Research student representatives

The Graduate College Steering Group (GCSG) is responsible to the Research Degrees Committee and Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee.

They come together at least three times a year to discuss:

• research students training
• networking opportunities
• quality, standards, promotion and operation of the research programmes and degrees.

The terms of reference, meeting papers and minutes can be found on the GCSG Google site.

Current Research Student Representatives

• Chris Blythe - Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
• Alara Erenel - Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
• Eric Carron - Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
• Zhihao Patrick Chen - Oxford Brookes Business School
• Aleida Gomez De Caso Villa - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Simon McFadden - Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment
• Tochukwu Onyeogulu - Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
• Larissa Thurlow - Oxford Brookes Business School
• Alice Walker - Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment

The Research Degrees Committee (RDC) has devolved responsibility for all matters related to the University’s research degree programmes and research students. It produces regulations and codes of practice in line with external requirements and HEFCE guidelines and reports to the Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee on all areas of its remit.

The Committee is also responsible for continually monitoring the programme at all levels across the University to ensure that faculties are working within the regulations and codes. Meetings are held 4 times in the year.

The committee monitors:

• supervision;
• students’ progress;
• reviews facilities both at faculty and University level, and 
• reports its findings to the Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee and the University via its Annual Report.

Meeting papers and minutes can be found RDC Google site.

Current Research Student Representatives

• Hilary Brown - Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

The University Research Ethics Committee (UREC) has a multi-disciplinary membership that includes academic researchers (staff and students) from across the faculties and non-research lay members from within and outside the University. It has specific responsibility for reviewing research undertaken by staff and research students (registered for an MPhil, MPhil/PhD or Professional Doctorate) that involves human participants, data or material, including both approving proposed research studies prior to the commencement of data collection and monitoring the progress of research that it has approved, to ensure compliance with approved ethics procedures.

UREC is also responsible for ensuring that faculties have approved procedures in place for the ethics review of projects undertaken within their faculty. Research Ethics Officers provide an annual report to UREC on ethics review in their faculty and UREC in turn provides an annual report to the University Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee and the Board of Governors.

The Chair of UREC will meet with students who put themselves forward for the role of Research Student Representative on this Committee, in order to fully explain the role and the work involved.

Browse our meeting papers and minutes .

Current Research Student Representatives