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:  Professor Lisa Purse (l.v.purse@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.): Professor Lisa Purse (l.v.purse@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); EdD (Director of Programme) Dr Karen Jones (karen.jones@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 Barbara Goff (b.e.goff@reading.ac.uk)
• Philosophy (Dept.): Dr Luke Elson (luke.elson@reading.ac.uk)

Law: Professor Grace James (c.g.james@reading.ac.uk);   Dr Nora Honkala (n.a.honkala@reading.ac.uk)       

Literature and Languages: Associate Professor Mark Nixon (m.nixon@reading.ac.uk)

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

Politics, Economics and International Relations: Dr Carl Singleton (c.a.singleton@reading.ac.uk)  until August 1 2021

• Economics (Dept.): Dr Stefania Lovo (s.lovo@reading.ac.uk)
• Dr Tho Pham (t.pham@reading.ac.uk) - admissions and SeNSS
• Politics and International Relations (Dept.): Professor Alan Cromartie (a.d.t.cromartie@reading.ac.uk)

Henley Business School

Professor Davide Castellani  (davide.castellani@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 Mike Molesworth (m.r.molesworth@henley.ac.uk)

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

DBA (Director of Programme): Professor Liang Han (liang.han@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 Anisha Wijeyesekera (a.wijeyesekera@reading.ac.uk); Dr Andreas Karatzas (k.karatzas@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); Professor Arlene Astell (a.astell@reading.ac.uk)

Science

Built Environment: Dr Libby Schweber (l.schweber@reading.ac.uk); Dr Vincent Luo  (z.luo@reading.ac.uk)

Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science: Professor Steve Mithen (s.j.mithen@reading.ac.uk)

• Archaeology PGR Programme: Professor Steve Mithen (s.j.mithen@reading.ac.uk)
• Environmental Science/Geography PGR Programme: Dr Steve Robinson (j.s.robinson@reading.ac.uk)
• Human Geography PGR Programme: Dr Anna Jackman (a.h.jackman@reading.ac.uk)

Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences: Professor Jani Virtanen (j.a.virtanen@reading.ac.uk) 

• Mathematics and Statistics: Dr Nikos (n.katzourakis@reading.ac.uk)
• Meteorology: Dr Michaela Hegglin (m.i.hegglin@reading.ac.uk) [Admissions] and Dr Helen Dacre (h.f.dacre@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)