staff-Student Action Meeting (SSAM) with academic staff to discuss the feedback you have gathered, as well as hearing from academics about any other matters of interest.
- feedback the outcome of any meetings / changes achieved with the rest of your cohort – helping all students understand how their feedback can lead to change
- volunteer to sit in the Doctoral School Committee.
Your reps for 2025/26 can be found below - they are PhD students unless otherwise specified. They will remain in post until October 2026.
Would you like to provide feedback to your PGR rep? Use the Feedback form for your School below and your rep will raise this in the next Staff-Student Action Meeting!
Feedback form for the School of EPMS
| PGR SSC rep |
Department |
Contact details |
| Oumar Butt |
Electronic Engineering |
Mohammed.Butt.2020@live.rhul.ac.uk |
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Feedback form for the School of LSS
| PGR SSC rep |
Department |
Contact details |
| Karia Hartung |
PIRP |
Karia.Hartung.2022@live.rhul.ac.uk |
Feedback form for the School of LSE
| PGR SSC rep |
Department |
Contact details |
| Mackenzie LeVernois |
Earth Sciences (Year 2) |
Mackenzie.LeVernois.2024@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Sophie Burr |
Earth Sciences (Year 2) |
Sophie.Burr.2024@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Ryan Jefferies |
Psychology (Year 3) |
Ryan.Jefferies.2021@live.rhul.ac.uk |
Feedback form for the School of PDA
| PGR SSC rep |
Department |
Contact details |
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