Programme Structure

You will have two TAP meetings in addition to regular meetings with your supervisor. A further milestone that we expect you to achieve is a presentation at one of the department postgraduate presentation days. In most cases, MA by Research students give a poster presentation at the presentation day that takes place in late May or early June. However, if your research is on Forensic Speech Science, it may be more appropriate for you to give an oral presentation at the FSS presentation day in August. An oral presentation may also be possible at the May/June presentation day, so if you would prefer to gain oral presentation experience, discuss this with your supervisor and consider requesting this option.

As described in the preceding sections, you will have two TAPs per year in each of Years 1, 2 and 3 (for full-time students) and one formal review of progress per year at the end of each of Year 1 and Year 2. Two further milestones that we expect research students to complete are a poster presentation and an oral presentation on different stages of their research, given at department postgraduate presentation days (held annually in late May or early June, or, for Forensic Speech Science, in August). Typically, PhD students present a poster in Year 2 and give an oral presentation in Year 3.

If you commence a PhD or MPhil programme outside a cohort entry point, or if your journey goes out of sync with the rest of your cohort (e.g. due to a leave of absence) the dates specified above may not apply to you, but will be calculated in terms of how long you have been enrolled on the programme.

If you commence a PhD or MPhil programme outside a cohort entry point, or if your journey goes out of sync with the rest of your cohort (e.g. due to a leave of absence) the dates specified above may not apply to you but will be calculated in terms of how long you have been enrolled on the programme.