School directors of postgraduate research studies have a key role within the Schools in which they operate. While the exact nature of this role depends on the context of the School, they oversee a range of areas relevant to doctoral students, including recruitment and admissions, induction and training and the monitoring of progress.
The core elements of the role are set out in the School directors of postgraduate research studies: generic job description (PDF, 0.04 MB).
Our briefing document for new directors of postgraduate research studies (PDF, 0.2 MB) contains useful information on the main tasks of the role.
In some Schools, elements of the role are handled at a departmental level.
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
Arts and Communication Design: Professor Lisa Purse (l.v.purse@reading.ac.uk)
- Reading School of Art: Professor Alun Rowlands (a.rowlands@reading.ac.uk)
- Department of Film, Theatre and Television: Professor Lisa Purse (l.v.purse@reading.ac.uk)
- Department of Typography & Graphic Communication: Professor Gerry Leonidas (g.leonidas@reading.ac.uk)
Institute of Education: Professor Alan Floyd (alan.floyd@reading.ac.uk); EdD (Director of Programme) Dr Karen Jones (karen.jones@reading.ac.uk)
Law: Professor Rosa Freedman (r.a.freedman@reading.ac.uk)
Humanities: Professor Mark Nixon (m.nixon@reading.ac.uk); Dr Richard Blakemore (r.blakemore@reading.ac.uk) in Semester 2, 2024-2025
- Department of History: Dr Richard Blakemore (r.blakemore@reading.ac.uk)
- Department of Classics: Professor Tim Duff (t.e.duff@reading.ac.uk)
- Department of Languages and Cultures: Dr Sophie Heywood (s.l.heywood@reading.ac.uk)
- Department of English Literature: Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (k.b.lesnik-oberstein@reading.ac.uk)
- Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics: Dr Rodney Jones (r.h.jones@reading.ac.uk)
Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Dr Joo Young Jeon (j.jeon@reading.ac.uk)
- Department of Economics: Dr Joo Young Jeon (j.jeon@reading.ac.uk) - Current
- Department of Economics: Dr Neha Hui (n.hui@reading.ac.uk) - Admissions
- Department of Politics: Professor Alan Cromartie (a.d.t.cromartie@reading.ac.uk)
- Department of Philosophy: Professor David Oderberg (d.s.oderberg@reading.ac.uk)
Henley Business School
Director of Postgraduate Research Studies: Dr Stephen Gulliver (s.r.gulliver@henley.ac.uk)
Business Informatics, Systems and Accounting: Dr Stephen Gulliver (s.r.gulliver@henley.ac.uk); Dr Ronita Ram (ronita.ram@henley.ac.uk)
International Business and Strategy: Dr Peder Greve (peder.greve@henley.ac.uk)
ICMA: Professor Charles Sutcliffe (c.sutcliffe@icmacentre.ac.uk)
Leadership, Organisation and Behaviour: Professor Benjamin Laker (benjamin.laker@henley.ac.uk)
Marketing and Reputation: Dr Rodrigo Perez Vega (r.perezvega@henley.ac.uk)
Real Estate and Planning: Professor Pat McAllister (p.m.mcallister@henley.reading.ac.uk)
DBA (Director of Programme): Dr Anastasiya Saraeva (anastasiya.saraeva@henley.ac.uk)
Life Sciences
Agriculture, Policy and Development: Professor Martin Lukac (m.lukac@reading.ac.uk)
Biological Sciences: Dr Eva Kevei (e.g.kevei@reading.ac.uk)
Chemistry Food and Pharmacy: Dr Graeme Cottrell (g.s.cottrell@reading.ac.uk)
- Department of Chemistry: Dr James Cooper (james.cooper@reading.ac.uk)
- Department of Food & Nutritional Sciences: Dr Anisha Wijeyesekera (a.wijeyesekera@reading.ac.uk); Dr Andreas Karatzas (k.karatzas@reading.ac.uk)
- School of Pharmacy: Dr Maria Maiaru (m.maiaru@reading.ac.uk) [Admissions and Current students]
Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences: Dr Ian Cunnings (i.cunnings@reading.ac.uk) [Admissions]; Professor Ingo Bojak (i.bojak@reading.ac.uk) [Current students]
Science
Built Environment: (Construction Management and Architecture): Dr Florence Phua (f.phua@reading.ac.uk)
Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science: Professor Roger Matthews (r.j.matthews@reading.ac.uk)
- Archaeology postgraduate research programme: Professor Roger Matthews (r.j.matthews@reading.ac.uk)
- Environmental Science/Geography postgraduate research programme: Dr Jonathan Dale (j.j.dale@reading.ac.uk)
- Human Geography postgraduate research programme: Dr Anna Jackman (a.h.jackman@reading.ac.uk)
Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences: Dr Sugata Mondal (s.mondal@reading.ac.uk)
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics:Dr Zuowei Wang (zuowei.wang@reading.ac.uk)
- Department of Meteorology: Dr Keri Nicoll (k.a.nicoll@reading.ac.uk) [Admissions] and Professor Chris Scott (chris.scott@reading.ac.uk) [Current students]
- Environmental Systems Science Centre: Professor Geoff Wadge (gw@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk)
- Department of Computer Science: Alan Guedes (a.guedes@reading.ac.uk)