WELCOME TO THE Department of Anthropology
MRes/PhD Anthropology Handbook 2019 Dates for your diary 2019/20
LSE Welcome Events 2019 – All MRes students
Date Time What Where
From Monday, Main Welcome Week for new students Across campus 23rd September www.lse.ac.uk/yourFirstWeeks/
Monday, 3 – 4.30pm School welcome presentation for new MRes students Peacock Theatre 23rd September
Thursday, 3 – 3.30pm Registration for new MRes students* Hong Kong Theatre , CLM5 26th September www.lse.ac.uk/programmeRegistration
Friday, 11am – 1pm Departmental orientation for all new MRes students The Old Anthropology Library, OLD 6.05 27th September
* Upon successful upgrade at the end of your first year, you will be required to register, in person, as a PhD student at the PhD Academy.
In subsequent years, registration will be done automatically by the School on receipt of your annual progress report form showing adequate progress. You should therefore ensure that this is completed by the deadline in late June each year. Students who have not submitted the form will not be able to re-register for the following session.
MRes key dates
Date Term / week Term dates and MRes coursework submission deadlines
Monday, 30th September MT week 1 Michaelmas Term (MT) teaching starts MRes students to submit a brief outline of their research project
Monday, 28th October MT week 5 AN471 1,000-word report deadline
Monday, 4th November MT week 6 MT Reading Week starts
Monday, 25th November MT week 9 AN471 1,000-word report deadline
Friday, 13th December MT week 11 Michaelmas Term ends AN471 3,000-word essay deadline
Monday, 20th January LT week 1 Lent Term (LT) teaching starts Deadline for 1st draft of Research Proposal
Monday, 24th February LT week 6 LT Reading Week starts
Monday, 23rd March LT week 10 Deadline for 2nd draft of Research Proposal
Friday, 3rd April LT week 11 Lent Term ends
Monday, 4th May ST week 1 Summer Term (ST) starts AN472 2,500-word essay deadline Due date for ‘extra’ course assessment essays
Monday, 1st June ST week 5 Due date for Research Proposals
Friday, 19th June ST week 7 Summer Term ends
Friday, 21st August Due date for late submission of Research Proposal Contents
About Your Department 4 Student Services Centre 27 Our background 4 Key academic staff 5 Student Representation 28 Office hours 5 Quality Assurance 28 Departmental Office 5 Representation 5 LSE Services to Support You With Your Staff-student liaison committees 5 Studies and in Your Career 29 Communication within the Department 6 Opportunities for PhD students 7 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) 31 Allocation of studentships and teaching posts 8 Your Wellbeing and Health 32 Workstation for research students 8 Exams and Assessments 33 About the MRes/PhD programme 9 Supervision 9 Plagiarism 34 Overview of the programme and main requirements 9 Classification of your MRes degree 15 Results and Classification 34 Rough timeline of the programme 16 Fees and Finance 35 Yearly progress review 16 ‘Third year’ progress review TO BE COMPLETED16 LAST Codes and Charters 36 Maximum period of registration and extensions 17 PhD thesis presentation and examination entry 18 Systems and Online Resources 37 Editorial help with your thesis 18 Assessment offences and plagiarism 18 Course Selection and Timetables 38 Good research practices 19 The LSE Academic Code 40 Ill health 20 Registration 20 Campus Map inside back cover
Key Information 25 Term Dates and LSE Closures – Academic Year 2019/20 25 Registration 25 Your LSE Card 25 Inclusion Plans 25 Student Status Documentation 25 Interruption 26 Programme Transfer 26 Change of Mode of Study 26 Withdrawal 26 Regulations 26
studenthub.lse.ac.uk/welcome 2 Welcome to the LSE, and the Department of Anthropology
This handbook is provided by the Department of Anthropology and is intended to give you some useful information about our research programme, but obviously it is far from exhaustive. A great deal of up-to-date material about LSE support services, registration, timetabling, and library facilities is available on the general LSE web pages, so you would benefit from reading these.
One crucial element of this guidance is the School’s Ethics Code, which is available via the LSE’s Ethics pages at lse.ac.uk/ethics. Note that the Ethics Code pertains to all members of the School community.
If this is your first time as an LSE student and you need more general guidance, please be sure to take a look at the School’s “Your First Weeks” web pages at lse.ac.uk/yourfirstweeks.
Please do familiarise yourself with the on-line resources and forms. For example, you will – eventually! – need to know how to enter your PhD dissertation for examination. There is a very useful step-by-step guide to this on the School’s website (more specifically, on the PhD Academy web pages at lse.ac.uk/PhDAcademy), and the PhD Academy itself provides a dedicated space and services hub for PhD students.
The Department of Anthropology web pages (lse.ac.uk/anthropology) provide information about members of staff, our Monographs series, special events, etc. You will also find a complete list of PhD projects supervised in the Department over the years – beginning in the 1920s-30s with Raymond Firth, Edward Evans-Pritchard, Hortence Powdermaker and Fei Xiaotong.
Please bear in mind that the information given in this handbook about course requirements and assessments is intended for guidance only. You should always confirm requirements by checking the definitive versions of the rules in official School publications (normally the Calendar lse.ac.uk/calendar) and if necessary checking with the PhD Academy (on the 4th floor of the Lionel Robbins Building), with your supervisors, or with the Departmental Manager or a member of her team.
As you’ll learn, ours is a relatively small department, and we maintain an informal, friendly and supportive atmosphere for our students. If you do encounter problems – academic, financial, or emotional – we hope that you’ll let us know at once. You can do this by telling your supervisors (with whom you’ll have regular meetings throughout the year), by setting up an appointment with the Doctoral Programme Director or Doctoral Programme Tutor, or by approaching any member of departmental staff, including our very capable administrators.
If for any reason you would prefer to speak to someone outside the Department, you can instead contact the PhD Academy.
Professor Laura Bear Head of Department LSE Department of Anthropology
3 About your Department
Our background (ii) Commitment, conviction and doubt explores the forms taken by commitment – whether to received cosmologies, ontologies, Anthropology has been taught at the LSE since 1904. Following the and religious faiths and/or to modernity, secularism, or non-religion. arrival of Malinowski in 1910, the School became one of the leading Charles Stafford’s work in China views the current interest in ‘ethics’ centres for the development of modern social anthropology, and from alternative perspectives; Mathijs Pelkmans (on Post-Soviet many of the key figures in this evolving tradition – including Raymond countries), Harry Walker (on Amazonia) and Michael Scott (on Firth, Edward Evans-Pritchard, Hortense Powdermaker, Fei Xiaotong, Melanesia) have investigated and theorised affective states such Edmund Leach, Lucy Mair, Jomo Kenyatta, Isaac Schapera, Maurice as happiness, wonder, irony and doubt. Fenella Cannell’s research Freedman, Jean La Fontaine, Maurice Bloch, Alfred Gell, Jonathan on Mormonism in the US raises comparative questions about Parry, Chris Fuller, Stephan Feuchtwang, Olivia Harris, John and Jean Christianity as well as exploring its relationship to social theory. Comaroff, and others – were at the LSE as students or teachers. (iii) Mind, learning and cognition centres on processes of childhood To this day, we retain a strong commitment to the radical empiricism learning (in the work of Catherine Allerton, Rita Astuti and Charles of anthropological research of the kind championed by Malinowski, Stafford); the self and conceptions of free will; affect and altered Firth, and Powdermaker. We have also long critically considered states of consciousness (as with Nicholas Long’s research on issues of decolonisation, colonial encounters, race, indigeneity hypnotherapy, trance), moral judgement, and human cooperation. We and the politics of fieldwork. Such debates are intrinsic to the past, engage critically with psychology, cognitive science, and evolutionary present and future of the discipline. We also acknowledge that as theory. We examine (as with Harry Walker’s ERC-funded project on we teach, critique and suggest alternatives, we are simultaneously justice in Amazonia which analyses concepts of equality, fairness, implicated in the structures of power within the university responsibility, and entitlement in comparative perspective) how and beyond. evolved predispositions of the human mind (e.g., towards mutualism, the sense of fairness, the perception of one’s agency) are shaped by Embedded in the ethnographic tradition, and with research outputs specific historical and cultural circumstances. Our expertise dovetails based primarily on long-term participant observation fieldwork, our with recent developments in the Department of Psychological and interests are very diverse. We conduct fieldwork in many different Behavioural Science. places (including India, Bangladesh, mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Caucasus, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Madagascar, (iv) Generative vitality provides new perspectives on kinship, gender Amazonia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Melanesia, Germany, the and generative or productive processes, and forms of redistribution. UK, the USA); and our projects address a wide range of concerns Alongside Fenella Cannell’s work on vital relations, this includes ritual – including politics, inequality, development, disability, childhood, practices (as with Laura Bear’s work on intimate economies in the UK religion and non-religion, and cognition. There are, however, several and India), conceptions about the generation – and the end – of life, cutting-edge themes around which our departmental research the nature of parental responsibility and of childhood. Our research coalesces and which unite sub-disciplinary concerns. These themes is rooted in households and local contexts but shows how these link build on years (even decades) of research and are nourished to, and are productive of, global processes: it shows how the powers by lively debates between colleagues. Overall they take forward of capitalism – both generative and destructive – produce and are anthropology’s commitment to building a ‘big picture’ of humanity reproduced within family relations or other forms of solidarity, as and our relationship with the wider world through comparison. Our with Clara Devlieger’s research on disability in the DRC. This research approaches to exploring these themes are historically rooted and theme also enables us – as with Michael Scott’s work – to re-theorize often involve cross-disciplinary collaboration. phenomena such as so-called cargo cults as attempts to access the hidden generativity and vitality that lies behind any visible form of (i) Inequality and wealth in a capitalist world interrogates the power and productivity. interplay of hierarchy and egalitarianism (as in David Graeber’s current project with David Wengrow on the Childhood of Man and (v) The state, its reach, and beyond: Our research on corporations, his other work); of poverty and abundance, and the intersection of development (Katy Gardner in Bangladesh), legal and economic class, caste, ethnicity, and gender in the creation of inequality (as bureaucracies (Andrea Pia, Laura Bear, David Graeber, and Deborah seen in Alpa Shah’s ERC/ESRC project with Jens Lerche on Inequality James), speculation and prospecting (Gisa Weszkalnys in Sao and Poverty). Within the rubric of anthropology of economy, Laura Tome), and related political/economic processes, seeks to explore Bear’s work on Rebuilding Economics and Deborah James’ project a world where state powers are mediated through, contested or on Ethnographies of Advice – both ESRC-funded – explore how buttressed by market relations. Citizenship and belonging, political inequality is constituted in both core and more marginal sites of participation, changing systems of democratic choice and their local contemporary capitalism, and how processes of development and meaning (as in Mukulika Banerjee’s research on elections in India), speculation, debt, austerity and insecurity (and the aspirations to revolutionary struggle (Alpa Shah’s research on Naxalite Maoists in modernity and wealth that underpin these) play out globally. Our India), transnational migration and the paradoxes and pain of being expertise involves interests and projects shared with the International undocumented (as in Catherine Allerton’s research on Indonesian Inequalities Institute (III) and a joint seminar with the Department of children left stateless in Malaysia) are key areas where our research International Development. interrogates the reach and limits of state power.
4 These research interests are shared with colleagues in a number of departments and research units across the LSE, including International Development, Law, Psychological and Behavioural Science, Social Policy, and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. We also have programmes of collaboration and exchange with numerous overseas institutions.
The outstanding quality of our research outputs has been recognized in the past Research Assessment Exercises; in the most recent review, the Research Excellence Framework (published 2014), we were ranked first of UK Anthropology departments for research quality, with 73 per cent of our outputs being judged world-leading or internationally excellent.
Returning from visiting relatives with a gift of live crabs. Betania, Masagascar 2013, Sean Epstein.
5 The PhD community is very social and I enjoy the mix of students, from different countries and walks of life. It is an intellectually stimulating environment, with lots of interesting speakers coming to our seminars. My thesis supervisors are also great; they are always encouraging and give me lots of useful feedback on my work Itay Noy, MPhil/PhD Anthropology
6 Key academic staff Departmental Office
The department’s administrative team are normally in the office Head of Department between 9:30 and 5:30, Monday to Friday. As far as possible, the Professor Laura Bear ([email protected]) is the Head of Department. administrators operate an “open door” policy: if one of is not available, the others will try to help.
