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, ProfDoc, 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
- opt in to attend the PGR Forum
This is an elected role.
Following the referendum the Students' Union ran in the Spring Elections, the role of the PGR Collective Convenors has been separated into 1 PGR Community Officer and 6 PGR School Reps.
- Gather feedback from respective Department Reps
- Maintain regular communication with the respective Undergraduate School Rep so the feedback can be passed onto the VP Education
- Communicate progress made to Department Reps – closing the feedback loop
- Engage with Department Reps representation and work
- Maintain close communication with the PGR Community Officer to identify any issues that overlap community and academic needs
- Attend the PGR Forum
Your reps for 2023/24 can be found below - they are PhD students unless otherwise specified. They will remain in post until October 2024.
| PGR SSC rep |
Department |
Contact details |
| Narayanan Gopalakrishnan |
Management |
Gopalakrishnan.2020@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| PGR SSC rep |
Department |
Contact details |
| Taylor Robinson |
Informarion Security CDT |
Taylor.Robinson.2021@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Sam Weller |
Electronic Engineering |
Samuel.Weller.2017@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| PGR SSC rep |
Department |
Contact details |
| Heathcliff Newman |
LLC |
Heathcliff.Newman.2023@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Kate Pozgay |
History |
Kate.Pozgay.2017@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| PGR SSC rep |
Department |
Contact details |
| Anya Turrini |
Economics |
Enya.Turrini.2022@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Kat Osborne |
Law & Criminology |
Kat.Osborne.2023@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Aine Bennett |
Politics |
Aine.Bennett.2021@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Kenneth Ghartey |
Law & Criminology |
Kenneth.Ghartey.2022@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| PGR SSC rep |
Department |
Contact details |
| Anees Zaman |
Biological Sciences (MbyR) |
Anees.Zaman.2020@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Cordelia Tubb |
Biological Sciences (Year 2) |
Cordelia.Tubb.2022@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Elisa Fernández Fueyo |
Biological Sciences (Year 3) |
Elisa.FernandezFueyo.2021@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Megan Poole |
Earth Sciences (Year 2) |
Megan.Poole.2022@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Stephanie Batten |
Earth Sciences (Year 2) |
Steph.Batten.2022@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Min Yee Tan |
Geography (Year 2) |
Min.Tan.2023@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Viveca Mellegård |
Geography (Year 3) |
Viveca.Mellegard.2021@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Eleanor Alderman |
Psychology (Year 1) |
Eleanor.Alderman.2019@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Kavishini Apasamy |
Psychology (Year 2) |
Kavishini.Apasamy.2019@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Courtney Hooton |
Psychology (Year 2) |
Courtney.Hooton.2019@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Gaia Giampietro |
Psychology (Year 3) |
Gaia.Giampietro.2019@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Marianne Sarfati |
Psychology (Year 3) |
Marianne.Sarfati.2021@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| Taniya Welmillage |
DClinPsy |
Taniya.Welmillage.2023@live.rhul.ac.uk |
| PGR SSC rep |
Department |
Other roles |
Contact details |
| Shanika Ranasinghe |
Music |
|
Shanika.Ranasinghe.2014@live.rhul.ac.uk |
The PGR Forum runs once a term and is an informal, solution-focussed space for representatives from the PGR School Staff-Committees and the SU's PGR Collective to work together with the Doctoral School and SU's officers to drive forward improvements for the postgraduate research community at a College level