Postgraduate Open Day
17th November 2010
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Postgraduate Open Day 2010
Welcome to the
University of Warwick
After deciding to embark on a Master’s degree, I went along
to a graduate recruitment fair in London last year, where
I met a representative of the University of Warwick. As
well as telling me about the course I was interested in, she
recommended that I came to the Postgraduate Open Day. I had been
looking at a number of different MA options in the UK and the USA,
so I am really glad that I went to the Open Day at Warwick. It gave
me the opportunity to meet academics from my course, and to look
around campus, both of which were invaluable. I fell in love with
Warwick when I talked to like-minded people and when I saw the
state-of-the-art facilities, surrounded by a beautiful green campus.
Coming to see the place where I planned on continuing my studies
meant that I was inspired to put every effort into my application to
study here. The competition is high, and hearing the presentations
on Open Day helped me to hone my application and gain a better
chance of entry. The best thing about it, though, was meeting the
current students. Face-to-face interaction was far more inspiring
than staring at the pages of a website. The conversations
I had with people who were already here helped me
make my final decision about where I wanted to do my
postgraduate study. I am now a few months into my course
at Warwick, and absolutely loving it.
Bethany Norris, MA in Writing
Contents
2 Welcome
3 Essential Information
4 Summary of What’s On
5 Self Guided Campus Tours
(including places to eat)
6 Campus Map
8 The Exhibition
8 General Sessions
8 Networking Event
for Research Students
9 Faculty of Arts Sessions
10 Warwick Medical School
Sessions
10 Faculty of Science Sessions
11 Faculty of Social Science
Sessions
12 Making an application
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Inside this programme you will find details of activities we have
arranged on campus for today’s Open Day, including presentations,
drop-ins, campus tours and the Exhibition. Please use the contents
list below to help you find what you’re looking for. Our Open Day map
in the centre of the programme (pages 6-7) is where you can find out
where sessions are taking place.
Where to find help
Our Warwick Welcome Service Student
Ambassadors are dressed in bright yellow
t-shirts! They are all current students
and as well as conducting tours they
will answer any questions you might
have about what it’s like to study here
at Warwick. University staff are dressed
in navy blue t-shirts and will also be on
hand throughout the day.
Visitors with disabilities
Campus is generally accessible to
individuals with disabilities although
there are a few areas where assistance
may be required, so please ask a member
of staff. If you have indicated that you
have a disability on your booking then
we will be in touch to make any specific
arrangements.
Our Disability Services Team will be
present in our Exhibition so that you
can find out more about support,
services, facilities and disabled students’
allowances.
What to do if you arrive early
Registration starts at 10:00 in the
Rootes Social Building and there will
be refreshments in the networking area
from this time. However, if you arrive
early and have time to spare before your
sessions begin or the Exhibition opens
(11:30 – 14:30) then why not try one of our
eating outlets on campus? Alternatively,
please feel free to explore the campus
(see page 5 for what not to miss).
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Postgraduate Open Day 2010
A Summary of What’s On
Guided Campus Tours
Tours will leave from the Registration
Desk in Rootes Social Building at regular
intervals from 10:15 – 14:00. These
will be led by a student ambassador
who will be able to walk you around
campus, highlighting the key features of
postgraduate life at Warwick. Tours last
approximately 45 minutes. Alternatively,
please feel free to explore the campus
independently (see page 5 for what not
to miss).
General Presentations
During the afternoon, we will be offering
general talks on subjects covering careers
and skills, the postgraduate student
experience and accommodation options.
You will notice that the talks are repeated
a number of times throughout the
afternoon, giving you the opportunity
to hear as much about the postgraduate
experience as possible.
Departmental Presentations
Throughout the morning and early
afternoon, many of our departments
will be offering presentations on the
postgraduate study options within their
academic areas. These will take place in
the departments or near the Exhibition
area in the Rootes Social Building. Some
departments are also offering a tour of
their facilities.
Department Drop-Ins
Some of our academic departments will
be open for you to drop in at specified
times throughout the morning to look
around the department and speak to
admissions representatives (see pages
9 – 11 for details).
The Exhibition
The Exhibition area will be in the
Panorama Suite in the Rootes Social
Building from 11:30 – 14:30, where you
will have the opportunity to meet
representatives and current postgraduate
students from a wide selection of
departments who offer postgraduate
courses. The Exhibition will also
include stands providing information
on Accommodation, Funding, Library
Services, Disability Services and many
more (see page 8 for details).