Doctoral Programme Director Yan Hinrichsen Until the end of Michaelmas Term, Professor Charles Stafford ([email protected]) is the Doctoral Programme Director (DPD), Departmental Manager with overall responsibility for the programme, including admissions, The Departmental Manager co-ordinates the administration of the funding and induction. Dr Mathijs Pelkmans (M.E.Pelkmans@lse. MRes/PhD in Anthropology. She will be one of your key points of ac.uk) will take over from him in Lent Term. contact within the Department throughout your studies and is happy to help with any queries you may have at any point in the programme. Doctoral Programme Tutor OLD 6.03, 020 7955 7202 Dr Fenella Cannell ([email protected]) is the Doctoral Programme [email protected] Tutor (DPT), with particular responsibility for student progression and welfare. James Johnston
Administrative Officer (Exams and Assessments) Chair of Examiners OLD 6.04A, 020 7852 5037 Dr Michael Scott ([email protected]) is the Chair of Examiners [email protected] and Dr Mukulika Banerjee ([email protected]) is the Deputy Chair of Examiners. Dr Banerjee has a specific responsibility to look after postgraduate issues. Maryam Bi
Administrative Officer (Quality Assurance and Study Abroad) Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Representative OLD 6.04A, 020 7107 5867 Dr Clara Devlieger ([email protected]) is the Department’s EDI [email protected] Representative. The Department is concerned to promote equality and to foster an environment in which forms of discrimination (including, but not limited to, race, gender and sexuality) are not Renata Todd tolerated. If you have questions or concerns about these or related Communications and Administration Officer issues, please contact Dr Devlieger. All discussions will be held in the strictest confidence. OLD 6.04A, 020 7852 3709 [email protected] Please check the departmental website for a full list of academic staff, their research interests, and contact details: www.lse.ac.uk/ anthropology/people
Office hours
All members of LSE teaching staff hold weekly term-time office hours. During these times, teachers will be available to meet to answer particular questions about the courses they teach, to get additional guidance and support, or to discuss more general issues. You can book appointments through Student Hub.
7 Communication within the Department Change of address and within the School If you change your term-time or permanent address, or your phone number, you must inform the School. This change can be done by you, using LSE for You. Your address is protected information and will Email not be disclosed to a third party without your permission unless it is Please bear in mind that email is used in the Department and for reasons of official School business. It is important that you keep throughout the School as the standard form of communication. It us informed of your private address and telephone number. is therefore essential, once you have set up your LSE email address, that you check it regularly. In the field
During term-time, most changes in lectures and seminars will be While you are in the field, contact with the Department may be more emailed to students, and your supervisor will expect to be able to difficult than at other times. We therefore ask you to ensure that communicate with you via email (e.g., to organise meetings). Of before you leave for the field, you inform the Office, your supervisors, special relevance to PhD students is the fact that we use email to and the Doctoral Programme Director of your field contact details, as communicate about two extremely important matters: well as those of your next of kin.
• the annual review of research student progress; • the annual allocation of departmental grants and teaching posts.
If you fail to respond to emails about the former by submitting a progress report, this may jeopardise your ongoing registration at the LSE. If you do not submit an application for the latter, you will not be considered for funding or for work as a teaching assistant. We recognise that during fieldwork students may have limited access to email. If this is the case, you must ensure that your supervisors are aware of this beforehand so that special arrangements for establishing and maintaining contact with you can be made.
Appropriate use of email
The department, and all its staff, receive a high volume of email and ask that you bear the following guidelines in mind when using email:
• Please make use of the subject field, and give a clear and concise description of the content of your message e.g., “Request for meeting on Thursday 5 May”.
• Do not mark your email as urgent unless it really is! • Email should be used to arrange meetings with your supervisor, and for requests for information that only require a brief response (a few lines). We expect you to attend office hours if you would like to discuss academic material; emails asking staff to summarise entire classes/lectures will not receive a reply.
• We try to reply to individual emails within five working days. Please do not expect an immediate reply. If your enquiry is urgent, please attend office hours, call the department or come to the departmental office.
Members of the department can always be contacted during their office hours.
If you want to set up a different time for a meeting, contact the staff member via email. Contact details can be found on the Departmental Staff web page: www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/people
8 Opportunities for PhD students Workstation for research students
We are constantly seeking to improve the opportunities given to our KGS B.03 is an office which contains workstations for Anthropology PhD students in the area of professional development. For example: research students. Entry to the room is controlled by swipe card. If your ID card does not allow access to the building or the room, please • In recent years, we have increased the use of pre-doctoral Graduate contact the Departmental Manager who will make the necessary Teaching Assistants in the Department. These GTA posts (normally arrangements with Security. There are about a dozen desks and PCs taken up in the post-fieldwork phase of the programme) give our for use by Anthropology research students. If you are unable to log in, students the chance to gain teaching experience, and to cite this you should contact the Departmental Manager who will liaise with IT experience on their CVs when applying for academic posts or other to allow access. jobs after completion of the PhD. There is a tea point in KGS B.03. Everyone is jointly responsible for • We have increased the use of postdoctoral LSE Fellows – in keeping the area clean and tidy. There are lockers available for use by recent years there have typically been two to three such Fellows Anthropology students in the adjacent room KGS B.07. Contact the in our Department at any given time. These posts offer significant Departmental Manager to be allocated a locker. opportunities to new PhDs because they give young academics a chance to gain teaching experience while also allowing time for MRes/PhD students also have access to the PhD Academy’s research and writing. dedicated space and services hub on the 4th floor of the Lionel Robbins Building. • We strongly encourage our students to participate in the comprehensive training and support activities provided by the LSE’s The main Library offers extended opening hours and computer PhD Academy and Teaching and Learning Centre, including those facilities – from 8am until midnight for much of the year, and 24 related to personal and professional development. MRes students hours a day around exam time; for further details see are also encouraged to use the LSE LIFE facilities. www.lse.ac.uk/library.
If you have further suggestions for ways in which we could support your professional development, please contact the Doctoral Programme Director.
Allocation of studentships and teaching posts A family returns home by canoe. August 2013, Chambira River, Peru. Photo by Harry Walker. Every year, the Department of Anthropology allocates a limited number of studentships and teaching posts to research students. The decisions relating to these studentships and posts are taken by the Research Student Finance Committee.
We try to provide support (in the form of studentships and/or work opportunities) to as many of our research students as possible. However, we also have to take difficult decisions based on our view of the relative strengths of competing applicants. Inevitably, some students will be disappointed.
Needless to say, it is in your interest to make your application as strong as possible. You may wish to seek advice from your supervisors and the Careers Service about applying for studentships or jobs, including advice about writing CVs and personal statements. You should receive notification of any relevant deadlines by email, together with details of how to apply for each award or post.
9 10 About the MRes/PhD programme
In 2015/6 we introduced the MRes/PhD programme and all students Note that we normally expect members of staff to carry on their who started in or after that year will be on the new programme. supervisory duties even when they are on sabbatical or research Any students who registered before 2015, whether they began their leave. If a supervisor is carrying out fieldwork and is unable to remain doctoral training at LSE on the MPhil/PhD Anthropology or on the in regular email contact with his/her students, s/he will make the MSc Social Anthropology (Research), will continue their registration necessary arrangements (e.g., ensuring that the other supervisor on the MPhil/PhD. The pre-field information in this handbook has takes full responsibility) in consultation with the student. been written with the MRes/PhD intake in mind, and the post-field elements for both programmes have now been integrated and are The exact number of supervision meetings is a matter decided the same. between you and your supervisors, as is the agenda and format for individual meetings. As a guide, however, for students in the co- The PhD programme has long been a central element in the life supervisors system, the norm is to hold about 5 meetings per year of the Department of Anthropology, and we are very proud of the with each supervisor for a total of about 10 meetings. For students achievements of our graduates. Given our relatively small size (by in the lead supervisor and advisor system, the norm would be to hold comparison with other LSE departments), we have a large PhD about 8 meetings per year with their lead supervisor and about 2 cohort – with around 10 completions per year. meetings per year with their adviser, again for a total of about 10 meetings. This accomplishment is perhaps even more impressive when it is considered that virtually all of our doctoral students engage As noted above, it is your responsibility to keep in regular touch with in very complex research projects, normally involving long-term your supervisors during fieldwork. fieldwork (generally between 18 and 24 months) overseas, which are sometimes undertaken under rather difficult circumstances. Recent Arrangements for supervision sometimes change during the course projects have been conducted in Mali, Madagascar, Ethiopia, China, of a PhD. For example, an arrangement that started off as a co- Moldova, Scotland, the Palestinian West Bank, Sri Lanka, Brazil, South supervision might naturally transform itself into a situation where Africa, Tanzania, India, Ukraine, and Pakistan among others. Topics one supervisor will take on primary responsibility, or vice versa; or a for research have included religion, apprenticeship, kinship and student – for reasons related to his or her research – might want to gender, art, development, law, ethnic conflict, and migration. request new supervision arrangements.
One measure of the success of our PhD programme is the fact that The main thing, of course, is to ensure that adequate supervision our students have been very successful in securing both academic is being provided. When problems arise, they can almost always be and non-academic employment in the UK and overseas. resolved through discussion within the Department.
If you have any concerns about your supervision arrangements, which cannot be discussed directly with your supervisors, you should Supervision discuss them, in the first instance, with the Doctoral Programme Director and then with the Head of Department or, alternatively, you The relationship with your supervisors is arguably the most important should contact the PhD Academy. You can also highlight any issues aspect of your Doctoral programme of study. It is thus important in the annual progress form that you are required to submit to the that you understand what you can expect from this relationship, even DPT each summer. though, given the nature of intellectual work, it is probably unwise to be too prescriptive.
On admission to the Department, all research students are assigned two supervisors.
Depending on circumstances, supervision arrangements follow one of two systems:
• The first system consists in full co-supervision, which means that you should expect to receive equal input from both of your supervisors (note, however, that this does not mean that you should expect to receive feedback from both supervisors on every piece of work that you submit; in other words, co-supervision is meant to involve some division of responsibilities rather than their duplication).
• The second system consists in one “lead supervisor” and one “advisor”, which means that you should expect to receive most guidance and feedback from the lead supervisor, while the advisor will have more of a backup role. In practice, this is a very rare arrangement and almost all of our students will have full co-supervision.
11 Ethics, Risk, and Safety in the field Guidance on ethics, including the School’s policy can be found at: info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/research-division/research-policy/ We recognise that there are risks to researchers’ health and safety, research-ethics and ethical considerations when carrying out fieldwork. The School and the Department take these issues very seriously, and training The Association of Social Anthropologists’ ethical guidelines for good and support will be provided in a variety of ways. The specifics will research practices can be found at: depend on your field location and research project, but at a minimum, www.theasa.org/ethics/guidelines.shtml both will be covered in AN471 Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Anthropologists to help you begin to think about issues that may Please read these and discuss any additional ethical dimensions arise in the field and to plan for them. Ethical dimensions will be arising from your fieldwork with your supervisor(s), including how you discussed with peers, along with all other aspects of the research intend to resolve any ethical problems which may arise. proposal, in AN472 Evidence and Arguments in Anthropology and Other Social Sciences. You will of course, as in other areas of your The Information Security site provides free anti-virus software for doctoral training, also benefit from the experience and guidance of staff and students to use on personal devices, and information on your supervisors. subjects including data encryption and keeping your data safe: info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/dts/services/infosec The School’s Health and Safety team will provide support in identifying risks and carrying out an assessment before you leave The PhD Academy’s events and training page can be found here: for the field, and can assist if issues arise while you are in the field. info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/phd-academy/events-courses- The Research Ethics, Security, and Information Security teams and-training can also provide advice before you set off, for example on specific security concerns, or data encryption. The PhD Academy puts on a The Student Counselling Service provides individual counselling and range of training activities, which can include sessions on First Aid or other services on campus and sometimes also remotely for students Complex Environments, and you are encouraged to take up relevant carrying out fieldwork: opportunities during the MRes year. Counselling services, should they info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/student-services/student- be needed, can be provided through the Student Counselling Service, counselling-service or the Health and Safety team in the case of crisis response support. This list of resources is not intended to be either comprehensive or The Health and Safety team’s Overseas Travel site includes prescriptive. MRes students who are carrying out projects that raise information on risk assessments, a form with which to notify an unusually complex issues in relation to risk and/or ethics are strongly intention to travel overseas, and much more: encouraged to begin working through these issues from the start info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/Risk-and-Compliance-Unit/Health- of their MRes registration, seeking specialist help and support as and-Safety/Overseas-Travel-Homepage appropriate.
‘Young Vezo boy with seabirds he just caught from the sea. Madagascar 2017, Rita Astuti.
