Useful contacts

The Faculty and School
The Student Centre
Card Services
Graduations
Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation & Innovation Centre (ECIC)
University of Adelaide Postgraduate Students Association
Research Education Development Committee (REDC)/Dean of Graduate Studies
Postgraduate Student Representative
Postgraduate Coordinators
Faculty Higher Degrees Committee
Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research)
Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (International)
The International Office (International Admissions)
The International Student Centre
The Overseas’ Students Association
Student Finance

The Faculty and School

Your main source of academic support during candidature will be your supervisory panel. Each research student at the University of Adelaide has a principal supervisor and at least one co or external supervisor; your principal supervisor has the primary responsibility for coordinating your supervision. In addition, the Head of School and your local Postgraduate Coordinator have significant responsibilities for research higher degree students.

The roles and responsibilities of the Head of School, Postgraduate Coordinator, your supervisors and yourself are discussed later in this guide and summarised in Appendix 1.

Postgraduate Student Representative

pgsa@adelaide.edu.au
Each School in the University has an elected postgraduate student representative (elected by fellow postgraduates In March/April each year) who can be an important local source of advice and advocacy on School level committees. Some Disciplines also have postgraduate student representatives.

If you do not know who your representative is, ask the PGSA or your Postgraduate Coordinator.

Faculty Higher Degrees Committee

Each Faculty in the University has a Higher Degrees Committee. The Higher Degrees Committee has responsibility for all research and coursework higher degree matters within the Faculty.