Project Supervision

You must attend weekly supervision meetings with your supervisor, starting at the beginning of the semester (or for MSc dissertations, the beginning of the dissertation period, the last week in May). At least four of these supervision meetings, well spaced over the semester or summer period, must be held in-person, as part of the School’s engagement monitoring process. For multi-semester projects this applies in both semesters. Beyond this, supervisors have discretion to meet online if they consider it appropriate, or to require students to meet in-person.

Staff sometimes travel for research purposes and other reasons, and are strongly encouraged to take holiday leave during periods of the academic year in which they are not teaching, so it’s quite possible that your supervisor will be away for parts of the project period. If necessary they will arrange for another staff member or a research student to provide informal supervision during their absence.

Supervisors will record meeting attendance in MMS. These records will be monitored and academic alerts will be issued for unapproved absences.

It’s your responsibility to arrange supervision meetings. Failure to do so will be recorded as unapproved absence. The compulsory elements for final-year project modules include missing no more than two supervision meetings without approval.