12 Overview of the programme and main The Research Proposal requirements The Research Proposal will be the main focus of your research preparation, both in terms of your specialist programme of reading In simple terms, our MPhil/PhD and MRes/PhD programmes are and methodological training. designed around three phases: pre-fieldwork (or research training), fieldwork, and post-fieldwork (or writing up). The Research Proposal is to be a scholarly piece of work that clearly sets out your research questions, identifies the evidence you will You will receive much more information about these phases during need to answer them, and discusses in detail the methods that you the first year, and the information provided below is simply intended will employ to meet your research objectives. The proposal must to give you a general idea of how things will proceed. contain a systematic review of the ethnographic and theoretical literature relevant to your research project and is to make a case for its anthropological relevance and potential contribution. Details Pre-fieldwork should be given of the location of the proposed fieldwork and of the measures taken to prepare for it (e.g., language and other training, The pre-fieldwork phase focuses on methods training, on the applications for financial support, government permission, affiliation preparation of a comprehensive research proposal, on language to overseas universities, etc.). training where relevant, and on the setting up of practical arrangements for fieldwork. The proposal must not exceed 10,000 words in length, excluding
bibliography. It should be properly presented and carefully checked Briefly, in your first year: for typographical and other errors, containing adequate references 1. You take AN471 Qualitative and Quantitative Methods within the text, and a bibliography. Students are advised to use a for Anthropologists; standard method for setting out both references and bibliography such as that used in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2. You take AN472 Evidence and Arguments in Anthropology and Other Social Sciences; A proposal which does not meet these criteria will not be passed. 3. You attend, and write assessment essays for, an “extra” lecture course in general social anthropology (see guidelines below); As with all the other work you will produce during your programme of study, in writing your Research Proposal you should be aware that 4. You attend the Department’s weekly Seminar on Anthropological plagiarism is a very serious offence (see below). Research (AN500 the “Friday seminar”); Style 5. You follow a specialist course of reading as agreed with your • Margins should be 2.5 cm all round. supervisors (AN442); • Chapters should always begin on a new page. 6. You work towards and submit your Research Proposal – AN443 (see further guidelines below regarding submission and • Section headings must be clearly indicated or numbered in a examination of the Proposal); consistent way.
7. You continue with research preparation work during July, August, • Spacing may either be one-and-a-half, or double. and September, and submit a (compulsory but not assessed) report of your summer activities prior to upgrade and • Font size should normally be 11pt. commencing fieldwork. • Binding and plastic covers are discouraged. Please ensure your If needed, it is up to you to arrange language training that is relevant proposal is securely stapled. to the field work you intend to carry out. The language classes can consist of course(s) at the LSE Language Centre or elsewhere, or • Printing should be double sided if possible. private tuition depending on the availability of classes / teachers and Samples of recent successful Research Proposals are available your language needs. The Department will reimburse up to £750 per on Moodle. student. Receipts must be submitted to the Departmental Manager by the end of the pre-field year (normally 30th September in the year after you first register). If you are unsure whether the training you wish to undertake is eligible for reimbursement or if you will not be able to book classes until after the 30th September cut-off, please contact the Departmental Manager as it may be possible to consider special arrangements.
13 Submission deadlines for the Research Proposal Use of past Research Proposals
During the pre-fieldwork phase of the programme, you must complete Each year the Department chooses a selection of high quality and submit outline, draft and final versions of your Proposal proposals to make available to future first year students. These as follows: proposals may be made available in print or electronically. They are only ever made available to staff and current students of the 1. At the beginning of the Michaelmas Term (Monday, 30th Department. If you do not wish your proposal to be included in the September 2019), you will submit a rough outline of your research Department’s archive you must notify the Departmental Office project, and preferably a title, to your supervisors and to the teacher upon submission. of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods (AN471).
2. At the beginning of the Lent Term (Monday, 20th January 2020), you will submit (through Moodle) the first draft of the Research ‘Extra’ lecture course Proposal. This will be presented at the Evidence and Arguments In your pre-fieldwork year, you must take an ‘extra’ lecture course, to (AN472) Seminar during Lent Term, and you will receive feedback the value of one unit, normally from among the Department’s through discussion with other students and the convenor main courses: of the Seminar. You should attach your draft ethics and risk AN402 The Anthropology of Religion, documentation as annexes to your draft proposal. AN404 Theory and Ethnography, 3. By the beginning of week 10 of the Lent Term (Monday, 23rd AN405 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender, March 2020), you will submit (through Moodle) the second draft of AN451 Anthropology of Politics (H), the Research Proposal. You will discuss this advanced draft with AN456 Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange (H), your supervisors; it is recommended that, whenever possible, you AN457 Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and meet your supervisors in a joint supervisory meeting and that this Globalisation (H) meeting takes place before the end of the Lent term. You should attach the latest draft of your ethics and risk documentation as AN479 Anthropology of Law (H). annexes to your draft proposal. (H) indicates a half unit. The chosen course(s) must not be the same 4. You must submit three paper copies of the final Research Proposal as those already taken as part of an MSc or BA/BSc degree. If you to the Departmental Office (OLD 6.04A) and an electronic copy have already taken all of the courses above, or very similar ones, you via Moodle on the Anthropology Pre-field Research Students will be asked to take another social anthropology course or courses page (moodle.lse.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=1502) by Monday, to the value of one unit. 1st June (or Friday, 21st August if you have an extension). Submissions will be considered incomplete if not accompanied by Please note that the point of this requirement is to ensure that all your Ethics Form. students who earn a PhD in our programme have a solid grounding in the basics of Anthropology. This means that you may be required to 5. Vivas will take place by Friday, 26th June (or Friday, 18th take a lecture course which is not directly related to your September for late submissions). research interests.
Late submission The choice of the ‘extra course’ must be made in consultation with With the agreement of your supervisors and the DPT, you may be your supervisors and the Doctoral Programme Director. You should given an extension to submit your final Research Proposal by the inform the Doctoral Programme Director of your choice by the start of extended deadline of 21st August 2020. Such extensions will only be week 3 of the Michaelmas Term. approved in exceptional circumstances. Note that some students may have received an offer with the Research preparation additional requirement that they should take ‘extra’ lecture courses to You are required to continue with research preparation work (e.g., the value of two units, in which case all of the above will apply to the intensive language training) during the months of July, August, and choice of both of their units. September, until you are formally upgraded to PhD registration at the end of September. You must submit a report of your summer activities to the Departmental Programme Tutor (copy to the Departmental Manager) by email by the middle of September before the formal upgrade happens. You must wait until you are formally upgraded at the end of September before commencing fieldwork proper.
For part-time students, all the above regulations apply, except that the deadline for the submission of the final Research Proposal will be extended by 12 months. Part-time students will be expected to submit both drafts of the research proposal in the first year of registration.
14 Pre-fieldwork assessment The examination of your Research Proposal can lead to four possible outcomes: The MRes or ‘pre-fieldwork’ year outlined above is assessed by: 1. Pass. A proposal is passed if it earns a mark of 60% or over; 1. Coursework for each of the full unit courses AN471 and AN472 (worth one unit each); 2. Minor corrections. These will be requested when the examiners feel that there are particular and limited omissions, or errors of fact 2. An examination (to include a viva) of the Research Proposal (which and/or presentation in a proposal which is otherwise of a good counts for two units); standard. The necessary corrections will normally be made within a period of three or four weeks of receipt of the examiners’ report. 3. An Assessment Essay for the “extra course”. A requirement for minor corrections does NOT constitute a referral, and will be entered as a Pass on your record; The mark required to pass upgrade to the PhD is 60% in each of the above. 3. Referral. A referral indicates that the examiners judge that the proposal contains weaknesses likely to inhibit or prevent the AN471 Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Anthropologists effective conduct of the research, and which will take longer than AN471 is assessed by a 3,000-word essay (worth 30%), two 1,000- 3-4 weeks for you to amend or correct. The examiners will give word reports (each worth 15%), an assigned presentation (worth very specific indications in their report of the changes which they 15%), and seminar participation (worth 25%) in the MT. require, and must provide a realistic time-frame for such changes. The deadline set will depend on the amendments required. A The two reports are to be submitted by 12 noon on Monday, 28th referral will be reviewed by the Doctoral Programme Director. Note October (week 5) and 12 noon on Monday, 25th November (week that if your proposal is referred, you cannot proceed to fieldwork 9). The deadline for the essay is the last day of MT, Friday, 13th until your resubmission has been examined and passed; December at 12 noon. The essay and reports are to be submitted on Moodle. 4. Fail. A proposal will be failed by the examiners if it earns a mark of 50% or lower. If the proposal is failed, you are normally not allowed AN472 Evidence and Arguments in Anthropology and Other Social to continue your programme of study at the LSE. Sciences AN472 is assessed by an essay (50%, 2,500 words), a presentation (25%), and class participation (25%) in the LT.
The deadline for the essay is at the start of ST, on Monday, 4th May at 12 noon, and needs to be submitted on Moodle.
The assessment of the Research Proposal The Research Proposal examination includes an oral examination (viva), which will take place after the examiners have read the proposal and written their independent reports, within a month of the relevant submission deadline.
The examiners will be your two supervisors and one other member of staff (the ‘external examiner’ in what follows), who will be selected each year by the Doctoral Programme Tutor in consultation with the Chair of Examiners. After the viva, the external examiner will produce a joint report, which will detail the outcome of the examination (see below). You will be sent a copy of the joint report.
The viva is a formal examination, which will give you the opportunity to discuss your research project and respond to the examiners’ criticisms and suggestions. You should be prepared to give a brief overview of your project, highlighting its objectives and the contribution you hope it will make. The viva will last about one hour.
15 The assessment of the ‘extra course’ mark is not achieved, the student must resubmit the essay(s) within 4 weeks. If the mark is not achieved on the second occasion or the The ‘extra’ lecture course is assessed by means of written work, not essay(s) are not resubmitted on time, the student will be reported by examination. Students are required to write either two assessment to the Research Students Progress Committee, which will decide on essays of not more than 3,000 words each (covering material from what action to take. each term of their chosen course(s), or one essay of not more than 6,000 words. The topic or topics must be chosen in consultation with Essays can be submitted before the deadline and, in this case, they the course teacher(s). The 6,000 word essay does not need to focus will normally be marked within one month (if this falls in term time). on the course as a whole; ie, it can focus on one term or even one week, so long as it is agreed with one of the course teachers. The essay must not overlap significantly with the research topic of the Late submission of assessed work PhD (although it can of course relate to it) or with the research proposal. If you believe you have a valid reason for being unable to submit any assessed work on time, you must inform the Doctoral Programme Please bear in mind that in order to meet the ‘extra’ course requirement Tutor (copying your email to the Departmental Manager) BEFORE you must attend lectures, participate in seminars, and do the reading the deadline and provide evidence (e.g., Doctor’s note, Police crime for the course. If you submit an essay without attending, you will not number, etc.) to back up your claim. receive credit for it. Valid grounds for late submission include certain serious illnesses The essay(s) must be submitted by midday on the first day of requiring medical attention, serious personal difficulties and serious the Summer Term (Monday, 4th May 2020) via Moodle to the unforeseen circumstances. Anthropology Pre-field Research Students page available atmoodle. lse.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=1502
The essays are marked by the relevant course teachers. The marks should be available within a month. The pass mark is 60% (defined as the average mark of two essays or the mark for one essay). If this
16 Classification of your MRes degree Upgrade to PhD and permission to undertake fieldwork The MRes follows the School’s normal regulations for taught masters Students are normally upgraded to PhD registration at the end of the programmes, including calculation of the award of degree and the MRes year, having successfully completed the components of their effect of Bad Fails. Refer to the Calendar for further details: info.lse. pre-fieldwork training and assessment (as set out above and in the ac.uk/Staff/Divisions/Academic-Registrars-Division/Teaching- LSE Calendar). Quality-Assurance-and-Review-Office/Assets/Documents/ Calendar/SchemeTaughtMasters.pdf Before you are allowed to proceed to your field site, you must complete the Application to Undertake Fieldwork form, and this In certain circumstances the Anthropology Department acts in turn requires you first to have obtained Health and Safety, and according to local rules, set by the Department. These are as follows Research Ethics approval. The fieldwork form and evidence of both and should be read in conjunction with the above Scheme: of the aforementioned approvals will need to be counter-signed 1. Candidates (with no failed courses) falling on the Distinction/Merit by one of your supervisors and the Doctoral Programme Director borderline (Scheme para 3.3.2): before being sent to the Chair of the School’s Research Degree Sub- Committee for approval. The fieldwork form requires you to indicate (c) Students with marks of a Distinction grade in courses to the the planned location(s) and dates of your fieldwork. Note that if you value of 2.5 units and a mark of a Merit grade in a course of 0.5 later decide, in consultation with your supervisors, that you need to unit value will obtain an overall classification of a Distinction; extend the period of fieldwork, you will need to request permission by submitting another application form and risk assessment. The form (d) Students with marks of a Distinction grade in courses to the also requires you to provide your contact details and those of your value of 2.0 units and marks of a Merit grade of at least 65 in next of kin. courses to the value of 2.0 units The Application to Undertake Fieldwork form is available at info.lse. OR ac.uk/current-students/phd-academy/phd-journey/a-z-guidance
with marks of a Distinction grade in courses to the value of 2.0 You will have drafted answers to the Department’s Research Ethics units, marks of a Merit grade in courses to the value of 2.0 units, Questionnaire alongside your Research Proposal. The Ethics form and an overall aggregate mark of at least 275 will obtain an overall can be found in the Anthropology Department’s Pre-field Research classification of a Distinction. Students (moodle.lse.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=1502) Moodle page. 2. Candidates (with no failed courses) falling on the Merit/Pass borderline (Scheme paragraph 3.3.4): If you intend to carry out fieldwork overseas, you must notify the Health and Safety team of your travel plans by completing (h) Students obtaining marks of a Distinction or Merit grade in the Travel Notification Form (lseapps.secure.force.com/ courses to the value of 2.5 units will obtain a Merit; form?formid=217808). You will be required to complete a Risk Identification Form (info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/Risk-and- (i) Students obtaining marks of a Distinction grade in courses to Compliance-Unit/Assets/Documents/Health-and-Safety/Fieldwork- the value of 1.0 unit and marks of a Merit grade in courses to the overseas-travel-offsite-activities/Risk-Identification-Form.docx) value of 1.0 units will obtain a Merit if they also obtain marks of and an Overseas Travel Risk Assessment form (info.lse.ac.uk/staff/ 55%+ in the remaining two units. divisions/Risk-and-Compliance-Unit/Assets/Documents/Health- and-Safety/Fieldwork-overseas-travel-offsite-activities/Formal- Upgrade to the PhD is conditional on obtaining a Merit (60%), or Risk-Assessment-v5-Oct2018.docx). higher, overall and in each of AN471, AN472, the Research Proposal, and in the ‘extra course’. If your field location is in the UK, you must still obtain approval from the Health and Safety team. You should email them on Health.and. A Pass (50%) in each component is enough to pass the MRes and get [email protected] with an outline of your proposed fieldwork and they awarded that degree, but this is not sufficient for upgrade to the PhD. will advise you on your next steps.
