PG Staff Student Committee

UCL is committed to working in partnership with its students to place students at the heart of decision making and help to improve their experience while studying here.

Graduate Staff-Student Committee

Meetings in 2022-23
Wednesday 30 November 2022 | Wednesday 8 March 2023 | Wednesday 14 June 2023

• The Committee is a forum for graduate students and departmental staff to discuss matters of concern to students in a structured environment.
• Suggestions and comments from students are welcome: any student wishing to put an item on the agenda of the committee should contact the Graduate Tutor.
• The Committee typically meets three times per year: towards the end of the first term, in the late spring, and in early summer. 

It is chaired by the Graduate Tutor for research students. The Head of Department, the MA Tutor, and the Departmental Tutor are ex officio members. All PhD students are invited, as are representatives from each of the MA programmes (Classics and the Reception of the Classical World, full-time and part-time). In practice any PG student who would like to attend is welcome to do so.

Draft minutes are circulated by email after each meeting, and after correction are sent to all staff and graduate students, and placed on the postgraduate Moodle site.
The minutes of previous meetings are kept by the Graduate Tutor and the most recent ones are placed on the Postgraduate Handbook Moodle site. Students are welcome to look at these at any time.

Student Academic Representatives

All postgraduate students are welcome at our staff-student committees. Student academic representatives will attend these meetings and represent the views of others who may not be able to attend.

PhD student Academic Representatives for 2022-23:

• Alex Meghji
• Anna Andreopoulou (PGTA matters)
• Charlotte Gregory
• Marina Pavlidou Elamin

MA student Academic Representatives for 2022-23:

• Peter Xiao (Classics)
• Indea Hourihan (Reception of the Classical World)
• Ellen Sleath (Reception of the Classical World)

Terms of Reference of the Postgraduate Staff-Student Consultative Committee

1. To discuss follow-up action resulting from previous PG SSCC meetings, in particular any matter that was referred to the Departmental Staff meeting.
2. To receive and consider student comments on academic matters, including the research environment for postgraduate students, and teaching and learning in taught programmes; and on matters relating to student welfare.
3. To comment upon the departmental annual monitoring report relating to postgraduate programmes
4. To receive notification of any Departmental changes with respect to teaching, admissions, and assessment, and the support available for research students.
5. To comment upon any significant changes to Departmental policy which would have a direct consequence for teaching, admissions, and assessment, and the support available for research students.
6. To comment upon safety within the Department.
7. To comment upon physical resources within the Department and the College as these affect the postgraduate community: such as library and computer facilities, etc. 
8. To consider the minutes of the Undergraduate SSCC, and to make available the minutes of the Postgraduate Committee to its Undergraduate counterpart.