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 Postgraduate Research 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 PGR Studies: Generic job description 

 Our briefing document for new Directors of Postgraduate Research Studies

contains useful information on the main tasks of the role.

In some Schools, elements of the role are handled at a Departmental level and, where this occurs, details of the person performing the role are included below.

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science

Arts and Communication Design:  Associate Professor Alison Butler (a.j.butler@reading.ac.uk)

• Art (Dept.): Dr Pil Kollectiv (p.kollective@reading.ac.uk); Dr Galia Kollectiv (g.kollectiv@reading.ac.uk)
• Film, Theatre and Television (Dept.): Dr Alison Butler(a.j.butler@reading.ac.uk)
• Typography & Graphic Communication (Dept.): Professor Eric Kindel (e.t.kindel@reading.ac.uk );

Institute of Education: Dr Daisy Powell (d.a.powell@reading.ac.uk) and Dr Holly Joseph (h.joseph@reading.ac.uk)

Humanities: Dr Rachel Foxley (f.h.foxley@reading.ac.uk)

• History (Dept.): Dr Rachel Foxley  (f.h.foxley@reading.ac.uk)
• Classics (Dept.): Professor Timothy Duff  (t.e.duff@reading.ac.uk)
• Philosophy (Dept.): Dr Luke Elson (luke.elson@reading.ac.uk)

Law: Dr Charlotte Smith (c.l.smith@reading.ac.uk) and Dr Therese Callus (m.c.callus@reading.ac.uk);       Dr Matthew Windsor (m.r.windsor@reading.ac.uk)  

Literature and Languages: Dr Par Kumaraswami (p.kumaraswami@reading.ac.uk)

• Modern Languages and European Studies (Dept.): Dr Par Kumaraswami (p.kumaraswami@reading.ac.uk)
• English Literature (Dept.): Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (k.b.lesnik-oberstein@reading.ac.uk)
• English Language and Applied Linguistics: Dr Parvaneh Tavakoli (p.tavakoli@reading.ac.uk)

Politics, Economics and International Relations: Dr Rob Jubb (r.s.d.jubb@reading.ac.uk)

• Economics (Dept.): Dr Carl Singleton - day-to-day adminstration  (c.a.singleton@reading.ac.uk);                 Dr Stefania Lovo - admissions and SeNSS (s.lovo@reading.ac.uk)

Henley Business School

Professor Davide Castellani  (davide.castellani@henley.ac.uk)

ICMA: Professor Michael Clements  (m.p.clements@icmacentre.ac.uk)

Leadership, Organisation and Behaviour: Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova      (y.kalyuzhnova@reading.ac.uk)

Marketing and Reputation: Dr Mike Molesworth (m.r.molesworth@henley.ac.uk)

Real Estate and Planning: Professor Pat McAllister (pgr.admin@henley.ac.uk)

DBA (Director of Programme): Dr Claire Collins (Claire.collins@henley.ac.uk)

Life Sciences

Agriculture, Policy and Development: Professor Martin Lukac (m.lukac@reading.ac.uk)

Biological Sciences: Dr Faustina Hwang (f.hwang@reading.ac.uk)

Chemistry Food and Pharmacy: Dr Paz Vaqueiro (p.vaqueiro@reading.ac.uk)

• Chemistry (Dept.): Dr Paz Vaqueiro  (p.vaqueiro@reading.ac.uk)
• Food & Nutritional Sciences: Dr Marie Lewis  (marie.lewis@reading.ac.uk)
• Pharmacy: Dr Graeme Cottrell  (g.s.cottrell@reading.ac.uk) [Admissions and Current students]

Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences: Dr Julia Vogt (j.vogt@reading.ac.uk); Dr Eugene McSorley  (e.mcsorley@reading.ac.uk)

Science

Built Environment: Dr Libby Schweber (l.schweber@reading.ac.uk); Dr Ben Potter (b.a.potter@reading.ac.uk)

Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science: Dr Gundula Mueldner  (g.h.mueldner@reading.ac.uk)

• Archaeology PGR Programme: Professor Roger Matthews (rj.matthews@reading.ac.uk)
• Environmental Science/Geography PGR Programme: Dr Steve Robinson (j.s.robinson@reading.ac.uk)
• Human Geography PGR Programme: Professor Chuks Okereke (c.okereke@reading.ac.uk)

Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences: Dr Marcus Tindall (m.tindall@reading.ac.uk)

• Mathematics and Statistics: Dr Jani Virtanen  (j.a.virtanen@reading.ac.uk)
• Meteorology: Dr Chris Westbrook (c.d.westbrook@reading.ac.uk) [Admissions] and Dr Clare Watt (c.e.watt@reading.ac.uk) [Current students]
• Environmental Systems Science Centre: Professor Geoff Wadge (gw@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk)
• Computer Science: Professor Xia Hong  (x.hong@reading.ac.uk)