You will not be allowed to start fieldwork until all the forms outlined above have been submitted and approved. The approvals can take a number of months, especially in more complex cases, so you are advised to begin completing the forms in good time.
Before leaving for fieldwork, you must also go to the PhD Academy (normally in mid- to late-September) to register formally as a PhD student.
17 Change of research plans and fieldwork requirement After fieldwork
Not surprisingly, the research plans of students often change, During the post-fieldwork phase of the programme, you return to the especially during the ‘pre-fieldwork’ and ‘fieldwork’ phases of LSE where your primary task is to write up your dissertation under the the programme. guidance of your supervisors.
Please note, however, that very significant changes to plans – You also attend, and make regular contributions to, three seminars. including significant changes of topic or research site – must be These are currently as follows: formally approved by the Department’s Research Student Progress 1. The weekly Thesis Writing Seminar (AN503), at which students Committee and may require completion and examination of a new present draft dissertation chapters to others in their cohort; Research Proposal. 2. Advanced Professional Development for Anthropologists (AN505). Bear in mind that admission to the MRes/PhD (or previously to the This includes fortnightly seminars for discussion of recent MPhil/PhD) programme is made on the grounds that your proposed developments in social theory, and twice-termly seminars on research can be adequately supervised within our Department. issues surrounding professional development for early career Significant changes of plans can, of course, alter the situation anthropologists; – making it difficult for us to supervise you and/or making your proposed research unsuitable for our research programme. 3. The weekly departmental Research Seminar on Anthropological Theory (AN500). You are asked to note in particular that MPhil/PhD and MRes/PhD students in our Department, with only very few exceptions, conduct 4. You must attend AN503 for a minimum of four terms (unless you long-term ethnographic fieldwork. Indeed, our entire programme is are ready to submit your dissertation earlier) and AN505 for a built around the premise that fieldwork will be conducted. If you are minimum of three terms; you are required to attend AN500 until unable or unwilling to meet the fieldwork requirement, you should you complete the programme. discuss this with your supervisors and with the Doctoral Programme Director as soon as possible. Many students also focus more closely on issues of professional development at this stage of their time at the School, and begin to make applications either for postdoctoral fellowships or for jobs Fieldwork (inside and outside of academia). As you will learn during your first The fieldwork phase of our programme – about which you will learn a year of study, the LSE has comprehensive support services in these great deal during your first year of study – normally consists of 12-24 areas (in particular via the Teaching and Learning Centre info.lse. months of participant observation research. During fieldwork, you are ac.uk/staff/divisions/Teaching-and-Learning-Centre), and your expected to maintain regular (preferably monthly) contact with your supervisors will work closely with you in considering your supervisors by letter, Skype and/or email, and you continue to receive career options. support and advice from the Department.
Comprehensive guidance on a wide range of issues relating to fieldwork (including everything from ethics to how to conduct household surveys) is provided through the AN471 Qualitative and Quantitative Methods seminars, and during your meetings with your supervisors in the first year of registration.
The Health and Safety team will issue you with a travel insurance cover note once they are satisfied with your Risk Assessment.
18 Rough timeline of the programme ‘Third year’ progress review
Obviously the circumstances surrounding individual projects School regulations require that students are reviewed more formally conducted by anthropology MRes/PhD students vary, but for most at the end of their third year of registration. However, because of full-time students: the extended period of fieldwork conducted by students in our • The pre-fieldwork phase is completed in one year, unless the Department, this timing is not feasible. Therefore, in agreement with research proposal is referred; the PhD Academy, this review will take place during the third term after you have returned from fieldwork (during the sixth term if you • The fieldwork phase is completed in 1-2 years, with an average are part time), though it may exceptionally take place outside of the fieldwork duration of about 18 months; School’s normal timeframe.
The post-fieldwork (ie, thesis-writing) phase is completed in • The review will establish whether: 18-24 months. 1. you should be allowed to progress and be re-registered;
2. you should apply for an extension to the maximum period of registration (see below); Yearly progress review 3. your registration should be terminated. Every year after you have been upgraded to PhD registration, you will be asked to complete a Progress Report Form; each of your For the review, you will be required to submit the chapters you have supervisors will also be asked separately to complete a similar form. drafted since your return from fieldwork and a Third Year Review The form will be sent out to you by email towards the end of the Form (which will be sent to you). The review will consist of an oral Summer Term. examination (viva), which will take place after the examiners have read your written submission and have written their independent The Progress Report Form will give you the opportunity to assess reports. The examiners will be your two supervisors and one other your progress, to set out your working schedule for the future and to member of staff (the ‘external examiner’ in what follows), who will be comment on the support you are receiving from your supervisors. selected each year by the Doctoral Programme Tutor in consultation Similarly, your supervisors will give their assessment of your progress with the Chair of Examiners. and potential.
The viva is a formal examination, which will give you the opportunity The form is examined by the Doctoral Programme Tutor (DPT). If to discuss your own assessment of your progress to date, the quality the DPT is one of your supervisors, the form will be reviewed instead of your writing, and your work plan looking ahead. You should be by the Doctoral Programme Director or the Head of Department. If prepared to explain, reflect on and summarise your work and the the DPT is satisfied by your progress, s/he will sign off the form and directions of your thesis. Before the viva, think about how you would recommend to the PhD Academy that you should be re-registered. If highlight the key aspects of each of your chapters and how you see the DPT has any concerns, s/he will take your case to the Research them fitting into the overall structure of your dissertation. You should Students Progress Committee for discussion. be ready to respond thoughtfully on the basis of your research to the examiners’ questions, criticisms and suggestions. The viva will last The Research Students Progress Committee consists of the Doctoral about one hour. Programme Tutor, the Doctoral Programme Director, and the Head of Department. After the viva, the external examiner will, in consultation with your supervisors, write a joint report detailing the outcome of the Depending on the circumstances of your case, the Committee might examination, providing an assessment of your progress, and making call you and/or your supervisors for an interview, or might write recommendations as outlined above. to you detailing a particular course of action (e.g., requesting the submission of your thesis outline, a sample of writing, a detailed The examiners’ report will be sent to the Research Students Progress schedule of work, etc.). Committee, which will meet to consider its recommendations and will make a final decision. After this process, the Research Students Progress Committee will either recommend to the PhD Academy that you be re-registered or that your registration be terminated.
19 Maximum period of registration All of the above applies to all students, but it is particularly important and extensions for those who are funded by the ESRC. In allocating studentships to the LSE, the ESRC considers the School’s overall completion rates All students registered at the LSE are expected to complete their but most especially the completion rates of ESRC funded students. PhD in a maximum of 4 years (if full time) or 8 years (if part time) If the completion rates are not satisfactory, the ESRC may impose following completion of the MRes year (note that if, during your penalties, which will affect the availability of studentships for future programme, you switch from full to part-time registration, or vice students. We therefore monitor the progress of ERSC students versa, your maximum period of registration will be especially closely and we expect them to take their responsibility recalculated accordingly). towards the Department, the School and future students very seriously. If you are funded by the ESRC you should bear this in The completion rates of the Department, and of the School more mind when planning your work. If there are problems about meeting generally, are constantly monitored (by external bodies such as the deadline, you should discuss this with your supervisors and the the ESRC) and it is important for the collective wellbeing of the Doctoral Programme Director at the earliest possible opportunity. Department that our students complete by the relevant deadlines. At the same time, the Department is committed to preserving the The School recognizes that not all students will be able to complete integrity of its training and, especially, of the essential component within the maximum period of registration, and it allows students to of the programme, namely the extended period of fieldwork that apply for an extension in exceptional circumstances. we require our students to undertake. Therefore, we expect all our students to organize their studies in the most time-efficient manner, According to School regulations, students should apply for an while at the same time we will support them when requesting extension at the time of their ‘Third year review’. As explained above, permission to undertake extended periods of fieldwork as necessary in the case of Anthropology students, this review will take place and when applying for appropriate extensions to their maximum during the third term (or sixth if part-time) after they have returned period of registration. from the field.
It is particularly important that, if you encounter any difficulty (e.g., Guidance on requesting extensions to the maximum registration ill health, personal, financial) which prevents you from working on period can be found here info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/phd- your thesis for an extended period of time (e.g., a month or more, academy/phd-journey though there is no minimum limit), you immediately discuss your circumstances with your supervisors, the Doctoral Programme Please note that, while the Department will monitor your progress Tutor or the Doctoral Programme Director, as it might be advisable and will advise you with regard to your submission deadline, it is your for you to apply for an interruption of your studies (see below responsibility to be aware of it and work towards a timely submission. under Registration). You should also seek advice from the PhD Bear in mind that the expiry date on your LSE ID card may not be the Academy, the Financial Support Office (if you are funded by an same as your maximum period of registration deadline, and that you ESRC, Leverhulme, or LSE PhD Studentship), and/or the International will not be able to submit your thesis if your registration has expired Student Visa Advice Team (if you hold a Tier 4 student visa). Any (see next). period of interruption will not count towards your maximum period of registration. Note, however, that if you hold a visa that requires you to be registered, an interruption will lead to a cancellation of your visa sponsorship and you will need to leave the UK.
20 PhD thesis presentation and Sutton, G.M. 1932. The exploration of Southampton Island, Hudson Bay. (Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 12: 1). Pittsburgh: Carnegie examination entry Museum. Tsur, R. 2001. Onomatopoeia: cuckoo-language and tick-tocking: Information about how to enter for the PhD exam, submission of your the constraints of semiotic systems (available on-line: http://www. thesis, binding, the viva, and other related matters can be found on trismegistos.com/IconicityInLanguage/Articles/Tsur/ info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/phd-academy/phd-journey default.html).
