Points of Contact
Who to contact for help
Combined Honours Centre staff
Combined Honours Centre staff can provide advice, information and guidance about your programme as a whole and should be your first point of contact. This might include, for example, queries about registration, module selection, or any difficulties you may be experiencing.
Your Personal Tutor
Students are also allocated a personal tutor, an academic member of staff who can provide help and guidance for problems that you may experience, and can refer on to the relevant support.
Subject Adviser
Although your programme is co-ordinated through the Combined Honours Centre office, the academic Schools are responsible for the modules that you are taking and manage everything to do with teaching and assessing your work. Each subject area has an allocated academic member of staff who acts as a point of contact for Combined Honours students. These Subject Advisers should be contacted if you have a subject-specific enquiry.
Module leader
All first year students have a student mentor - a Stage 2 or 3 student who can answer any questions as well as support you in other ways.
Student Mentor
All first year students are allocated a Student Mentor. The mentor is a Combined Honours student in a later stage of the programme who will have studied one of your subjects before. Each mentor has one or more groups of students that they advise on the basis of a shared subject of study. We know that students often prefer to address questions to other students rather than staff, so feel free to do this. In addition the mentor will have regular meetings with your group in the first term. Remember that the mentor is not there to be your academic tutor or teacher, and you should raise such matters with teaching staff or the Combined Honours Centre. You will get the opportunity to become a mentor yourself in due course and to even do this as part of an academic module (as part of one of the Career Development modules).
PASS leader
The PASS Leaders will be available to informally assist and guide their peer students with academic issues arising from their work, for example; referencing, proof reading. The PASS Leaders are professionally trained in order to offer advice in academic writing by a member of the Writing Development Centre.