Postgraduate Research
Networking Event
If you are thinking about doing a PhD,
you will have the opportunity to hear
about funding opportunities and talk to
current PhD students and academic staff
over a light lunch. Booking for this event
is essential as places are limited.
Meet our students
There will be a networking area in Rootes
where you will be able to meet some of
our current postgraduate students in
an informal setting and ask them what
it is really like to study a postgraduate
course at Warwick over complimentary
refreshments.
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Self-Guided Campus Tours
If you would like to wander around campus by yourself look out for...
Eating outlets
There are a range of places to stop for
food and drink around the campus (but
don’t forget we have complimentary
refreshments for you from 10am in the
Networking Area of the Rootes Social
Building).
Students’ Union
Xananas: bistro-style restaurant for
meals and light bites
The Dirty Duck: traditional pub food,
snacks and sandwiches
Curiositea: vintage teashop with cakes
and pastries
The Bread Oven: sandwich bar and
bakery
The Terrace Bar: coffee and cocktails
(open from 17:00)
Arts Centre
Library
Situated at the heart of the campus, the
Arts Centre is integral to the cultural life
of the University. With six outstanding
spaces on the same site showing the very
best international and new work across
all art forms. Facilities include: a 1,500seat concert hall, two theatres, a cinema,
gallery and conference room.
The Library is at the centre of campus
and offers over one million printed
volumes, 30,000 electronic journals
and e-resource and ten kilometres of
archives. It is an attractive, welcoming
and practical study environment
supporting independent and group work.
It is also home to the Wolfson Research
Exchange, a technology-rich facility for
researchers across the University. If you
are considering undertaking a research
degree at Warwick feel free to drop-in to
the Wolfson Research Exchange between
15:00 and 16:30 for a coffee and a chat.
Rootes Building
Students’ Union
Library Coffee Bar: coffee, frappes and
snacks
Sports Centre
The slogan at Warwick is ‘Sport for
All’ and the University has invested
significantly in providing outstanding
sports facilities designed to add value
to the whole experience of studying at
Warwick. We have extensive facilities (so
you may not have time to explore them
all during the Open Day) on three sites
across campus:
• The Main Sports Centre in the centre of
the campus
• The Cryfield Pavilion on the South West
edge of campus which services over 60
acres of playing fields
• The Westwood area of campus which is
designed as a mini sports village
The Warwick SU is regarded as one of
the finest in the UK following its recent
refurbishment. The modern, spacious
building and its quality outlets, offers
members a superior facility which aims
to enhance and support the student
experience.
Costa Coffee: coffee and sandwiches
Bar Fusion: authentic Asian cuisine
The Bar: soft and alcoholic drinks, suki
tea, frappes
Warwick Arts Centre
Café Bar: coffee, paninis and pastry
EAT Restaurant: locally sourced, organic
cuisine (open from 17:00)
Other outlets around campus
Café Library: hot breakfast and lunch
Café Humanities: coffee, pastries and
sandwiches
Café Gibbet Hill: coffee, pastries and
sandwiches
University House Coffee Bar: coffee and
hot snacks
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Building locations
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Arts Centre
2
Chaplaincy
3
Chemistry and
Physics Building
4
Computer Science
Building
5
Coventry House
6
Engineering Building
Humanities Building
Transnational Resources
Centre
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International Digital
Laboratory
International
Manufacturing Centre
10 Library
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14 Rootes
Building
Wolfson Research
Exchange
Maths & Statistics
Building
12 Millburn
13 Ramphal
House
Building
Social Building
Chancellor’s Suite
Open Day Reception
Panorama Suite
Sutherland Suite
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Sciences Building
Centre
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Union Building
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Postgraduate Open Day 2010
The Exhibition and General Talks
The Exhibition will take place in the Panorama Suite in Rootes Social Building.