Please be aware that it is your supervisors who have the responsibility of nominating your examiners, even though they will most likely want to discuss this with you. You should not contact your Editorial help with your thesis prospective examiners yourself. You may wish to seek help from a third party in editing your thesis The reference style you should use in your thesis is that of Journal of before you submit it for examination. The School has produced a the Royal Anthropological Institute. JRAI guidelines say the following Statement on editorial help that gives details of what level of editorial about bibliographical references: help is and is not permitted. You will need to read the Statement, provide a copy of it to any third party you might use when editing your Bibliographical references should be cited in the text by the author’s thesis, and declare what help you have received from a third party in last name, date of publication, and page, e.g., (Firth 1954: 285) or, the front pages of your thesis. if the author’s name is mentioned in the text, by the date and page reference only, e.g., (1954: 285). Every quotation must be page Statement on editorial help with a PhD thesis: info.lse. referenced as must be references to sections of texts in which ac.uk/current-students/phd-academy/assets/documents/ specific concepts, debates, or ethnographic examples are discussed. StatementOnEditorialHelp.pdf Entries in the references should be in alphabetical order of authors and should include the following: name and initials (not full given Template for front pages of your thesis: info.lse.ac.uk/current- names) of author(s), date, title, and (for books) place of publication students/phd-academy/assets/documents/thesisFrontPage.pdf as well as, if published in 1901 or after, name of publisher. For articles the name of journal should be provided in full with the volume number (arabic numbers to be used throughout) and pagination. Include both volume and issue number only where a journal is paginated by issue rather than in one sequence across the volume. Always include pagination for chapters within books. Translators should be credited for translated works. Where the original date of publication differs significantly from the date of the edition being cited, the date of original publication should also be included in square brackets.
Examples are: Levin, M. (ed.) 1993. Ethnicity and aboriginality: case studies in ethnonationalism. Toronto: University Press. Mauss, M. 1979 [1935]. Body Techniques. In Sociology and psychology: essays by Marcel Mauss (trans. B. Brewster), 95-123. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Mills, M.A. 1997. Religious authority and pastoral care in Tibetan Buddhism: the ritual hierarchies of Lingshed monastery, Ladakh. Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh. Sanz, C., D. Morgan & S. Gulick 2004. New insights into chimpanzees, tools and termites from the Congo Basin. American Naturalist 164, 567-81. Strathern, M. 1990. Negative strategies in Melanesia. In Localizing strategies: regional traditions in ethnographic writing (ed.) R. Fardon, 204-16. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press. - - - 1996. Cutting the network. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 2, 517-35.
21 Registration – PhD Registration – MRes
You will normally be registered throughout your period as a research The above forms are specifically for use by (and in some cases only student in the Department. You will need to be registered in order relevant to) students who are on the PhD part of the programme. to take any exams, submit your thesis, and so on. Your registration Students on the MRes who need to request an interruption should status will also determine your fees. There are times when you instead use the forms on the following page: will need to change your registration status. Some of these are info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/services/interruption outlined below. Additional guidance, most forms related to your doctoral studies including exam entry forms (for when you submit your thesis), and advice on formatting your thesis, can be found at info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/phd-academy/phd-journey/a-z- Attendance and vacations guidance The breaks between terms at Christmas and Easter are considered to be vacation times for research students. The break between terms Interruption over the summer is not a vacation and you are expected to continue working during this period, though you can request a vacation (of up You should apply for a period of Interruption if you are unable to to 4 weeks) during each summer. Absences of more than four weeks work on your thesis for reasons such as long term ill health. You are likely to require additional paperwork to be completed, particularly should also apply for an Interruption if you require maternity leave. if you hold a Tier 4 student Visa. An Interruption temporarily ‘stops the clock’ and thus pushes back your submission deadline. Complete the Application to Interrupt your The School’s statement on term dates, vacations and working during Studies form. Interruptions will have consequences for Tier 4 Visas MPhil/PhD study can be found here: and funding, if applicable, so it is important to seek advice about your info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/phd-academy/assets/documents/ particular circumstances. Statement-on-term-dates-and-vacations-for-MPhil-and-PhD- Study.pdf Permission to study elsewhere
Should you wish to study elsewhere for a short period whilst continuing your research programme at the School (for example on a placement at another university), you will need to seek permission to do so. Please see the Application to Study Elsewhere form.
Extension of maximum period of registration
Extension beyond any maximum period will only be allowed in exceptional circumstances by permission of the Research Degrees Subcommittee Chair. Normally only one period of extension will be granted and requests should usually be made by the end of the penultimate year of registration following your Third Year Review. To request an extension, please see the Application to Extend your Registration form.
Living abroad
In exceptional circumstances, you may seek permission to live abroad (beyond the normal period of fieldwork). In the first instance, you should discuss the implications of this request with your supervisors and inform the Doctoral Programme Director. If agreement in principle is given, you will have to complete the Application to Reside Outside the UK form to obtain permission from the Research Degrees Subcommittee Chair. This includes longer periods spent abroad over the summer.
22 Libraries
In addition to the main LSE Library, there are others within LSE and Other libraries nearby which you may wish to use. The British Library (96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB): The national library of the United Kingdom which is a copyright library and thus The Old Anthropology Library reportedly keeps a copy of every publication printed in the UK. Membership is limited to students with research purposes who can www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/about-us/Old-Anthropology-Library prove their need for access. Please contact the British Library for an application form if you believe this applies to you. More information is The Old Anthropology Library (room OLD 6.05) is exclusively for the available at www.bl.uk use of students and staff in the Department of Anthropology. The Library is used as a borrowing library at lunchtimes during term time, The Anthropology Library, located within the Centre for Anthropology staffed by undergraduate students, and you can borrow books as well at the British Museum (Great Russell Street): every geographical as obtain access to offprints and films. area and all aspects of anthropology are covered. The library contains more than 120,000 volumes and 1,500 journal titles. The At other times the room is available as a study room and is open from library is open to all students for reference and research purposes. early morning to late evening. Please note, however, that meetings britishmuseum.org/about_us/departments/africa,_oceania,_ and regular seminars take place in there. A timetable will be posted americas/facilities_and_services/library.aspx on the door indicating when the Library is free for study and when it is in use. The Wellcome Institute Library (near Euston): Medical anthropology. More information is available at wellcomelibrary.org
The Shaw Library
This is a small lending collection of general literature, daily newspapers and magazines, and a substantial collection of recorded music. It is housed in the Founders’ Room on the sixth floor of the Old Building. Lunchtime concerts are held in the Shaw Library on Thursdays in the Michaelmas and Lent Terms.
University of London facilities: lectures and libraries
The LSE is a part of the University of London, and as such has links to some University of London libraries. If the need should arise to research special topics that go beyond the LSE Library collection, students are advised to check if the Senate House or School of Oriental and African Studies libraries hold the required items. Both libraries are within walking distance from the LSE (close to Russell Square tube station).
Students in the past have enjoyed special lectures held by various University of London hosts. Whilst you are studying at LSE, it is worth investigating if there are any particular lectures being given at Goldsmiths, UCL, School of Oriental and African Studies or other University of London colleges and institutions.
23 Associations of interest to Anthropology students
Royal Anthropological Institute European Association of Social www.therai.org.uk Anthropologists This organisation publishes the Journal of the Royal Anthropological www.easaonline.org Institute and Anthropology Today, and hosts a large number of EASA is a professional association open to all social anthropologists conferences, seminars and public events, including an ethnographic either qualified and/or working in Europe. EASA organises biannual film festival. It houses an archive of photographs and films that are conferences and edits the journal Social Anthropology: available for consultation. Anthropologie Sociale.
Association of Social Anthropologists www.theasa.org American Anthropological Association The ASA is the main professional body of social anthropology for the www.americananthro.org UK and the Commonwealth. This is the world’s largest professional organization of individuals interested in anthropology. It organises many conferences, has a This association promotes the study and teaching of social flagship journal called American Anthropologist, and maintains an anthropology in the UK and the Commonwealth, publishes the journal excellent website. Anthropology Matters and organises an annual conference.
Rita Astuti on fieldwork in Madagascar, talking to her Vezo ‘mother’ (Sean Epstein) 24 Key Information
Term Dates and LSE Closures – Academic Year 2019/20
Michaelmas Term (MT) LSE will be closed during the following periods:
Monday 30 September – Friday 13 December 2019 Christmas Closure Monday 23 December 2019 – Wednesday 1 January 2020 Reading Week: Monday 4 – Friday 8 November 2019 Easter Closure Lent Term (LT) Thursday 9 April – Wednesday 15 April 2020 Monday 20 January – Friday 3 April 2020 May Bank Holiday January Exams: Monday 13 – Friday 17 January 2020 Friday 8 May 2020
Reading Week: Monday 24 – Friday 28 February 2020 Spring Bank Holiday Monday 25 May 2020 Summer Term (ST) Summer Bank Holiday Monday 4 May – Friday 19 June 2020 Monday 31 August 2020 Summer Exams: Monday 11 May – Friday 19 June 2020
Registration Inclusion Plans
It is essential that you are fully registered with LSE during your time If you have a disability, long-term medical or mental health condition here. When you register for the first time you will need to attend in you are advised to apply for an Inclusion Plan (IP) as soon possible. person, show us the required documents, and collect your LSE Card. The sooner that you let the Disability and Wellbeing Service (DWS) Usually you can re-register for subsequent years of study online know about your condition the sooner they can work with you to put but sometimes we may need to see you in person again. For more appropriate support in place. Advisers in DWS can potentially set up information visit lse.ac.uk/registration one-to-one learning support, mentoring and help you access assistive technology designed to remove barriers to studying. To find out how to apply for an Inclusion Plan visit lse.ac.uk/inclusionPlans
Student Status Documentation
A certificate of registration provides proof to organisations such as council tax offices, embassies and banks, that you are registered as a current student at LSE. For more information about what a certificate of registration shows visit lse.ac.uk/studentletters. You can obtain a certificate of registration from the Student Services Centre during our opening hours which are normally 11am to 4pm, Monday to Friday (these may change during the year and you are advised to check lse.ac.uk/SSC for correct times). Your department will not be able to produce a certificate of registration for you. If you are planning to use this document to open a bank account, you will normally need to specify which bank it needs to be addressed to.
The Student Services Centre also offers a range of other documents to prove your student status including certificates of course choice and intermediate transcripts. Some can be produced immediately, and others need to be ordered in advance. For more Your LSE Card information about the options available please visit lse.ac.uk/ studentStatusDocuments Your LSE card provides access to buildings and acts as your Library card. It is important that you keep it safe and never share it with anybody else. If your LSE card is lost, stolen or damaged visit lse.ac.uk/studentIdCards to find out how to get a replacement.
25 Interruption Regulations
You can take a year-long break in your studies (which we call an You should familiarise yourself with the LSE regulations, policies interruption) with approval from your academic department and and procedures that cover many aspects of student life. the School. You are usually required to return at the start of either Michaelmas Term or Lent Term as appropriate. Summer Term Some of the regulations explain the organisation and conduct interruptions are not possible. For more information visit of your academic study. These include information about the lse.ac.uk/interruptions structure of your programmes, assessment requirements, the basis on which your final degree is calculated and what to do if you face exceptional circumstances.
