roughout the year. The Academic & Welfare Officers (AWOs) look after all of the Departmental Representatives in their faculty. There are six AWOs in all, who attend some of the most high-level committees in College and work with senior College and Imperial College Union staff. Postgraduate Tutor & Director of Postgraduate Studies Each Department has at least one of these positions, although the titles may vary in different departments. Responsible for the overall smooth running of the department’s postgraduate teaching & research, their many duties include pastoral and administrative responsibility, leading induction sessions
for new students, and ensuring that supervision of researchers is of a high quality (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ registry/researchdegrees/support ). Postgraduate Administrator and Course Administrators The non-academic administrative heart of each department, the PG Administrator is useful for disseminating information to doctoral students department-wide, organising contact with senior staff and being the department’s ‘institutional memory’. To contact Master’s students, most departments will have course administrators for individual or small clusters of Master’s programmes.
perks of the job
These members of staff, and other senior positions, are excellent contacts and sources of information about life in academia. If you want to understand how College works, or need contacts in industry, a professional relationship with senior staff is a good place to start. If you do not know who holds these roles, your postgraduate administrator should be able to let you know.
Year Representative Page 17 imperialcollegeunion.org/training