You will be able to gather information from the following departments and services:
Accommodation
Chemistry
Physics
Student Careers and Skills
Computer Science
Politics and International Studies
Disability Services
Education
Psychology
Library Services
Employment Research
Sociology
Postgraduate Admissions
English and Comparative Literary Studies
Research at Warwick
Health and Social Studies
Theatre, Performance and Cultural
Policy Studies
Student Support Services
History
Warwick Business School
Students’ Union
Life Sciences
WMG
Warwick Volunteers
Medical School
General Talks Sessions
department
talk Details
Welcome to Postgraduate Study at Warwick
10:30 – 11:00
Panorama 3 Mr Andrew Higgins, Deputy Academic Registrar
13:30 – 14:00
Panorama 3
Professor Jacqueline Labbe, Chair of the Board of Graduate Studies
N/A
14:15 – 14:45, 14:55 – 15:25, 15:35 – 16:05
Chancellor’s Room 2/3
Sue Bennett, Director of Student Careers and Skills
Yes
14:15 – 14:45, 14:55 – 15:25, 15:35 – 16:05
Chancellor’s Room 1
Mr Matthew Scott, Accommodation Manager
Yes
14:15 – 14:45, 14:55 – 15:25, 15:35 – 16:05
Panorama 3
Representatives from the Students’ Union
Yes
11:35 – 12:00 Welcome to Postgraduate Study at Warwick: Panorama 3 Dr Jocasta Gardner, Warwick Graduate School
N/A
12:00 – 12:30 Optional tour of campus leaving from Panorama 3 or visit the Exhibition Area 12:30 – 13:20 Light lunch and networking with staff and current students:
Ramphal R0.03/04
13:30 – 14:00 Funding your PhD: Ramphal R0.21, Mr Dominic Dean,
Warwick Graduate School
14:00 – 15:00 Alternative Sources of Funding: Ramphal R0.21, Dr Luke Blaxill
15:00 – 16:00 Optional refreshments in Wolfson Research Exchange
(3rd Floor Library)
15:35 – 16:05 Optional afternoon workshop in Rootes Social Building
Student Careers and Skills
Living at Warwick (Accommodation)
Postgraduate Student Experience
Research Student Networking Event
stand
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Faculty of Arts Sessions
Department/Talk Details
Drop-in Details
stand
Classics and Ancient History
11:00 – 11:30 The Sutherland Suite
Professor Kevin Butcher, Director of Graduate Studies
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
11:45 Tour of department: Room A013, Millburn House, Ms Tracey McVey
N/A
Cultural Policy Studies
11:30 – 12:00 The Sutherland Suite
Dr Jonathan Vickery, Programme Director
English and Comparative Literary Studies
12:00 – 12:30 Chancellor’s 2/3
Dr Emma Francis, Director of Graduate Studies
Film and Television Studies
10:30 – 11:00 Chancellor’s 1
Dr Jon Burrows, Head of Department Dr Catherine Constable, Associate Professor
Followed by a campus tour to Millburn House
History
N/A
N/A
Yes
History of Art
11:30 – 12:00 F37 Millburn House
Dr Rosie Dias, Director of Graduate Studies
10:00 – 12:30 F37 Millburn House
Dr Rosie Dias, Director of Graduate Studies
N/A
13:30 – 14:30 Transnational Resources Centre, H801 Humanities Building
Dr David Lines, Dr Katherine Astbury,
Dr Christine Achinger
(MFL Directors of Postgraduate Studies)
13:30 Tour of Transnational Resources Centre,
H801 Humanities Building
N/A
10:00 – 12:30 H410 Humanities Building
Dr David Lines, Director of Graduate Studies
N/A
13:00 – 16:00 G26 Theatre Studies, Millburn House Dr Nicolas Whybrow, Director of Graduate Studies
Yes
Modern Foreign Languages (French, German, Italian)
13:00 – 13:30 H2.02 Humanities Building
Dr David Lines, Director of Graduate Studies (Italian)
Dr Christine Achinger, Director of Graduate Studies (German)
Dr Katherine Astbury, Director of Graduate Studies (French)
Centre for the Study of the Renaissance
N/A
School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Studies
N/A
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Postgraduate Open Day 2010
Warwick Medical School and Faculty of Science Sessions
Department/Talk Details
Drop-in Details
stand
Warwick Medical School
11:00 – 11:30 Chancellor’s 1
Taught Masters and PhD Programmes at Warwick Medical School
Mrs Jan Cooper, Deputy Director of Masters Programmes and CPD
N/A
Yes
10:00 – 11:00 C521 Chemistry Building
Professor Martin Wills, Director of Graduate Studies
12.00 Tour of department:
Outside C521 fifth floor Chemistry
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
11:30 – 12:30 MOAC Common Room, Coventry House
Ms Sarah Shute, Course Coordinator
N/A
N/A
Yes
10:00 – 13:00 Room H129 Humanities Building