You can find links to the General Academic Regulations, Regulations Programme Transfer for First Degrees; Regulations for Taught Master’s Degrees; Plagiarism, Appeals Regulations; and in the LSE Calendar at You can request to transfer from your current programme to lse.ac.uk/calendar another programme at the same level according to the School’s regulations. There are usually restrictions or conditions on You can find a full A-Z listing of all of LSE’s policies and procedures transferring programmes, and sometimes transfers are not possible. online at lse.ac.uk/policies All transfer requests are considered by, and require approval from, both your current and new academic department and the School before being authorised. For more information visit lse.ac.uk/programmeTransfers
Change of Mode of Study
If you are studying a Master’s programme, and your circumstances change, meaning that you need to adjust your study from full-time to part-time, you will need to seek authorisation from your academic department. Changing from full-time to part-time study is generally acceptable, and your course selection will be amended according to programme regulations. Your fees will also be amended. Changing from part-time to full-time may not always be possible and requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. It is not normally possible to study an undergraduate programme on a part-time basis. For more information visit lse.ac.uk/changeMode
Withdrawal
Withdrawing means that you are leaving your programme permanently. Before withdrawing you may want to consider interruption so that you have some time to consider your options. For more information visit lse.ac.uk/withdrawal
26 Student Services Centre
Interruption Regulations The Student Services Centre (SSC) is located on the ground floor of the Old Building and can provide advice and information about: You can take a year-long break in your studies (which we call an You should familiarise yourself with the LSE regulations, policies Certificates of Registration (for bank accounts, travel, interruption) with approval from your academic department and and procedures that cover many aspects of student life. • council tax etc.) the School. You are usually required to return at the start of either Michaelmas Term or Lent Term as appropriate. Summer Term Some of the regulations explain the organisation and conduct • Course selection and class changes interruptions are not possible. For more information visit of your academic study. These include information about the structure of your programmes, assessment requirements, the basis lse.ac.uk/interruptions • Exams and assessment on which your final degree is calculated and what to do if you face exceptional circumstances. • Results You can find links to the General Academic Regulations, Regulations • Graduation Programme Transfer for First Degrees; Regulations for Taught Master’s Degrees; Plagiarism, Appeals Regulations; and in the LSE Calendar at • Support for new arrivals You can request to transfer from your current programme to lse.ac.uk/calendar another programme at the same level according to the School’s • Registration (registration for new students normally regulations. There are usually restrictions or conditions on You can find a full A-Z listing of all of LSE’s policies and procedures takes place in Clement House) transferring programmes, and sometimes transfers are not possible. online at lse.ac.uk/policies All transfer requests are considered by, and require approval from, • Transcripts and Degree Certificates both your current and new academic department and the School LSE cards before being authorised. For more information visit • lse.ac.uk/programmeTransfers What If… • TfL 18+ Oyster Cards The SSC have developed a series of answers to common “What if…” questions. These cover a broad range of topics including what to do if The SSC is normally open between 11am and 4pm, you’re unwell during an exam; become pregnant; change your name; Change of Mode of Study Monday to Friday. For the most up to date opening hours are not happy with your marks or want to change degree programme. visit lse.ac.uk/ssc If you are studying a Master’s programme, and your circumstances You can find these questions and answers at change, meaning that you need to adjust your study from full-time The SSC also hosts a series of specialist drop-in info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/what-if to part-time, you will need to seek authorisation from your academic sessions covering: department. Changing from full-time to part-time study is generally Financial support acceptable, and your course selection will be amended according to • programme regulations. Your fees will also be amended. Changing • Fees, Income and Credit Control Office Advice Team from part-time to full-time may not always be possible and requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. It is not normally possible • Graduate admissions The SSC has a dedicated Advice Team that can provide advice to study an undergraduate programme on a part-time basis. For more on academic matters (particularly around non-progression, information visit lse.ac.uk/changeMode • International student visa advice interruption, withdrawal, regulations and exams). If you are not sure who to contact about a query or question then the Advice These sessions run for an hour at various times during the week Team will be happy to help. You can contact the advice team so be sure to check when the next session is running. In most cases at info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/student-services/advice-team you will need to sign up to attend a session. For more information or by phone on 020 7955 6167. Withdrawal visit lse.ac.uk/ssc
Withdrawing means that you are leaving your programme To find out more about the Student Services Centre visit permanently. Before withdrawing you may want to consider lse.ac.uk/ssc, follow our page on the Student Hub and interruption so that you have some time to consider your options. follow @lse_ssc on Twitter. International Student Visa Advice For more information visit lse.ac.uk/withdrawal Team (ISVAT)
ISVAT provide detailed immigration advice for international students on their website which is updated whenever the immigration rules change. The best way to contact ISVAT is to use the query form at lse.ac.uk/isvat or to attend one of their drop-in sessions.
ISVAT also manage student exchanges to UC Berkley and through the Erasmus+ scheme. For more information about this visit lse.ac.uk/erasmus
27 Student Representation
Student-Staff Liaison Committees Each SSLC also elects one representative to attend the relevant Consultative Fora which are School-level forums. Here representatives and Student Consultative Fora from around LSE will discuss matters that impact on students.
Student-Staff Liaison Committees (SSLCs) are one of the most More information, including access to minutes from SSLCs across important bodies in the School. Their purpose is to create a forum the School can be found online: lse.ac.uk/current-students/creators- for students to discuss their experiences, both in and outside of innovators-leaders/student-voice the classroom, with LSE staff. SSLCs are a shared, collaborative endeavour between Departments, the Students’ Union, central School Services, and, most importantly, students themselves.
At the start of the year you will be asked by your department if Student-Only Forums you would like to represent your programme on the Student-Staff LSE’s Director, Minouche Shafik, holds Student-Only forums in Liaison Committee (SSLC). Michaelmas and Lent terms. The forums are an opportunity for The role of an SSLC representative is central to ensuring that courses students from across the School to hear from the Director in person and programmes at LSE work effectively. Training will be provided for and gives you the chance to ask questions and share ideas. Look all SSLC representatives. These forums are a great way for students out for details of where and when forums will be happening on the to make their voice heard at LSE. Student Hub.
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance Strategy Student Teaching Surveys
LSE’s approach to assuring the quality of our teaching is set out in In both Michaelmas Term and Lent Term TQARO conducts surveys the Strategy for Managing Academic Standards which can be found to assess students’ opinions of teaching. online in the “internal quality assurance section” of the website at lse.ac.uk/tqaro. As an awarding body LSE must be in a position to Teaching scores are made available to teachers, Heads assure the standards of its degrees. At the same time, we believe that of Departments, the Director of the Teaching and Learning Centre, the the design of quality assurance should respect different departmental Pro-Director (Education) and the Pro-Director (Faculty Development). cultures and academic histories. The strategy sets out broad principles In addition to producing reports for individual teachers TQARO and processes for assuring academic standards and for enhancing the produce aggregated quantitative data for departments and School- quality of educational provision. As of the 2018-19 academic year this wide bodies. The results can be found online in the “Surveys” section includes devolved quality assurance arrangements, with responsibility of the website at lse.ac.uk/tqaro for the oversight and modification of existing provision resting with Departmental Teaching Committees.
28 LSE Services to Support You with Your Studies and in Your Career
LSE Library
LSE Library holds one of the most important social science collections in the world and has all the material that you need for your studies and research.
Most items are split into collections to help you find what you are looking for:
• The course collection is located on the first floor, holding multiple copies of essential textbooks for your courses. It will have most of your required readings.
• The main collection is housed across three floors, holding wider items for social sciences research.
LSE LIFE
LSE LIFE is the place to develop the skills you’ll need to reach your goals at LSE, whether it concerns your academic work or other personal or professional pursuits. LSE LIFE is here to help you find your own ways to study and learn, think about where your studies might lead you, and make the most of your time at LSE.
LSE LIFE offers:
• Hands-on practical workshops where you can get advice on key areas of university work, including effective reading, academic writing , critical thinking, managing your dissertation research, and organising your time.
• Workshops to learn ways to adapt and thrive in new or challenging situations, including the development of skills for leadership, study/ work/life balance, and life beyond university. You can use Library Search to find books and other materials for your studies via lse.ac.uk/library. Once you have found what you • One-to-one appointments with our study advisers for personalised need, write down its location to help you find it in the Library. To advice on any aspect of your studies at LSE, or simply to talk borrow books, use your LSE card and the self-service machines through your ideas for research or other projects. on the ground floor. Taught students can borrow up to 20 books at any one time. You can renew your books online by logging into your Drop-in sessions with specialists from around LSE covering areas • Library account at lse.ac.uk/library. If you do not return books on like CV writing, English language advice, finding and referencing time, you will be unable to borrow any more until your overdue item academic sources, and statistics support. is returned or renewed. A space to meet and work together with students from other • Academic Support Librarians provide subject expertise and courses and departments. personalised support. They also host workshops to help you identify, find, manage and evaluate the information needed for your studies • Special events to take advantage of what LSE and London and research. You can find out who your Academic Support Librarian have to offer. is at lse.ac.uk/academicSupportLibrarian. Subject Guides are useful Find out more at lse.ac.uk/lselife, check out workshop materials online introductions to finding resources, read yours at lse.ac.uk/ and other resources on Moodle or just drop by – LSE LIFE is on the library/subjectGuides ground floor of the Library.
29 Language Centre LSE Volunteer Centre
Whether you are an international student looking for support with your English, interested in taking a Language Centre course as part of your undergraduate degree, or want to learn or improve a language the Language Centre can help.
If English is not your first language, there are plenty of ways you can improve and practise using the English language for your academic work. English for Academic Writing courses are available for any undergraduate or postgraduate student who does not have English as a first language and would like a weekly English language class to help with academic writing for coursework. This support is delivered with lse.ac.uk/lselife
You may be eligible to take a language, literature or linguistics course as part of your degree. As an LSE student you can also sign up for a non-degree language course at a discounted rate. As part of the LSE Language Policy, if you are a UK-EU undergraduate and you do not have foreign language at GCSE Grade C (or equivalent), you are eligible to take an MFL certificate course for free!
For more information visit lse.ac.uk/languages Volunteering is a great way to help develop new skills and meet new people while making a difference and the LSE Volunteer Centre is here to inspire and empower you to volunteer for causes LSE Careers that you are passionate about during your time at LSE. We work with organisations to advertise volunteering opportunities LSE Careers is here to help guide and support you throughout your across London, the UK and internationally. Whether you are time at LSE. We provide a range of careers services and events passionate about the environment or human rights or ready to both online, face-to-face and through one-to-one appointments. change the world through campaigning or mentoring, we’ll have an We have a jobs board and offer bespoke services for disabled opportunity for you. We also know that students are busy and we run students and PhD students. a comprehensive one-off volunteering programme to make sure you can fit it in. There is lots of information and support at lse.ac.uk/careers including: Looking to meet charities? The first volunteering fair will take place on Monday 7 October and is a great opportunity to speak to over 50 Information about the services offered by LSE Careers and how • representatives from some truly inspirational organisations. You can to access them find out more about this, as well as the advice and support we can • Support with your career options and insight into employment offer, at lse.ac.uk/volunteercentre or by following @LSEVolunteering sectors and recruitment processes
• CV, cover letter and application form advice and examples LSE Generate • Details of what graduates have gone on to do LSE Generate is the home of entrepreneurship at LSE.
LSE CareerHub, our online careers portal, allows you to: We aim to support and scale socially-driven student and alumni ventures, here in the UK and across the globe. We welcome all Discover jobs and opportunities • students and alumni, from those eager to develop and learn • Book one-to-one discussions to talk about your career options and entrepreneurial skills to LSE entrepreneurs who have already receive feedback on your applications launched their ventures and need support and advice from the team. Join us for our events, enter the Generate funding competition, pop • Explore upcoming events including skills seminars, by and meet us in our co-working space and access all our start-up careers fairs and employer presentations resources for free. Discover more on our website lse.ac.uk/generate or keep up to date with Generate news through our social media, @LSEGenerate You can access CareerHub at careers.lse.ac.uk
Keep up-to-date with events and advice by following @LSECareers
30 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
As part of the School’s commitment to equality of respect and If you experience or witness bullying or harassment, please visit opportunity, and as set out in our Ethics Code, we are all responsible for lse.ac.uk/ReportIt to access information on how to report an treating everyone at LSE with dignity and respect. This entails ensuring incident and reach support. that no one is treated unfavourably because of their age, sex, disability, gender identity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil All members of the School are encouraged to complete the “Consent partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, social or economic Matters” module to learn about how you might positively intervene as background, or their role at the School. a bystander, and to signpost anyone who has experienced any form of bullying or harassment to the support available on the Making a In practice, this means that we are all expected to: Choice hub.
• Treat all members of the School community fairly and with respect For further advice or information, please visit lse.ac.uk/EquityDiversityInclusion and follow the Act courageously and openly, with respect for the knowledge and • EDI Office on Twitter @EDI_LSE experience of others
• Play our part in creating an environment that enables all members of the School community to achieve their full potential in an environment characterised by equality of respect and opportunity
• Actively oppose all forms of discrimination and harassment, including challenging and/or reporting unacceptable behaviour.
31 Your Wellbeing and Health
Student Wellbeing Service (SWS) As well as dispensing medicines, pharmacies can also offer advice on common health problems. You do not need to make an appointment, SWS brings together two key student facing services; the Disability just visit a pharmacy and ask to speak to the duty pharmacists. In an and Wellbeing Service (DWS) and the Student Counselling Service emergency you should dial 999 to call an ambulance. You can also (SCS). SWS also facilitates the Peer Supporter Scheme. SWS aims to visit your nearest accident and emergency (A&E) department at your provide you with a single integrated source of help and assistance. local hospital or visit an Urgent Care Centre.
