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Responsibilities of Associate & Sub-Deans (Graduate Studies)

• Membership of Research Advisory Committee and HDAC.
• Convening the Faculty Graduate Studies Committee.
• Dealing with student grievances and complaints.
• Student managing through Higher Degree forms (admission, application etc).
• Assisting the Research Office in order to provide Quality Assurance to the management of HDR students across the University.
• Interpreting examiners reports for students and supervisors.
• Membership of the University Thesis examination committee for examination of theses scoring outside 1 and 2 grades.
• Membership of the Admission and Progress Committee.
• Liaising with external supervisors.
• Reading research proposals from the Faculty and providing feedback to students and supervisors.
• Providing comments and critique on all University research proposals as part of the University Quality Assurance mechanism.
• Resolving differences among examiners.
• Admission enquiries and advice within the Faculty.
• Conduct Faculty based Post Graduate training sessions - (for example in Science and Agriculture this involves running the Seminar and Workshop day - equivalent to a conference with 4 concurrent sessions).
• Advising the Dean on Faculty examination matters.
• Convening meetings re examinations within the Faculty and managing this within Faculty processes associated with examinations.
• Appointment of supervisors in conjunction with Heads of Schools and Dean.
• Improving completion rates by pro-actively working with students through research presentations seminars, maintaining regular contact with all students, encouraging our off-campus students to come on campus more regularly, regularly maintaining contact with on-campus students.
• Advising students on regulations, leave, scholarships and annual reports.
• Ethics and project management issues and training.
• Work directly with HDR students by reading draft chapters where situations are problematic and to support supervisors.
• Becoming the principal supervisor of students when other supervisors are absent.
• Maintaining and developing supervision register for the Faculty by working with staff retraining courses.
• Monitor research methods and research proposal subjects.
• Involvement with Honours students and Honour programs as part of maintaining and encouraging entry to HDR programs.
• Assisting students and supervisors with budgets related to research support.