Dr Fiona MacCallum, PG admissions
10:00 – 13:00 Room H137
Dr Derrick Watson, Director of PG Studies
Yes
11:15 – 12:15 CS311 Computer Science Building
Professor Mark Rodger
N/A
11:30 – 12:30 MOAC Common room, Coventry House
Ms Sarah Shute, Course Coordinator
N/A
11:30 – 12:30 Tour of department:
International Manufacturing Centre Reception
Yes
Chemistry
11:00 – 12:00 C521 Chemistry Building
Professor Martin Wills, Director of Graduate Studies
Dr Claudia Blindauer, Director of AS:MIT
Followed by a tour of facilities
Computer Science
N/A
Engineering
11:00 – 12:00 A401 Engineering Building
Dr Mark Leeson, Director of Graduate Studies
School of Life Sciences
N/A
Molecular Organisation and Assembly in Cells (MOAC)
10:30 – 11:00 Chancellor’s 2/3
Professor Alison Rodger, Director Physics
11:30 - 12:00 Chancellor’s 1
Dr Gavin Bell, Postgraduate Admission Tutor
Psychology
N/A
Centre for Scientific Computing
10:30 – 11:00 Chancellor’s 2/3
Professor Alison Rodger
Systems Biology
10:30 – 11:00 Chancellor’s 2/3
Professor Alison Rodger, Director WMG
11:00 – 11:30 IMC245 International Manufacturing Centre (IMC)
Mr Charlie Szybiak, Director of Student Recruitment
Followed by a tour of the facilities
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Faculty of Social Sciences Sessions
Department/Talk Details
Drop-in Details
stand
Applied Linguistics
10:00 – 12:00 S1.92 Social Sciences Building Dr Ema Ushioda
N/A
11:30 – 12:30 WBS Scarman Road Reception
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
12:00 – 14:00 School of Health and Social Studies Lobby; Social Sciences Building
Professor Gillian Hundt, Miss Kelly Peavoy
Yes
10:00 – 11:00 S1.22 Social Sciences Building
Sara Prestleton, Postgraduate Admissions Officer
N/A
12:00 – 12:30 Chancellor’s 1
Professor David Smith, Director of Graduate Studies
11:00 – 12:00 Room S2.63 Social Sciences Building
Professor Quassim Cassam
All philosophy courses (PhD, MPhil, MA),
N/A
12:00 – 13:00 Room S2.64 Social Sciences Building
Professor Bill Brewer
Philosophy of Mind MA, Philosophy MPhil and PhD
11:00 – 13:00 Room S2.40 Social Sciences Building
Professor Stephen Houlgate
Diploma in Philosophy, MA in Continental Philosophy;
MA in Philosophy of Literature
11:00 – 13:00 Room S2.42 Social Sciences Building
Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson
Postgraduate study (MA and PhD)
in Continental Philosophy
N/A
Warwick Business School
10:00 – 12:30 Specialist Masters Programmes
10:00 Registration and refreshments, WBS Scarman Road Reception
Welcome and overview of Specialist Masters programme
Professor Mark P Taylor, Dean of WBS
Catherine Gordon, Administrative Director
Followed by campus tour to Rootes
Economics
11:30 – 12:00 Chancellor’s 2/3
Professor Ben Lockwood, Director of Postgraduate Taught Courses
Education
11:00 – 11:30 Panorama 3
Bozena Beauclair, Student Recruitment and Marketing Manager
Employment Research
N/A
Health and Social Studies
N/A Law
N/A
Philosophy
Politics and International Studies
10:30 – 11:00 The Sutherland Suite
Dr Chris Browning, Director of Graduate Studies
N/A
Yes
12:00 – 13:00 Room R2.19 Ramphal Building
Professor Mick Carpenter
Yes
Sociology
N/A
Applying for Postgraduate Study at Warwick
The application process at a glance
Apply
online
Upload
your
documents
Please
complete your
application as
fully as possible
We will email
you with a link
Include email
addresses for
your referees
and we will
contact them
for you
We will email
you with the
decision
Documents required:
• Transcripts from your
University-level study
• Research proposal (if appropriate)
• English language proficiency
• Two academic references
(we only accept non-academic references
if you have been out of education for more
than five years)
If successful
please reply to
your offer
Follow the link
in your offer
email
Pay the deposit
(WBS/CPS
only) within
the stated
timescale
Details of your
conditions will
be given in your
offer email
The Postgraduate Admissions Team will be present in the Exhibition
Hall between 11:30 and 14:30 to answer your questions.
For further information please contact:
Student Admissions and Recruitment Office
University House
The University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 8UW
+44 (0)24 7652 3648
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If made a
conditional
offer, please
meet your
conditions
as soon as
possible