SCS provides a professional, free and confidential service to help you There is a lot more information about Health Care, including details with any problems that you may be experiencing. You can speak to about dentists and opticians, available at lse.ac.uk/studentHealth them about academic stresses, as well as personal and emotional difficulties. Visit lse.ac.uk/counselling to book an individual appointment, read about drop-in appointments or find out about groups and workshops. LSE Faith Centre
DWS are the first point of contact for students with disabilities, long term The Faith Centre is open to students of all faiths and none. It is medical and mental health conditions, and Specific Learning Difficulties home to LSE’s diverse religious activities, acclaimed interfaith such as dyslexia. DWS can help you to create an Inclusion Plan which programmes and a reflective space for all staff and students. is a way of putting in place agreed “reasonable adjustments” to support your studies. Visit lse.ac.uk/disability to find out more. The Faith Centre provides a space for student faith societies to meet and worship. The Faith Centre produces a Religion and Belief Guide Peer Supporters give you the opportunity to talk to fellow students each year which provides information and contact details for faith about anything that is worrying you. Peer Supporters are trained groups, you can collect a copy from the Faith Centre reception on the to offer confidential emotional support, help and reassurance. You second floor of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre. can find out more about the scheme and arrange a chat with a Peer The Faith Centre hosts a range of wellbeing activities including Supporter at lse.ac.uk/peerSupport Mindfulness, Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga and Tai Chi. Class details can be found online at lse.ac.uk/faithCentre. The Cave in the Faith Centre is available to all LSE staff and students who need a quiet place for reflection. This space cannot be booked but is open Health Care in the UK throughout the week.
You are likely to need to access medical care while you are at LSE, The Faith Centre runs three acclaimed interfaith leadership even if this is just for routine appointments. In the UK most health programmes which are your chance to explore, question and care is provided through the National Health Service (NHS). challenge religious differences and provide a unique opportunity to build relationships and challenge assumptions across faiths. Find out You are typically eligible for free treatment on the NHS if more by visiting the “Programmes” page at lse.ac.uk/faithCentre you fall into one of the following categories: The Faith Centre Director and Chaplain to the LSE, Reverend Dr James • You are a UK resident Walters, can be contacted on [email protected] for confidential support regardless of religious affiliation. Contact details for our team You have a Tier 4 visa and have paid the immigration • of Associate Chaplains can be found at lse.ac.uk/faithCentre health surcharge
• You are an EU/EEA student with a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)
This list is not exhaustive and was correct at the time of print. The UK Council for International Student Affairs maintains an up-to-date listing on their website – ukcisa.org.uk
If you are unfamiliar with the NHS search for “NHS Services explained” to find out more. You are usually required to register with a local General Practitioner’s (GP) surgery before you can book an appointment. You should register as soon as possible and not wait until you are unwell. The nearest GP surgery is St Philips Medical Centre who are based on the second floor of Pethick- Lawrence House. This surgery will register most LSE students. For more information about the services offered and how to register please visit stphilipsmedicalcentre.co.uk or call 020 7611 5131. Alternatively, you can find your nearest GP by using the GP finder function on the NHS website nhs.uk
32 Exams and Assessments
Candidate Numbers Deferral
Your candidate number is a unique five digit number that ensures If you have difficulties in the lead up to, or during, the assessment that your work is marked anonymously. It is different to your student or exam then you can seek to defer the assessment or exam, in number and will change every year. Candidate numbers can be exceptional circumstances. You will need permission from the Chair accessed in early Michaelmas Term using LSE for You. of your Sub-Board of Examiners to do this. For more information visit lse.ac.uk/deferral
Exam Timetables Extension Policy Course by course exam timetables will be available online at lse.ac.uk/exams. For January exams the timetable is usually If you have difficulties in the lead up to an assessment deadline but available towards the end of Michaelmas term, for summer exams think you may be able to successfully submit if you had extra time, it is usually available in Lent Term and for students taking in-year you can seek an extension request. You must make this request resit and deferral exams, it is usually available in late July. Closer to before the deadline has taken place and you will need permission each exam season, you will also be given access to a personal exam from the Chair of your Sub-Board of Examiners to do this. For more timetable with your room and seat numbers in LSE for You. information visit lse.ac.uk/extensionpolicy
Exam Procedures Exceptional Circumstances
Anybody taking exams at LSE must read the Exam Procedures for If you miss an assessment that you did not defer, or experience Candidates. It contains all the information that you need to know difficulties that you feel may have had an impact on your and is updated each year. The document is less than ten pages and performance on an assessment you did attempt, even where you covers topics ranging from candidate numbers to permitted materials were provided with an extension, you should submit an Exceptional to what to do if things go wrong. You can download your copy at Circumstances Form and corroborating evidence to the Student lse.ac.uk/exams Services Centre. This will allow you to alert the Sub-Board of Examiners to the circumstances under which you completed the You may only use a calculator in an exam if this is permitted assessment or exams. For more information visit by the relevant academic department. If you are permitted a lse.ac.uk/exceptionalCircumstances calculator, it must be from the Casio fx-83 or fx-85 range. If you bring an alternative model it will be removed by invigilators and no replacement will be given. The permitted calculators are readily available in many supermarkets, online retailers and in the SU Shop. Fit to Sit Policy
By submitting your assessment regardless of whether it is coursework, participation in a class presentation or sitting an exam, Individual Exam Adjustments LSE considers that you have declared yourself fit enough to do so. If you have experienced disruption to your studies (illness, injury or Individual Exam Adjustments (IEAs) can be made if you have a personal difficulties for example) you must think carefully about documented medical, physical or mental health condition and/or a whether you should attempt the assessment or whether you should specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia or dyspraxia. The purpose consider requesting an extension or deferring the assessment. of IEAs is to provide an environment that gives all students an equal Requests for an extension or deferral must be made in advance of opportunity in exams. These adjustments are confidential and will not the assessment deadline. be listed on your degree certificate or transcript. In most cases you should apply for IEAs as part of getting your Inclusion Plan in place. However there is a different process for applying for IEAs for short- term, unexpected, conditions. For more information visit lse.ac.uk/iea
33 Plagiarism
The work you submit for assessment must be your own and all You should also be aware that a piece of work may only source material must be correctly referenced. Plagiarism is not be submitted for assessment once (either to LSE or elsewhere). just submitting work with the intention to cheat. Plagiarism could Submitting the same piece of work twice (regardless of which occur simply as a result of failing to correctly reference the sources institution you submit it to) will be regarded as the offence of “self- you have used. If you are found to have committed an assessment plagiarism” and will also be treated in the same way as plagiarism. offence (such as plagiarism or exam misconduct) you could be expelled from the School. Examiners are vigilant for cases of plagiarism and the School uses plagiarism detection software to identify plagiarised text. Work Any quotation from the published or unpublished works of other containing (or that contains) plagiarism may be referred to the persons, including other candidates, must be clearly identified as Regulations on Assessment Offences: Plagiarism which may result in such. Quotes must be placed inside quotation marks and a full the application of severe penalties. reference to sources must be provided in proper form. A series of short quotations for several different sources, if not clearly identified as such, If you are unsure about the academic referencing conventions used constitutes plagiarism just as much as a single unacknowledged long by the School you should seek guidance from your department, quotation from a single source. All paraphrased material must also be Academic Mentor, LSE LIFE or the Library as soon as possible. clearly and properly acknowledged. The Regulations on Assessment Offences: Plagiarism can be found Any written work you produce (for classes, seminars, exams, at lse.ac.uk/calendar dissertations, essays and computer programmes) must solely be your own. You must not employ a “ghost writer” to write parts or all of the work, whether in draft or as a final version, on your behalf. For further information and the School’s statement on Editorial Help visit lse.ac.uk/calendar. Any breach of the Statement will be treated in the same way as plagiarism.
Results and Classification
Results Transcripts
Final results are released using LSE for You once the relevant School Continuing students can request intermediate transcripts at the Board of Examiners has ratified them. Results are not released to Student Services Centre immediately after ratified results have been students that have debts owing to the School. Provisional exam published. Final transcripts are made available electronically within a results are also made available in LSE for You for students taking system called Digitary which allows them to be easily shared. January exams and for students on 12 month Master’s programmes. For more information about final transcripts please visit For more information on how and when results are released visit lse.ac.uk/transcripts lse.ac.uk/results
Degree Certificate Classification Schemes Your degree certificate will be available for collection at Graduation Degrees are awarded according to the classification scheme or can be posted to you. For more information please visit applicable to the year in which you started your programme. These lse.ac.uk/degreecertificates schemes are applied by the Boards of Examiners when they meet to ratify your results. You can find the classification schemes at lse.ac.uk/calendar
34 Plagiarism Fees and Finance
The work you submit for assessment must be your own and all You should also be aware that a piece of work may only Fees Financial Support Office (FSO) source material must be correctly referenced. Plagiarism is not be submitted for assessment once (either to LSE or elsewhere). just submitting work with the intention to cheat. Plagiarism could Submitting the same piece of work twice (regardless of which All administration around your fees is handled by the Fees, Income FSO are responsible for the administration and awarding occur simply as a result of failing to correctly reference the sources institution you submit it to) will be regarded as the offence of “self- and Credit Control Team. of scholarships, bursaries, studentships and School prizes. you have used. If you are found to have committed an assessment plagiarism” and will also be treated in the same way as plagiarism. offence (such as plagiarism or exam misconduct) you could be LSE offers two options for payment of fees. You can either pay them FSO can also provide information about funds such as the Student expelled from the School. Examiners are vigilant for cases of plagiarism and the School uses in full prior to registration or by payment plan. If you have not paid Support fund and the LSE Access fund. You can find out more about plagiarism detection software to identify plagiarised text. Work your fees in full before you register you will be placed on a termly FSO and download application forms at lse.ac.uk/financialsupport Any quotation from the published or unpublished works of other containing (or that contains) plagiarism may be referred to the payment plan. You are expected to pay one third of your fees by: persons, including other candidates, must be clearly identified as Regulations on Assessment Offences: Plagiarism which may result in FSO hold drop-in sessions in the Student Services Centre, can such. Quotes must be placed inside quotation marks and a full the application of severe penalties. • 28 October 2019 be contacted by phone on 020 7955 6609 or by email at reference to sources must be provided in proper form. A series of short [email protected] quotations for several different sources, if not clearly identified as such, If you are unsure about the academic referencing conventions used • 28 January 2020 constitutes plagiarism just as much as a single unacknowledged long by the School you should seek guidance from your department, 28 April 2020 quotation from a single source. All paraphrased material must also be Academic Mentor, LSE LIFE or the Library as soon as possible. • clearly and properly acknowledged. The Regulations on Assessment Offences: Plagiarism can be found If you do not know your fees please visit lse.ac.uk/tableoffees Cheque Collection at lse.ac.uk/calendar Any written work you produce (for classes, seminars, exams, To pay online or to find out about the different payment methods Some payments are made by cheque. dissertations, essays and computer programmes) must solely be available, visit lse.ac.uk/feepayments your own. You must not employ a “ghost writer” to write parts or all If you are asked to collect a cheque then you can collect it from the of the work, whether in draft or as a final version, on your behalf. Unfortunately, it is not possible for you to pay in person. Student Services Centre during normal opening hours (usually 11am to For further information and the School’s statement on Editorial Help 4pm, Monday to Friday). You do not need to wait for a drop-in session. visit lse.ac.uk/calendar. Any breach of the Statement will be treated The Fees Office also run drop-in sessions at the Student Services Centre in the same way as plagiarism. for students who wish to discuss fee related enquiries:
• Check your tuition fees due • Discuss any concerns regarding payments due • Check funding or payments made • Present forms for confirmation and completion • Request invoices and receipts
For full details regarding tuition fees, charging policy, payment and Results and Classification instalment options, visit lse.ac.uk/feespolicy for the Tuition Fees Policy.
Results Transcripts
Final results are released using LSE for You once the relevant School Continuing students can request intermediate transcripts at the Board of Examiners has ratified them. Results are not released to Student Services Centre immediately after ratified results have been students that have debts owing to the School. Provisional exam published. Final transcripts are made available electronically within a results are also made available in LSE for You for students taking system called Digitary which allows them to be easily shared. January exams and for students on 12 month Master’s programmes. For more information about final transcripts please visit For more information on how and when results are released visit lse.ac.uk/transcripts lse.ac.uk/results
Degree Certificate Classification Schemes Your degree certificate will be available for collection at Graduation Degrees are awarded according to the classification scheme or can be posted to you. For more information please visit applicable to the year in which you started your programme. These lse.ac.uk/degreecertificates schemes are applied by the Boards of Examiners when they meet to ratify your results. You can find the classification schemes at lse.ac.uk/calendar
35 Codes and Charters
LSE Academic Code The Ethics Code
LSE has an Academic Code that sets out what we are doing to The Ethics Code details the principles by which the whole deliver a consistent student experience across our School and LSE community is expected to act. clarifies what students can expect from their LSE education. The School expects the highest possible ethical standards from The Academic Code brings together key principles that underpin all staff, students and governors. The Ethics Code sets out the students’ education into a School-wide policy. Developed in School’s commitment to the ethics principles of Responsibility and partnership with LSE Students’ Union, it sets the baseline to build Accountability; Integrity; Intellectual Freedom, Equality of Respect and on teaching standards, academic support, student voice and Opportunity, Collegiality and Sustainability. You can find the Code, assessment and feedback – areas that students have told us matter guidance and link to the online ethics module “Ethics at LSE” at the most to them. lse.ac.uk/ethics
A copy of the Academic Code is included at the end of this handbook.
Research Ethics
The Student Charter If you conduct research you should refer to the Research Ethics Policy and procedures. Our Student Charter, written by students and staff, sets out how LSE’s mission and ethos are reflected in the education you can Search online for “LSE Research Ethics and Guidance” to find expect to receive at the School, and in the diverse, equitable and resources on policy, procedure, informed consent, safety, training inclusive community that we all contribute to and value. and support. You will also find the Code of Research Conduct and its associated procedures. The charter covers: If you have any questions regarding research ethics or research • Your education – what an LSE education is and how you conduct please email: [email protected] can make the most of it
• Our community – what it means to be part of the LSE community and how to contribute
• Your future, our future – how to inspire future generations of LSE students.
You can find out more about the Charter, and read the full version online, just search “LSE Student Charter”.
Codes of Good Practice
The Codes of Good Practice explain the obligations and responsibilities of students and staff.
The codes set out what you can expect from your department in relation to your teaching and learning experience, including the roles and responsibilities of Academic Mentors and Departmental Tutors; the structure of teaching at LSE and examinations and assessments. The codes also lay out your responsibilities and what LSE expects of you. You can find the codes of practice at lse.ac.uk/calendar
36 Codes and Charters Systems and Online Resources
LSE Academic Code The Ethics Code Need IT help? Moodle
LSE has an Academic Code that sets out what we are doing to The Ethics Code details the principles by which the whole • Visit the Technology Help Desk on the first floor Moodle is LSE’s virtual learning environment. deliver a consistent student experience across our School and LSE community is expected to act. of the Library clarifies what students can expect from their LSE education. The majority of taught programmes have a course on Moodle, The School expects the highest possible ethical standards from • Email: [email protected] the online learning platform used at LSE. Moodle courses contain The Academic Code brings together key principles that underpin all staff, students and governors. The Ethics Code sets out the activities such as quizzes, communication tools, resources such as students’ education into a School-wide policy. Developed in School’s commitment to the ethics principles of Responsibility and • Call: 020 7107 5000. audio and video files, lecture slides, links to recordings of lectures partnership with LSE Students’ Union, it sets the baseline to build Accountability; Integrity; Intellectual Freedom, Equality of Respect and and reading lists. Students may be asked to submit their work The Help Desk is open seven days a week during term time and on teaching standards, academic support, student voice and Opportunity, Collegiality and Sustainability. You can find the Code, electronically to Moodle, and teachers may provide feedback and offers a range of services including a laptop surgery. assessment and feedback – areas that students have told us matter guidance and link to the online ethics module “Ethics at LSE” at provisional marks via Moodle. Moodle is managed by your course the most to them. lse.ac.uk/ethics leader so how it is used will vary from course to course.
A copy of the Academic Code is included at the end of this handbook. You can access Moodle by visiting moodle.lse.ac.uk LSE for You
Research Ethics LSE for You is a web portal which gives you access to a range of services. You can access LSE for You at lse.ac.uk/lseforyou The Student Charter If you conduct research you should refer to the Research Ethics Email Policy and procedures. LSE for You allows you to: Our Student Charter, written by students and staff, sets out how LSE will use your LSE email address to communicate with you so LSE’s mission and ethos are reflected in the education you can Search online for “LSE Research Ethics and Guidance” to find check it regularly. • View and update your term time (contact) and home expect to receive at the School, and in the diverse, equitable and resources on policy, procedure, informed consent, safety, training (permanent) address inclusive community that we all contribute to and value. and support. You will also find the Code of Research Conduct and its Microsoft Outlook is available on all public PCs. You can also access your email off-campus using webmail (mail.lse.ac.uk) or on the associated procedures. • Reset your IT password The charter covers: move using clients for laptops and mobile phones. For help setting up If you have any questions regarding research ethics or research • Access your candidate number email on your device search “LSE mobile email setup”. • Your education – what an LSE education is and how you conduct please email: [email protected] can make the most of it • View your results • Our community – what it means to be part of the LSE community • Select your courses and how to contribute Training and Development System Alternatively you can also access services on the new Student Hub. • Your future, our future – how to inspire future generations The Training and Development System allows you to book a place on of LSE students. many of the personal development opportunities offered around LSE.
You can find out more about the Charter, and read the full version You can access the Training and Development System at online, just search “LSE Student Charter”. Student Hub apps.lse.ac.uk/training-system and login using your LSE username and password. The Student Hub is LSE’s app, designed to help you navigate your day-to-day life at LSE.
Codes of Good Practice Use the LSE Student Hub app to view your timetable and upcoming deadlines, find your way around campus and keep up to date with news Information Security The Codes of Good Practice explain the obligations and and events from your Department and the wider School. You can also responsibilities of students and staff. book appointments with academics or support services and create Awareness Training groups with friends and course mates to carry on the conversation LSE hosts an information security awareness course in Moodle. It The codes set out what you can expect from your department in outside of class. will help teach you how to spot phishing emails, keep your devices relation to your teaching and learning experience, including the roles safe and know how to treat your personal data. and responsibilities of Academic Mentors and Departmental Tutors; Download the Student Hub app on iOS or Android, or you the structure of teaching at LSE and examinations and assessments. can access the web app at studenthub.lse.ac.uk You can access the course at moodle.lse.ac.uk/course, logging in The codes also lay out your responsibilities and what LSE expects of using your LSE username and password. you. You can find the codes of practice at lse.ac.uk/calendar
37 Course Selection and Timetables
to browse available courses by unit value, keyword, department and Can’t See Your Timetable? Access Guide to LSE Buildings assessment type. You can build a shortlist of courses and compare the lecture timetables for that shortlist. Course Finder is available If you can’t see a course on your timetable after the relevant AccessAble have produced detailed access guides to the LSE from late August. publication date there are five common reasons: campus and route maps between key locations.
You may also wish to look at course content on Moodle and check • You have not registered/re-registered for this academic year the teaching timetable to detect potential clashes. • You have not selected the course in LSE for You Some departments have capped or controlled access courses Getting Help which means that places are limited. For undergraduates these are • You have selected a course which creates a clash on allocated on a first come first served basis, for postgraduates there your timetable (undergraduate only) There is more detailed information, contact details and answers to are a number of different selection methods. You can find more frequently asked questions online at lse.ac.uk/courseSelection information about this at lse.ac.uk/courseSelection • You have made changes within the last 48 hours (the timetable can take up to two days to regenerate)
2. Select your courses in LSE for You • Your seminar has not yet been allocated by the relevant department (postgraduate only) Go to lse.ac.uk/selectcourses for step by step instructions on how to select your courses on LSE for You. Remember to select any compulsory courses and, if applicable, your dissertation. The process differs for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Your programme comprises a number of courses, which are usually worth half (0.5) or a full (1.0) unit. Undergraduate students will take 3. Check your timetable and Moodle enrolments courses to the value of four units per year. The number of courses postgraduate students take varies by programme but can be found Undergraduate students are allocated to all teaching centrally at lse.ac.uk/calendar. You will need to select all of your courses, and you will receive your personal timetable in LSE for You including any compulsory ones, in LSE for You. during Welcome.
Postgraduate students may be able to use Seminar Sign-up in LSE for You after you have made your course selections and they have been When to Select Courses approved by the department responsible for teaching the course. You will automatically be given access to the Moodle page Undergraduate course selection will open in early September. for your courses a few hours after selecting your courses on LSE Postgraduate course selection will open for browsing at the for You. If you change courses you will not be removed from the old beginning of Welcome and open properly just before term starts. course on Moodle automatically so you will need to do this manually. Course selections need to be made by the beginning of Week 3 of Michaelmas Term. You will be able to make changes to Lent Term half unit courses in early Lent Term. For the exact dates visit lse.ac.uk/courseSelection Changing Class or Seminar
Undergraduate students are only able to change class in exceptional circumstances, to request a class change apply using the “class How to Select Your Courses change request” tool within LSE for You. You should include details of why you need to change class and outline your availability for 1. Find the courses you’d like to take alternative classes. You may be required to provide evidence in support of your request. Go to lse.ac.uk/findcourses to access the tools and information to help you decide which courses you want to take this academic year. Postgraduate students should either use Seminar Sign Up if it is Make sure that you identify a few back-up courses in case your first enabled for your courses or contact the department responsible for choice is not available. teaching the course.
You should make sure that you attend any departmental course selection meetings and seek advice from your Academic Mentor or Departmental Tutor before finalising your course selections.
The LSE calendar is the place to check for programme regulations detailing which courses you are permitted to take. It also provides course guides for every course at LSE, including student feedback. You can find the calendar online at lse.ac.uk/calendar
LSE Course Finder is a tool to help you choose which courses to take within your programme regulations. Course Finder allows you
38 Can’t See Your Timetable? Access Guide to LSE Buildings
If you can’t see a course on your timetable after the relevant AccessAble have produced detailed access guides to the LSE publication date there are five common reasons: campus and route maps between key locations.
• You have not registered/re-registered for this academic year
You have not selected the course in LSE for You • Getting Help • You have selected a course which creates a clash on your timetable (undergraduate only) There is more detailed information, contact details and answers to frequently asked questions online at lse.ac.uk/courseSelection • You have made changes within the last 48 hours (the timetable can take up to two days to regenerate)
• Your seminar has not yet been allocated by the relevant department (postgraduate only)
39 The LSE Academic Code
The LSE Academic Code, developed in partnership with LSE Students’ 3. All students will have an Academic Mentor to advise on academic Union, sets out what we do to deliver a consistent student experience matters. Academic Mentors should have the necessary expertise across our School and clarifies what you (as a student) can expect and guidance to undertake the role. Ideally, students will keep the from your LSE education. same mentor throughout their time at LSE.
The Academic Code helps us deliver on our commitments to 4. Students will be invited to meet their Academic Mentor at least enhance experiences at LSE in partnership with students. Your input twice during each of the Michaelmas and Lent terms. These is essential to measure success, and the Students’ Union has worked meetings may take the form of 1-2-1 sessions or small group with us to redesign student representation at our School, so that you gatherings, so that mentees can meet one another and discuss have a stronger voice at LSE than ever before. issues of mutual interest.
The Academic Code should be read in conjunction with the 5. In addition to academic guidance provided by the Academic Mentor, LSE-LSESU Student Charter. students will have access to personal advice, for example with respect to mental health and wellbeing. Students will be clearly 1. All full-time undergraduate and taught postgraduate students informed about who to go to for what kinds of advice and this will taking a taught course will receive a minimum of two hours be available through various mechanisms, such as Disability and taught contact time per week when the course is running in the Wellbeing Services, Student Services, and Departments. Michaelmas and/or Lent terms, or a minimum of four hours taught contact time per week for a full-unit taught course running 6. Staff teaching on LSE programmes will be available to students entirely in Michaelmas or in Lent term. through a minimum of 35 office hours (for full-time teaching staff) during term time. Normally, the expectation is to meet face-to- 2. Students will have the opportunity to receive feedback on face, but contact may take other forms that are mutually agreed formative and summative work, as set out below. Feedback between the teacher and students. on assessment due in Summer Term is not required for non- continuing students except for dissertations or capstone projects. 7. Departments will hold at least one Student-Staff Liaison There may be exceptional circumstances where the below time Committee and one Departmental Teaching Committee meeting frames are not possible and, if this is the case, the reasons for during each of the Michaelmas and Lent terms, following the extending the time period will be clearly explained to students as guidelines for each type of meeting that we have agreed in early as possible. partnership with the Students’ Union.
2.1 All assessment submission deadlines and feedback time frames will be clearly communicated to students at the start of each course, including on the course Moodle page.
2.2 Feedback on formative tasks will normally be returned to students within three term weeks of the submission deadline, where students submit their work on time.
2.3 Feedback on summative assessment (excluding exams, dissertations or capstone projects) will normally be provided within five term weeks of the submission deadline, where students submit their work on time.
2.4 Feedback on January exams will normally be provided within six term weeks of the end of the exam period.
2.5 Feedback on Summer exams will normally be provided within four term weeks of the following Michaelmas term.
2.6 Feedback on dissertations and capstone projects will normally be provided within four term weeks of the final mark being made available to students.
2.7 For any summative assessment which is failed, students will have the opportunity to receive feedback in time to prepare for the resit or resubmission. For summative assessment failed in Summer Term, feedback may take the form of general guidance on how to have approached that assessment.
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